Image: I am excited to bring this update on our progress at UGA’s School of Computing. While the last several months have been challenging for academia and especially academic research programs, with strong support from the State of Georgia, University of Georgia, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the College of Engineering, we continue to make strong progress. We had a very successful faculty recruiting season and look forward to welcoming Jian Liu, currently at the University of Tennessee, as an Associate Professor and Zhenlin An, currently at University of Pittsburgh, as an Assistant Professor. Both have very strong research records and will strengthen the areas of Cyber Physical Systems, Mobile Computing, Sensing, AI/ML and Cybersecurity. The newly announced Dean of the College of Engineering, Alex Orso, is a software engineering researcher who will be holding a faculty appointment in our unit. We are also finalizing our third teaching track faculty line to join Karthika Subramani and Mozaharul Mottalib. Our faculty research continues to shine. We are extremely delighted to share that our Assistant Professor, Ninghao Liu, has received the first ever Google Scholar Award at University of Georgia. Ninghao was also among the selected group of researchers nationwide to be invited to CCC Computing Futures Symposium. Prof. Roberto Perdisci, a highly coveted Amazon Research Awardee, joining top researchers from prestigious international universities. Our research expenditure is on track for a cumulative 60% increase over 2 years and we started a new tradition of recognizing our PhD students with top publications – the first cohort was very impressive with publications including ones in Usenix security, IROS, NuerIPS, and others. Our undergrads continue to excel. Our programming team competed on the national stage of Inter-Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC), our first ever appearance -- the team performed well and actually tied with Stanford and Yale! Our student teams also won prizes in Hackathon at Georgia Tech and Princeton. Our cybersecurity related groups had other accomplishments at the national level. Our Fall ABET visit ended successfully, showing the strength of our BS Computer Science program. We have also worked with the AI institute on a new AI certificate to be available more broadly. Finally, several of our first-year students traveled to London during spring break for a study abroad that highlighted the global impact of computing and provided visits to Google, Viasat and more. We are currently seeking support for our study away programs so more students can participate in these impactful opportunities. If you are interested in supporting the School of Computing, click here. Sincerely, Gagan AgrawalDirector, School of Computing University of Georgia Type of News/Audience: Alumni Student Success
