December 9, 2022:

• Join us in welcoming Tasha Thames to the School of CSE! Tasha is our new Assistant to the Chair!
• Congratulations to CS Ph.D. student Gaurav Verma for being named a 2022 Snap Research Fellow! Through the fellowship, Snap provides a $10,000 academic award to foster collaboration between Snap Research and graduate computer science students across the world.
• CSE Ph.D. student Yue Yu and Assistant Professor Chao Zhang co-authored a paper that received the outstanding paper award at the Machine Learning for Health symposium. The pair collaborated with Emory University researchers on the study presented Nov. 28 in New Orleans.
• Congratulations to Team Phoenix, Georgia Tech’s student cluster competition team, for their acceptance to ISC23! Advised by CSE Professor Rich Vuduc, Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, and Research Technologist II Will Powell, the team will compete at the conference held May 21-25 in Hamburg, Germany.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen for being invited to join the editorial board of the journal Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations!
• School of CSE Professor Srinivas Aluru co-chaired IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) held Dec. 6-8. With over 630 registrants, BIBM occurred both in Las Vegas and Changsha, Hunan, China.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung and CSE Ph.D. student Shuyi Jia authored a paper published in the journal Machine Learning: Science and Technology. Their paper presents a machine learning method that generates novel and valid atomic structures, which could accelerate the rate of materials design.
• School of CSE Postdoc Daniel Gibney co-authored two papers published in Journal of Computational Biology. Gibney joins CSE Professor Srinivas Aluru and former CSE Research Scientist Sharma Thankachan in a paper discussing De Bruijn graphs, as well as co-authors with Thankachan and CSE alumnus Chirag Jain on paper about algorithms for co-liner chaining.
• A paper by School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Hermann’s research group was accepted into January’s edition of The Leading Edge in the special section in seismic resolution. Authors include: Ziyi (Francis) Yin, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, and Mathias Louboutin.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer co-authored a paper accepted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
• School of Aerospace Engineering and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian gave an invited tutorial Dec. 9 at the Remote Colloquium on Vortex Dominated Flows. There, she gave a tutorial on operator learning using neural networks.
• Many CSE students and faculty will present at EMNLP 2022. CSE researchers include: Srijan Kumar, Yinghao Li, Agam Shah, Gaurav Verma, Yue Yu, Junyang Zhang, Chao Zhang, Yuchen Zhuang.
• Numerous CSE students and faculty presented at NeurIPS 2022, held Nov. 28 – Dec. 9 in New Orleans. Presenters included: B. Aditya Prakash, Jiaming Cui, Polo Chau, Rui Feng, Ben Hoover, Lingkai Kong, Srijan Kumar, Kartik Sharma, Rohit Sridhar, Yuchen Zhuang, and Chao Zhang.
• School of CSE Professor Srinivas Aluru and Associate Professor Polo Chau attained nearly $250,000 in funding from ADP on behalf of IDEaS. The funding will be used toward faculty projects.
• School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Hermann gave a presentation Nov. 3 at the inaugural Direct Air Capture Center (DirACC) meeting held in Atlanta. 
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Dec. 13, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual Clusters Orientation Dec. 14, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• Dean’s New Alumni Celebration for M.S. and Ph.D. graduates is Dec. 15, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m., at Klaus Atrium. RSVP is due today, Dec. 9.

November 18, 2022:

