Computer Science News

- - Victory in Europe Day to be commemorated with national effort to make available insights of American soldiers during World War II
    A team of Virginia Tech experts will observe the anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day, by engaging the public in helping to bring the written reflections of U.S. soldiers to a broad audience.
- - Virginia Tech graduate students team up with D.C. transit to help enhance customer service
    The study, a project in the UrbComp certificate program administered by the Discovery Analytics Center, is one of the first steps in connecting WMATA’s Rush Hour Promise to underlying service disruptions.
- - Virginia Tech team one of eight to compete in international autonomous vehicle competition
    Fifteen Virginia Tech faculty, undergraduates, and graduate engineering students will travel to Yuma, Arizona, with an autonomous vehicle they built for the first-ever AutoDrive Challenge Competition.
- - College of Engineering inducts six members into the Academy of Engineering Excellence
    The academy consists of 152 alumni out of Virginia Tech's approximately 67,000 living engineering alumni who have achieved exceptional career successes.
- - Triple major, undergraduate researcher Arianna Krinos wins 2018 Goldwater Scholarship
    Krinos is majoring in biological sciences, computational modeling and data analytics, and computer science.
- - Rolls-Royce, Wings Club executives on campus Thursday, April 19
    Hear Chief Executive Officer of Rolls-Royce North America and Wings Club executive Marion Blakey’s perspective on the many career opportunities that exist in aviation, aerospace, and defense and where the industry is heading.
- - Mars explorer and computer science alumnus’ career defined by curiosity and opportunity
    Opportunity and Curiosity are not only the names of two of Dave Lavery’s Mars Exploration Rovers, they are apt descriptors of his career path as an alumnus of the Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science.
- - Virginia Tech cybersecurity team wins first place in Deloitte cyber threat competition
    The interdisciplinary team of Virginia Tech students won the competition for their analysis and incident response approach to a simulated cyberattack.
- - Urban computing program provides Ph.D. students with valuable skills to address problems faced by cities
    The UrbComp certificate program is supported through a grant of nearly $3 million from the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program and administered through the Discovery Analytics Center.
- - Virginia Tech alumnus to speak about the new age of blockchain technology March 20
    Dan Larimer '03 will share his experiences as a serial entrepreneur at the forefront of cultural change and emerging technologies.
- - B. Aditya Prakash receives NSF CAREER award to find data-driven network strategies to enhance national security and public health
    The assistant professor of computer science and faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center is also committed to strengthening the big data and mining curriculum for Virginia Tech students.
- - Xun (Steve) Jian appointed assistant professor of computer science
    Jian’s lab seeks to discover how computer architecture can become more reliable and secure while maintaining high performance and energy efficiency.

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