Tags: Honors and Awards

Congratulations to Dr. Tianming Liu for receiving the "Creative Research Medal" Award at the 35th. Annual Research Awards Banquet.

CS doctoral student, Aryabrata Basu, and adjunct faculty, Prof. Kyle Johnsen, are co-authors on a paper on using virtual reality for childhood obesity that won a best paper award at IEEE Virtual Reality conference.

The Department of Computer Science announces that the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science program is now accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. For details about the BS-CS program, visit our information for students. 

Congratulations to graduate students Bradley Barnes, Kushel Bellipady and John Harney for winning UGA's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. This recognition is given to TAs whose teaching performance ranks in the top 10% of all TAs at UGA.

Prof. Tianming Liu's research on a new map of the brain is featured in the Fall 2012 issue of the UGA Research Magazine.

Congratulations to Tomasz Oliwa (advisor: Prof. Rasheed), BJ Wimpey (Prof. Potter) and, Anousha Mesbah and John Harney(both Prof. Doshi) for winning the first, second and joint third prizes respectively, in the recent CS Research Day poster competition. The event featured over 40 posters by graduate student researchers. 

Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamy and his collaborators at IBM for having a patent granted for their invention "Methods and systems for detecting fragments in electronic documents".

Congratulations to Prof. Bhandarkar for receiving a US patent on virtual surgical systems and methods based on his research. Dr. Tollner from engineering is a co-inventor on the patent.

Congratulations to Ph.D. students, Anirban Mukhopadhyay (advisor: Prof. Bhandarkar) for winning UGARF's James L. Carmon Scholarship, and Uthaya Thayasivam (advisor: Prof. Doshi) for winning Grad. School's Doctoral Dissertation Completion Award for 2012-2013. 

Congratulations to MS student Sharon Paradesi for winning a Systers Pass-it-on grant from the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. Sharon will use the grant to travel to LA and present her paper in ICWS 2009.