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Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2006
Senior Software Engineer, TokBox, Inc.
events
Monday, November 23
2:00 pm - CSB 477 (CSB back area)
Networking Seminar
Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo
"Multi-Hop Wireless Networks: An Engineering Perspective"

Monday, December 7th
11:00 am - Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center
2009-2010 Distinguished Lecture Series
Barbara Liskov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Power of Abstraction"

Monday, February 1
11:00 am - Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center
2009-2010 Distinguished Lecture Series
John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University
"Three Rivers in Machine Learning: Data, Computation and Risk"

Wednesday, February 3
12:15 pm -
"UG Lunch"

news
Prof. Jebara receives a Google Research Award
Prof. Tony Jebara won a Google Research Award for his project titled "NetTrailMix".More...
Prof. Gravano receives a Google Research Award
Prof. Luis Gravano won a Google Research Award for his project titled "Finding and Characterizing the World's Event Media."More...
Prof. Malkin receives a Google Research Award
Prof. Malkin won a Google Research Award for her project titled "Efficient Routing by Oblivious Nodes".More...
Prof. Misra receives a Google research award
Prof. Misra won a Google Research Award for his project titled "Incentivizing Managed Peer to Peer Systems: A Fluid Shapley Value Approach”More...
NSF Grant to Traub and Wozniakowski
Joseph F. Traub and Henryk Wozniakowski have received an NSF grant for "Tractability of High Dimensional Problems for Quantum and Classical More...
Prof. Nayar's Little Camera Is a Big Idea for Children Around the World
Prof. Shree Nayar has developed a new camera, called Bigshot, that has been designed to More...
Prof. Jebara Delivers Keynote Speech at the 21st ICTAI Conference
Venue: 21st International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence Talk Title: Learning from Data using Matchings and GraphsMore...
Prof. Shree Nayar receives Carnegie Mellon University's 2009 Alumni Achievement Award
Prof. Shree Nayar receives Carnegie Mellon University's 2009 Alumni Achievement AwardMore...
Scan of Internet Uncovers Thousands of Vulnerable Embedded Devices
Also appeared in ACM Tech News: A scan of the Internet by Columbia University researchers searching for vulnerable embedded devices has found that More...
Ilias Diakonikolas wins Honorable Mention in the 2009 Nicholson Competition of the INFORMS society.
The George Nicholson Student Paper Competition is held each year to honor outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management More...
Steve Henderson receives best paper award at IEEE ISMAR 2009
PhD student Steve Henderson received the Best Paper Award at IEEE ISMAR 2009, held in Orlando, FL.More...
Prof. Stolfo to Chair National Cyber Defense Financial Industry Workshop
The National Cyber Defense Industry Workshop will take place on October 28-29, 2009 at the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, DC. The More...
Prof Yemini Delivers Keynote Speech at the IEEE/IFIP IM2009 conference
Title: Can Genomic Networks Teach Integrated Network Management?More...
Prof. Ross is Awarded NSF Grant for Research on Avoiding Contention on Multicore Machines
Prof. Kenneth Ross has been awarded an NSF grant to study how to effectively use multicore machines to perform data intensive computations typical of More...
Prof. Feiner receives Microsoft Research Award to explore multitouch user interfaces.
Prof. Feiner and his students received a gift from Microsoft Research, including a Microsoft Surface, to explore multitouch tabletop computing.More...
NSF funds Prof. Junfeng Yang, Prof. Gail Kaiser, and Prof. Jason Nieh to explore new software checking mechanisms
Prof. Junfeng Yang, Prof. Gail Kaiser, and Prof. Jason Nieh won a 4-year NSF grant titled "A Thousand hands with a Thousand eyes for Distributed More...
Prof. Carloni was elevated to "Senior Member" of IEEE and ACM
Prof. Carloni was elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for More...
Prof. Stolfo receives NSF grants to explore fundamental means of measuring the security
Prof. Stolfo won NSF grants titled "Measuring the Security Posture of Large Financial Enterprises:The Human Factor"More...
NSF funds Prof. Feiner to explore using augmented reality to explain everyday tasks
Prof. Feiner won a 4-year NSF grant, complementing a second grant to Prof. Barbara Tversky (Teachers College), with whom he will collaborate.More...
Prof. Keromytis receives a Google research award
Prof. Keromytis won a Google research award for the project titled "Measuring the Health of Internet Routing: A Longitudinal Study".More...
Prof. Gravano and Prof. Nieh win a Google research award
Prof. Gravano and Prof. Nieh's research, "Google Desktop Meets DejaView: Display-Centric Desktop Search", won a Google research award.More...
NSF supports research of Prof. Nieh and Prof. Keromytis into exploiting software elasticity
Prof. Nieh and Prof. Keromytis won a 3-year NSF grant titled "Exploiting Software Elasticity for Automatic Software Self-Healing".More...
NSF funds Prof. Keromytis to track information flows
Professor Keromytis won a 3-year NSF grant titled "An Information Accountability Architecture for Distributed Enterprise Systems".More...
NSF funds Prof. Schulzrinne to investigate security service architectures in mobile networks
Prof. Schulzrinne, along with Patrick McDaniel (Pennsylvania State University and Matt Blaze (UPenn) received a National Science Foundation grant More...
National Science Foundation funds Prof. Allen's work on robotic hands
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be funding a project on new kinds of robotic hands led by Prof. Peter Allen, Prof. Rob Howe from Harvard More...
Prof. Itsik Pe'er wins National Science Foundation CAREER award on genomics
Prof. Itsik Pe'er has received the prestigious NSF CAREER award with the project "Computational Infrastructure for Full-Sequence Association Studies More...
Blake Shaw and Prof. Jebara win best paper award at major machine learning conference
The paper "Structure Preserving Embedding", co-authored by Blake Shaw and Tony Jebara, won the Best Paper Award from the 26th International Conference More...
Prof. Feiner receives Google Research Award
Prof. Feiner's lab will explore augmented reality on Android.More...
NSF supports research of Prof. Bellovin into learning security policies
Prof. Steve Bellovin and Prof. Norman Sadeh of CMU have received a new 3.5 year grant from the National Science Foundation entitled "User-Controllable More...
Prof. Hirschberg and Owen Rambow to convert text into 3D scenes
Prof. Julia Hirschberg and Dr. Owen Rambow, along with Richard Sproat of the Oregon Health and Science University, have been awarded a grant by the More...
Prof. Keromytis to give keynote at International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS)
Prof. Angelos Keromytis was invited to give a keynote talk on VoIP security at the 5th International Conference on Information Systems Security More...
David Elson recognized for outstanding teaching with Presidential Award
PhD candidate David Elson was awarded the 2009 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by Graduate Students during the PhD convocation.More...
Prof. Feiner receives Faculty Mentorship Award
Prof. Steve Feiner received the 2009 Faculty Mentoring Award at the PhD convocation this May.More...
Prof. Adam Cannon receives first departmental teaching award
Prof. Adam Cannon was awarded the first departmental teaching award during the 2009 commencement ceremony.More...
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