Computer Science Department | Articles by: Sarah Vetter

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Kopper member of multi-institutional team awarded grant from National Archives to virtually bring to life destroyed African American neighborhoods

Augmented Reality Landscapes: African American Urbanism Assistant Professor Regis Kopper received a grant from the National Archives to work  collaboratively with Johnson C. Smith University and Duke University to reproduce historic African American neighborhoods in Charlotte that have been destroyed and shaped by government sponsored urban renewal policies in an… Continue reading…

Ph.D. Program in Fall 2022

We are excited to announce that we will be establishing our Ph.D. program in Computer Science starting Fall 2022. Recruitment will soon start and we look forward to reviewing applications in the upcoming fall semester. The establishment of the Ph.D. program in Computer Science will allow us to attract faculty… Continue reading…

Deng and Kim Received NSF Award for Interdisciplinary Research on Magdalenian Social Interaction

Assistant Professor Minjeong Kim and Professor Jing Deng received an exciting NSF grant for their interdisciplinary research project with Dr. Charles Egeland of Anthropology, Dr. Rebecca Schwendler of PaleoWest Archaeology, and Professor Christopher M. Nicholson at the University of Wyoming, titled “A network approach to Magdalenian social landscapes.” The Magdalenian… Continue reading…

AI-Based Virtual Twin System for Ophthalmology

Professor Shan Suthaharan receives a grant from the University of Pittsburgh for his project “AI-Based Virtual Twin System for Ophthalmology.” This project is supported by funds from the Shear Family Foundation. The main goal of this project is to develop a virtual twin (or a digital twin) of a living… Continue reading…

Magnolia house

Virtual Reality Reconstruction of the Historic Magnolia House

Prof. Kopper received a grant, in collaboration with Prof. Asha Kutty (Dept. of Interior Architecture), from the City of Greensboro’s Catalyzing Creativity program for a project that aims to perform a virtual reality reconstruction of the Historic Magnolia House. The Magnolia House, in Greensboro, NC, was a popular destination for African… Continue reading…

Kim receives North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC) funding for kinesiology machine learning research

Professor Kim receives a collaborative research project funding with UNCG Kinesiology Department from North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC) entitled “Optimization of a Precision Measurement Solution for a Tri-Axial Knee Arthrometer.” This project aims to develop and optimize a sensor measurement system that will be integrated into the mechanical prototype of… Continue reading…

Computer Science Students Won Top-3 Prizes in Green Fund Hackathon

During the last week of Fall 2020 classes, teams across UNCG campus participated in a Green Fund Hackathon hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Department of Economics. The purpose of this Hack-a-thon is to develop an interactive dashboard to summarize high-frequency energy consumption data in 81 electricity meters… Continue reading…

Kim Receives Funding from Cone Health for Deep Learning-based Early Tumor Diagnosis Project

Professor Kim receives an interdisciplinary research project funding from Cone Health entitled “AI-assisted Early Outcome Prediction for Brain Tumors Treated with Stereotactic Radiosurgery.” This project’s main goal is to design and build a deep learning-based diagnostic regression model that predicts brain tumor progression and outcome at an earlier time for… Continue reading…

Manda Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Professor Prashanti Manda has been awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER award entitled “Ontology-powered Named Entity Recognition and Robust Semantic Similarity Metrics.” The goal of this project is to develop novel natural language processing methods for recognizing ontology concepts from biological literature. Ontologies are computationally amenable forms of data representation that have… Continue reading…