School of Computing | student highlights

Dr. Olivia Nche accepts a teaching position at Presbyterian College

September 8, 2021

Dr. Olivia Mambo Nche, originally from Cameroon, Africa, is interested in instructional technology and innovative ways of teaching programming to young learners. […]

Professor Ge’s research lab won the Best Paper Overall Award at ICS’21

June 22, 2021

Professor Rong Ge and her Ph.D. students Thomas Randall and Tyler Allen have won the Best Paper Overall Award at the ACM premier International Conference on Supercomputing 2021.

Former Clemson Computing student Michael Payne promoted to Lead Data Engineer

May 11, 2021

Michael Payne has been promoted to Lead Data Engineer on the Tickets Data Engineering team at Cirium. Michael will continue to be a contributor on the team but will take on additional responsibilities in people management and team organization. Michael holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, an M.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina A&T University. He was recruited into the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at Clemson in 2013, where he worked under the direction of Dr. Amy Apon.

Playing this game helps to reduce bias in society

April 2, 2021

Clemson Computing and Communication researchers aim to Reduce race and gender bias through diverse representation in videogames Clemson researchers have […]

HCC PhD Student Schulenberg Received Graduate Fellowship and Dean’s Fellowship

February 16, 2021

Incoming HCC Ph.D. student Kelsea Schulenberg has been awarded both the Clemson Graduate Fellowship and the CECAS Dean’s Fellowship. Kelsea […]

Facebook recognizes Dr. Bart Knijnenburg

February 10, 2021

Dr. Bart Knijnenburg recognized as “Academic of the Month” by Facebook Research. HCC (Human-Centered Computing) Ph.D. student Moses Namara awarded a Fellowship from the UC Berkeley Center for Technology, Society & Policy...

VE Group Has 3 Papers Accepted in Highly Selective IEEE VR 2021 Conference

February 8, 2021

Graduate students Rohith and Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Dr. Sab Babu, and collaborators produced a paper titled, "Comparative Evaluation of Digital Writing and Art in Real and Immersive Virtual Environments." In this project the authors built a one-of-a-kind simulation to study how perception-action coordination and motor control affected digital writing, coloring, sketching, tracing, and drawing in VR and real-world situations.

Collective Intelligence: Technology Enhances Teamwork

February 4, 2021

Collective intelligence focuses on the ways in which technology can enhance teamwork by enabling groups of people to arrive at insights that escape the experts. Research in the School of Computing focuses on the intersection between collective intelligence and machine learning, specifically in the context of humans and AI working together as a team. The work combines unique and often creative insights that different configurations of human-machine teams can arrive at even in domains where the problems are too complex for the AI alone to solve.

Amazon and Google Teams Recognize Voice Privacy Policy Research

December 10, 2020

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.

Lossy Compression Research Helps Supercomputers Communicate Faster

December 5, 2020

Computer Science PhD student Robert Underwood is tackling the critical problem of moving and storing the ever growing volume of […]

Category: student highlights