Category: Faculty

Charles Wallace Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to SIGCSE Technical Symposium

The 2024 SIGCSE Technical Symposium Program Committee has recognized Associate Professor Charles Wallace, Computer Science, for his outstanding contributions to the symposium while serving as an Associate Program Chair for paper reviewing for the conference. The symposium took place March 20-23 in Portland Oregon. The SIGCSE Program Committee used a number of different criteria for . . .

Leo Ureel Named AI-ALOE Research Fellow

The National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (AI-ALOE) has named Assistant Professor Leo Ureel, Computer Science , a Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence and in Online Learning. AI-ALOE Research Fellows have opportunities to participate in AI-ALOE events, seminars, and workshops. Additionally, a dedicated Slack channel serves as the nexus for the research . . .

AC Faculty Candidate Wenqi Shi to Give Research Presentation

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 . . .

Research in Focus: Needles, Haystacks, and Sugar Chains

From the 2024 Michigan Tech Magazine A glycobiologist and a computer scientist join forces to find protein-bound glycans faster—a major advance in the understanding of human health and disease. Shortly after Dukka KC arrived on campus in fall 2021, the new professor of computer science emailed Michigan Tech glycobiologist Tarun Dam. The note, as Dam remembers it, said in essence, . . .

Mechatronics Program Ranked No. 2 in US

From the 2024 Michigan Tech Magazine Mechatronics Program Ranked No. 2 in US The field of mechatronics is driving a technological revolution of the manufacturing industry, reinventing the way products are designed, produced, and delivered with digital technologies, automation, and data analytics. This past June, MTU’s interdisciplinary mechatronics program was ranked No. 2 in the United States . . .