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Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

South Carolina\u00a0Biomedical Data Science and Informatics program<\/a>\u00a0seeks to fill a new NLM training grant-funded postdoctoral position. We are an interdisciplinary program co-led by the Medical University of South Carolina and Clemson University. Post-doctoral fellows will receive team mentorship from faculty with a wide range of academic and clinical expertise, along with additional support for research-related expenses, including travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Application Instructions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For additional detail and to submit an application, see\u00a0https:\/\/apply.interfolio.com\/170123<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Description South Carolina\u00a0Biomedical Data Science and Informatics program\u00a0seeks to fill a new NLM training grant-funded postdoctoral position. We are an interdisciplinary program co-led by the Medical University of South Carolina and Clemson University. Post-doctoral fellows will receive team mentorship from faculty with a wide range of academic and clinical expertise, along with additional support for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39018],"coauthors":[67367],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-job-postings"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":111,"date":"2021-09-08T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/?p=111"},"modified":"2021-10-08T12:32:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:32:54","slug":"dr-olivia-nche-accepts-a-teaching-position-at-presbyterian-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/dr-olivia-nche-accepts-a-teaching-position-at-presbyterian-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Olivia Nche accepts a teaching position at Presbyterian College"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Dr.\u00a0Olivia\u00a0Mambo Nche, originally from Cameroon, Africa, is interested in instructional technology and innovative ways of teaching programming to young learners. She graduated from the School of Computing at Clemson University with her Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing\u00a0in Summer 2021. Her dissertation involved designing and\u00a0experimenting with\u00a0a video game aimed at teaching basic programming concepts to K-12 students. Programming concepts such as\u00a0different types of assignments and conditionals are integrated into the game mechanics in a bid to facilitate learning. Of\u00a0the eleven fine-grained concepts tested, students who played the game she developed showed significant improvement in nine!\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Nche\u00a0has recently accepted\u00a0a position as\u00a0an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr.\u00a0Olivia\u00a0Mambo Nche, originally from Cameroon, Africa, is interested in instructional technology and innovative ways of teaching programming to young learners. She graduated from the School of Computing at Clemson University with her Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing\u00a0in Summer 2021. Her dissertation involved designing and\u00a0experimenting with\u00a0a video game aimed at teaching basic programming concepts to K-12 students. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3938,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,67361,66471],"tags":[6820,746],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-highlight","category-student-highlights","tag-events","tag-human-centered-computing"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":108,"date":"2021-08-19T16:22:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/?p=108"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:36:29","slug":"freeman-receives-nsf-hcc-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/freeman-receives-nsf-hcc-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeman Receives NSF HCC Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the sole PI, Dr. Guo Freeman, Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing, receives a $399,785 HCC Small grant from the National Science Foundation<\/a> (NSF).<\/p>\n

This three-year project investigates how people experience harassment in new and potentially disruptive ways in nuanced online social spaces to design novel and safer social technologies to protect them, promote trust among users, and mitigate emerging online risks. It primarily focuses on new forms of online harassment emerging in social Virtual Reality (VR) — novel and increasingly popular 3D virtual spaces where multiple users can interact with one another through VR head-mounted displays, full-body tracking avatars (e.g., one’s avatar movements correspond to one’s offline body movements in real-time), synchronous voice conversations, and simulated touching and grabbing features.<\/p>\n

