Five of our own computer science graduate students have received the UGA Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for Spring 2024! The award recognizes teaching assistants who demonstrate superior instructional skills while serving in the classroom or laboratory. Everyone at the School of Computing would like to congratulate Sakher Alqaaidi, Nima Darbandi, Rohan Intipalli, Ghadeer Yassin and Sixiang Zhang on their amazing work in helping professors and students through all of their classes and/or labs! 

Last month, UGAHacks9 was held from February 9th-11th at the Miller Learning Center and the result was a resounding success! Around 600 students attended the event that was essentially a 48-hour programming sleepover. Students were able to join the event in various size groups and compete with each other to program the Best Overall Hack. While the main tournament was going on there were also other additions to the whole two days such as: programming workshops, video game competitions, free food available and the opportunity to meet and connect with mentors.

Our career center has collected and shared data for computer science and data science majors in 2023. Our students have been very successful, with job placement across top employers  like Google, Amazon, Apple, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Palantir technologies, and the Big 4 consulting firms. Equally important is the large number of students staying in Georgia fueling tech growth in the state.

Two of our own students from the School of Computing, Morgan Elizabeth Riley and Matthew Robert Jue has been selected for the Presidential Award of Excellence! This prestigious award is handed to undergraduate students in their final year of study who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, heavy extracurricular involvement, and participated in service/involvement with their respective school or college. Both of these students are 2 out of 46 students who have been selected for the award; that is only 0.6% of students in all of UGA!

Our very own School of Computing Professor and Associate Director Dr. Lakshmish Ramaswamy with help from Assistant Professor Dr. In Kee Kim and Professor Dr. Suchendra Bhandarkar working with colleagues within the University of Georgia on a new tool to aid first-responders from Climate Change called GeoAI.

This project by Dr. Wang aims to develop innovative techniques to advance dynamic binary translation--a fundamental technology that powers a wide range of essential applications. With these techniques, dynamic binary translation systems will be considerably modernized to keep up with the rapid evolution of computer software and hardware. This project will also assemble a series of teaching and mentoring activities to advocate a diverse and inclusive environment for computer science education.

The School of Computing would like to congratulate Professor Prashant Doshi on becoming the newest Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI). The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is the premier scientific society which are dedicated to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms and intelligent behavior in machines.