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Roberto Perdisci, Patty and D.R. Grimes Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director of the UGA Institute of Cybersecurity and Privacy, was selected as a recipient of an Amazon Research Award. Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provide unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating various research topics in multiple disciplines. This cycle, ARA announced 73 award recipients who represent 46…

Dr. Ninghao Liu has become the first faculty member at the University of Georgia to receive a Google Research Scholar Award, a $60,000 grant that supports early-career researchers in advancing fields that are relevant to Google. Dr. Liu's award-winning proposal, "Enhancing Medical Knowledge in Multimodal Foundation Models through Self-Synthesized Data," introduces a novel framework that enables AI systems to generate their own training data. The…

The School of Computing is proud to announce that one of our faculty members, Dr. Ninghao Liu, has been selected to participate at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)'s Computing Futures Symposium this week in Washington D.C. The Computing Community Consortium, or CCC, is an organization that brings together computer researchers to shape the future of the computer science field through visionary leadership, collaborative engagement and…

This spring, UGA and the School of Computing hosted its annual Research Day – showcasing the innovation and research endeavors of UGA’s faculty and students. The event fostered an environment for intellectual exchange. Over 80 graduate and undergraduate students and 25 faculty were in attendance, showcasing the passions for transformational research in the School of Computing.  The day began with welcoming remarks by Gagan Agrawal, Director…

Prashant Doshi, a professor in the School of Computing, is transforming artificial intelligence research into real-world applications through his work on human-robot collaboration and inverse reinforcement learning. His research has broad implications across industries, including agriculture, where he is developing AI-driven collaborative robots (cobots) designed to streamline produce processing operations. To bring this technology to market,…

by Mike Wooten, Susan Ambrosetti New grant program builds upon institute’s 40 years of discovery and innovation Four university-wide research projects designed to advance interdisciplinary research in artificial intelligence have been awarded seed grants by the University of Georgia’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence. The grants, the first of their kind from IAI, are the latest step in the university’s strategic efforts to…

By: Alan Flurry As Machine Learning tools become increasingly commonplace, their ubiquity is accompanied by a growing need to use the tools on mobile devices. From the application side, the endless possibilities go well beyond common speech or image recognition. And the growing computational capacity of smartphones creates the necessary room for improved hand-held AI. Researchers at the University of Georgia have recently developed an innovative…

Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia is joining the NextGenAI consortium, a partnership with 14 other leading research institutions and technology company OpenAI to accelerate AI research and education. OpenAI, known for its generative AI technologies, including ChatGPT, is committing $50 million in research grants, access to OpenAI’s tools, and compute funding through the consortium. The initiative will support the discovery and…

Watch as Prof. Doshi discusses the School of Computing's research on AI and robotics in this College of Engineering-produced video and his philosophy on student success in graduate programs.   The link is to a YouTube video that CENGR produced and is available on their YouTube channel.

Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) has awarded Dr. Barnes and Dr. Cotterell each a Continuous Improvement Grant in the amount of $8,670 to update the textbook for CSCI 1302 Software Development and continue to offer it to students free of charge as an Open Educational Resource! Together, these two grants constitute $17,340 of the $445,000 in grants that were funded under the 26th round of ALG’s Affordable Materials Grants program.   Each…