CS News Briefs

About Mike:
I am a rising fourth year with a passion for exploring the frontiers of science. I created a student taught class, CS 1501: Artificial General Intelligence, completely by scratch and turned it into a highly successful and rewarding lecture series. The course looks at the intersection of cognitive science, AI, and philosophy, while covering concepts of minds, brains, superintelligence, and what it means to be human.

About Nadia:
My name is Nadia Hassan, and I'm a 3rd year in the Engineering School. I'm from Richmond, VA but I lived in Michigan for over 10 years. Two fun facts about me are I'm a Bangladeshi-American, and I'm a makeup artist and a graffiti artist!

About Sarah:
Discrete math is in my bones. I have been a teaching assistant for CS 2102 (Discrete Mathematics) for 4 professors who taught at least 5 distinct versions of the course over 6 semesters. I had no idea that I would fall in love with discrete math as a student almost 7 semesters ago. I suppose this has been in the works ever since I got a tiny taste of proofs and logic in 8th grade geometry class.

About Sean:
I like to think of myself as a general-purpose software engineer, but I think sometimes the real joy comes from the silly little hacks. While the pillars of proper development are important, sometimes it's fun to just throw something together with band-aids and chewing gum to make something that solves or automates an immediate problem.

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About Winston:
I'm a 4th year from northern New Jersey, majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Spanish! I love to TA, and it's been my absolute pleasure to be a teaching assistant for the CS department. When I'm not TAing, my free time is usually taken up by rock climbing, running, playing sports with friends, or volunteering. Fun fact: I'm ambidextrous!
What has kept Winston motivated:

Congratulations to the winners of the 2019-2020 annual Computer Science Department Awards!
*These students are part of the graduating class of (May) 2020!UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS

Louis T. Rader Service Award
Jake Smith*
Madison Flynn
Sanjana Hajela*

Louis T. Rader Teaching Award
Alex Lehmann
Cameron Lloyd*
Jason Ashley
Michael Ferguson
Nadia Hassan
Sarah Meng*
Sean Gatewood*
Simranjit Bhatia
V Layne Berry
Winston Liu*

Congratulations to UVA Engineering's cyber defense team!UVA Engineering's cyber defense team won the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Wild Card Round. Yonghwi Kwon, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, leads the team.

Josephine Lamp, a 2nd year PhD student in Computer Science, has been selected for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.The title of her research statement for the application was “Privacy-Preserving Learning for Logic-Based Decision Support Systems.” Josie Lamp is working with Assistant Professor Lu Feng who holds joint appointments in Computer Science and Engineering Systems and Environment. Josie is a Steering Committee Member of the Computer Science Graduate Student Group serving as Chair and Diversity Rep.

Computer Science Assistant Professor, Academic General Faculty, Panagiotis Apostolellis has been selected by the Mead Endowment as the Henry Kinnier Award winner for 2020-21.The Kinnier Award was created to recognize and encourage interactions between faculty and students in engineering, and give them the opportunity to pursue a “Dream Idea” to create a positive relationship with students beyond what is afforded by normal classroom/advisor roles.