• Congratulations to CS Ph.D. student Haekyu Park for successfully proposing her Ph.D. thesis! Park is advised by School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu participated at the DARPA Forward conference at Georgia Tech Oct. 25-26. Here is a story on the event that recognizes her as a DARPA Riser.
• School of CSE Professor Srinivas Aluru was the keynote speaker Oct. 27 at the first annual Research Day, organized by the new University of Georgia School of Computing. Here’s a story about Aluru’s lecture and the event.
• Numerous School of CSE faculty and students attended and presented at SC22 Nov. 13 – 18 in Dallas. Here’s a total list of Georgia Tech presentations from the conference. 
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar and School of IC Associate Professor Munmun De Choudhury are on a team of researchers that attained a $5 million NSF grant. Here’s their story on Course Correct, their tool to help journalists identify online misinformation.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spence Bryngelson’s group and collaborators presented 10 talks at the APS Fluid Dynamics conference and SC22. Presented topics included electrodynamics on flowing droplets, multi-scale modeling, new numerical algorithms and libraries, simulation of high-speed flow, targeted kidney stone breakup, and more.
• Research groups under School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Hermann and School of ECE Professor Ghassan AlRegib hosted an industry partners conference Nov. 16-18. The two groups form ML4Seismic, a joint initiative that brings together Georgia Tech researchers, energy sector innovators, and Cloud providers.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave a seminar talk Nov. 10 at Emory University’s Department of Mathematics.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Jinwoo Go presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Section held Nov. 4-6 in Houston. Go is advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen.
• College of Computing undergraduate Ajay Bati publicly released roseNNa, a fast, portable, and minimally-intrusive neural network inference library for use with Fortran and C. Bati is advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson.
• School of Aerospace Engineering and School of CSE Joint Appointment Professor Elizabeth Qian will give a virtual talk Nov. 29 at the University of Waterloo. She will present as part of their Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing seminar series.
• PACE is offering a virtual Clusters Orientation Nov. 29 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Nov. 29, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual OSG orientation session Nov. 30, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual Python 101 workshop Dec. 1, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.

November 4, 2022:

• Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian began work at Georgia Tech on Nov. 1. Qian holds a joint appointment with the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and the School of CSE. Welcome to Tech, Elizabeth!
• Bioinformatics M.S. students Michael Pham and Joanne Boysen won Computational Biology GRA awards for Spring 2023. School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo mentors both Pham and Boysen.
• A paper by School of CSE faculty and students were accepted to NeurIPS 2022 in the top "oral" paper tier. Authors include: Lingkai Kong, Jiaming Cui, Yuchen Zhuang, Rui Feng, B. Aditya Prakash, and Chao Zhang.
• A paper by School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar’s research group was selected for spotlight talk at the NeurIPS 2022 Temporal Graph Learning workshop. Authors include: Kartik Sharma, Rohit Sridhar, and Rakshit Trivedi.
• A paper by ML Ph.D. student Ben Hoover and School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau was accepted as a spotlight poster at NeurIPS 2022’s Symbiosis of Deep Learning and Differential Equations (DLDE) workshop.
• Students in School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s research group released DiffusionDB, the first large-scale text-to-image prompt dataset which went viral on GitHub and Hugging Face. Group members include: Jay Wang, Evan Montoya, David Munechika, Haoyang Yang, and Benjamin Hoover.
• Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Cassie Mitchell was accepted to the Science Diversity award program organized by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Mitchell is a CSE program faculty member and has advised numerous CSE students.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar contributed to this Meta Research story on reducing cyber harm. School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau is also mentioned.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar contributed to this Deccan Chronical article on perspective of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
• School of CSE Regents’ Professor and Chair Haesun Park was an organizer for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Core Universities AI workshop. Held Oct. 27 – 28 in Arlington, Virginia, School of CSE faculty participants included: Professor Rich Vuduc, Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash, Associate Professor Polo Chau, and Assistant Professor Victor Fung.
• A paper by School of CSE and School of EAS/ECE Joint Professor Felix Herrmann’s research group was accepted for publication in the January 2023 edition of The Leading Edge. The Leading Edge is the monthly journal for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam participated in the NSF Convergence Accelerator Workshop for Frontiers in Chemical Sensing, held Oct. 18 – 28. The workshop focused on integrating perspectives from divergent fields to create a new generation of robust chemical detectors that function in the lab and can be employed to solve real-world challenges.
• A paper by CS undergrad Kevin Li, CSE alumnus Rahul Duggal, and School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau was accepted as a poster presentation at AAAI23.
• A paper by School of CSE and School of EAS/ECE Joint professor Felix Herrmann was accepted for presentation at the 2023 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen is co-author of a paper that was accepted for publication in SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung is co-author of a paper that was accepted for publication in ACS Nano.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu gave an invited talk at the Friday Morning Seminar (FMS) at Georgia Tech Research Institute.
• PACE, in collaboration with ACCESS and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is hosting an OpenACC workshop Nov. 7, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Event information and preregistration can be found here.
• PACE is hosting a virtual ICE Info Session Nov. 8 & 9, both sessions 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Event information and Zoom link can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual Python 101 workshop Nov. 9, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• Nov. 10 is GVU Center’s next Brown Bag seminar. GVU will host Daniel Epstein and his presentation Towards More Meaningful Personal Tracking.
• The School of CSE is hosting a fall social Nov. 11. The event will begin at 12:00 p.m. in the CSE workshop room on Coda’s 13th floor.
• The School of CSE is hosting a prospective student recruiting event Nov. 11.
• PACE is offering a virtual Linux 101 workshop Nov. 21, 1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual Clusters Orientation Nov. 29, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.

