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FALL 2005 |
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ACM Programming Team Officially Qualifies for World Finals
The Binghamton ACM Programming Contest team's strong second-place finish in November's regional competition (see news item below) has officially earned them a place in the World Finals, which will take place in San Antonio, Texas, in April. Good luck to team members Nick Maliwacki, Andrew Paroski, and Natan Zohar!
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Kolar's Paper Accepted in PerCom 2006
Continuing the stellar recent publication record of the CS Department's PhD students, Networking and Parallel Processing Laboratory graduate student Vinay Kolar recently had a paper accepted in the highly competitive 4th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom). Vinay's paper describes his approach to routing in wireless networks, and represents the basis for his PhD study. PerCom accepted only 8% of all submitted papers this year, a testament to the quality of Vinay's ideas and research. Ke Liu, another PhD student from the same research group, had a "short paper" accepted at the same conference (14% acceptance rate). Congratulations to both Vinay and Ke!
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Abu-Ghazaleh Helps Secure New Grant
Professor Nael Abu-Ghazaleh is a co-PI on a new two-year $1.1 millon project from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (US Army). The project aims to develop a
sensor network for Chemical/Biological attack detection and early warning. The project team consists of the following Principle Investigators: Owunmi Sadik (Chemistry, PI), Bhagat Sammakia and Bruce Murray (Mechanical Engineering), and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (CS).
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Yin Receives Young Investigator Award
Professor Lijun Yin has received a James D. Watson Investigator award to help support his face recognition research. The award, made through New York's NYSTAR program, is given to faculty who, early in their careers, show great promise in the field of biotechnology. Professor Yin will receive $200,000 from NYSTAR, and another $200,000 "match" from Binghamton's Research Foundation. Here's a link to the Official Press Release. Congratulations, Lijun!
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Students Present Papers at Top Conference
Grid Computing Research Laboratory (GCRL) graduate students Michael Head and Nayel Abu-Ghazaleh presented their work at the Annual SC|05 Supercomputing Conference in Seattle Washington this week. Mike and Nayef each had different papers in both the Grid 2005 Workshop and Supercomputing's main technical program, both of which are increasingly competitive, prestigious, well-attended, high profile venues. Onur Demur was first author on the Grid Workshop paper that Mike presented, and Pu Liu and Nayef also contributed to Mike's SC|05 paper. These (and other) publications can be found on the GCRL's publications page.
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Computer Architecture Grad Students Excel
This week, Computer
Architecture and Low Power Research Group
graduate student Matt Yourst presented his work at the 38th International
Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-38) in Barcelona, Spain. The work
of Joseph Sharkey, another grad student from the same group, has been
accepted for presentation at the 12th International Symposium on High
Performance Computer Architecture
(HPCA-12).
Both MICRO and HPCA are prestigious, highly-competitive and well-attended
venues---two of the top four computer architecture conferences.
Great job, Matt and Joe! |
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Tilak Defends Dissertation
Sameer Tilak successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled
"Toward a Holistic Approach for Protocol Development in Sensor
Networks." Sameer will join the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) as
a Senior Research Scientist to continue his research in sensor
networks. Sameer will join the Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory for
Environmental Observing Systems (CLEOS) laboratory. CLEOS specializes
in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions for Sensor Networks
in a variety of domains. Projects range from environmental and
oceanographic observation systems to civil infrastructure "health"
monitoring applications. Sameer's advisor is Professor
Abu-Ghazaleh.
Congratulations, Dr. Tilak! |
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Multimedia Research Laboratory Students Producing High Quality Papers
Current PhD student Jian Yao, and former CS student (now Yahoo! Computer
Scientist) Roufei Zhang (PhD '05), have recently had papers accepted
in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
(ICCV 2005),
and presented their papers in this conference in
Beijing, China this October. ICCV is considered the premier
computer vision conference, with over 1000 attendees and a very
low paper acceptance rate. Graduate student Bo Long has recently had
papers accepted in The ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining (KDD-05) and the
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
(ICDM '05).
