Month: October 2016

Faculty and Students Attend Conference

Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon (CLS/CS) and his seven students attended the 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI) Oct. 24-26 at University of Michigan. Jeon and students hosted a tutorial on “in-vehicle auditory interactions: Design and Application of Auditory Displays, Speech, Sonification and Music.” Jeon and international collaborators hosted a workshop on “Ethically . . .

Tommy Stuart Receives Second Place in Elevator Pitch Competition

Congratulations to Tommy Stuart for earning second place at the 2016 Bob Mark Elevator Pitch Competition on October 6. His pitch, “Delving Deeply,” proposed to complete development of a single-player top-down action adventure style game, and eventually start a local game development studio to leverage the large population of knowledgeable computer science students in the . . .

Computer Science in Top 18 in Nation

PayScale, a compensation analysis web site, has announced the top 25 university computer science programs in the country and Michigan Tech placed 18th. In its 2016-2017 College Salary Report, Payscale ranked 171 colleges and universities with computer science programs based on the median early-career and mid-career pay of the schools’ computer science alumni. Tech’s early-career . . .

Associate Professor Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon received a research award from Hyundai Motor Company

Associate Professor Philart Jeon received a research award from Hyundai Motor Company in the amount of $130,236. The project is entitled, “Novel In-vehicle Interaction Design and Evaluation”. Philart and his students will investigate the effectiveness of an in-vehicle control system and culture-specific sound preference.

Associate Professor Timothy Havens received a research award

Associate Professor Timothy Havens received a DoD Army Research Office research award with a budget of $99,779 during the first year. This is also a 3-year project with a total budget of $1,066,799. The project is titled “Multisensor Analysis and Algorithm Development for Detection and Classification of Buried and Obscured Targets.” Tim and his students . . .