October 21, 2022:

• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar contributed to this story about social media, society, and adolescent mental health.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson collaborated with University of California San Diego researchers on a preprint that presents a spectral method for electrodynamic flows in drops.
• School of CSE students in Associate Professor Polo Chau’s research group presented four papers and four posters Oct. 16-21 at IEEE VIS 2022 in Oklahoma City. Presenters included: Megan Dass, Seongmin Lee, Kevin Li, Pratham Mehta, Evan Montoya, David Munechika, Haekyu Park, Omar Shaikh, Anish Upadhayay, Zijie (Jay) Wang, Austin Wright, and Haoyang (Alex) Yang.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Sejoon Oh and CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar presented two papers Oct. 17-21 at ACM CIKM 2022 in Atlanta. The two papers can be found here and here.
• A paper by School of CSE Ph.D. student Gaurav Verma and CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar was accepted at EMNLP 2022. They will join Adobe Researchers to present Robustness of Fusion-based Multimodal Classifiers to Cross-Modal Content Dilutions at the conference in December.
• School of CSE alumnus Nilaksh Das, Ph.D. student Anthony Peng, and Associate Professor Polo Chau will give a workshop tutorial Oct. 23-27 at the European Conference on Computer Vision. There, they will present SkeleVision: Towards Adversarial Resiliency of Person Tracking with Multi-Task Learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave two invited talks at Georgia Tech’s Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering seminar series and School of Mathematics’ Applied and Computational Mathematics seminar.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam participated in the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience program review held Oct. 12-14.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer gave an invited talk Oct. 21 at NYU Courant’s Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing seminar.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo gave an invited talk Sept. 28 at the annual retreat of the NSF AI Research Institute for Molecule Synthesis (Molecule Maker Lab Institute). Luo presented Learning enzyme-reaction specificity at the retreat at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
• The School of CSE is accepting applications for tenure-track faculty. Share and check out the faculty hiring page for more information.
• HotCSE will host its first seminar of the semester Oct. 26 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. School of CSE Ph.D. student Ziqi Zhang will present scDisInFact: the disentangled learning for integration and prediction of multi-batch multi-condition single-cell RNA sequencing data.
• HotCSE is seeking speakers for November 2022. If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please complete the survey found here. HotCSE seminars occur in-person Wednesdays at 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in Coda 1315. Seminars are free and open to the public, lunch is provided.
• PACE is hosting a virtual workshop on applications of machine learning Oct. 25 10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual Optimization 101 class Oct. 27 1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• Oct. 27 is GVU Center’s next Brown Bag seminar. GVU will host Brittany Holthausen and Julien Sanchez from John and they will present Horses to Tractors to Robots.
• The School of CSE is hosting two virtual information sessions for prospective students. The first is Oct. 27 at 7:00 p.m. and the second is Oct. 28 at 8:00 a.m. Preregistration is required. Event details and registration form can be found on event links on CSE’s events page.
• PACE is offering a virtual Linux 102 class Oct. 28 1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is hosting a virtual clusters orientation Nov. 1 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• Georgia Tech and Emory University will host a networking event and pitch competition with focus on AI Humanity with a Social Justice Lens. The event is Nov. 9, 2:30-6:30 p.m. at Coda. Please see the event website for more information and registration.
• The School of CSE will host a student recruiting event Nov. 11. Check out and share the event page for more details and to register.

