On April 2, a team of three UNCG students came in first place in the Triad regional programming contest, hosted by NC A&T University. The UNCG team consisted of Jerry Terrell, Jessica Frank, and Brandon George. In this contest, teams were given eight programming challenges to solve over three hours, … Continued
Professor Shan Suthaharan and his student Aishwarya Gouru received a best paper award in the 37th International Conference on Computers and Applications (CATA 2022) for their paper entitled “Facial Emotion Characterization and Detection using Fourier Transform and Machine Learning.” One of the comments from the reviewers stated that “The theory … Continued
Assistant Professor Minjeong Kim received a subaward from Wake Forest University. The grant supports her interdisciplinary research with biophysicists and cell biologists at Wake Forest University for chromatin mobility analysis in microscopic imaging. In this project, Professor Kim and her students aim to develop deep learning algorithms for predicting fluorescent … Continued
Assistant Professor Regis Kopper and Visiting Assistant Professor Jeronimo Grandi received a grant from the Public Safety Communications Research (PCSR) division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to expand their work on the Virtual Reality (VR) simulation of public safety user interfaces through a partnership with the … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
Our new Assistant Professor Dr. Chunjiang Zhu’s research paper entitled “An Efficient Algorithm for Deep Stochastic Contextual Bandits” has been accepted to appear in the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021. AAAI is a premier conference in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with about 8,000 submissions being reviewed and … Continued