Special Issue: Nonlinear Waves: Computation and Theory-IX, Professor Thiab R Taha is the managing Editor



Publication of the Special Issue: Nonlinear Waves: Computation and Theory-IX, Seventh IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory,Mathematics and Computers in Simulation Journal, Volume 127, Pages 1-300 (September 2016) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03784754/127 

Thiab Taha , Pedro M. Jordan and Andei Ludu as Guest Editors.

ACM Gold Medal Award to Amna Basharat

The CS Phd student Amna Basharat had  participated in the Graduate Student Research Competition at the CHI 2016 (https://chi2016.acm.org/), held in San Jose, CA. 

Amna won the competition and was awarded an ACM Student Research Gold Medal. The paper that was presented is entitled: Learnersourcing Thematic and Inter-Contextual Annotations from Islamic Texts (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2890386) Her advisors are Dr. Khaled Rasheed and Dr. Budak Arpinar. 

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Engineering Informatics and Applied Big Data-Enabled Systems

The Department of Computer Science and the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position, starting in August 2016.Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to, applied big data management analytics and visualization, high performance computing, mobile and sensor-based informatics,Internet of Things, human-computer interfaces, and applied systems security and privacy. Candidates should have a Ph.D.

Congratulations to Prof. Liming Cai

Congratulations to Prof. Liming Cai, Prof. Russell Malmberg (Plant Biology), and Cory Momany (Pharmacy) for receiving 3-year grant from NSF-DMS/NIH-NIGMS-R01 joint program in Mathematical Biology from "Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences” for the proposal titled: From RNA sequence to 3D structure: accurate prediction via backbone k-trees

Congratulations to Prof. Kyu Lee

Congratulations to Prof. Kyu Lee and his collaborators at SRI International, Purdue University and University of Wisconsin for receiving a 4-year grant from DARPA for the proposal titled: "TRACE: Tracing and Analysis of Causality of Enterprise-level” for transparent computing to explore dynamic information flow technology in complex distributed computing environments towards exposing and stopping advanced cyber adversaries (also referred to as Advanced Persistent Threats, or APTs).