October 7, 2022:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Xiaojing An on her successful dissertation defense on Sept. 30. Advised by CSE Professor Ümit Çatalyürek, An defended Data Tiling for Sparse Computation.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar and School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor Munmun De Choudhury are principal investigator and co-PI of a $678,000 CDC grant toward studying the impact of violence-provoking online misinformation on Asian and Black communities.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar spoke Oct. 1 at Stanford’s Trust and Safety Research Conference. There, he presented his group’s research on detection models and mitigation strategies for online misinformation and ban evasion.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar spoke Sept. 29 at Stanford’s Graph learning Workshop. There, he presented Dynamic and Signed GNNs for Web Safety and Integrity.
• School of CSE Assistant Professors Peng Chen and Florian Schäfer, CSE Ph.D. student Rafael Orozco, and undergraduate Stephen Huan presented at SIAM’s Conference on Mathematics of Data Science, Sept. 26-30.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu gave an invited talk at the Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar Series at Emory University.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited lecture Sept. 27 at the University of Iowa. There, he presented Scalable Bayesian optimal experimental design for efficient data acquisition.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer gave an invited talk Sept. 14 at the seminar for mathematics in imaging, data, and optimization at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• The College of Computing will host a guest lecture Oct. 12 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. from David Patterson, professor-emeritus at UC Berkeley and a Google distinguished professor. Patterson will present A Decade of machine Learning Accelerators: Lessons Learned and Carbon Footprint at the Marcus Nanotechnology Building room 1116-18.
• Oct. 13 is GVU Center’s next Brown Bag seminar. GVU will host Ellen J. Bass, Interim Associate Dean for Research and Professor in the Department of Information Science at Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics.
• PACE is offering a virtual Linux 101 class Oct. 14 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering virtual consulting session Oct. 18, 2:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. More information and Zoom link can be found here.
• PACE is hosting a virtual clusters orientation Oct. 19 1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The College of Computing is hosting a graduate student mixer Oct. 21 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center. Please RSVP by Oct. 18 at the event link here.
• PACE is offering a virtual introduction to Git class Oct. 21 1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is hosting a virtual workshop on applications of machine learning Oct. 25 10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE is hosting two virtual information sessions for prospective students. The first is Oct. 27 at 7:00 p.m. and the second is Oct. 28 at 8:00 a.m. Preregistration is required. Event details and registration form can be found on event links on CSE’s events page.

September 23, 2022:

• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar and School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor Munmun DeChoudhury are co-principal investigators of a $5 million NSF grant toward misinformation correction. As part of a group led by University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty, the team will use the grant to further develop Course Correct, their tool to help journalists identify and combat online misinformation.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam is a co-principal investigator of a $2 million NSF grant under the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program. Imam joins a team of neurobiologists at Cornell University to investigate neural processes underlying learning and memory.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Alexander Rodríguez participated as a young researcher at the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum Sept. 18-23. The forum invites 200 young researchers in computer science and mathematics from around the world for a week of seminars and networking.
• School of CSE Professor Ümit Çatalyürek gave an invited talk at PPAM 2022. He presented Bringing HPC Graph Analytics to Modern Graph Databases to the conference held in Gdansk, Poland.
• School of CSE Professor Srinivas Aluru gave the keynote talk Aug. 15 at BIOKDD 2022. There, he presented Machine learning approaches for reverse engineering genome-scale networks at the conference held in Washington D.C.
• School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau gave an invited seminar talk Sept. 19 on Human-Centered AI: Safe, Interpretable, Trustworthy Analytics at Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang was quoted in an article by nature about computational gene regulation in cells.
• School of CSE Professor Srinivas Aluru received two Georgia Tech Thank-a-Teacher awards for his Spring 2022 course CSE 4220.
• Three publications from School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s research group were accepted at ACM CIKM 2022. The group will present a demo and two short papers Oct. 17-21 at the conference in Atlanta.
• A paper from Yunan Luo’s group has been accepted to the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2023. The work on contrastive protein representation learning was led by Jiaqi Luo, a visiting undergraduate student in the group.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and two research group students, Anand Radhakrishnan and Henry Le Berre, contributed to an early applications experience paper on accelerated Arm HPC systems. School of SCS Senior Research Scientist Jeff Young also contributed via the PIConGPU codebase.
• PACE is offering a virtual Linux 102 class Sept. 28, 1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• Sept. 29 is GVU Center’s next Brown Bag seminar. School of IC and CS Associate Professor Josiah Hester will give a seminar on energy alternatives in computing and a future without batteries.
• PACE is hosting a virtual clusters orientation Oct. 4, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Oct. 4, 2:00 p.m. – 3:34 p.m. More information and Zoom link can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual Linux 101 class Oct. 14, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.

