Newsmakers

October 23, 2019

Matthew Wright, professor of computing security and director of the Center for Cybersecurity, gave a keynote speech at SecureComm 2019 Oct. 23 in Orlando, Fla.

October 11, 2019

Minseok Kwon, professor of computer science, presented his research on “Proof-Carrying Network Code” at the Cornell-Princeton Network Programming Initiative (NPI) annual retreat Oct. 11 at Cornell Tech in New York City. The research centers on the development of programming logics to specify and enforce security policies in federated network settings focusing on authorization and network behavioral policies, including firewalls.

September 26, 2019

Kim Kurz and Matt Dye, associate professors at NTID, presented “Sign language avatars activate phonological and semantic representation: Evidence from working memory and priming paradigms,” at the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference Sept. 26-28 in Hamburg, Germany. The paper was co-authored by Matt Huenerfauth, professor, School of Information.

July 28, 2019

Several computer science students and recent graduates had projects showcased in the eighth annual Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibit at ACM’s SIGGRAPH 2019 conference July 28–Aug. 1 in Los Angeles: Jietong Chen ’19 MS and Srivardhana Reddy Indukuri ’19 MS, “Caustics in Unity,” under Professor Joe Geigel; Samuel Kilgus ’19, “Generations,” under Professor Reynold Bailey; Jacob VanScoy ’18, “Gravitational Lensing,” under Geigel; and Richard Guerin, fifth-year student, “Phantom of the Opera Simulation,” under Geigel. The projects are available online.

July 20, 2019

Taejoong Chung, assistant professor of computer science, was selected as a 2019 awardee of the Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Prize, for his paper “Understanding the Role of Registrars in DNSSEC Deployment.” Chung was invited to present the research at an Internet Engineering Task Force meeting July 20-26 in Montreal, Canada. The prize was awarded for recent results in applied networking research that are relevant for transitioning into shipping Internet products and related standardization efforts.

July 2, 2019

Neil Hair, executive director of the Innovative Learning Institute; Justin Pelletier, lecturer in the Department of Computing Security; and James Santa, adjunct faculty, won the Best Paper Award, Marketing of Higher Education Track, at the Academy of Marketing Conference 2019, held July 2-4 at Regents University in London, for their paper, “Modelling e-learner Satisfaction: The Role of Online Customer Experience.”

April 1, 2019

Wei Zhong, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, received the Best Applications Paper at the European Conference on Information Retrieval in mid-April for his paper “Structural Similarity Search for Formulas using Leaf-Root Paths in Operator Subtrees.” Wei's advisor and co-author was Richard Zanibbi, professor in the Department of Computer Science.

January 1, 2019

Kenny Davila Castellanos ’13 MS (computer science), ’18 Ph.D. (computing and information sciences) and Richard Zanibbi, professor of computer science, received the Best Paper Award for “Visual Search Engine for Handwritten and Typeset Math in Lecture Videos and LaTeX Notes” at the International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2018) in August. The paper is based on Kenny’s Ph.D. dissertation.

December 12, 2018

Taejoong “Tijay” Chung, assistant professor of computer science, received the 2019 Applied Networking Research Prize for the paper “Understanding the Role of Registrars in DNSSEC Deployment.” The award recognizes the best new ideas in networking.

October 22, 2018

Kristen Shinohara, assistant professor of information sciences and technologies, presented “Incorporating Social Factors in Accessible Design,” along with University of Washington professors Jacob Wobbrock and Wanda Pratt, Oct. 22 at the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) in Ireland.