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Assistant Professor Xiaowei Jia Receives the NASA Early Career Investigator Grant
March 20, 2024
Dr. Xiaowei Jia (assistant professor, Department of Computer Science) received an Early Career Investigator Grant from NASA's Earth Science Division for his project “Towards Generalizable, Fair, and Knowledge Guided Machine Learning for Monitoring Earth Systems.” The grant was issued for $300,000, with the project estimated to last three years.
SCI’s 3Sixty Program Offers Students New Perspectives in its First Iteration
March 12, 2024
Seven Hackett, a junior majoring in film and media studies, had never coded before stepping into Computing for the Humanities. It ended up being her favorite course out of the three she took this summer.
“[The coding] was probably my favorite because I never did anything with that,” Hackett said. “So now I feel like I have this secret weapon that I can just pull out and be like ‘guys, do you know I know how to code?’ which is so cool.”
SCI Students Take Home First-Place Prize at Hacking4Humanity
Feb. 28, 2024
As the use of digital technologies becomes more widespread, so can the potential for its harmful effects, like online hate speech. Hacking4Humanity, a hackathon open to undergraduate and graduate students, aims to mitigate these harms.
Assistant Professor Longfei Shangguan Receives an NSF CAREER Award to Democratize Earable Computing Research
Feb. 28, 2024
Dr. Longfei Shangguan (assistant professor, Department of Computer Science) received an NSF CAREER award for his project “Ubiquitous Earable Sensing Using Low-Cost Earphones.” The project is estimated to last until early 2029.
The project seeks to reduce electronic waste through developing a systems-based approach to transforming abandoned low-cost earphones into human-centric sensing devices. The total intended award amount is $600,000, with $284,581 issued for Fiscal Year 2024.