September 9, 2022:

• Congratulations to CS Ph.D. student Rahul Duggal on his successful dissertation defense! Advised by School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau, Duggal will join Amazon as an applied scientists with the AWS AI Computer Vision group.
• Congratulations Andy Chung for receiving the NSF CSGrad4US fellowship! A CS undergrad alumnus and member of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar’s research group, the fellowship will support Chung for three years out of five while pursuing a doctoral degree.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. student Yusuf Ozkaya and Professor Ümit Çatalyürek for winning the best paper award at IEEE CLUSTER 2022. Joining co-authors Bo Fang, Ang Li, and Sriam Krishnamoorthy, their paper discusses using graph partitioning principles for simulating quantum computing systems on HPC systems.
• Welcome our newest staff member, Kevelyn Cormier! Kevelyn is the School of CSE’s new Faculty Support Coordinator.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar received a Georgia Tech Thank-a-Teacher award for his Spring 2022 course CSE 6240.
• School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s research group will present four papers and four posters Oct. 16-21 at IEEE VIS 2022 in Oklahoma City. One paper, TrafficVis, won a best paper honorable mention award.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson was awarded four BlueField-2 E-Series 100GbE DPUs from NVIDIA’s Academic Hardware Grant program.
• The Student Cluster Competition (SCC) team toured Coda’s Databank ATL1 datacenter on Sept. 7. School of CSE’s Rich Vuduc, Spencer Bryngelson, and Will Powell coach SCC and facilitated the tour.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar gave a talk Sept. 5 at the Department of Homeland Security’s AI/ML seminar. The title of the talk was "Advances in Data Science for Multi-X and Adversarial Robust Online Misinformation". 
• School of CSE’s Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling (SLIM) presented four papers Aug. 28 – Sept. 1 at the International Meeting of Applied Geoscience and Energy in Houston. Studying under joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann, authors included Rajiv Kumar, Mathias Louboutin, Rafael Orozco, Gabrio Rizzuti, Ali Siahkoohi, Philipp Witte, Ziyi (Francis) Yin, Yijun Zhang.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar gave the inaugural talk Aug. 26 at Google's Information Quality speaker series. He spoke about his group's research on misinformation detection, fortification, attribution, and mitigation.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu was part of a Georgia Tech Research story featuring computational neuroscience.
• School of CSE seminar series returns Sept. 9. The School will host a guest speaker every Friday at 2:00 in Scheller 102.
• HotCSE, is seeking speakers for Fall 2022. If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please fill out the survey found here. HotCSE seminars occur in-person Wednesdays at 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Coda 1315. Seminars are free and open to the public, and lunch is provided.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 virtual seminar Sept. 13 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is hosting a virtual clusters orientation Sept. 20 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The College of Computing is hosting two career fairs. The first is in-person, to be held Sept. 28 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The second is virtual, to be held Oct. 4 11:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Preregistration is required for both career fairs and can be found in the respective hyperlinks.

August 19, 2022:

