The ACM is back for another year with many new events and opportunities for students. The first meeting will be Monday, September 9, 2013 at 12:00 pm in F219. Everyone is welcome to attend this meeting to find out what ACM is all about and the activities and events for this semester. Danielle Gaither, on the left, is the President of the ACM-W. Quentin Mayo, on the right, is the President of the ACM.
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CSE Students invited to join ACM and ACM-W
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ACM Distinguished Speaker Seminar on September 13
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering will host several Distinguished Speakers again in 2013-2014. The first Distinguished Speaker will be Thomas Boehme of the University of Ilmenau on Friday, September 13 at 11:30 am in the F223, the main CSE conference room. His presentation will be on “Learning in Repeated Games.” Everyone is invited to attend!
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CSE Undergraduate Students in Showcase for Undergraduate Research in Engineering
The College of Engineering’s inaugural Showcase for Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) will be held this Friday, September 20th, from 9 am to 11:45 am at Discovery Park. The following CSE undergraduate students will showcase their research: Andrew Marin, Zachary Morgan, Lisa Reynolds, Mallory Smith, and Logan Widick. The Poster Presentations will begin at 9 am and the Presentation of Awards will begin at 11 am. Everyone is invited to attend!
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September 2013 Editions of CSE Student and Alumni Newsletters sent
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UNT Bug Wars REU for 2014
The UNT Bug Wars Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) is now accepting applications for Summer 2014. Bug Wars is a REU site project that exposes students to research on software testing and AI planning through both competition and collaboration. This REU program provides the opportunity for 8 undergraduate students to spend the summer as part of a cohort that works on software testing research for 10 weeks in Summer 2014. Participants will work closely with a Computer Science faculty mentor. For more information, go here.
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Faculty Positions Available
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT) is seeking candidates for one tenure track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level and two non-tenure track Lecturers beginning August 15, 2014. More information about these positions may be found here.
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Distinguished Speaker Seminar on October 11
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering will host several Distinguished Speakers in 2013-2014. On Friday, October 11, our Distinguished Speaker will be Bjarne Stroustrup, University Distinguished Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. Dr. Stroustrup, inventor of the C++ programming language, will speak about "The Essence of C++ with examples in C++84, C++98, C++11, and C++14."
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CSE Trick-or-Treat Party
The ACM and ACM-W is hosting its annual CSE Trick-or-Treat Party on Thursday, October 31, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. Thirteen labs and offices in the CSE Department are participating. Look for the signs on the doors in the CSE hallways. Play a trivia game and win candy and prizes! Costume contest for students, faculty, and staff! Scariest Lab Contest! FREE to students!
Students can visit the following offices to play the Trivia Game and receive candy:
Welcome Table
ACM/ACMW
Staff
Ms. Deacon (CSE Main Office)
Faculty
Dr. Bryant (Department Chair – Main Office)
Dr. Yuan (CSE Faculty Office)
Dr. Sweany
Dr. Schneider
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Distinguished Speaker Seminar on November 15
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering will host the third Distinguished Speaker in 2013-2014 on Friday, November 15, at 11:30 am. Jeff Gray, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama will speak on "Supporting Software Evolution through Model Transformation.” It will be held in the main CSE conference room in F223. Everyone is invited to attend!
Supporting Software Evolution through Model Transformation
Jeff Gray
University of Alabama, Department of Computer Science
gray@cs.ua.edu http://gray.cs.ua.edu
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ACM-W receives grant for Spring 2014
Congratulations to the ACM-W organization that received a $1,000 grant from the NCWIT Student Organization Seed Fund. This grant provides funds for a Book Club and Software Testing Competition in Spring 2014.
Students that are interested in joining the book club will receive a free copy of “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead” by Cheryl Sandberg. Meetings (with food) will be held throughout the semester to discuss the book. Please contact ACM-W President, Danielle Gaither, if you would like to sign up. We especially encourage new students to join us.
The Software Testing Competition will be hosted next semester. ACM-W students will lead this event. All undergraduate and graduate students will be invited to compete for prizes and bragging rights! More details and registration will be available early next semester.
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CSE welcomes NCSR "Demokritos" Speaker on December 12
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering will host a lecture on "Transfer Learning for Classification" by Dr Anastasia Krithara on Thursday, December 12, at 1 pm in F223. Dr. Krithara is a research associate in NCSR “Demokritos” since October 2008, where she is involved in national and international projects (e.g. FP6-IST BOEMIE, FP7-ICT SYNC3, FP7-ICT BioASQ, CLARIN-EL).
Before, she was a research
engineer in Xerox Research Centre Europe, in Grenoble, France, where she carried out research in the area of machine learning and more precisely in semi-supervised and active learning for text classification tasks. She holds a BSc in Computer Science from Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), an MSc in Machine Learning and Data Mining from University of Bristol and a PhD in Machine Learning from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI). Her research interests include Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, and Knowledge Engineering. She is the co-author of several publications in artificial intelligence journals and conferences. She is a member of the Greek Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN). She co-organised the International Research Centered Summer School (IRSS-2013).
