Dr. X’s Research Selected for Presentation at IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference

The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou’s research on “Raising Flags: Detecting Covert Storage Channels Using Relative Entropy” has been selected for presentation at the IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference.  The conference will be held July 22-24, 2017 in Beijing, China.  Her research was co-authored with Dr. Josephine Chow…

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Eric Hofesmann Captures ‘Best of the Best’ at SSM Undergraduate Research Poster Session

Congratulations to Eric Hofesmann for receiving the ‘Best of the Best’ award at the School of Sciences and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Poster Session!  Hofesmann presented his research, “Individual Fingerprints Using the Brain Connectome: A Deep Learning Approach,“ with the guidance of Dr. Brent Munsell and his research lab, Machine Learning and Medical Image Analysis. Also,…

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Dr. Jim Bowring’s Research Selected for Publication in Quaternary Geochronology

The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Jim Bowring’s research, “Data Reporting Standards for Publication of U-series data for Geochronology and Timescale Assessment in the Earth Sciences,” was selected for publication in the science journal, Quaternary Geochronology.   ABSTRACT Uranium-series data provide essential dating and tracer tools for a broad spectrum of…

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Student Spotlight: Sarah Wiegreffe, Research Accepted to the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Translational Bioinformatics Summit

Congratulations to Sarah Wiegreffe for the acceptance of her research, “Can Classifications of Publications into Translational Categories be Automated?” at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Translational Bioinformatics Summit, which will take place March 27-30, 2017 in San Francisco, CA. Wiegreffe’s research is a collaborative effort between Dr. Paul Anderson’s data science research lab at…

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Student Spotlight: Luis Mejia Ricart Caba

The Department of Computer Science is excited to welcome Luis Mejia Ricart Caba, one of two international students enrolled in the Spring 2017 semester for the Master of Science in Computer and Information Sciences degree program.  A joint program with the Citadel, international students comprise approximately 30% of the student body.  Luis, a software engineer…

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Where In The World Is CS Faculty: Dr. Bowring Attending Data Infrastructure Building Blocks Workshop

Dr. Jim Bowring, Associate Professor and C. Richard Crosby Distinguished Teaching Co-Chair, will be attending the 1st National Science Foundation (NSF) Data Infrastructure Building Blocks Workshop (DIBBs17) in Arlington, VA, on January 11-12, 2017. Bowring’s current active project, “Collaborative Research: Cyber-Infrastructure for Interpreting and Archiving U-series Geochronologic Data,” is funded by NSF’s DIBBs program.  An…

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DATA 101 Students Compete in 2nd Annual CofC Data Science and Analytics Competition

The department’s Data Science program, directed by Dr. Paul Anderson, held the second annual CofC Data Science and Analytics Competition last week.   Teams consisting of Data 101 students competed to develop a solution for a real-world business question. This year’s question was focused on sports analytics, where the team tried to beat bookies and…

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Student Spotlight: Maz Little, Research Accepted at International Conference for Internet Technology & Secured Transactions

Congratulations to Maz Little for the acceptance of his research, “Temporal Resource Scheduling Equity,” to be presented at the 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST).  The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from December 5-7, 2016.  Little will present remotely and will be published in the IEEE digital library. Little…

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Dr. Munsell’s Research on Autism Detection Selected for Publication in Nature Journal

The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Brent Munsell’s research on “Brain Characteristics in the First Year Predict Early Autism Diagnosis” has been selected for publication in the science journal, Nature.  His research used neuroimaging data acquired at six months and twelve months to predict if a 24 month child will have…

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