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Goldwasser promoted to associate professor
Purdue University's Board of Trustees approved faculty promotions during their meeting on April 9, 2021. Within the Department of Computer Science, Professor Dan Goldwasser was promoted to associate professor.
Bertino's research referenced in WIRED
Professor Elisa Bertino coauthored a recent paper in Electronics on insider threats and water supply safety.
Professor Christina Garman, received an NSF CAREER award. Her project is dedicated to building tools to aid in the deployment of complex cryptography, automating the discovery of vulnerabilities in popular zero-knowledge proof instantiation, and automate the discovery and identification of modern cryptographic algorithms and techniques.
Pothen wins George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics
SIAM has elected Purdue University computer scientist and applied mathematician Alex Pothen to receive its prestigious 2021 George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics. A professor of computer science, Pothen specializes in combinatorial scientific computing, graph algorithms, high-performance computing and bioinformatics.
Fairness in Machine Learning: Purdue joins $1M NSF fairness in AI program
Purdue CS has joined a collaborative $1M award from the NSF Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence. Co-lead by AI researcher, Professor Ming Yin, received funding for their project, “Fairness in Machine Learning with Human in the Loop,” to identify and mitigate bias in AI and machine learning systems to achieve long-lasting equitable outcomes.
Purdue CS undergrad earns finalist award in CRA Research Recognition
An undergraduate researcher offered a novel contribution to the Linux operating system kernel. This contribution earned computer science senior Kaiyang Zhao a Finalist position in the 2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher competition, which recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.