These are considered the top two data mining conferences. Bo presented
his work at KDD in Chicago in August, and will travel to ICDM in Houston
this November. This is great work from all of these students in the
Multimedia Research
Laboratory---Congratulations! |
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Binghamton ACM Programming Contest Team places Second
in Regional Finals
Congratulations are in order for students Nick Maliwacki, Andrew Paroski,
and Natan Zohar, who are competing in the
ACM International Collegiate
Programming Contest.
The team took second in both the
regional
preliminary contest at Oswego and the
Regional
Finals at Rochester
Institute of Technology. The Top 4 teams, in order, were:
- MIT
- Binghamton
- Harvard
- Brown
Here are the full final standings for the region.
(Inside BU Article) |
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Department Hosts Open House
About 200 future college students and family who attended
Binghamton University's open house showed interest in the
Computer Science program. As part of the Watson tour, the prospective
students observed Professor Lijun
Yin's lab and research demonstrations,
and toured the Digital Logic and Robotics classroom where
Professor Dick Eckert
demonstrated student work from robotics and GUI classes. |
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Meng "Tours" China
Professor Meng, on sabbatical
this semester, spent parts of September and October giving seminar
presentations at seven universities (Peking University, Tsinghua
University, People's University, Beijing University of Aeronautics
and Astronautics, Beijing University of Technology, Sichuan University
and Hebei University). Professor Meng was honored with guest
professorships by People's University and Sichuan University.
These visits enhance the visibility of both Binghamton University
and our Computer Science program. |
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Welcome!
- New Students:
Welcome to all the new students, both graduate and undergraduates,
who are joining our Department this year! This Fall, approximately
50 new undergraduate students join the CS Department in the joint
Information Systems program with Turkish Universities.
- New Faculty:
We would also like to welcome our newest full-time faculty member,
Professor Lei Yu.
Lei received his PhD from Arizona State University; his
research interests include machine learning, data mining
applications, and bioinformatics. This fall, Professor Yu
will be teaching CS 535: Introduction to Data Mining.
- Returning Students:
Welcome back to all of our returning students! Hopefully you
enjoyed your summer and you're refreshed and ready to work hard
and have fun this year.
By the way, as of September 2004 (the date of the last official numbers from
Binghamton's Office
of Institutional Research), the Department includes
392 Undergraduate majors, 203 Master's students, and 44 PhD students.
- Returning Faculty:
Professor Madden
has returned from his sabbatical in Japan. This fall he will be
teaching a graduate course on Systems Programming (CS 551), and
the undergraduate Algorithms class (CS 333). Welcome back, Patrick.
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Meng Co-Chairs WAIM 2005
Professor Meng is serving as
General Co-Chair of the Sixth
International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM),
to be held in HangZhou, China, in October 2005. |
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Govindaraju Co-Chairs DSGC track at SAC 2006.
Professor Govindaraju
is serving as Co-chair for the special track on
Distributed Systems and Grid
Computing (DSGC) at the ACM Symposium for Applied Computing (SAC),
April 23-27, 2006. Dijon, France.
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Faculty Book
Professor Ziegler is currently
writing a book, titled Effective Communication in Engineering and
Science. The college textbook will be published by McGraw-Hill
Higher Education in 2006; topics will include written and verbal
communication skills, teamwork, and ethics. |
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Madden Elected ACM SIGDA Vice Chair
Professor Madden has been elected Vice Chair for
the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation
(ACM SIGDA).
Professor Madden
is also serving as the Technical Program Chair of the
International Symposium on Physical Design,
to be held in San Jose, CA, in April 2006. |
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GCRL to Host Research Meeting
The Department's Grid
Computing Research Laboratory (GCRL) will host a
meeting of
the Common Component Architecture
(CCA) Forum, October 6-7, 2005 in Saratoga Springs. This forum
brings together researchers from top universities and national laboratories
to discuss how component based architectures can be used for
high performance computing. Professors
Lewis,
Govindaraju, and
Chiu are all active members of
the CCA Forum. |
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SUMMER 2005
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Five New NSF Awards
This summer, CS Department faculty have received five new
grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- Professors Meng and
Govindaraju will begin a new
project involving
Metasearch
Engines.
