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Tim Wood

Professor Timothy Wood Named New Interim Computer Science Chair

As of January 1, Professor Wood stepped into this position to bridge the gap between Professor Robert Pless and the new Computer Science Department Chair.

Yasemin Acar

Professor Yasemin Acar is a PI on a multi-university NSF Frontiers grant focused on open source supply chain security

Team members include North Carolina State University, Carnegie Mellon University, The George Washington University and the University of Maryland College Park

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Dr. Hurriyet Ok awarded the Create with VR grant from Unity and Meta Immersive Learning

Dr. Hurriyet Ok, professor of Computer Science, was recently awarded the Create with VR grant from Unity and Meta Immersive Learning!

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Can Machine Learning Change How We Diagnose Fatty Liver Disease?

An interdisciplinary team, led by Computer Science Professor James Hahn, was awarded $2.2M from the National Institutes of Health to determine whether 3D optical scans could show a direct correlation...

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The National Security Agency has awarded Ms. Elyse Nicolas a grant to host The GenCyber GW Middle School Girls Cybersecurity Camp during summer 2022

The National Security Agency has awarded Ms. Elyse Nicolas (CS) a grant to host The GenCyber GW Middle School Girls Cybersecurity Camp, a 5 day virtual day-camp for 32 middle school girls...

Closed: Professor of Practice faculty position

Open: Professor of Practice faculty position

Closed: Two tenure-track faculty positions

Open: Two tenure-track faculty positions

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Introducing Dr. Kinga Dobolyi

Dr. Kinga Dobolyi has joined the Department of Computer Science as an associate professor of practice.

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Dr. Hahn receives $2.2m NIH grant

Dr. James Hahn has received a four-year, $2.2 million National Institutes of Health R01 grant for the project “Advancing 3D optical body surface scan technology to assess physiological and...

Dr. Caliskan publishes article for Brookings Institution “AI and Bias” series

On May 10, the Brookings Institution published the article “Detecting and mitigating bias in natural language processing,” authored by Dr. Aylin Caliskan.