As online social spaces evolve towards more natural and immersive interaction, social VR grows as an important and popular media for various social activities and connections. In particular, with global events such as COVID-19, social VR has become even more popular and used for holding academic conferences (e.g., IEEE VR 2020<\/a>), workshops, tech camps, and has the potential to be used for teaching and learning broadly in the near future. Therefore, this project will directly promote public interest in VR research and innovation. It will also contribute to the general public’s social and emotional well-being by creating safer online social spaces and promoting healthier interaction dynamics in these spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Guo Freeman, Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing, receives a $399,785 HCC Small grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This three-year project investigates how people experience harassment in new and potentially disruptive ways in nuanced online social spaces to design novel and safer social technologies to protect them, promote trust among users, and mitigate emerging online risks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[882,66693,342],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-faculty-highlights","category-research"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/files\/2021\/02\/Guo-Freeman-e1613494749730-150x150.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":102,"date":"2021-06-22T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/?p=102"},"modified":"2021-06-22T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:54:14","slug":"professor-ges-research-lab-won-the-best-paper-overall-award-at-ics21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/professor-ges-research-lab-won-the-best-paper-overall-award-at-ics21\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Ge\u2019s research lab won the Best Paper Overall Award at ICS\u201921"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"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<\/a>. Word embedding represents the meaning of words as numerical vectors, and Word2Vec (W2V) generates word vectors. Word2Vec remains one of the highly impactful innovations in the field of Natural Language Processing. Their paper, titled FULL-W2V: Fully Exploiting Data Reuse for W2V on GPU-Accelerated Systems<\/a>, presents a GPU-based word2vec algorithm that obtains significant performance gains on GPUs and outperforms CPU-based counterparts for the first time and by multiple times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[882,66693,342,66471],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-faculty-highlights","category-research","category-student-highlights"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/files\/2021\/06\/word-vectors-150x59.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":98,"date":"2021-06-14T13:15:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/?p=98"},"modified":"2021-06-14T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T13:25:40","slug":"tessendorf-mentioned-on-vfx-firsts-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/tessendorf-mentioned-on-vfx-firsts-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Tessendorf mentioned on VFX Firsts podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

VFX Firsts is a weekly podcast that looks at movie milestones. On a recent edition titled “VFX Firsts: What was the first ocean simulation in a film?<\/a>“, the host mentions Jerry Tessendorf, Professor of Visual Computing, and his work on the film Waterworld<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

“For Waterworld, Cinesite purchased an 8 CPU machine dedicated to running our software, a monster of a machine at the time, and called it \u201cstokes\u201d. They did not want the blue sky that RenderWorld produced (they wanted to use a different sky) so we compiled a special version that omitted the sky. The executable for the water without sky was called \u201cwaternosky\u201d. At one point someone at Cinesite asked me if it used Russian technology because \u201cwaternosky\u201d sounded Russian.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VFX Firsts is a weekly podcast that looks at movie milestones. On a recent edition titled “VFX Firsts: What was the first ocean simulation in a film?”, the host mentions Jerry Tessendorf, Professor of Visual Computing, and his work on the film Waterworld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66693],"tags":[67364],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-highlights","tag-visual-computing"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/files\/2021\/06\/water-vfx-150x100.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":94,"date":"2021-06-14T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/?p=94"},"modified":"2021-10-08T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:34:45","slug":"professor-yang-storms-siggraph-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/professor-yang-storms-siggraph-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Yang Storms SIGGRAPH 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Professor Yin Yang co-authors three SIGGRAPH papers that will appear in ACM’s premier conference in graphics and interactive techniques, spanning topics of simulation contact, model reduction, and rendering. A fourth paper will also be presented, as an ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) paper.<\/p>\n

One of his animations is also featured on the Technical Papers Trailer<\/a>\u00a0– Bunny animation at about 1:08.<\/p>\n

Congrats to Professor Yang!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Yin Yang co-authors three SIGGRAPH papers that will appear in ACM’s premier conference in graphics and interactive techniques, spanning topics of simulation contact, model reduction, and rendering. A fourth paper will also be presented, as an ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3938,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66693,342],"tags":[67363],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-highlights","category-research","tag-siggraph"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/files\/2021\/06\/siggraph-150x63.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":86,"date":"2021-05-11T13:41:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T13:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/?p=86"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T15:05:43","slug":"former-clemson-computing-student-michael-payne-promoted-to-lead-data-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/former-clemson-computing-student-michael-payne-promoted-to-lead-data-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Clemson Computing student Michael Payne promoted to Lead Data Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Michael Payne has been promoted to Lead Data Engineer on the Tickets Data Engineering team at Cirium. Michael will continue to contribute to the team but will take on additional responsibilities in people management and team organization.<\/p>\n

