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  • Dr. Jie Wu joins the College of Science and Technology as Professor of Computer and Information Sciences and Chair of the department, effective July 1, 2009. An internationally respected researcher in a number of areas, including mobile computing and wireless networks, parallel and distributed systems, and fault-tolerant systems, Professor Wu’s goal as chair will be to develop the department into a center of excellence in computer and information science research and education.

    Wu, formerly a Distinguished Professor at Florida Atlantic University, is the author of 148 journal articles, 294 conference papers, 2 books and 28 book chapters. He is an IEEE Fellow who serves on the editorial boards of many distinguished professional journals and has organized 50 professional conferences. His research has been continuously funded since 1990 by grants from industry, the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Army Research Office, and the National Science Foundation. He has served as Program Director for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Computer and Networking Systems since January 2007. Wu earned his PhD in computer engineering from Florida Atlantic University

  • 2009 ACM Awards Dinner and Alumni Reception

    • Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award to a member of the graduating class who is in Computer Science or Information Science and Technology with the highest overall grade point average:

          Justin Roman (CS) and Ernest Wieczorek (IS&T)

    • Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding CIS 0835 Laboratory Assistant Award for outstanding service as a lab assistant for CIS 0835:

           Kaitlin Ziminiski

    • Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for outstanding teaching as a graduate teaching assistant:

            Shusha Li

    • Computer and Information Sciences Student Leadership Award to an undergraduate who has made a significant leadership contribution to the Computer and Information Sciences ACM organization and to the CIS department:

            Matthew Forero

    • Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding CIS 1055 Laboratory Assistant Award for outstanding teaching as a CIS 1055 laboratory assistant:

            Allison Wass

    ACM Awards:

    • ACM Student Service Award to an ACM officer for outstanding service:

            Tim Henry

    • ACM Service Award to a staff member for outstanding service to the ACM organization:

                 John Ikoniak

  • New CIS Faculty:  Yuhong Guo has joined the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and the Center for Information Science and Technology as Assistant Professor, as of January 2009

    Dr. Guo has just completed a post-doctoral training in machine learning at the Australian National University. Previously, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Alberta where she received her Ph.D. in 2007 while working in the laboratory of Prof. D. Schuurman. Before that, she obtained her Master and Bachelor degrees in Computer Science from NanKai University, China.

    Dr. Guo is a recipient of the 2005 IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award (1323 papers submitted to this conference, of which 240 were accepted and 3 were honored with this award). Her primary area of research is machine learning and she is also interested in bioinformatics.

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