Month: May 2018

Alex Larkin, CS undergrad, achieves a national NCL ranking

Alex Larkin. Computer Science undergrad. Outstanding achievement. Alex placed 36th out of 3,350 students/players in the 2018 National Cyber League (NCL) cyber competition!  CS Assistant Professor, Bo Chen, is the faculty coach. The NCL was founded in May 2011 to provide an ongoing virtual training ground for collegiate students to develop, practice, and validate their . . .

Undergraduate Programming Competition Win

Computer science undergraduate students received top honors at the 19th Annual Northern Michigan University Invitational Programming Contest held March 24, 2018. Tony Duda, Justin Evankovich, and Nicholas Muggio took first place; Michael Lay, Parker Russcher, and Marcus Stojcevich took second. Michigan Tech earned the highest program count and No. 1 ranking. Congratulations! “We are proud . . .

Zhenlin Wang receives an REU supplement to his NSF award

Zhenlin Wang received an REU supplement of $15,876 to his his NSF award titled “CSR:Small: Effective Sampling-Based Miss Ratio Curves: Theory and Practice”. The supplement will support two undergraduate students for one year, offering research experiences in cache modeling for modern multi-core processors and data center key-value stores. Congratulations Zhenlin!  

Research Excellence Fund (REF) Award Announced

The Vice President for Research Office announced the 2018 Research Excellence Fund (REF) awards and thanked the volunteer review committees, as well as the deans and department chairs, for their time spent on this important internal research award process. Keith has received a Research Excellence Fund (REF) seed grant from Michigan Tech for his project entitled “Automatic . . .