Drs. Wei Niu and Gagan Agrawal awarded 600k grant from National Science Foundation

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).

"ALL-IN-ONE", New NSF Grant

All-In-One Diagram

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.

Utilizing Robotics to Assist with Production

Robots being train to help processes foods.

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.

CURO recognizes Dr. Ramviyas Parasuraman as one of the best mentors

Hea Jin Park, left, and Ramviyas Parasuraman received this year's CURO Research Mentoring Award. (Photo by Stephanie Schupska)

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.

2024 School of Computing Commencement

SoC commencement

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.

Congratulations to Dr. Wei Niu on a new collaborative NSF grant.

Wei Niu Headshot

Dr. Wei Niu (PI), with collaborators Weikuan Yu (PI at Florida State University) and Bin Ren (lead-PI at William & Mary), has been awarded a new grant from the NSF Core Program for their project " Collaborative Research: OAC Core: CropDL - Scheduling and Checkpoint/Restart Support for Deep Learning Applications on HPC Clusters." This 3-year grant has a budget of $600K and aims to advance systems and cyberinfrastructure research for emerging machine learning workloads on modern high-performance computing hardware platforms.