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Purdue Computer Science Welcomes New Faculty
The Department of Computer Science is delighted to welcome five new faculty members for the 2019 fall semester: Antonia Bianchi, Berkay Celik, Changhee Jung, Kent Quanrud, and Dave Tian. Bedrich Benes, previously in computer science by courtesy, will also join the department in a joint position with Purdue Polytechnic Institute. The new faculty will join the department during a large-scale hiring effort across key strategic areas in the College of Science.
Amber Johnson earned her PhD from Purdue CS and became the first African American woman to graduate from the doctoral program. Johnson’s research focuses on using data science in conjunction with electronic health records and determining best clinical practices for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD).
New software brings lower-resolution cryo-EM maps into focus
Emap2sec has a deep convolutional neural network at the core of its algorithm. These networks are deep-learning systems primarily used to classify images, cluster them by similarity and perform object recognition. It works for protein structure identification in 3D maps as the information passes through layers of neural network.
Two Purdue CS Professors Awarded Facebook Probability and Programming Research Awards
Computer Science Associate Professor Lin Tan and Assistant Professor Tiark Rompf were each awarded a Facebook Probability and Programming Research Award for their individual projects. Facebook rewards forward-looking research with $50,000 grants for projects exploring the intersection of programming languages and machine learning.