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November/December 2013 Editions of CSE Student and Alumni Newsletters sent
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Congratulations to Fall 2013 Graduates from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
(The following students were expected to meet degree requirements and recognized in the commencement guide.)
Mohamed Samy Abouelenien
Major Professor: Xiaohui Yuan
Dissertation: Boosting for Learning from Imbalanced, Multiclass Data Sets
Eric Ayeh
Major Professor: Bill Buckles
Dissertation: Statistical Strategies for Efficient Signal Detection and Parameter Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Iris Nelly Gomez-Lopez
Major Professor: Armin R. Mikler
Dissertation: Simulating the Spread of Infectious Diseases in Heterogeneous Populations with Diverse Interactions Characteristics
Sultan Alotaibi
Thesis: JGPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) Scheduling
Ayesha Begum
Krishna Chaitanya Chava
Vijaya Sree Chodavarapu
Sravant Dhanekula
Chaitanya Chowdary Donthineni
Srikanth Reddy Goli
Sowmya Gummadi
Joseph Helsing
Srinithya Kakani
Srinath Kalmikonda
Mounika Kolluri
Pradeep Kothamale
Gopi Krishna Kurra
Timothy McMahan
Santhosh Kumar Muriki
Vibha Gubbi Nagaraj
Krunalkomar Patel
Shanmukhipriya Ponnada
Ravi Teja Gannavarapu
Lakshmi Narayan Sankar Raja Vengesanam
Sneha Anand Yeluguri
Yernat Yestekov
Thesis: Design and Analysis of Novel Verifiable Voting Schemes
Lakshmi Methra Avula
Travis Stone
Evan Wilson Brassart
John Patrick Carlson
Thomas Chenoweth
Trenton Joseph Duke
Logan William Flood
Kyle Lorenzo Gerideau
Jaime Gonzalez
Isaiah J. Beck
Wm. David James, Jr.
Samuel Bennet Johnson
Chris M. Kamau
Christopher Ryan Kee
Mohammad Faizur Rahman Khan
John Donald Kimbrough
John P. Kizhakeparampil
Trey John Lane
Mingyu Lin
Shaun David McFadden
Zachary Daniel Morgan
Daniel James Nall
Kathleen Laurel O'Bryant
Thomas L. Palmer
Jared Michael Pasnik
Christopher David Pontes
Lisa Marie Reynolds
Christopher Rosenorn
Ike Ryota
Manuel Sanchez
Charles L. Shone
Suraj Shrestha
Mallory Renae Smith
Jake Allan Stroud
Chris Taylor
Kyle Andrew Thompson
Tyler Ross Wood
Talha Ali
Raul Eduardo Asencio
Michael Jared Jabillo
Sushil Neupane
Laura Palomino
Robert Tidwell, Jr.
Ross Clark Trimble
Patrick Andre Ngandu Ungu
Zhiming Ye
Javier Avelar
Beatriz Adriana Gomez
Westley J. Huebner
Mark David Hurtado
Kenneth James Leddy
Wes MacKay
Jonathan Mesa
Curtis Edward Myers, Jr.
Timothy DeAndré Page
Kevin W. Ray II
Katherine Vannessa Villafuerte
Ian Thomas Walton
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering
Mohamed Samy Abouelenien
Major Professor: Xiaohui Yuan
Dissertation: Boosting for Learning from Imbalanced, Multiclass Data Sets
Eric Ayeh
Major Professor: Bill Buckles
Dissertation: Statistical Strategies for Efficient Signal Detection and Parameter Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Iris Nelly Gomez-Lopez
Major Professor: Armin R. Mikler
Dissertation: Simulating the Spread of Infectious Diseases in Heterogeneous Populations with Diverse Interactions Characteristics
Master of Science in Computer Science
Sultan Alotaibi
Thesis: JGPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) Scheduling
Ayesha Begum
Krishna Chaitanya Chava
Vijaya Sree Chodavarapu
Sravant Dhanekula
Chaitanya Chowdary Donthineni
Srikanth Reddy Goli
Sowmya Gummadi
Joseph Helsing
Srinithya Kakani
Srinath Kalmikonda
Mounika Kolluri
Pradeep Kothamale
Gopi Krishna Kurra
Timothy McMahan
Santhosh Kumar Muriki
Vibha Gubbi Nagaraj
Krunalkomar Patel
Shanmukhipriya Ponnada
Ravi Teja Gannavarapu
Lakshmi Narayan Sankar Raja Vengesanam
Sneha Anand Yeluguri
Yernat Yestekov
Thesis: Design and Analysis of Novel Verifiable Voting Schemes
Master of Science in Computer Engineering
Lakshmi Methra Avula
Travis Stone
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Evan Wilson Brassart
John Patrick Carlson
Thomas Chenoweth
Trenton Joseph Duke
Logan William Flood
Kyle Lorenzo Gerideau
Jaime Gonzalez
Isaiah J. Beck
Wm. David James, Jr.