Michael joined Risk Solutions in 2014 as an intern working on the implementation of scalable matrix operations and machine learning algorithms in HPCC. Michael then joined RELX\u2019s Innovation Team as a full-time employee, where he contributed to various research initiatives across the many corporate brands. Michael joined Cirium in 2017 as part of a newly formed team of HPCC engineers building the next generation of the Schedules Connections processing engine. After successfully completing the project, Michael transferred to the Tickets Data Engineering team in 2020, bringing his knowledge of schedules and connection data to the team. Mike quickly got involved in the Commercial Planning project to migrate away from its use of legacy foundational data to the company\u2019s next-generation, more robust data representation.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 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, currently the C. Tycho Howle Director of the School of Computing, and where he passed the candidacy exam for the Ph.D. in Computer Science.\u00a0\u00a0Michael’s research has been supported through generous gifts from HPCC Systems, a division of RELX.<\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3878,"featured_media":87,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,67361,342,66471],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-highlight","category-research","category-student-highlights"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/files\/2021\/05\/image00275-150x100.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":77,"date":"2021-04-02T13:28:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/?p=77"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:46:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:46:54","slug":"playing-this-game-helps-reduce-bias-in-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/playing-this-game-helps-reduce-bias-in-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing this game helps to reduce bias in society"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clemson Computing and Communication researchers aim to Reduce race and gender bias through diverse representation in videogames<\/h2>\n

\"JarrellClemson researchers have developed a short 2D videogame with an important societal purpose. The research by recent Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. graduate Marie Jarrell and co-authors Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky, Dr. Bart Knijnenburg, and Dr. Erin Ash demonstrates how changing the race and gender of the main character in the game can reduce race and gender bias. The paper describing the study results has been accepted to the 2021 edition of the prestigious ACM SigCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (link: https:\/\/chi2021.acm.org<\/a>). The paper \u201cUsing Intersectional Representation & Embodied Identification in Standard Video Game Play to Reduce Societal Biases\u201d details how the intersectional effects of race and gender discrimination can disproportionally affect black women. However, their study finds that participants who played as and identified with a black female protagonist in the game showed a significant reduction in bias against a black female job applicant.<\/p>\n

Dr. Marie Jarrell is the primary author of this paper and graduated in December of 2020 from Clemson\u2019s School of Computing. Their main research examines how playing video games using underrepresented characters could affect real-world biases against multiple underrepresented populations.\u00a0 They intend to use their background in both the arts and sciences to continue developing and researching video games and their impact. They are leaving Clemson with not only a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing but a M.S. in Computer Science and M.A. in Digital Production Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clemson Computing and Communication researchers aim to Reduce race and gender bias through diverse representation in videogames Clemson researchers have developed a short 2D videogame with an important societal purpose. The research by recent Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. graduate Marie Jarrell and co-authors Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky, Dr. Bart Knijnenburg, and Dr. Erin Ash demonstrates how changing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66693,342,66471],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-highlights","category-research","category-student-highlights"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/files\/2021\/03\/marie-jarrell-150x150.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":76,"date":"2021-03-25T12:48:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/?p=76"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:28:34","slug":"time-to-make-technology-older-adult-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/time-to-make-technology-older-adult-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"It is Time to Make Technology More Older-Adult-Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clemson researchers demonstrate important differences in online privacy decision-making between older and younger adults<\/h2>\n

Despite the vast benefits technology can provide to older adults, older adults’ tech usage is\u2013by far\u2013below other populations. The popular opinion is that they are not tech-savvy and cannot keep up with the fast-paced of technology. Researchers at the School of Computing at Clemson take a different stance: What if the technology is to blame? Evidence suggests that older adults are often not considered in the design of new technologies, which are consequently not \u201colder-adult-friendly\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"A recent collaboration between the School of Computing and the Psychology department specifically addressed one of the top reasons why older adults use less technology: security and privacy concerns. This work by Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky, Dr. Bart Knijnenburg and Dr. Kayleigh Byrne and their external collaborators Dr. Xinru Page (Brigham Young University) and Dr. Pamela Wisniewski (University of Central Florida) shows that older adults are more likely to carefully trade off the risks and the benefits of disclosure prior to making a disclosure decision.<\/p>\n

