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The William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund was established to stimulate the adoption of sound innovative teaching methods, particularly in undergraduate education. The Whiting School has re-envisioned this program to help teaching and tenure-track faculty members pursue research in engineering education.

In Honor of Dr. Rao Kosaraju, the Neuhauser Family Teaching Award recognizes outstanding undergraduate teaching assistants, and the inaugural recipients were named this spring.

The fellowships aim to encourage computer science undergraduates who have been accepted into the Combined Bachelor’s/Master’s Program to spend at least one semester pursuing graduate research as part of their MSE program.

Computer Scientists Mathias Unberath and Ali Madooei have received the Joel Dean Excellence in Teaching Award.

A robotic system created by a team from Johns Hopkins University won the top prize in an international robotics challenge focused on developing solutions for the COVID-19 health crisis and future global pandemics. “Telerobotics for Remote Control of Medical Equipment in Contagious Environments” won the Best Innovation Award at the inaugural Medical Robotics for Contagious…

Steven Salzberg, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics, has been named a 2020 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. This honor recognizes those who have made transformative contributions to and are advancing technology in areas ranging from artificial intelligence and bioinformatics to cloud computing and software engineering. ACM Fellowship recognizes…

Eli Sherman, a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science, has been chosen as a 2020 Google PhD Fellow. He is one of 54 doctoral students from around the globe to receive a fellowship. Sherman’s research in machine learning and healthcare prompted him to apply for the competitive fellowship. He is particularly interested in…

Have you ever had to wait for an online application to load for what seemed like an eternity? Why do we sometimes have to wait so long to make a Zoom call or to see the results of a Google search? It’s because the apps run on cloud infrastructure that is experiencing congestion. Facebook is…

Susan Hohenberger, a research professor in the Department of Computer Science, along with co-authors Venkata Koppula, a postdoctoral researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Brent Waters, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a distinguished scientist at NTT Research, took home a Best Paper Award at CRYPTO 2020, the field…

Peng “Ryan” Huang, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence. Ryan is known for his work on the reliability of next-generation operating and distributed systems. His five-year CAREER award will support…

Alexander Szalay, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy, has been named a recipient of the 2020 Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize. Established in 2009, the prize—named for the famed Armenian astronomer regarded as the founder of theoretical astrophysics in the former Soviet Union—is awarded every two years to outstanding scientists from…

Congratulations to three Computer Scientists faculty who are recipients of the National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award.   Ilya Shpitser five-year CAREER award will support his project, “Robust Causal and Statistical Inference in High Dimensional Structured Systems with Hidden Variables,” which aims to significantly advance understanding of all major tasks in causal systems with hidden…