Category: Research

Bo Chen, Grad Students Present Posters at Security Symposium

College of Computing Assistant Professor Bo Chen, Computer Science, and his graduate students presented two posters at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, which took place online May 18 to 21, 2020. Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and . . .

Part I | Jason Hiebel, The College of Computing’s First Graduate

By Karen S. Johnson, Communications Director, College of Computing and ICC Read Part II, A Supportive and Wise Network Part I | The Fast Track A Profile of Dr. Jason Hiebel: The College of Computing’s First Graduate In fall 2007, Jason Hiebel enrolled in his first semester at Michigan Tech. He’s been studying, teaching, and . . .

Computing Awards COVID-19 Research Seed Grants

The College of Computing is pleased to announce that it has awarded five faculty seed grants, which will provide immediate funding in support of research projects addressing critical needs during the current global pandemic. Tim Havens, College of Computing associate dean for research, said that the faculty seed grants will enable progress in new research . . .

Havens, Yazdanparast Publish Article in IEEE Transactions on Big Data

An article by Audrey Yazdanparast (2019, PhD, Electrical Engineering) and Dr. Timothy Havens, “Linear Time Community Detection by a Novel Modularity Gain Acceleration in Label Propagation,” has been accepted for publication in the journal, IEEE Transactions on Big Data. The paper presents an efficient approach for detecting self-similar communities in weighted graphs, with applications in . . .

Elijah Cobb Awarded Undergraduate Research Fellowship

In November, Michigan Tech undergraduates begin submitting research proposals to the annual competition for Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships—SURF—which are due the following February and awarded that spring. Computer Science major Elijah Cobb was one of the many students to submit a SURF proposal this academic year. His was excellent, but so were many others, and . . .

PhD Candidate Siva Kakula Awarded Grant to Attend, Present at IEEE World Congress

Siva Krishna Kakula, a PhD candidate in the College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science, has been awarded a grant from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society that covers the cost of full IEEE member registration for the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, July 19-24, 2020. Kakula will present two papers at the conference, “Choquet . . .