Accomplishments: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Professor Yoohwan Kim and Cheryl Bella (both Computer Science) recently presented on the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Cyber Clinic to the Clark County Board of Commissioners at their meeting on June 17, 2025.
The Clinic was invited by Commissioner William McCurdy II, representing District D. The Clinic and Commissioner McCurdy have worked together previously including…
Ibtihaj Ahmad (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) published his first peer-reviewed research article, titled "Assessment of Vegetation Dynamics After South Sugar Loaf and Snowstorm Wildfires Using Remote Sensing Spectral Indices," in the journal Remote Sensing. The study utilizes satellite-based remote sensing to evaluate…
Jemin Ahn, Zuobin Xiong, Junggab Son (all Computer Science), Homook Cho, and Kyungtae Kang's paper "Efficient Phishing Website Detection via HTML Tag Sequence Analysis Using Encoder Models," was accepted in the 34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2025).
Qingmin Shi (Decision Support), Shaoan Zhang (Teaching and Learning), Yingtao Jiang (Engineering), along with 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ alumna Chengcheng Li (Ph.D., 2021) and Tiberio Garza (Florida International University), recently presented their research at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA) in Denver, Colorado. Their study,…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article in the current issue of IEEE Computer titled: "Cyberdidacticism: The New Epistemic Paradigm for Cognitive Minimalism and Generative Artificial Intellitence." In this critical article Berghel advances the Cyberdidact Hypothesis: To the extent that it makes sense to correlate personality traits…
Congratulations to the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ racquetball team who competed in Corporate Challenge on Thursday, April 10. They won 1st overall and 10 points for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ. Competitors were Adam Koebke (Mathematics) who won gold in men's singles, Venki Muthukumar (Electrical Engineering) and Sai Parsa (Computer Science) who won gold in men's doubles, and Erica Marti…
Bianca Ionescu, (Computer Science and Management Entrepreneurship, and Technology) a 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ CyberCorps SFS Scholar, was invited to present on the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Cyber Clinic at the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference that recently took place in Dallas, Texas.
WiCyS’ mission is to recruit, retain and advance women in cybersecurity to build a robust…
Graduate student Mouhsine Benmbarek and emeritus professor Samir Moujaes (both Mechanical Engineering) published their study, "CFD Analysis of Heat Transfer Enhancement for Twisted Tape Inserted in Spirally Corrugated Tubes and Proposal of a New Vane-Inserted Geometry" in the journal Fluids.
The Transportation Research Center (TRC) recently participated in the 2025 Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) University Transportation Center (UTC) Annual Congress at the University of California, Berkeley. Assistant research engineer Juliana Byzyka (TRC) presented their project titled, “A Methodology to Evaluate Complete Streets Development in Small…
Ph.D. student Aderemi (Tobi) Gbadamosi (Civil and Environmental Engineering) has been named a finalist for the prestigious ACI Foundation Fellowship/Scholarship Award. In recognition of this achievement, he has been invited to attend the 2025 ACI Concrete Convention in Toronto, Canada, from March 30 to April 3, 2025.
Hosted by the American…
Gabson Baguma (Civil and Environmental Engineering) has been selected to attend the prestigious 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry, taking place from June 29 to July 5, 2025, in Lindau, Germany. This prestigious scientific forum brings together 35 Nobel Laureates and the world's most promising young scientists from over 100 countries…
Anthony Okeani (Mechanical Engineering) has been selected as a 2025 Graduate Scholarship recipient by the Roy G. Post Foundation. Okeani is a master's student in the nuclear engineering program. He is working on a research project on nuclear-powered desalination of ocean water; his advisor is professor Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering).…