Department News
WELCOME
New Staff
Nathan Otterness is a software engineer working with Fabian Monrose.
Sandy Staley is an accounting assistant. Previously she worked for the UNC School of Nursing.
Xinyu Zhang is a part-time research scientist working with the GAMMA group.
Visiting Researchers
Hiroyuki Chishiro is a visiting scholar working with Jim Anderson. He is visiting the department from Keio University in Japan.
Jingwen Dai is a postdoctoral researcher working with the BeingThere Centre for Telepresence and Telecollaboration. He will be at UNC from November 2012 – April 2013, and then in Singapore at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Cedric Fleury is a postdoctoral researcher also working with the BeingThere Centre for Telepresence and Telecollaboration. He will be at NTU in Singapore until April 2013, and then at UNC.
Jae-Ho Nah is a visiting scholar working with Dinesh Manocha. He is visiting the department from South Korea.
Armel Ulrich Kemloh Wagoum is a visiting scholar working with Dinesh Manocha. He is visiting the department from Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany.
THANKS AND FAREWELL
Yun Fan, research engineer working with the security group, left the department in August 2012 to accept a position with the UNC School of Pharmacy.
Anna Snyder, assistant to faculty, left the department in August 2012 to attend graduate school.
John Thomas, research associate and laboratory manager for the Applied Engineering Laboratory, retired on October 31, 2012, after 31.5 years with the department.
Dorothy Turner, assistant to the chair and department registrar, left the department in October 2012 to accept a position at Duke University.
Crystal Walker, proposal and outreach coordinator, left the department in October 2012 to accept a position with the UNC School of Medicine.
Wei Wang, professor, left the department in July 2012 to accept a professor position at UCLA in the department of computer science. She maintains an adjunct professor position at UNC.
CONGRATULATIONS
Faculty and Staff
Gary Bishop (Ph.D. 1984) was the recipient of the 2011-2012 Computer Science Club Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Fred Brooks and Jim Anderson were the recipients of the 2011-2012 Computer Science Student Association awards for excellence in teaching.
Sandra Neely was promoted to Accounting Manager in April 2012.
Rheomics Inc., a UNC spin-off company that designs, proves, and licenses enabling technologies for high-impact biomedical products, was awarded a $450K SBIR grant from NIH to continue development of an assay for clotting. Rheomics was co-founded by Rich Superfine, professor of physics and astronomy and adjunct professor in the department of computer science, UNC alumnus Ricky Spero (Ph.D., Physics and Biophysics) and Russell Taylor (Ph.D. 1994), research professor of computer science, joint with physics and astronomy, and the curriculum on applied sciences and engineering.
Graduate Students
Jeremy Erickson and Jim Anderson won a best paper award for the paper “Fair Lateness Scheduling: Reducing Maximum Lateness in G-EDF-like Scheduling,” at the 23rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems.
Anna Derbakova (M.S. 2012) was named the Teaching Assistant of the Year for 2011-2012.
Bryan Ward, a graduate student working with the Real-Time Systems group, was awarded an NSF Fellowship.
Graduate students Andrew White and Kevin Snow, Austin Matthews (B.S. 2011), and professor Fabian Monrose were the recipients of the 2012 Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET Award) for their paper, “Phonotactic Reconstruction of Encrypted VoIP Conversions: Hookt on fon-iks.” For this work, the authors also received the Best Paper Award at the 32nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in May 2011, and the NYU-Poly AT&T Best Applied Security Paper Award for 2011.
Undergraduate Students
Zach Cross (above), senior computer science major, was the recipient of the 2012-2013 Stephen F. Weiss Award for Outstanding Achievement in Computer Science.
Gautam Sanka, junior computer science major, was a recipient of the 2012 Burch Fellowship. Read more about Gautam's award.
RECENT SPONSORED RESEARCH AWARDS
CC-NIE Network Infrastructure: Enabling data-driven research. PI: Jay Aikat. NSF.
CSR: Small: Real-time Computing Using GPUs. PIs: Sanjoy Baruah, James Anderson. NSF – Research.
EAGER: Automatic Classification of Programming Difficulties by Mining Programming Events. PI: Prasun Dewan. NSF – Research.
EAGER: Data Association and Exploitation for Large Scale 3-D Modeling from Visual Imagery. PI: Jan-Michael Frahm. Co-PI: Enrique Dunn. NSF.
EAGER: Interactive Reconstruction and Visualization of Metropolitan-Scale Traffic. PI: Ming Lin. NSF.
Efficient Tracking, Logging, and Blocking of Accesses to Digital Objects. PI: Fabian Monrose. Department of Homeland Security Advanced Projects Research Agency.
REU supplement for UNC Project. PI: Kevin Jeffay. Raytheon Company (Prime: NSF).
STTR-Scalable Communication and Scheduling for Many-Core Systems. PI: James Anderson. Real-Time Innovations (Prime: Department of Defense).
TWCSBES: Medium: Collaborative: Crowdsourcing Security. PI: Michael Reiter. NSF – Research.
Ultra-Vis Phase 3. PI: Jan-Michael Frahm. Applied Research Associates Inc. (Prime: DARPA).
Unlocking Transcript Diversity via Differential Analyses of Splice Graphs. PI: Jan Prins. NIH National Human Genome Research Institute.
VMR TA2. PI: Jan-Michael Frahm. SRI International (Prime: DARPA).
WALDO. PI: Jan-Michael Frahm. Applied Research Associates Inc. (Prime: DARPA).