Year: 2020

Faculty and students in the School of Computing say that our next honoree has made their lives easier. He plays a critical role in connecting incoming graduate students with faculty members. He has gone above and beyond by establishing an application tracker that allows faculty to efficiently review applications, share notes, and score applicants to […]

A comprehensive privacy policy analysis of voice applications on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant platforms by Clemson researchers has received recognitions from both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant teams. The results show that a substantial number of problematic privacy policies exist in these two mainstream voice assistant platforms. Google awarded the team a bug bounty for reporting the discovery.

The faculty team of Drs. Hongxin Hu, Feng Luo, Long Cheng, Hai Xiao, and Rong Ge are tackling the problem of detecting malware in the Internet of Things through non-intrusive and Deep Learning-based methods on power side channels. The vulnerability of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to malware attacks poses huge challenges to current Internet […]

Computer Science PhD student Robert Underwood is tackling the critical problem of moving and storing the ever growing volume of data produced in things like physics and climate simulations, intelligent transportation systems, and medicine, by using compression to reducing the volume of data as it is moved and stored. His work makes a type of […]

Robust and Accurate Simulation of Elastodynamics and Contact School of Computing presents Minchen Li, University of Pennsylvania Friday, Nov 20, 2020 at 2:30-3:30 pm Minchen Li (https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~minchenl/) is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania advised by Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang. His research interests include numerical optimization and simulation for computer graphics and beyond, especially physics-based animation and geometry processing. […]

Dr. Paige Rodeghero, PhD, was invited to the Accessible Computer Science Education Fall Workshop that was held November 17, 2020 – November 19, 2020. Her focus group is Making Higher Education in CS Accessible.  They will be exploring the giant steps forward that are needed to improve accessibility of CS education in higher education. A recent paper […]

Clemson awarded $3 million grant to develop AI-powered professional development for teachers Michael Staton, College of Education November 9, 2020 A teacher’s search for the best way to sharpen their skills in the classroom may soon be as easy as browsing Netflix for a new movie. Clemson University researchers have been awarded $3 million over […]

Emeritus College honors Bodde and Hedetniemi with 2020 Emeritus Award for Research and Scholarship October 13, 2020 The Emeritus College honored its 2020 Emeritus Award for Research and Scholarship recipients at a virtual ceremony on October 6. Receiving the award were David Bodde, professor and Senior Fellow Emeritus of Automotive Engineering, CU-ICAR; and Stephen Hedetniemi, […]

Campus community invited to watch fast-paced graduate student competition Jill E. Bunch, Graduate School November 9, 2020 When you’re passionate about your research, you enjoy an opportunity to talk about it with your colleagues. When that opportunity is only three minutes long, and you have to make your research understandable to everyone, it’s a little […]