Computer Science News

- - Undergrad students named outstanding winners at international MathFest
    Two College of Science students recently were honored as Outstanding Winners in the 2018 Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
- - Women in STEM panel discussions to tackle lack of women in sciences, engineering
    The Virginia Tech College of Science in partnership with Virginia Tech Alumni Association will host two public panel discussions in September focusing on the lack of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
- - Virginia Tech Center for Autism Research hosting symposium in Northern Virginia
    The Virginia Tech Center for Autism Research will host its fourth annual Northern Virginia Autism Research Symposium Sept. 21 in Falls Church, Virginia, bringing experts in autism together with individuals with autism and/or their family members for a day of presentations and discussion.
- - Lockheed Martin on campus Sept. 4 and 5, job offers and virtual reality demos
    Lockheed Martin, developing critical technologies to solve global security issues, will be at the Inn at Virginia Tech, to recruit a variety of engineering disciplines, including computer science, aerospace engineering, computer programming, software development, finance, and accounting.
- - Cal Ribbens named interim executive director of the Biocomplexity Institute at Virginia Tech
    Ribbens has been the head of the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering since 2015.
- - Virginia Tech is leading a grant-funded project to make web archives more valuable to researchers
    Zhiwu Xie, director of digital library development for the University Libraries at Virginia Tech, is leading the team of library and archive experts to create a curriculum surrounding the technology of web archiving and challenges related to how archivists and librarians can gather the most useful information from archived internet sites and social media.
- - Director recognized for contributions to engineering and mathematics
    Madhav Marathe, director of the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory of the Biocomplexity Institute at Virginia Tech, has been named a Fellow of SIAM and received the College of Engineering Dean's Award in Research Excellence.
- - Changhee Jung receives CAREER Award to make high-performance computing more efficient and error-resilient
    Jung's research award will focus on reducing the ever-increasing error rate in high-performance computers without sacrificing energy efficiency or increasing the complexity of hardware.
- - FutureHAUS Dubai takes shape at Virginia Tech’s Research + Demonstration Facility
    Led by the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, students from five Virginia Tech colleges will compete as the only U.S. collegiate team in the Solar Decathlon Middle East in Dubai, November 2018. The team now has three months to complete the world’s smartest modular solar home – a prototype they hope will become a global model for housing sustainability.
- - Computer science researcher meets updated phishing attacks head on
    In an age of cyberattacks and data breaches, vigilance alone might not be enough to keep email users protected, according to new research from Virginia Tech that examines the growing sophistication of phishing attacks.
- - Virginia Tech team tops in cyber capture-the-flag
    Seven computer engineering students took first place in MITRE’s Embedded Capture-the-Flag contest, which tasked them with designing a secure ATM banking system and then attacking the designs of 10 other universities.
- - Wenjing Lou named the W.C. English Professor
    A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2011, Lou’s research in information and network security is a major component of the university’s growing reputation and impact in the critically important area of cybersecurity.

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