UK Computer Science

Congratulations to Md. Sultan Al Nahian, Dr. Brent Harrison, and their collaborators at Georgia Tech! Their paper, "Learning Norms from Stories: A Prior for Value Aligned Agents," has been accepted for publication at the 2020 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.

Tariqul Islam and collaborators Kiho Lim, D. Manivannan, and K Hyunbum recently had their paper, "A Sybil Attack Detection Scheme based on ADAS Sensors for Vehicular Networks," accepted at the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC-2020).

Shina Madamori has successfully defended his MS thesis, “Optimal Gateway Placement in Low-cost Smart Cities”. He will be working at Samsara as a Software Engineer. Shina’s committee consisted of Dr. Corey Baker, Dr. Mirek Truszczynski, and Dr. Gregory Erhardt. Congratulations!

Recently, Dr. Stephen Ware and Dr. Brent Harrison and several of their students attended the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling! Attached is an image of Md. Sultan Al Nahian presenting his paper on hierarchical neural networks for visual storytelling.

Dr. Hana Khamfroush recently gave an invited talk titled, “Management of Complex Interdependent Networks” at the University of Central Florida.

An interesting article was published highlighting some of the work that Dr. Nathan Jacobs has been doing on using computer vision techniques to identify breast cancer. Read more here: auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec…

Our own Dr. Stephen Ware recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to utilize interactive narrative techniques to provide realistic raining for police officers! Read more about it here: engr.uky.edu/news/2019/11/s…

Congratulations to Esther Max-Onakpoya and her adviser Dr. Corey Baker. Esther has just been awarded the Lexington Herald-Leader fellowship. Great work!

The hiring calls continue! We are also looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in the area of Data Science. More information on this position can be found here: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/250618

We are hiring a full time, non-tenure track Lecturer! If you are interested you can find more information about this here: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/251154

Congratulations to Nathaniel Hudson for his poster on Content-Aware Click-Through Prediction on Online Social Networks Using Learning Techniques was selected as a runner up for the best poster at the 3rd annual CS summit here at UK! Great work!

Dr. Brent Seales has been doing some very cool work on developing technology to read the Herculaneum scrolls! Read more about it here: uknow.uky.edu/research/uks-b…

Dr. Brent Harrison (University of Kentucky) presented an engaging talk at the UA CS colloquium series about his work on "Using Stories to Improve Human-AI Communication"

Congratulations to Sajjad Fouladvand for his paper, “Deep Learning Prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment using Electronic Health Records,” which was accepted for presentation at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM19).

The short paper “Reliable and Efficient Mobile Edge Computing for Dynamic IoT Systems” authored by PhD student, Minoo Hosseinzadeh, and her advisor Dr. Khamfroush was accepted for presentation in the PhD forum track of ACM/IEEE SEC conference.

The paper “Meeting Users' QoS in a Edge-to-Cloud Platform via Optimally Placing Services and Scheduling Tasks “ authored by MS student, Matthew Turner and his advisor Dr. Khamfroush was accepted for publication in IEEE ICNC 2020 conference (under the CNC workshop).

The paper “A proximity-based generative model for online social network topologies” authored by an undergraduate student, Emory Hufbauer (first author) working with Dr. Khamfroush and her PhD student, Nathaniel Hudson, was accepted for publication in IEEE ICNC 2020 conference.

Tarannum Zaman will be presenting a paper titled "SCMiner: Localizing System-Level Concurrency Faults from Large System Call Traces" at the Automated Software Engineering conference. Great work!

Congratulations to Xava Grooms for winning first place in the Tapia Student Poster Competition for her poster “Utilizing Delay Tolerant Networking in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Applications.” Fantastic job Xava!

The paper "ε-Superposition and Truncation Dimensions in Average and Probabilistic Settings for ∞-Variate Linear Problems" by Jonathan Dingess, an MS student who graduated this Summer, and Grzegorz (Greg) Wasilkowski has been accepted to Journal of Complexity. Congratulations!