Based on these findings, the researchers concluded that apps and platforms that have older adult audiences should clearly communicate information that would be relevant to their privacy. (e.g., what are the benefits of this app? Are there any risks associated with it?) This advice contributes to the team\u2019s broader objective of helping all members of our society benefit from technology in an equitable manner. A paper describing these findings and conclusions titled \u201cTo Disclose or Not to Disclose: Examining the Privacy Decision-Making Processes of Older vs. Younger Adults\u201d has been accepted to the 2021 edition of the prestigious ACM SigCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (link: https:\/\/chi2021.acm.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clemson researchers demonstrate important differences in online privacy decision-making between older and younger adults Despite the vast benefits technology can provide to older adults, older adults’ tech usage is\u2013by far\u2013below other populations. The popular opinion is that they are not tech-savvy and cannot keep up with the fast-paced of technology. Researchers at the School of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66693,342],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-highlights","category-research"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/files\/2021\/03\/games-on-phone-150x150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":75,"date":"2021-03-18T14:42:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/?p=75"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T15:06:26","slug":"can-machine-learning-help-smart-home-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/can-machine-learning-help-smart-home-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Machine Learning Help keep your Smart Home Privacy in Check?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clemson University researchers lead an international team to understand and support end-user Smart Home privacy management.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Smart Home devices like smart lights, thermostats, and doorbells are gaining popularity because of the connected and automated experience they render to their users. This user experience is made possible by collecting and processing data about end-user behaviors. As this data is deemed sensitive and intimate, users tend to demand fine-grained control over their privacy preferences. But are users equipped to exert such a detailed level of control over their Smart Home devices?<\/p>\n

\"PrivacyHATLab researchers Dr. Bart P. Knijnenburg, Ph.D. student Paritosh Bahirat and Dr. Yangyang He (Alumnus) joined hands with Dr. Martijn Willemsen and Dr. Qizhang (Kevin) Sun from TU Eindhoven’s (Netherlands) Process Tracing Lab to answer this very question. They found that while Smart Home users\u2019 privacy decision should ideally depend on their cognitive evaluation of contextual factors (e.g. the type of device, type of data, and recipient), subtle design choices such as the default setting and the framing of a privacy setting can have a detrimental effect on users\u2019 privacy decisions, causing them to ignore the context and make sub-optimal privacy decisions.<\/p>\n

The HATLab researchers also worked on a solution to this problem: using machine learning techniques they were able to cluster Smart Home users\u2019 privacy decisions into a set of five comprehensive privacy profiles<\/em>. Asking end-users to choose one of these profiles before delving into the more detailed preferences circumvents the detrimental effects of defaults and framing, and significantly simplifies users\u2019 privacy management tasks.<\/p>\n

Work on this project was published in ACM and IEEE journal articles received a Best Paper Award at the 2018 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) and will be presented at the upcoming ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smart Home devices like smart lights, thermostats, and doorbells are gaining popularity because of the connected and automated experience they render to their users. This user experience is made possible by collecting and processing data about end-user behaviors. As this data is deemed sensitive and intimate, users tend to demand fine-grained control over their privacy preferences. But are users equipped to exert such a detailed level of control over their Smart Home devices?<\/p>\n

HATLab researchers Dr. Bart P. Knijnenburg, Ph.D. student Paritosh Bahirat and Dr. Yangyang He (Alumnus) joined hands with Dr. Martijn Willemsen and Dr. Qizhang (Kevin) Sun from TU Eindhoven’s (Netherlands) Process Tracing Lab to answer this very question. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,66693,342],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-faculty-highlights","category-research"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/files\/2021\/03\/p-bahirat-150x150.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]