- Professors
Lewis,
Ghose,
Meng,
Abu-Ghazaleh, and
Govindaraju,
with help and contributions from most of the Department's other research
faculty, have secured over $500K to obtain
Heterogeneous
High Performance Infrastructure for the Department's (and University's)
research activity. (Inside
BU Article)
- Professor Yin received a grant to
Analyze
Facial Expressions in 3D Space. This funding adds to Professor
Yin's existing collaborative project with SUNY - Upstate
Medical Center, and another NSF Grant on
Face
Modeling
- Professor Chiu received two new NSF Grants this summer.
The first will study
Sensors on Lakes, in collaboration with the University of California -
San Diego (UCSD), the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Indiana
University.
The second provides funds to build
The
CrystalGrid Framework. These two projects add to Professor Chiu's
existing grant, which involves Instruments and Sensors on the Grid.
Together, these five new NSF grants total approximately $1.4 Million
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NYSTAR Grant
Professor Ghose
has received a two-year $760K Grant through
NYSTAR.
The project will involve the development of a file system and related
networking and security support for avionics that implements hard
deadlines and exceeds the requirement of an emerging industry standard.
The basic technology came partly out of research funded by
BAE Systems
in the past year for about $195K.
The award includes $380K from NYSTAR, $212K from BAE,
and matching support from SUNY. |
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Student Author
CS Alumnus Sean Egan ('05) has already published a book on
Open
Source Messaging Application Development. Congratulations, Sean! |
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Eckert and Zhang Attend Meeting at Microsoft
Professors Eckert and
and Zhang were
invited to attend the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2005
on July 17-19, 2005 at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, WA.
According to Microsoft, the workshop was "attended by over three hundred
top faculty and researchers from premier universities. The goal of this
high-impact event [was] to support open collaboration between Microsoft
and the academic community.... This year's Faculty Summit [was] called
'Computing: The Next Decade' and focused on the research and technical
challenges in areas such as security, mobility, software engineering,
languages, human-computer interaction, embedded computing, eScience, and
technologies for education." |
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Promotions
As of September 1, 2005, Professors Lewis
and Zhang have been promoted to the
rank of Associate Professor, with tenure. Professors
Madden and Abu-Ghazaleh
were promoted to Associate Professor with tenure last
year, along with Professors Ghose and
Meng, who were promoted to Full Professor. |
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PhD Student Receives "Summer of Code" Grant from Google
Ryan Levering, a PhD student working with Professor
Cutler, received a grant from
Google's Summer
of Code program this summer, for implementing the first W3C query language
for RDF data (SPARQL). Ryan worked with a research group in Italy
and with some of the developers of the main RDF persistence server. |
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Berger Presents Poster at SIGGRAPH
Graphics and Image Computing Lab graduate student
Matt Berger presented and demonstrated his work at the
leading graphics conference, SIGGRAPH 2005
(poster program) in Los Angeles. The Posters program contains
the newest developing research in computer graphics and
interactive techniques. |
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Students Pass PhD Proposals
Congratulations to PhD students Sameer Tilak and Paul
Rogers, both of whom passed their PhD Proposals under
the direction of their advisor
Nael Abu-Ghazaleh this summer.
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New Research Project
Professors Abu-Ghazaleh and
Zhang are beginning a new project
on cognitive (human-inspired) techniques for real-time
multi-tasking in high performance computing environments.
The project is a collaboration with researchers at
Dartmouth
College, and is funded for approximately $300K by the
Air Force Information
Institute. |
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Joint Appointment
Walker Land has been added to the
Department of Bioengineering's
Affiliated Faculty, beginning this fall. |
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Association with AFRL-Rome Continues
The Department's association with
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
at the Rome Research Site (RRS) in
Rome, NY continues to thrive.
- Professor
Abu-Ghazaleh
recently completed his second consecutive summer
as a Visiting Research Fellow at Rome,
and has twice received Faculty Extension Grants.
- Professor Lijun Yin was also
at RRS as a Visiting
Research Fellow this summer, in the
Visualization and Human Computer Interaction Lab. Professor
Yin will be receiving a Faculty Extension Grant for 2005-06.
