University of Georgia provides a set of excellent opportunities for study abroad, one of the most prominent being the Summer program at Oxford University, which has been in existence for 30 years now.  Oxford University in UK is not only one of the top Universities in the world, but  with its origins going back to 1096, the oldest University in English-speaking world. Oxford at UGA is thus the combination of first public University in the USA with the first University ever with English instruction!

As the 2024 Fall semester begins to kick off this month. we at the School of Computing would like to introduce four new faculty members joining us this semester!

Assistant Professor Wei Niu alongside Professor and School Director Gagan Agrawal have recently been funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) with a new 3-year, 600K grant. Their project addresses the growing need for running powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) models on mobile phones, specifically targeting the transformer architectures (used by models like ChatGPT and Gemini).

Dr. In Kee Kim's research team, with international collaborators, has received the Best Paper Award at IEEE EDGE 2024, held from July 7 to 13 in Shenzhen, China. The award-winning paper is titled “Characterizing Deep Learning Model Compression with Post-Training Quantization on Accelerated Edge Devices.”

Dr. In Kee Kim, with Drs. Robert Grossman and Haryadi Gunawi at the University of Chicago, received a new NSF grant for their project, "ALL-IN-ONE: Strengthening the System Aspects of Large-Scale Genomics Processing Platforms." The All-In-One project aims to advance state-of-the-art genomic processing systems by developing 1) cluster scheduling optimized for genomic workloads across on-prem, clouds, and accelerators, 2) resource and failure-aware independent task scheduling, and 3) cloud-and-language agnostic meta-compiler for automated performance tuning.

GA Farm Monitor, a weekly TV program on Georgia agriculture recently did a feature on the use-inspired collaborative robotics being developed by Prof. Doshi and students of the THINC Lab in the School of Computing. It recently aired on GPB TV and nationwide on RFD TV. This innovation can empower small and medium-sized farms with a viable option to deploy AI and robotic automation to meet their produce processing needs. View Farm Monitor’s video using the link below.

This year, CURO or the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities, recognizes one of our own professors from the School of Computing Dr. Ramviyas Parasuraman for his efforts in enhancing experiential learning and research involvement for undergraduate experience. Dr. Ramviyas Parasuraman a professor affiliated with the School of Computing, which is itself part of both  Franklin College of Arts and Sciences  and College of Engineering. Dr. Parasuraman leads the Heterogenous Robotics (HeRo) Lab and has mentored 25 undergraduate students since 2018.

This year's commencement was held in  Mahler Hall at Georgia Center with nearly  600 students, guests and families in attendance celebrating the achievement for our graduating students. The commencement featured speeches from our first-year director Dr. Gagan Agrawal, presidential awardee Morgan Elizabeth Riley and a farewell  to our beloved leader Dr. Thiab Taha. In all, the School is on track to award 300+ BS Degrees in Computer Science and close to 100 graduate degrees between Fall 2023, Spring 2024, and Summer 2024.