• Aug. 11 was summer degree confirmation and nine CSE students completed their degrees! Congratulations to our graduates who can now call themselves alumni!
• Congratulations to School of Mechanical Engineering and School of CSE joint appointment Professor Surya Kalidindi for his reappointment as Regents’ Professor.
• Congratulations to CS Ph.D. student Vijay Thakkar and School of CSE Professor Rich Vuduc for becoming finalists of the Gordon Bell award. Award winners will be announced at SC22 where they will present Exaflop/s Biomedical Knowledge Graph Analytics.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash for receiving an NSF grant worth $1 million for research spanning 18 months. Prakash is principal investigator for the grant devoted to research in predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention.
• Congratulations to CS Ph.D. student Haekyu Park for being named a Rising Star at EECS 2022 to be held Oct. 27 – 28 at the University of Texas at Austin. The academic career workshop is for graduate students and postdocs from historically underrepresented demographics interested in academic careers in electrical engineering, computer science, and artificial intelligence.
• Congratulations to CSE Ph.D. student Mikhail Isaev for receiving the Dr. Sudhakar Yalamanchili Award at ModSim’22. The award recognizes researchers who showcase the most outstanding contribution to the field of computer modeling and simulation during the annual Workshop on Modeling & Simulation of Systems and Applications.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson for being named both a Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow and a Georgia Tech Faculty Writing Scholar.
• The College of Computing was awarded $250k via TechFee for nine NVIDIA ARM HPC DevKits, which include an ARM CPU, two A100 GPUs, and two BlueField DPUs. The proposal was written by School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, Research Technologist II Will Powell, and Associate Professor Polo Chau.
• Several School of CSE students and faculty presented papers, tutorials, and organized workshops Aug. 14 – 18 at SIGKDD 2022. Presenters included Tianfan Fu, Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Yinghao Li, Alexander Rodríguez, Zijie (Jay) Wang, Chunxing Yin, Rongzhi Zhang, Associate Professor Polo Chau, Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar, Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash, Adjunct Professor Jimeng Sun, Professor Rich Vuduc, and Assistant Professor Chao Zhang.
• School of CSE Assistant Professors Spencer Bryngelson and Florian Schafer completed Stanford’s Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program Aug. 13. There, they worked on fast operator recovery, a new strategy for modeling turbulent fluid flows.
• School of CSE’s Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling (SLIM) will present four papers Aug. 28 – Sept. 1 at the International Meeting of Applied Geoscience and Energy in Houston. Studying under joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann, presenters include Rajiv Kumar, Mathias Louboutin, Rafael Orozco, Gabrio Rizzuti, Ali Siahkoohi, Philipp Witte, Ziyi (Francis) Yin, Yijun Zhang.
• A paper by School of CSE Ph.D. student Yusuf Ozkaya and Professor Ümit Çatalyürek has been selected as a best paper nominee at IEEE CLUSTER 2022. The winner will be announced at the conference Sept. 6 – 9 in Heidelberg, Germany.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Communications Officer I Bryant Wine for taking command of the Georgia National Guard’s 124th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.
• The School of CSE headlines the latest edition of The Compiler! Check it out!
• August 22 is the first day of fall semester classes. Welcome back, everyone!
• Keith Edwards, GVU Center Director and Professor of Interactive Computing, will speak at the first GVU Brown Bag Seminar Aug. 25 12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
• The College of Computing is hosting a Welcome Back Carnival and Student Organization Fair Aug. 26 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. The event will include food, games, prizes, student organization booths, corporate recruiters in attendance.
• The CORE Robotics Lab is recruiting participants for an in-person research study in human-robot interaction centered around the board game RISK. See the attached flier and signup link for more details.

August 5, 2022:

• Congratulations to CSE Ph.D. student Alexander Rodríguez and CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash for co-authoring a paper that won the "Best Paper Award" at AI4ABM Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2022. The School of CSE team collaborated with researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Adobe Research on the project.
• Congratulations to CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam for being selected as a finalist for NSF’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program.
• CSE Assistant Professors Spencer Bryngelson and Florian Schäfer have been attending the Stanford Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program since July 13. Scheduled to finish August 13, they have been working on fast operator recovery, a new strategy for modeling turbulent fluid flows.
• AE-CSE Ph.D. student Johnie Sublett raised $7,000 for the Ukrainian National Guard to purchase radio equipment that recently arrived on the front lines.
• There is a new page on the School of CSE website devoted to CSE Biweekly Roundups! Here, CSE news, accomplishments, and events can be easily found and shared.
• July’s edition of The Analyzer and the latest edition of The Compiler published last week. Check out the last news across the School and College in case you missed it.
• PACE is hosting a virtual Open Science Grid (OSG) orientation session Aug. 9 at 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Advance registration is required and can be found in the event link.
• There will be a virtual training session on Kaltura Canvas Aug. 9 at 10:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Advance registration is required and can be found in the event link.
• The School of CSE Faculty Retreat is Aug. 11 at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. Check your inboxes for the agenda and event details.
• Aug. 11 is degree confirmation date for summer candidates. Congratulations to CSE students that completed their degrees this summer! A story will be published soon.
• School of CSE faculty, students, and alumni will present seven papers at ACM SIGKDD 2022. The conference is Aug. 14-18 in Washington, DC.
• Aug. 22 is first day of fall semester. Welcome back and have a great school year!

