A Day of Triumph: UGA School of Computing Convocation, Spring 2025

SoC students sit in attendance for the 2025 SoC commencement.

On May 9, 2025, the University of Georgia’s School of Computing buzzed with anticipation as it hosted its Spring Convocation Ceremony at the historic Georgia Center in Athens. The air was thick with pride as 310 undergraduate students, 52 master’s degree recipients, and 6 PhD graduates prepared to cross the stage, marking the culmination of years of hard work, late-night coding sessions, and transformative experiences.

Celebrating Dr. Ninghao Liu’s Invitation to the CCC Computing Futures Symposium

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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 impactful research initiatives. Dr.

Decoding the Future: UGA School of Computing Research Day Unveils Next Chapter of Innovation

Graduate students participating at 2025 SoC Research Day

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. 

2025 SoC Research Day: Four Graduate Students Honored with Prestigious New Award

2025 SoC Research Day

Starting this year, the School of Computing has instituted new awards to recognize students with publications in top venues. The first cohort of advisees was announced during the annual research day on 18th April. 

The awardees were:   
 

Aiman Munir for their publication Anchor-Oriented Localized Voronoi Partitioning for GPS-denied Multi-Robot Coverage at IROS ’24.
  

Prashant Doshi Named UGA's 2025 Entrepreneur of the Year

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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, Doshi co-founded InversAI, a company focused on commercializing AI-powered automation.

Research improves AI for smartphones

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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.