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Housing and Development Newsletter As further evidence of the program’s impact, ERSP students have received the department’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award the past two years. The 2020 recipients, Andrew Gaut and Tony Sun, both of whom worked on a research project with assistant professor William Wang, were finalists for a prestigious national honor, the Computing Research Association’s Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award.  The NCWIT also commended Mirza for teaching an undergraduate research methods course, mentoring nearly 30 students, and organizing an annual studen...

 E-Mail Diba Mirza, an associate teaching professor of computer science at UC Santa Barbara, has received the Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research (MAUR) from the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). The national award recognizes four faculty each year who have demonstrated outstanding mentorship by providing high-quality research opportunities to students, recruiting women and other underrepresented students, and encouraging and advancing undergraduates in computing-related fields. "The MAUR is very prestigious, and I am very honored to receive it," said Mirza...

Share this article AUSTIN, Texas and BOSTON, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Alegion Inc., a leading training data platform provider for machine learning has appointed Dr. Carla Brodley to its Board of Directors. Carla is dean of Northeastern's Khoury College of Computer Sciences and executive director of Northeastern University's Center for Inclusive Computing. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Brodley's interdisciplinary machine learn...

Richard Canevez, recipient of the prestigious Computing Innovation Fellowship ( CIFellows), has joined the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Social Sciences as a postdoctoral researcher. At UH Mānoa, Canevez will lead a study to examine the connection between communication technologies and the de-escalation of violence in social movements. “Recent social movement events illustrated the essential differences between violent and nonviolent movements. Movements that maintain a nonviolent core need to think creatively about their tools and practices, especially when faced with viole...

January 20, 2021 Left to right: James Allan and Brian Levine Professors James Allan and Brian Levine of the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) have been named Fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. The ACM Fellow recognition is the organization’s highest member grade, representing less than one percent of ACM members, who have been named for their “foundational accomplishments in computing and information technology.” The two are part of a group of 95 new fellows repres...