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Meet SCI's New Faculty: Rebecca Morris
Name: Rebecca Morris
Title: Teaching Associate Professor
Department: Information Culture and Data Stewardship
SCI Faculty Receive National Science Foundation Award to Study How Robots Affect Learning
SCI faculty members recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Award to study the impact robots can have on middle school students’ learning. The project, titled “Designing Effective Dialogue, Gaze, and Gesture Behaviors in a Social Robot that Supports Collaborative Learning in Middle School Mathematics,” will be led by SCI Associate Professor Erin Walker as Principal Investigator, with SCI Professor Diane Litman, SCI Assistant Professor Adriana I.
Meet SCI's New Faculty: Xiaowei Jia
Name: Xiaowei Jia
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Associate Professor Yu-Ru Lin Featured in National Geographic Article about COVID-19
SCI Associate Professor Yu-Ru Lin was recently featured in an article by National Geographic titled "Why our minds can't make sense of COVID-19's enormous death toll." The story explores the difficulty people have in processing the increasing death toll of the coronavirus and offers methods that can help people understand the impact of the pandemic and take positive action. Here is an excerpt:
Meet SCI's New Faculty: Ahmed Ibrahim
Name: Ahmed Ibrahim
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Informatics and Networked Systems
Bio:
Ahmed is an Assistant Professor (Appointment Stream) in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 2016. He also holds two M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science, one from the University of Kentucky in 2014 and one from Egypt in 2009.
Dr. Chelsea Gunn: Preserving a shared digital memory
September 18, 2020
Meet SCI's New Faculty: Chelsea Gunn
Name: Chelsea Gunn
Title: Teaching Assistant Professor
Department: Information Culture and Data Stewardship
SCI Faculty Member Co-Authors Research Article on Urban Economies
SCI Assistant Professor Morgan Frank recently co-authored an article about the factors that allow cities to support cognitive tech-based industries. The article, titled “The universal pathway to innovative urban economies,” was published in Science Advances, a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and co-authored by Inho Hong, Iyad Rahwan, Woo-Sung Jung, and Hyejin Youn. It examines how size and economic capabilities relate to a city’s ability to support
SCI Alumna and Professor Author Paper on Secondary Spectrum Markets
SCI alumna Marcela Gomez and Professor Martin Weiss recently authored a paper about the spectrum market titled “A comprehensive secondary market model for virtualized wireless connectivity.” The article is published by Telecommunications Policy, an academic journal concerned with the impact of digitalization in the economy and society. It explores the unique aspects of a market model which includes a specialized intermediary, or Virtual Network Builder, and utilizes matching markets to establish partnerships between intermediaries and resource buyers.
Meet SCI’s New Faculty: Morgan Frank
Name: Morgan Frank
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Informatics and Networked Systems
Dr. Dmitriy Babichenko: How to anticipate hiccups in health care
September 3, 2020
Information Science Alumna Creates Virtual and Augmented Reality Tools for Studying Nature
SCI alumna Maria Harrington has recently created technological tools to help people explore nature through virtual and augmented reality. Her virtual reality game, called Virtual UCF Arboretum, provides users with an opportunity to explore the University of Central Florida’s arboretum, which contains 274 acres of natural habitat. She has also created an augmented reality tool called AR Perpetual Garden App, which allows users to transform any space into an Appalachian flora garden through a smart phone or tablet. These tools are helpful in supplementing science lessons for
Meet SCI’s New Faculty: Arjun Chandrasekhar
Name: Arjun Chandrasekhar
Title: Teaching Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
SCI Professor Authors Paper on Blockchain Networks
SCI Professor Martin Weiss has contributed to a research article about the function of governance in public blockchain networks. The article is titled “Can Permissionless Blockchains Avoid Governance and the Law?” and is published by SSRN, a journal devoted to the dissemination of scholarly research. It is co-authored by Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Associate Professor Ilia Murtazashvili, as well as Eric Alston of the Finance Division of the University of Colorado Boulder and Wilson Law of Baylor University. The paper examines the decentralized priva