NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Specialized faculty member Caitlin Carnahan to study Physics at Carnegie Mellon, Sharanya Jayaraman to fill faculty line.

The Computer Science department welcomes Dr. Shayok Chakraborty and Dr. Jiawei Zhang to start in Fall 2017.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a 2-year, $200,000 grant to Prof. Peixiang Zhao for his research in big graph management, computation, and mining. This project, titled “Facilitate Graph Computation by Graph Sparsification”, was awarded from the NSF directorate CISE:IIS:III.

The FSU Department of Computer Science hosted its annual Honors Day Ceremony late last month. Many students in the department were recognized for their outstanding accomplishments.

Ms. Melina Myers won the 2016-2017 University Undergraduate Teaching Award. Throughout the university, only 18 faculty members won the Undergraduate awards.

The Computer Science Department has been awarded $122K Technology Fee to upgrade its instructional technology infrastructure in six projects.

The cybersecurity program in the Computer Science department has been ranked the sixth in the Military Times’ 2017 top 10 Best for Vets list.

Congratulations to Dr. Andy Wang and Dr. Weikuan Yu on their promotion to the rank of full professor effective August 2017.

Dan Schwartz has recently obtained a software development contract in the amount of $50,000 from the Office of Naval Research. The project is entitled "Naval Message Traffic Monitoring for Mine Countermeasures".

Starting from Spring 2017, Computer Science offers a new BA in Computer Programming and
Applications major.