Category: Academics

AC Faculty Candidate Syed Ahmed to Give Research Presentation

Department of Applied Computing Mechatronics/MERET tenure-track faculty candidate Syed Ahmed will give a research presentation on Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 9:30 am in Fisher 325. The title of Ahmed’s presentation is, “Development and Optimal Control of Autonomous Robotic System for Smart Agriculture.” Also on April 18, in Fisher 325 , faculty are invited to . . .

AC Faculty Candidate Haluk Kucuk to Give Research Presentation

Department of Applied Computing Mechatronics/MERET tenure-track faculty candidate Haluk Kucuk will give a research presentation on Thursday, April 11, 2024, from 4-5 pm in Rekhi 217. The title of Kucuk’s research presentation is, “Applied Artificial Intelligence for Diagnostics.” Also on April 11, in Rekhi 101, faculty are invited to visit with Kucuk from 1:30-2:30 pm, . . .

Graduate School Announces Spring 2024 Awards for Outstanding Scholarship and Teaching

Congratulations to the students who have received the spring 2024 Graduate School’s Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship and the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. College of Computing students who received the award are: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship: Ujwal Goulikar, Mechatronics Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award: Zongguang Liu and Abel Reyes Angulo, both Computational Science . . .

MTU Team TRISION Takes 2nd Place in NMU Programming Competition

Congratulations to College of Computing students Nirmal Raja Karuppiah Loganathan (Data Science MS), Venkata Naga Rithika Ponnuru (Computer Science MS), and Nithish Raja Karuppiah Loganathan (Data Science MS)! The students’ team, TRISION, took 2nd place at the 21nd NMU Programming Contest, which took place March 23, 2024, at Northern Michigan University, Marquette.

Sightline, a Company Led by Ashley Kern ’15 ’17, Featured in News Story

The Alpena News mentioned Michigan Tech in a story exploring the ways small businesses are incorporating artificial intelligence. Ashley Kern ’15 ’17 (B.S. Mathematical Sciences, M.S. Data Science) was quoted in the story. Kern’s business SightLine, a predictive analytics company focused on higher education, was highlighted in the story. SightLine and Kern were the subjects of a 2023 . . .