Winter WonderHack, Capture the Flag Competition are Feb. 21-23

Also part of the Winter WonderHack, the Michigan Tech RedTeam is running a Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition. The competition is designed to appeal to both beginners and the more experienced competitors. Everyone is welcome, especially undergraduates. About the Winter WonderHack WHAT DO I DO? Whatever you can dream up! A hackathon; A makeathon; an . . .

Faculty Candidate Songtao Lu to Present Lecture March 2

The Colleges of Computing and Engineering invite the campus community to a lecture by faculty candidate Songtao Lu, Monday, March 2, 2020, at 3:00 p.m., in Chem Sci 102. Lu’s talk is titled, “Nonconvex Min-Max Optimization for Machine Learning.” Songtao Lu is an AI resident at IBM Research AI, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. . . .

Faculty Candidate Brian Yuan to Present Lecture February 26

The Colleges of Computing and Engineering invite the campus community to a lecture by faculty candidate Xiaoyong (Brian) Yuan on Wednesday, February 26, 2020, at 3:00 p.m. in Chem Sci 101. Yuan’s talk is titled, “Secure and Privacy: Preserving Machine Learning, A Case Study on Model Stealing Attacks Against Deep Learning.” Brian Yuan is a . . .

Health Informatics Online Graduate Program Ranked Best in the Midwest, 11th in Nation

The Michigan Tech online Master’s in Health Informatics has been ranked best in the midwest and 11th nationally by Intelligent.com, ahead of universities such as Stanford, Northwestern, and Boston University. Michigan Tech’s 2020 ranking rose from 17th nationally in 2019. See the full rankings here. According to their website, Intelligent.com is a free, editorially independent, . . .

Computing’s CMH Division Adds Academic Advisor

The College of Computing is pleased to welcome Kathryn (Kay) Oliver as our newest academic advisor effective February 10, 2020. Oliver will have primary responsibility for advising undergraduate students in the CNSA, EET, and Cybersecurity programs. She’ll also assist in managing the graduate programs in Mechatronics and Health Informatics, and the advising of other undergraduate . . .