This year's commencement was held in  Mahler Hall at Georgia Center with nearly  600 students, guests and families in attendance celebrating the achievement for our graduating students. The commencement featured speeches from our first-year director Dr. Gagan Agrawal, presidential awardee Morgan Elizabeth Riley and a farewell  to our beloved leader Dr. Thiab Taha. In all, the School is on track to award 300+ BS Degrees in Computer Science and close to 100 graduate degrees between Fall 2023, Spring 2024, and Summer 2024.

Dr. Wei Niu (PI), with collaborators Weikuan Yu (PI at Florida State University) and Bin Ren (lead-PI at William & Mary), has been awarded a new grant from the NSF Core Program for their project " Collaborative Research: OAC Core: CropDL - Scheduling and Checkpoint/Restart Support for Deep Learning Applications on HPC Clusters." This 3-year grant has a budget of $600K and aims to advance systems and cyberinfrastructure research for emerging machine learning workloads on modern high-performance computing hardware platforms.

Four years ago, when the pandemic was at its height, labor shortage had become an issue for jobs across the country including farms. Short-staffed and supply chains impacted solutions were needed to treat those current issues and future ones as well. With help from the SoC's THINC Lab researchers led by Prof.

During the pandemic, labor problems became acute on many farms in Georgia and across the country. Farms once staffed by humans to bring produce from the field to stores for purchase were suddenly short-staffed, and the global supply chain was severely impacted.

A team of researchers led by School of Computing Professor Prashant Doshi is designing collaborative robots to mitigate some of these potential challenges.

Five of our own computer science graduate students have received the UGA Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for Spring 2024! The award recognizes teaching assistants who demonstrate superior instructional skills while serving in the classroom or laboratory. Everyone at the School of Computing would like to congratulate Sakher Alqaaidi, Nima Darbandi, Rohan Intipalli, Ghadeer Yassin and Sixiang Zhang on their amazing work in helping professors and students through all of their classes and/or labs! 

Last month, UGAHacks9 was held from February 9th-11th at the Miller Learning Center and the result was a resounding success! Around 600 students attended the event that was essentially a 48-hour programming sleepover. Students were able to join the event in various size groups and compete with each other to program the Best Overall Hack. While the main tournament was going on there were also other additions to the whole two days such as: programming workshops, video game competitions, free food available and the opportunity to meet and connect with mentors.

Our career center has collected and shared data for computer science and data science majors in 2023. Our students have been very successful, with job placement across top employers  like Google, Amazon, Apple, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Palantir technologies, and the Big 4 consulting firms. Equally important is the large number of students staying in Georgia fueling tech growth in the state.