Accomplishments: Department of Computer Science
Professor Yoohwan Kim (Computer Science) has been recognized by EC-Council as an Academia Instructor Circle of Excellence winner for 2024.
The EC-Council recognizes award winning partners and instructors from across the world that have had lasting impacts on cybersecurity education and student success. The award recipients include a diverse group…
Zuobin Xiong (PI), Mingon Kang, Junggab Son (all Computer Science), and Ying Guo (Environmental and Occupational Health) have been awarded a grant from National Science Foundation (NSF), titled "Equipment: HSI: ELPSE: EI: A Guided Pathway to Enhancing HSI Student Experience and Success in Generative AI with the Planting of Education-Oriented…
An Huang, Junggab Son, and Zuobin Xiong (all Computer Science)'s paper, "DDSNet: A Lightweight Dense Depthwise Separable Network for Tumor Classification," was accepted in the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2025).
Kavita Batra (Medicine), Ravi Batra, Ying Guo (both Public Health), Mina Atin (Nursing), and Bryar Shareef (Computer Science) co-authored a paper titled "Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence: Digital Monoculturalism in a Robotic World," published in the Advances in Medicine, Psychology, and Public Health journal. Dr. Kavita Batra, an…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) conducted an interview with noted computer security authority Bruce Schneier that will appear in the November issue of IEEE Computer. This interview focuses primarily on the issue of computer and networking security as it applies to artificial intelligence.
Yoohwan Kim, Juyeon Jo, Mehdi Abid (all Computer Science), and 51ԹϺ Cyber Clinic members Bianca Ionescu, Christian Rodriguez, and Arturo Roman (all Information Systems), were invited to attend the 2024 National Cybersecurity Education Colloquium (NCEC) and present on the 51ԹϺ Cybersecurity Clinic.
The main goal of the event, which took place…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) is co-author of a paper titled "Healthy Skepticism," published in the November 2024 issue of IEEE Computer. Berghel and his co-authors emphasize the criticality of healthy skepticism in the project design and implementation of computerized socio-technical systems.
Yoohwan Kim (Computer Science) was recently joined by five-time CIO and Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud) Practice Leader Kathy Cruz, and Executive Director for the Guinn Center for Policy Priorities Jill Tolles, for a "Cyber Resiliency in American Elections" panel discussion.
The discussion focused on the roles of people, processes,…
Scholars working on research at the International Gaming Institute presented four posters at the 25th annual International Center for Responsible Gambling (ICRG) Conference on Sunday, October 6, 2024.
Samantha Wells (Learning & Technology) presented her work on using LLM-based chatbots for supporting responsible gambling education.…
Victor Fearn, Man Vu (both Computer Science) and external 51ԹϺ Clinic member Leo Guerrero, had the chance to present as part of the Datasec Cybersecurity CISO Innovation Summit event hosted at the International Innovation Center.
Datasec, organizers of the event, invited the Cyber Clinic to present after their earlier presentation this year at…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) and Douglas Jones from the University of Iowa published an article entitled "Election Integrity in the United States: How Will 2024 compare to 2020" in the current issue of IEEE Computer. This is the latest in their series of articles on election integrity since 2014 that coincide with U.S. presidential…
Yoohwan Kim (Computer Science) recently presented as part of a panel at the “Insight Q3: FinTech in Las Vegas” exclusive event hosted at Switch World Headquarters for key Las Vegas investors and stakeholders leading Southern Nevada’s economy.
The event, organized by the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance and Cox Business, focused on the strengths…