Department Welcomes New Chair

Dr. Armin Mikler became chair of the Department of Computer Science on September 1, replacing Dr. Yi Pan, who had served as chair since 2005.

Plis Wins $2.5 Million NIH Grant for Brain Research

Associate professor Sergey Plis is the institutional lead for a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research aimed at revolutionizing understanding of the human brain. The work will be done with colleagues at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital.

NSF Funds Study of COVID-19 Darknet Scams

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Georgia State’s Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group to study the sale of critical COVID-19 supplies on darknet markets.

Georgia State Named Center of Excellence in Cyber Defense

NSA and the Department of Homeland Security have designated Georgia State a National Center of Academic Excellence in both Cyber Defense Research and Cyber Defense Education.

May CS Graduate Featured on Arts & Sciences Website

Nadiya Noor, who graduated in May with a B.S. in computer science, was recently featured on the College of Arts & Sciences website. She was an Honors College student and president of Girls++, a student organization for women majoring in CS.

Skums Uses Genomic Data to Map COVID-19 Transmission

Assistant professor Pavel Skums is part of a team of GSU researchers who are modeling the real-time global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

CS Major Presents Research at National Workshop

Abu Nadim Kabir, a junior majoring in computer science, presented his research on classifying baby cries at a national REU workshop.

Banda Releases Coronavirus Twitter Dataset

A Georgia State University team led by assistant professor Juan Banda has released a dataset of more than 140 million tweets to help researchers worldwide study the spread and impacts of the global coronavirus outbreak.

Facebook Engineer Teaching at GSU

Facebook engineer Rachel Min is teaching in the Department of Computer Science during the Spring 2020 semester.

CS Major Wins Google Scholarship

Lauren James is one of only 15 undergraduates in the U.S. and Canada to win a 2019 Generation Google Scholarship.

Ashok Use of Robotics Teaching Kit Featured on NVIDIA Blog

Dr. Ashwin Ashok’s use of NVIDIA’s Robotics Teaching Kit in his Introduction to Robotics course was featured on the company’s Deep Learning blog.

Ph.D. Student Profiled on Next Generation Program Website

Computer science Ph.D. student Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi was recently profiled on Georgia State’s Next Generation Program website. She is a Second Century Initiative Fellow and winner of the Outstanding Graduate Research award from the Department of Computer Science.

Wu Research Featured in Magazine

The cover story in the Spring 2019 issue of Georgia State University Research Magazine discusses Dr. Yubao Wu’s research on cryptomarkets.

Glebova Seed Fund Grant Featured

Dr. Olga Glebova’s NCWIT Seed Fund grant to encourage women to pursue computing was recently highlighted on the GSU News Hub website.

Big Data Concentration Created

Georgia State is now accepting applications for the newly created Master of Science in Data Science and Analytics with concentration in Big Data and Machine Learning.

Hu Drone Research Featured

Dr. Xiaolin Hu’s research into using drones to fight wildfires was recently highlighted on the Georgia State University website.

CS Poster & Demo Day

The 2019 Spring Computer Science Poster & Demo Day was held on Friday, April 26.

HackGSU Returns

HackGSU, a Major League hackathon, was held for the eighth time on November 1–3.

New Pre-Major Requirements

Effective Fall Semester 2017, students must fulfill new requirements in order to enroll in major-level CSC courses and complete the B.S. degree.