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 . . .
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.
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 . . .
Department of Applied Computing tenure-track faculty candidate Wenqi Shi will give a research presentation on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at 1 pm in Fisher 127. The title of Shi’s talk is, “Advancing Personalized Medicine Through Generative Artificial Intelligence.” The event was rescheduled from its original time, date, and location of March 26 at 1 pm in . . .
Yu Cai, Applied Computing, was quoted by All About Cookies in an article discussing the security implications of cable and streaming services. Cai offered expert insights on the comparison of safety and privacy between cable services and online streaming platforms.
Tick Talk, the crowdsourcing tick collection project conducted last year at Michigan Tech, will run for a second year in 2024. Tick collection will start early this year due to warm weather.