Aug 19, 2015
Professor Amit Sahai has been awarded a $2.8 million 4-year grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The grant will support Sahai’s work to develop the foundations for encrypted software that is capable of keeping its source code a...
Aug 10, 2015
Professor Judea Pearl and graduate student Karthika Mohan have received a three-year NSF grant for “Inference with Incomplete Data.” Karthika was highly instrumental in preparing and defending the winning proposal. Congratulations to both Judea and Karthika! Grant...
Aug 3, 2015
Outstanding Graduating Ph.D. Student: Nabil Alshurafa (advisor Majid Sarrafzadeh) Outstanding Graduating Master’s Student: Zhinan Xu (advisor Demetri Terzopoulos) Cisco Outstanding Graduate Research Award: Muhuan Huang (advisor Jason Con). Google Outstanding Graduate...
Aug 3, 2015
The July 2015 issue of Science features an article titled “Journeying back in time with ancient DNA” which discusses different types of DNA research being carried out by today’s scientists. One of the featured researchers is Prof. Sriram Sankararaman, who joined the...
Aug 2, 2015
The Computer Science Department’s Prof. Eli Gafni and Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Yehuda Afek are the joint recipients of an Israel-USA Binational Science Foundation (BSF) grant titled A computer is a Turing-Machine (TM) and it computes functions. What is a...