Computer Science News Archive

The projects are the first five funded through the Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems (CEAIS), a $20 million UAlbany-IBM research collaboration announced last year by Gov. Kathy Hochul that included the installation of state-of-the-art prototype IBM AI hardware at UAlbany.

UAlbany College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering (CNSE) students Kevin Reyes, William Grice and Jadyn Lee joined with sixty students from around the world to learn directly from leading specialists about the evolution of the semiconductor and photonics industries at the Eindhoven Semicon Summer School in August in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

CNSE is welcoming students from throughout the Capital Region on Saturday, November 23, to STEM and Nanotechnology Family Day, providing a glimpse of cutting edge science and technology that is being developed right here in upstate New York. The event marks the culmination of NANOvember, the month-long celebration of how nanotechnology is making a difference in our lives now and in the future.

UAlbany Associate Professor of Computer Science Pradeep Atrey and doctoral student Omkar Kulkarni are at work trying to create a better virtual photo editor. Combining techniques of computer vision with machine learning, Atrey and Kulkarni have developed an innovative iOS application designed to improve the quality of group photos.

The University at Albany’s undergraduate program in Digital Forensics has been recognized by the National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) for excellence in cyber defense research.

Prabha (Balakrishnan) Prabhakaran will join the Institute in January after more than two decades on the computer science faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he also served as associate vice president for research centers and institutes and director of the Multimedia Systems Laboratory.

UAlbany junior Alma Kolakji is spending her summer tying to help make rocket fuel more environmentally friendly. She is one of 24 students taking part in the College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering's Summer Undergraduate Research Program.

Abram Magner, an assistant professor in the College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering, has recently been awarded a $584,993 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project, “CAREER: Theoretical Foundations for Learning Network Dynamics.”