Month: February 2020

Faculty Candidate Tao Li to Present Lecture February 27

The Colleges of Computing and Engineering invite the campus community to a lecture by faculty candidate Tao Li on Thursday, February 27, 2020, at 3:00 p.m. in. Fisher 325. His talk is titled, “Security and Privacy in the Era of Artificial Intelligence of Things.” Tao Li is a Ph.D. candidate in computer engineering in the . . .

Faculty Candidate Brian Yuan to Present Lecture February 26

The Colleges of Computing and Engineering invite the campus community to a lecture by faculty candidate Xiaoyong (Brian) Yuan on Wednesday, February 26, 2020, at 3:00 p.m. in Chem Sci 101. Yuan’s talk is titled, “Secure and Privacy: Preserving Machine Learning, A Case Study on Model Stealing Attacks Against Deep Learning.” Brian Yuan is a . . .

Health Informatics Online Graduate Program Ranked Best in the Midwest, 11th in Nation

The Michigan Tech online Master’s in Health Informatics has been ranked best in the midwest and 11th nationally by Intelligent.com, ahead of universities such as Stanford, Northwestern, and Boston University. Michigan Tech’s 2020 ranking rose from 17th nationally in 2019. See the full rankings here. According to their website, Intelligent.com is a free, editorially independent, . . .

Computing’s CMH Division Adds Academic Advisor

The College of Computing is pleased to welcome Kathryn (Kay) Oliver as our newest academic advisor effective February 10, 2020. Oliver will have primary responsibility for advising undergraduate students in the CNSA, EET, and Cybersecurity programs. She’ll also assist in managing the graduate programs in Mechatronics and Health Informatics, and the advising of other undergraduate . . .

Two Papers by Yakov Nekrich Accepted by SoCG 2020 Conference

Yakov Nekrich, associate professor, Department of Computer Science, has been notified that two scholarly papers he has authored were accepted by the 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020), which takes place June 23-26, 2020, in Zurich, Switzerland. The two papers are “Further Results on Colored Range Searching,” by Timothy M. Chan, Qizheng He, . . .

Faculty Candidate Chensheng Wu to Present Lecture March 4

The Colleges of Computing and Engineering invite the campus community to a lecture by faculty candidate Chensheng Wu on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, at 3:00 p.m. in Chem Sci 101. (In the original announcement, the date of the talk was incorrect.) Wu’s talk is titled, “Design and implementation of computational optics: perception, control, and processing . . .