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The CS department held its first ever Research Day on March 20 from 2-4pm. The event featured about 40 graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels exhibiting their research using posters. The event was well attended by the CS faculty, faculty from other departments at UGA, EITS staff, and faculty from other universities in Georgia. Prizes were awarded to the top three posters. More details about Research Day and photos from the event are available here.

On January 30th, a group of women in UGA's Computer Science Department visited Google's Atlanta offices. (This trip came about because Sharon Paradesi, one of the department's graduate students, met an employee of Google Atlanta at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront.) The visit started with a tour of the offices. After the tour, the students had a meal and learned about some of Google's projects and what it's like to work at Google. We hope this will be the first of many trips the Computer Science students will take to Google Atlanta. The group consisted of students at all levels, including first year through fourth year undergraduates and graduate students pursuing Master's degrees and Ph.D.'s. Two faculty members also joined the group -- Eileen Kraemer, the department head, and Shelby Funk, the faculty sponsor of the department's ACM-W chapter, which is dedicated to making computer science more amenable to women.

Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamy and his collaborators at IBM for having a patent granted for their invention, "System and method for achieving different levels of data consistency" (United States Patent 7,395,279).

Congratulations to Prof. Doshi for winning the 2009 NSF CAREER award for his project titled, "Scalable Algorithms for Individual Decision Making in Multiagent Settings". The CAREER award is the most prestigious grant that NSF awards to early career faculty.

Congratulations to MS student Kalesha Bullard for winning a NSF graduate fellowship. Kalesha will use it to fund her studies toward a MS in CS and MS in Bio and Agri Engg.

Congratulations to MS student Sharon Paradesi for winning a Systers Pass-it-on grant from the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. Sharon will use the grant to travel to LA and present her paper in ICWS 2009.

Congratulations to Prof. Doshi, Prof. Ramaswamy and Prof. Miller and their students for having 5 papers accepted in ICWS 2009, a premier conference in the field of Web services. ICWS had an acceptance rate of 15.6% this year.

Congratulations to Prof. Liu for publishing three papers in MICCAI 2009, a premier conference in the field of medical imaging, with an acceptance rate of 32% this year.

Prof. Taha will be organizing a workshop on "Mathematical Biology and Numerical Analysis", Aug 01-02, 2009 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education of UGA. The workshop is funded by the National Science Foundation(NSF).

Congratulations to Tomasz Oliwa (advisor: Prof. Rasheed), BJ Wimpey (Prof. Potter) and, Anousha Mesbah and John Harney (both Prof. Doshi) for winning the first, second and joint third prizes respectively, in the recent CS Research Day poster competition. The event featured over 40 posters by graduate student researchers. 

Congratulations to graduate students Bradley Barnes, Kushel Bellipady and John Harney for winning UGA's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. This recognition is given to TAs whose teaching performance ranks in the top 10% of all TAs at UGA.

Congratulations to Prof. Hamid Arabnia for delivering keynote talks in two IEEE conferences, ICPADS'08 and FGCN'08. 

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New faculty

Tianming Liu

Dr. Tianming Liu joined the UGA CS department in August, 2008.

His research interests include biomedical image analysis, computational neuroscience, and biomedical informatics.

Before he moved to UGA, Dr. Liu was a faculty member of Weill Medical College of Cornell University (2007-2008) and Harvard Medical School (2005-2007). Dr. Liu was trained as a postdoc in neuroimaging in the University of Pennsylvania (2002-2004) and Harvard Medical School (2004-2005).

Dr. Liu received his PhD of computer science in Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2002.

Dr. Liu is the recipient of the Microsoft Fellowship Award (2000-2002) and the NIH NIBIB K01 Career Award (2007-2011).

Congratulations to Dr. Rabia Jafri, for completing her Ph.D. Her dissertation was titled "Fusion of Face and Gait for Human Recognition" and supervised by Prof. Arabnia

Congratulations to Dr. Maciej Janik for completing his Ph.D. His dissertation was titled "Training-Less Ontology-Based Text Categorization" and supervised by Prof. Kochut

Congratulations to Dr. Mucheng Jang for completing his Ph.D. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the
laboratory of Professor Shaying Zhao (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
and Institute of Bioinformatics, UGA). His dissertation was titled " "Monte Carlo Simulation of Interacting Electron Models by a New Determinant Approach" and supervised by Profs. Robinson and Schuttler

Congratulations to Dr. Shaohua Xie for completing his Ph.D. His dissertation was titled "Evaluating the effectiveness of diagrammatic notations in supporting the design, comprehension, and maintenance of concurrent software" and supervised by Prof. Kraemer

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