David Doty, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a $500K NSF CAREER Award titled “CAREER: Error-Free, Uniform and Composable Chemical Computation”.

Professor Premkumar Devanbu was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is one of 56 fellows being recognized for “outstanding accomplishments in computing and information and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community” this December.

Devanbu was specifically recognized for his contributions to using software data and meta-data to improve software tools and processes. He will formally receive his award at ACM’s annual Awards Banquet on June 15, 2019.

Professor Aditya Thakur (Computer Science) and Professor Maureen Kinyua (Civil and Environmental Engineering) were one of three recipients of the 2018 Dean’s Collaborative Research (DECOR) Award. The DECOR program was initiated this year by Dean Curtis and facilitated by the College’s Research and Library Committee to catalyze new research ideas by supporting collaborations between faculty who have different areas of expertise.

Yong Jae Lee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a $501K NSF CAREER Award titled “CAREER: Weakly-Supervised Visual Scene Understanding: Combining Images and Videos, and Going Beyond Semantic Tags”.

Cindy Rubio González, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a $537K NSF CAREER Award titled “Understanding and Combating Numerical Bugs for Reliable and Efficient Software Systems”. The research aims at developing new testing and analysis tools to find frequent and impactful numerical bugs, to propose fixes for these bugs, and to optimize numerical software.