- Professor
Professor Zhang
has been an AFRL Visiting Faculty Fellow for several different years,
including this one, and has received several grants
from AFRL. These grants have supported his research on developing
community generation theory in data mining and machine learning.
Prof. Zhang currently has two active research grants from AFRL on
this topic.
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Eckert Receives NSF STTR Phase II Grant
Professor Eckert is the Principal
Investigator for an NSF STTR Phase II grant entitled: "Intelligent
Computerized Embroidery Design Automation for the Textile Industry".
This project is a collaboration with Dr. David Goldman (PhD '98),
President of Soft Sight, Inc., in Vestal. The $42K grant spans this
summer, includes support for three graduate students and two undergrads,
and resulted from recent and ongoing
SPIR projects. |
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PhD Student Pu Liu Gains National Recognition
CS Graduate student Pu "Pop" Liu has won the lone first prize in
the IBM North America Grid Scholars Challenge.
For his efforts, Pop received a new IBM laptop, and the University
received a new IBM eServer, which was delivered this summer.
Congratulations, Pop! |
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Zhang's Students Secure Summer Internships
Professor Zhang's
PhD students have won several awards that will enable them to study
at top research institutions this summer.
- Jingzhou Hua will complete an internship at IBM Almaden Research Center
for the second consecutive summer.
- Bo Long won a Yahoo Research Summer Internship Award.
- Jian Yao secured an NIH Summer Intership Award, and also won
an NSF Travel Award to attend th upcoming
IEEE ICCV
conference, in October 2005.
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SPRING 2005
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Retirement
After many years of tireless, consistent, and excellent
service to the Department and University,
Margaret Iwobi
is retiring at the end of the Spring Semester.
Following periods of denial and consternation, after much
deliberation---and with great trepidation---the rest of
the CS faculty has decided to attempt to continue on.
Fortunately, Margaret is not really "going" anywhere; she
will primarily be giving up only her considerable administrative
duties, but will continue to teach classes.
Eileen Head
will be taking over much of Margaret's former responsibility,
so we're in good hands.
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Congratulations Graduates!
Congratulations to all of our recent graduates!
- Undergraduates:
Including August 2004, January 2005, and May 2005 graduations,
99 students received undergraduate CS degrees
this past year. Matthew Berger won the award for Outstanding
Academic Achievement in Baccalaureate Studies; Brett Bernstein
and Robert Brooks won awards for Service to the Department;
and Lee Seversky was chosen as CS's Student Speaker,
and did an outstanding job. Congratulations to all!
- Graduate Students:
85 students received MS degrees in CS over the past year.
Congratulations!
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PhD Students Finish Distinguised Graduate Careers
Three students---Oguz Ergin, Roufei Zhang, and Zhihui Zhang---received
PhD's in CS this year.
- Roufei Zhang
completed a dissertation entitled
"Semantics-Oriented Modeling and Retrieval in Image Databases",
for which he won the University Distinguished Dissertation Award, and
the CS Department's award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Graduate
Studies this May.
Roufei has also won the University Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship
Award (December 2004), an IEEE CVPR Travel Award (June 2004), and
Studying with
Professor Zhang,
Roufei authored over 15 papers, in top conferences and journals.
Roufei is currently a Computer Scientist at Yahoo Research.
- Oguz Ergin's
dissertation is entitled
"Register File Optimizations for Superscalar Microprocessors".
Oguz won the Graduate School Excellence in Research Award, and
together with his advisor, Professor
Ghose,
Oguz has authored over 15 papers in top-notch conferences and journals.
Oguz is now a Senior Research Scientist at the Intel Barcelona
Research Center, in Barcelona, Spain.
- Zhihui Zhang's dissertation is entitled "Design and Implementation of
High Performance File Systems". Professor
Ghose
also served as Zhihui's faculty advisor. Zhihui is currently employed
at Panasys Inc.
Congratulations
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CS Major Wins Chancellor's Award
CS Major Michael Irani has won a
Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. This
competitive SUNY-wide award is made to students who excel both inside
and outside the classroom. Congratulations, Michael! |
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