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Visit this link to learn more about the seminar and speaker! cs.wfu.edu/how-low-rank-l… All are welcome!

Join us Monday, March 23, at 4:00 PM in Manc 024! Our very own Sajant Anand (’18), who majored in Physics and Computer Science, will deliver a talk titled, “How Low-Rank Linear Algebra Enables Simulations of Quantum Computing.” @WFUAlumni

Watch our Honors STEM Incubator students in action as they test their robots' precision stopping! Students design autonomous challenges for robots using various sensors, program them to navigate obstacles, and take a leadership role in developing autonomous robotics. Way to go~

We are celebrating a HUGE milestone of Dr. Sam Cho, Computer Science & Physics Professor, 15 years with Wake Forest! Congratulations on this amazing accomplishment!

A Celebration of Life for Dr. Plemmons will be held on Saturday, June 13th at 2:00pm. The family will receive friends immediately following the service. Please visit Dr. Plemmons's obituary to share a memory: salemfh.com/obituaries/Rob…

It is with profound sadness that Dr. Robert Plemmons, Reynolds Professor of Computer Science & Mathematics – Emeritus, passed away on February 6, 2026. We extend our deepest condolences to his family.

A big shout out to our CS student, Eric Gao! The paper, coauthored with Dr. Ying Zhang, titled Your Key is Mine: LLM API Key Leakage in iOS Apps," has been accepted at the NDSS 2026 poster session! Congratulations!

cra.org/crae/awards/cr… This CRA URA award recognizes undergraduate researchers each year in North American universities who has excellent academic records, profound engagement in services, and most importantly, outstanding and excellent potential in computing research.

Congrats to Yimin (Michael) Wang '26 of being selected as Honorable Mention for the 2025-2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher (URA) Award ! We are so proud of you, Michael!

A huge thank you to our ACM for organizing Quivia - a perfect blend of a Quiz Bowl and trivia. Students walked away with great prizes, enjoyed yummy food, & had a much-needed chance to relax and connect. Congrats to all our winners, & thank you to everyone who participated!

A big shout out to our 1st year MS student, Geng Li! The paper, coauthored w/ Drs. Ying Zhang & Fan Yang, titled RustXec: A Vulnerability Reproduction Dataset for Assessing Security Risks in Open-Source Rust Applications, has been accepted for presentation at the MSR 2026!

Join me as I walk and talk with Errin Fulp, professor of computer science, about his research on computer network systems and what ant colonies can teach us about cybersecurity. Watch the full video at wakefo.rest/walkwithwente. #WalkWithWente #ProHumanitate

To read more, please visit: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.11…

A big shout out to our former CS MS student, now PhD student in the Department of CS, Purdue University, João De Oliveira Pinheiro! The paper, coauthored with Drs. Ballard and Devarakonda, titled Parallel Rank-Adaptive Higher Order Orthogonal Iteration, was accepted in SC ’25!

Join us Wed, Jan 21 for an exciting event! Our ACM will host a Quivia night where students can enjoy snacks and hopefully win prizes by answering general quiz questions about computer science. Please scan the QR code to sign up solo or as part of a team of up to four members.

Congrats to CS MS student Risal and BME PhD student, former CS MS student, Debashis! Their paper, coauthored w/ Dr. Alqahtani, is accepted at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026)! What a great way to start the new year!

Congrats to Dr. Ying Zhang on her recent publication titled How Can ChatGPT Support Human Security Testers to Help Mitigate Supply Chain Attacks? on Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)!

@wfucompsci Join us Monday, November 17 at 2:00 PM in Manc 120! Dr. Guanchu Wang will talk about his research titled Confidence Calibration for Large Language Models. All are welcome.