Department Spotlights

- - VT International Collegiate Programming Contest Team Advances to National Championship
    Virginia Tech Department of Computer Sciences recently served as a one of eight host sites for the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Regional Competition for the Midatlantic Region, drawing more than 26 teams from the region.
- - Sneha Mehta Named 2020 Twitch Research Fellow
    Sneha Mehta, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science, as well as a member of the Discovery Analytics Center at Virginia Tech, has been named a 2020 Twitch Research Fellow. She was one of five students across the country to receive the $10,000 award to support her academic research and an offer to connect with a team at Twitch for a full-time paid internship at Twitch HQ.
- - Matt Sanford takes lifelong passion to new heights
    As early as middle school, Matt Sanford, now a senior at Virginia Tech, remembers working on projects such as building websites or programming small circuits. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he recognized his continued interest in computer science through college.
- - Anuj Karpatne Awarded Collaborative Harnessing the Data Revolution NSF Grant
    Virginia Tech Assistant Professor of Computer Science Anuj Karpatne has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant entitled "Biology‐guided neural networks for discovering phenotypic traits", projected to run for two years.