Department News
WELCOME
New Staff
Megan Erlacher became an Accounting Technician after having previously served as Travel Coordinator.
Fabrienne “Fay” Alexander joined the department as an Administrative Support Associate. Fay comes to us from UNC Nephropathology, where she was also an administrative support associate.
Thanks and Farewell
Brian White retired on June 27 after 27 years working in the department. He received a master’s degree from the department in 1987 and has served as IT Director since 1995.
CONGRATULATIONS
Faculty and Staff
Mike Reiter was named one of the IEEE Fellows of 2014. More information can be found on this page.
Russ Taylor was named 2014 Inventor of the Year by the UNC Office of Technology Development. More information on the award can be found here.
Ron Alterovitz co-organized the NSF-sponsored Workshop on Robot Planning in the Real World: Research Challenges and Opportunities. The workshop sought to create a roadmap and identify challenging problems for the field of robot planning with the goal of making robots less reliant on human supervision and more widely deployable in the real world.
Tessa Joseph-Nicholas was recognized by the William and Ida Friday Center with their 2014 Excellence in Teaching Award.
Missy Wood, the manager of the Research Support and Communications team, received the 2014 Catherine G. Perry Staff Excellence Award.
Murray Anderegg received a UNC IT Award. Please see this page for more information.
Ming Lin was elected to the IEEE Board of Governors. More information can be found here.
Graduate Students
Andrew Maimone became the first ever recipient of the Timothy L. Quigg Student Inventor of the Year Award. Read this story to learn more about Andrew's research and the award.
Undergraduate Students
Matthew Leming was awarded a 2014 Goldwater Scholarship. Visit this page for more details.
SPONSORED RESEARCH
ARO Workshop: Cyber Security: From Tactics to Strategies and Back. PI: Michael Reiter. DOD DA Army Research Office.
Danger; Understanding Privacy Risks of Ubiquitous Personal Augmented Reality Head-mounted Displays. PI: Jan-Michael Frahm, Co-PI: Fabian Monrose. DOD DA Army Research Office.
Efficient Numeric and Geometric Computations using Heterogeneous Shared Memory Architectures. PI: Dinesh Manocha. Army Research Office.
Growing the Science of Security through Analytics. PI: Michael Reiter. North Carolina State University (Prime: DOD National Security Agency).
A Multicore Real-Time Mixed-Criticality Framework for Avionics. PI: James Anderson, Co-PI: Sanjoy Baruah. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Quantitative Motility Phenotyping of Basal Breast Cancer in a 3D Microenvironment. PI: Amy Oldenburg, Co-PI: Russell Taylor. NIH National Cancer Institute.
RT-SPACE: A Real-Time Stochastically-Provisioned Adaptive Container Environment. PI: James Anderson, Co-PI: Sanjoy Baruah. DOD DA Army Research Office.
SBIR Phase I: Cloud-based Acoustics Simulation Service. PI: Anselmo Lastra. Impulsonic Inc. (Prime: National Science Foundation).
Software Architecture and Support for Image Processing Using Controllers with Graphic Processing Units. PI: James Anderson, Co-PI: Sanjoy Baruah. General Motors Corp.
Suport for the 2015 USENIX Security Symposium. PI: Fabian Monrose. National Science Foundation.
TWC: TTP Option: Small: Collaborative: Scalable Techniques for Better Situational Awareness: Algorighmic Frameworks and Large-Scale Empirical Analyses. PI: Fabian Monrose. National Science Foundation.
Workshop: Robot Planning in the Real World: Research Challenges and Opportunities. PI: Ron Alterovitz. National Science Foundation.