July 15, 2022:

• Congratulations to CSE Ph.D. student Srinivas Eswar on his successful dissertation defense. Advised by CSE Chair Haesun Park and CSE Professor Rich Vuduc, Eswar defended Scalable Data Mining via Constrained Low-Rank Approximation. Next, Eswar will work at Argonne National Laboratory as the J.H. Wilkinson Fellow.
• Congratulations to CSE Ph.D. student Ali Siahkoohi for his successful dissertation defense. Advised by CSE/EAS/ECE Joint Appointment Professor Felix Herrmann, Siahkoohi defended Deep Generative Models for Solving Geophysical Inverse Problems. Next, Siahkoohi will join Rice University’s department of Computational and Applied Mathematics as a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow.
• Congratulations to CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo for winning a seed grant from the Molecule Maker Lab Institute! Luo’s group will use the grant to collaborate with chemists and biologists at MMLI in developing frontier AI tools for molecular design and synthesis.
• CSE and ML Ph.D. students under CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang and CSE Adjunct Professor Tuo Zhao presented two papers and a poster at NACCL 2022 July 10 - 15. Students that presented at the conference include: Rui Feng, Yue Yu, Lingkai Kong, Rongzhi Zhang, Simiao Zuo, Chen Liang, Siawpeng Er, and alumnus Haoming Jiang.
• CSE Ph.D. student Fatima Chrit presented Quantum Lattice Algorithms for Solving Partial Differential Equations at the 17th Conference on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography July 11-15. Chrit is advised by CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and ME Professor Alexander Alexeev.
• CSE Ph.D. student Ziqi Zhang and CSE Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang developed scDART, a deep learning framework that integrates scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq data and learns cross-modalities relationships simultaneously. Their paper on scDART was published in Genome Biology.
• Research Technologists Jeff Young and Will Powell presented Enhancing HPC Education and Workflows with Novel Computing Architectures July 11 at PEARC 2022. Young also presented Enhancing User-centric Workflows and Democratizing Access to Novel Advanced Research Computing at a Birds of a Feather session of the conference.
• CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson co-authored a paper accepted for the August edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. The paper presents a quadrature method that reduces closure errors compared to a 4-node CHyQMOM scheme.
• CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson presented two papers at the 34th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics June 25 – July 1. The two studies he authored can be found here and here.
• CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson presented Fast Integration Methods for Averaging Bubble Dynamics at Sub-Grid Scales at the 19th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics June 19-24.
• CSE Ph.D. student Shahrokh Shah, School of Physics Professor Flavio Fenton, and CSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Cherry have integrated a memory autoencoder into an echo state network framework that produces models for forecasting complex cardiac events. Their paper on the study was published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science.
• CSE Ph.D. student Gaurav Verma, ML Ph.D. student Jay Wang, CSE alumnus Rohit Mujumdar, IC Associate Professor Munmun De Choudhury, and CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar presented Overcoming Language Disparity in Online Content Classification with Multimodal Learning June 8 at ICWSM 2022.
• CSE Ph.D. students Xinhai Pan and Hechen Li, and CSE Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang developed TedSim (single-cell temporal dynamics simulator), which simulates cell division events from root cell to present-day cells that generates realistic gene expression and barcode data. Their paper on TedSim was published in Nucleic Acids Research. 
• Incoming CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung has created his website and is accepting students into his research group. Check out his site and share the word!
• Hot off the press today, check out the latest edition of the College of Computing’s newsletter, The Compiler!
• PACE is hosting an introduction to Git virtual workshop July 18 10:30 am – 12:15 pm. Familiarity with Linux is a prerequisite and attendees must register before the event.
• PACE is hosting a Python 101: Intro to Data Analysis with NumPy virtual workshop July 19 10:30 am – 12:15 pm. Attendees must register before the event.
• PACE is hosting an Applications of Machine Learning virtual workshop July 20 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm. Some familiarity with Python is a prerequisite and attendees must register before the event.
• PACE’s Research Facilitation Team is offering a virtual consultation session July 21 10:30 am – 12:15 pm. Zoom link is provided on the event website.
• PACE-ICE is offering virtual info sessions for instructors July 25 and July 26, both 11:00 am – 12:00 pm. Zoom link is provided on the event website.

• July 29 is the Institute thesis deadline for Ph.D. and M.S. students.