Samuel Bennet Johnson
Chris M. Kamau
Christopher Ryan Kee
Mohammad Faizur Rahman Khan
John Donald Kimbrough
John P. Kizhakeparampil
Trey John Lane
Mingyu Lin
Shaun David McFadden
Zachary Daniel Morgan
Daniel James Nall
Kathleen Laurel O'Bryant
Thomas L. Palmer
Jared Michael Pasnik
Christopher David Pontes
Lisa Marie Reynolds
Christopher Rosenorn
Ike Ryota
Manuel Sanchez
Charles L. Shone
Suraj Shrestha
Mallory Renae Smith
Jake Allan Stroud
Chris Taylor
Kyle Andrew Thompson
Tyler Ross Wood
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
Talha Ali
Raul Eduardo Asencio
Michael Jared Jabillo
Sushil Neupane
Laura Palomino
Robert Tidwell, Jr.
Ross Clark Trimble
Patrick Andre Ngandu Ungu
Zhiming Ye
Bachelor of Arts in Information Technology
Javier Avelar
Beatriz Adriana Gomez
Westley J. Huebner
Mark David Hurtado
Kenneth James Leddy
Wes MacKay
Jonathan Mesa
Curtis Edward Myers, Jr.
Timothy DeAndré Page
Kevin W. Ray II
Katherine Vannessa Villafuerte
Ian Thomas Walton
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Congratulations to Fall 2013 Graduates from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Congratulations go to the Computer Science and Engineering Fall Graduates. A full list of our graduates can be seen here.
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CSE Student awarded $10,000 scholarship from the Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation
Congratulations to Joshua Urbanovsky, a UNT student in the College of Engineering and the College of Business, on winning a $10,000 scholarship for being one of state's top business students at the Texas Business Hall of Fame 31st Annual Induction Dinner in November in San Antonio. Urbanovsky plans to use his scholarship to help pay for his doctoral degree in computer science at UNT. More information about this award in this UNT press release.
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Dr. Armin Mikler's NIH grant announced in Dallas News
Dr. Armin Mikler and his Computational Epidemiology Laboratory (CERL) were recognized in the Dallas News for their grant of nearly $800,000 from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Mikler and his research team are working with Tarrant County Public Health and several other UNT professors on a project to help identify and notify vulnerable populations in case of a widespread emergency such as the outbreak of an infectious disease or a biochemical attack. Read more about Dr. Mikler and this project in this Dallas News article.
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Welcome from Dr. Barrett Bryant
Welcome to the UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering for the Spring 2014 semester! This semester we will be recruiting a tenure-track faculty member in the natural language processing area, a lecturer in computer engineering, and a lecturer in computer science and engineering. We will also be continuing our Distinguished Seminar Series with 3 outstanding speakers. Please watch for announcements about these upcoming events.
I invite you to visit the Student Research Collaboration Laboratory in F221 to have coffee or lunch with your student colleagues, or perhaps even a faculty member, and discuss your research collaboration idea on our whiteboard wall.
Happy New Year and best wishes for all of your classes!
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Join UNT ACM-W Book Club!
UNT ACM-W, a student organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in computing, invites students to join a book club that will meet monthly throughout the semester. This is a great opportunity to make friends and support other female students in our CSE Department!
This semester's book is Lean In by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. This #1 bestseller created a firestorm about the issues that women face throughout their careers, especially in the tech industry. Please join us to read and discuss the book. Copies are provided by UNT ACM-W. Food provided at the meetings. Email unt.acmw {at} gmail.com to sign up!
UNT ACM-W would like to thank the NCWIT Student Organization Seed Fund for providing the funding for this activity.
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CSE hosts NACLO 2014
The regional competition for high school students to participate in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO 2014) will take place on Thursday, January 30, 2014 in the UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Sixty students have registered at UNT which makes us the third largest NACLO location in the country just behind Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University.
NACLO is an educational competition in Computational Linguistics, the science of designing computer algorithms to solve linguistic problems. It challenges students to develop strategies for tackling problems in real languages and formal symbolic systems. The AI and Human Language Technologies Lab will host NACLO 2014 and more information about this competition is available here.
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Applications for Bug Wars REU due February 1
The Bug Wars Research Experience for Undergraduates Site is now accepting applications for 8 positions to start in Summer 2014. More information is available HERE.
Bug Wars is an REU site project that exposes students to research on software testing and AI planning through both competition and collaboration. The intellectual merit of this project includes creating new knowledge about user-session-based testing, model-based testing with AI planning, and the combination of these two techniques as applied to web applications. A novel feature of this REU is that it encourages both competition and collaboration. The students initially split into two teams that strive to find the most faults in web application systems under test. One team collects, reduces, and prioritizes user-session-based test suites. A second team uses machine learning to build models of the software and AI planning to generate test suites. Students compete to show the merits of their approach on the same systems by considering the sizes and fault detection effectiveness (FDE) of their test suites. The students then critically discuss their work and propose combining the different approaches to further improve effectiveness.
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