Harshit Saxena and teammates win Grand Prize at Cornell Data Science Hackathon
The six-member team invented Droice, a personalized drug ranking system that recommends medicine based on efficacy, safety, cost and patient health history.
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Note-taking app by Gideon Mendels & Eden Dolev wins prizes at DevFest
The app, powered by speech recognition and collaborative editing, placed second and won also the award for most technically challenging.
Kelsey D’Souza awarded 2015 Delphix Technology Scholarship for Women
Her winning entry is a Web application named EboHub that uses an online portal and text messaging to connect Ebola patients with qualified caregivers.
Two CS undergrads, awarded $2,000, are building an app to track student health
The app will collect real-time personal data (hiding participants’ identities) while giving enough information to keep students engaged and willing to stick with the experiment.
Yunsung Kim, Alison Chang, and Robert Ying recognized for research
Three undergraduate computer science majors have been recognized by the Computing Research Association (CRA) for showing outstanding research potential in … Continue reading Yunsung Kim, Alison Chang, and Robert Ying recognized for research
Heming Cui, CS PhD’14, receives Croucher Innovation Award
Cui was advised by Junfeng Yang and is now at the University of Hong Kong.
Dragomir Radev, PhD’99 and visiting professor at Columbia, is elected ACM Fellow
For “contributions to natural language processing and computational linguistics.”
Paper by Jessica Ouyang and Kathy McKeown earns notable mention for data set
Their paper Modeling Reportable Events as Turning Points in Narrative was presented at Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing.
Adrian Tang & John Demme honored at Hot Chips conference with a best poster award
Poster describes rethinking malware detection with a hardware approach and low-level features.
Alec Jacobson wins SGP Software Award
He is a co-inventor of libigl, a C++ library for geometry processing without a mesh data structure.
Paper by PhD student Aaron Bernstein and Cliff Stein wins best paper award at ICALP
The paper is Fully Dynamic Matching in Bipartite Graphs.
Lucas Kowalczyk awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Lucas Kowalczyk, a first-year PhD student in computer science, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, … Continue reading Lucas Kowalczyk awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Henrique Teles Maia awarded NSF Graduate Research and GEM Fellowships
Henrique Teles Maia, currently completing dual degrees in computer science and mechanical engineering, has recently been awarded two prestigious … Continue reading Henrique Teles Maia awarded NSF Graduate Research and GEM Fellowships
Moawia Eldeeb and Joshua Augustin raise $1.85M for SmartSpot
Smartspot is a smart fitness app that provides real-time feedback.
Danfei Xu wins CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
His research interests and contributions are related to sensory perception of robotic systems; in particular, tactile sensing, visual perception, and sensor fusion.
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