Category: Research

Accessible Computing Expert Dr. Richard Ladner to Present Keynote November 13

The ICC’s Center for Human-Centered Computing invites the Michigan Tech faculty, staff, and students to a keynote lecture by leading accessible design expert and research scientist Dr. Richard E. Ladner on Friday, November 13, 2020, at 1:00 p.m., via online meeting. His talk, “Accessible K-12 Computer Science Education,” is the final event of HCC’s Husky . . .

Briana Bettin, Asst. Prof., Part I: Neopets, HTML, Early Success

Briana Bettin, Ph.D., Computer Science: New Degree, New Position Read Part II: Research, Mentors, and Creative Energy By Karen S. Johnson, Communications Director, College of Computing Michigan Tech Ph.D. graduate Briana Bettin, Computer Science, is among six new faculty members the College of Computing welcomed this fall. Bettin is an assistant professor for the Department . . .

CpE PhD Candidate Zhiqiang Zhao to Present Defense October 23

ECE Doctoral Defense Tomorrow Computer Engineering doctoral candidate Zhiqiang Zhao will defend at 4 p.m. tomorrow (Oct. 23) via Zoom. The title of his presentation is “High-Performance Spectral Methods for Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits.” Co-advisors are Zhuo Feng (ECE) and Glen Archer (ECE).

Innovative, Active, Effective. Introducing Sidike Paheding, Applied Computing

Be Innovative. Be Active. Be Effective. This is College of Computing Assistant Professor Sidike Paheding’s teaching philosophy. New to the Department of Applied Computing this fall, Paheding’s teaching interests include digital image processing and machine learning. This academic year he is teaching SAT3812 Cyber Security I. A member of the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems’s . . .

Tim Havens: Warm and Fuzzy Machine Learning

What are you doing for supper this Monday night at 6? Grab a bite with Dean Janet Callahan and Associate Professor Tim Havens, director of the Michigan Tech’s Institute of Computing and Cybersystems and associate dean for research in the College of Computing. Get the full scoop and register at mtu.edu/huskybites. “Nearly everyone has heard the term ‘Deep Learning’ at . . .

ICC Announces Computing Education Center

The Institute of Computing and Cybersystems (ICC) has announced the addition of the Computing Education Center, promotes research and learning related to computing education. Professor Yu Cai, Applied Computing, is director of the new center. “A special thanks to Yu Cai for stepping forward to lead this effort,” said Tim Havens, director of the ICC . . .