Alessandro (Alex) Orso was appointed dean of the University of Georgia College of Engineering in 2025. Before UGA, Orso served as a professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and as director of Georgia Tech’s Scientific Software Engineering Center.

The School of Computing congratulates Dr. Ninghao Liu and his collaborators on a new NSF grant titled "Teacher-Involved Adaptive Learning with Explainable Generative AI".  This 3-year, $850k grant will incorporate Generative AI into various classrooms to develop and support personalized education through an adaptive learning system for students. The project will enable instructors to create high-quality, explainable assessments tailored to students' needs, offering a customized learning experience.

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.