Computer Science News

- - Block.one, Virginia Tech team up to build skills in blockchain
    As part of the collaboration, Dan Larimer, Block.one chief technology officer, a blockchain pioneer, and a Virginia Tech alumnus, will advise the university on curricula development, including participation in live classroom sessions, seminars, and symposia.
- - B. Aditya Prakash on IEEE magazine's list of 10 young stars to watch in artificial intelligence
    The assistant professor of computer science and faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center made the list for his contributions to understanding, reasoning, and mining the phenomenon of propagation over networks in diverse real-world systems.
- - Gang Wang receives CAREER Award to thwart email phishing attacks
    Wang will use the five-year grant, totaling $538,522, to create novel techniques that combine human intelligence and machine learning to combat real-world phishing attacks.
- - Biocomplexity Institute creates computing center to solve science's most complex problems
    The Biocomplexity Institute's new data center features a gift from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
- - Despite bumps in the road, engineering team places third in North American autonomous vehicle competition
    Virginia Tech’s AutoDrive team faced challenges at home before ever stepping foot in Yuma, Arizona, to compete against seven other universities from the U.S. and Canada.
- - 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.

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