Patrick Wu joined the computer science department as of August 2024 as Assistant Professor. He specializes in applied AI/ML approaches to computational social science. Welcome!

The AU Computer Science and Physics departments have a joint open-rank faculty opening for a new professor to start in August 2025.

Arthur Shapiro was an invited participant of Dagstuhl Seminar 24301 held at Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany from July 21–26, 2024, on the subject of Art, Visual Illusions, and Data Visualization.

AU was awarded $5.7 million by the National Science Foundation to improve translation of academic research into real-world impact. Computer Science professor Bei Xiao is one of the cross-school faculty leading the project.

Mark Nelson gave an invited talk at Queen Mary University of London, "Analyzing State Spaces of Atari Games", on open challenges in understanding AI decision-making.

Bei Xiao (Computer Science) and Laurie Bayet (Neuroscience) received $40k from the CAS Collaborative Pilot Research Grant Program for their project "Deep Learning Modes of Human Object Vision."

MS students Ginger Schwarz and Fariba Jafari Horestani with professor Mehdi Owrang contributed a chapter, "Prediction of Breast Cancer Recurrence with Machine Learning," to the forthcoming edition of Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology.

Three computer science students won awards at the Mathias Student Research Conference: Milton Garcia (MS '23), Sydney Sachs (MS '23, BS '22), and Ian Whitehouse (BS '24).

Nathalie Japkowicz, Mark Nelson, and Roberto Corizzo were interviewed by AWOL, AU's student-run investigative journalism magazine, for the Spring 2023 cover story, "The Uncertainty of ChatGPT".

Nathalie Japkowicz was a lecturer at DeepLearn 2023, the 8^th International School on Deep Learning that took place from January 16 to January 20, 2023 in Bournemouth, UK. She presented three lectures on the topic of “Learning from Class Imbalances”.

Bei Xiao gave an invited talk at the Japanese Vision Science Society Winter Meeting, January 20, 2023, entitled "Understanding material perception using deep generative models".

Nathalie Japkowicz gave an invited talk at Ben Gurion University, Israel on December 26, 2022, where she presented American University’s Lifelong Learning Project supported by DARPA and led by Michael Baron, Roberto Corizzo, and Nathalie Japkowicz.

Mark Nelson gave an invited talk at Sarah Lawrence College on November 1, 2022, entitled "What Does Playing Games Tell Us About AI?". The talk covered the history of why the field of artificial intelligence has been so interested in playing games since the '50s, and how game-playing relates to areas like game theory and general decision-making.

Leah Ding was awarded a $160,000 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for her project “Accelerating NASA's Earth and Heliophysics Scientific Research with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Algorithms.”

Mark Nelson was an invited participant of Dagstuhl Seminar 22251, held at Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany from June 19 - June 24, 2022, on the subject of Human–Game AI Interaction.

David Dunleavy (MS CS '22) won an award in the Graduate Physical Sciences Workshop category at the Mathias Student Research Conference, for research supervised by Mark Nelson.

American Magazine wrote about the career of Vandi Verma (MS CS ’96), chief robotic operations engineer for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.

Kristina McChesney (MS CS '22) was part of the team that won first place in the Hack-for-a-Change hackathon, developing a website intended as a one-stop sustainability shop for small businesses such as DC-area restaurants.

The cybersecurity publication README covered current research by Nathalie Japkowicz and Zois Boukouvalas on building a statistics-based AI model to identify the spread of false information on social media platforms.

AU was awarded a $785k grant from the National Science Foundation to build a new Aquatic Resource Trade in Species (ARTIS) database, which will make seafood trade data more accessible to researchers through downloadable analysis and visualization packages. The project is a collaboration between Jessica Gephart in Environmental Science (PI) and Alex Godwin in Computer Science (co-PI).

AU was awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a state-of-the-art volumetric capture studio, which will enable research projects in virtual and augmented reality when it opens in Spring 2022. The project is led by Krzysztof Pietroszek, with Bei Xiao from Computer Science as a co-PI.

The department launched a new Cybersecurity Minor open to undergraduate students from any major.

Nathalie Japkowicz was honored by the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association with the 2021 Distinguished Service Award.

Leah Ding and computer science major Lexie Rista won a NASA DC Space Grant Consortium summer research award, which will support a project on trustworthy machine learning.

Computer science majors Archibald Latham and Lexie Rista, and data science masters student Huong Doan, won awards at the 2021 Robyn Rafferty Mathias Student Research Conference, for research supervised by Leah Ding. Latham and Rista's project used machine learning to uncover hidden information in images, while Doan's project was on evaluating data poisoning attacks on machine learning models.

Nathalie Japkowicz and Roberto Corizzo are co-organizing a workshop at the 2021 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), From Shallow to Deep: Overcoming Limited and Adverse Data.

CS masters student Rempee Kalia was highlighted as one of ten AU grad student changemakers.

Computer science majors Cael MacEachern and Matt Wilkinson won prizes in the Hack-for-a-Change hackathon hosted by the AU Center for Innovation, supported by Narendra Desirazu.

Dr. Tribikram Pradhan joined the department as a postdoctoral fellow. He will be contributing to the improvement of AU's lifelong learning anomaly detection system proposed in the context of the Lifelong Learning Machine (L2M) DARPA program.

Nathalie Japkowicz, Roberto Corizzo, and Michael Baron (Math/Stats) received a $210,000 award from DARPA, administered by SRI International, for their project entitled: "Analysis of Hierarchical Eigentasks and Change-Point Detection in SRI Lifelong Learning Machine". The award is for 10 months and was made in the context of Phase II of the Lifelong Learning Machine (L2M) DARPA program, following the successful completion of Phase I of the program by the AU team.

Roberto Corizzo joined us as Assistant Professor from January 2021. His research is on high-performance computing for big data analytics. He uses methods such as sensor data forecasting, time series classification, predictive modeling, and feature extraction for real-world applications in fields such as energy, cybersecurity, astrophysics, and social networks.

Leah Ding gave an invited talk, "Trust Preservation in the Age of AI", at the December 2020 Women in Hardware and Systems Security workshop.

Myles Russell successfully defended his master's thesis, entitled "Feature Ablation Analysis and Alternate Representations Using Machine Learning in Surgical Risk Assessment", supervised by Nathalie Japkowicz.

Five AU students did computer science internships with Freddie Mac over Summer 2020, and three, including CS senior Angélica Vega Aponte, were offered full-time jobs after graduation.

Kathleen Riley was interviewed by Zippia about current employment trends for computer science graduates, discussing how the Covid pandemic has impacted the job market, which nonetheless remains quite strong in this field.