Welcome to the UGA Department of Computer Science web site. Established in 1984, the department has a growing, dynamic, research-oriented faculty who take great pride in their longstanding record of excellence in research and in undergraduate and graduate education.

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The CS department is saddened by the loss of 2005 graduate Mary Couey, who was tragically killed by a drunk driver in March 2009. In her memory, we are honored to establish the first scholarship fund specifically for computer science undergraduate students at UGA. Click [here] for more information.

The CS department held its first ever Research Day on March 20 from 2-4pm. The event featured about 40 graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels exhibiting their research using posters. The event was well attended by the CS faculty, faculty from other departments at UGA, EITS staff, and faculty from other universities in Georgia. Prizes were awarded to the top three posters. More details about Research Day and photos from the event are available here.

On January 30th, a group of women in UGA's Computer Science Department visited Google's Atlanta offices. (This trip came about because Sharon Paradesi, one of the department's graduate students, met an employee of Google Atlanta at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront.) The visit started with a tour of the offices. After the tour, the students had a meal and learned about some of Google's projects and what it's like to work at Google. We hope this will be the first of many trips the Computer Science students will take to Google Atlanta. The group consisted of students at all levels, including first year through fourth year undergraduates and graduate students pursuing Master's degrees and Ph.D.'s. Two faculty members also joined the group -- Eileen Kraemer, the department head, and Shelby Funk, the faculty sponsor of the department's ACM-W chapter, which is dedicated to making computer science more amenable to women.

ACM-W held its elections under the stewardship of Prof. Funk and appointed 6 new student officers.

Congratulations to Prof. Doshi who was awarded a 3-year grant by the Army Research Office for his project titled 'Strategic State Estimation in Uncertain and Mixed Multiagent Settings'. Prof. Adam Goodie of Psychology is the Co-PI.

Congratulations to Prof. Liu whose paper in MICCAI 09 was selected as one of three runner-ups for the Young Scientist Awards in the category of Medical Image Computing: Shape Analysis.

Congratulations to Prof. Taha for being elected as Vice President of the IMACS and for publishing two articles in prestigious journals related to Mathematics of Simulation.

Computer Science Department alumna Dr. Chunmei Liu won the 2009 NSF CAREER award for her project titled, "CAREER: A Complete System for Protein Identification with Computational Approaches". Dr. Liu received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Georgia in 2006 and is currently an assistant professor at Howard University, Washington DC. The NSF CAREER award is the most prestigious award to faculty in their early careers. 

Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamy and his collaborators at IBM for having a patent granted for their invention, "System and method for achieving different levels of data consistency" (United States Patent 7,395,279).

Congratulations to Prof. Doshi for winning the 2009 NSF CAREER award for his project titled, "Scalable Algorithms for Individual Decision Making in Multiagent Settings". The CAREER award is the most prestigious grant that NSF awards to early career faculty.

Congratulations to MS student Kalesha Bullard for winning a NSF graduate fellowship. Kalesha will use it to fund her studies toward a MS in CS and MS in Bio and Agri Engg.

Congratulations to MS student Sharon Paradesi for winning a Systers Pass-it-on grant from the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. Sharon will use the grant to travel to LA and present her paper in ICWS 2009.

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New faculty

Tianming Liu

Dr. Tianming Liu joined the UGA CS department in August, 2008.

His research interests include biomedical image analysis, computational neuroscience, and biomedical informatics.

Before he moved to UGA, Dr. Liu was a faculty member of Weill Medical College of Cornell University (2007-2008) and Harvard Medical School (2005-2007). Dr. Liu was trained as a postdoc in neuroimaging in the University of Pennsylvania (2002-2004) and Harvard Medical School (2004-2005).

Dr. Liu received his PhD of computer science in Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2002.

Dr. Liu is the recipient of the Microsoft Fellowship Award (2000-2002) and the NIH NIBIB K01 Career Award (2007-2011).

Congratulations to Dr. Haibo Zhao, for completing his Ph.D. His dissertation was titled "Scalable Composition of Web Services Under Uncertainty" and supervised by Prof. Doshi

Congratulations to Dr. Samir Tartir for completing his Ph.D. His dissertation was titled "Ontology-Driven Question Answering and Ontology Quality Evaluation" and supervised by Prof. Arpinar

Congratulations to Kushel Bellipady for completing his master. His thesis was titled " "Ontology Driven Simulation Using Ontology Mediation Techniques" and supervised by Prof. Miller

Congratulations to Conrad Ibanez for completing his master. His thesis was titled "GUS SB – A Schema Browser For The Genomics Unified Schema (GSU)" and supervised by Prof. Kraemer

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