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April 22, 2020
Daniel Chae: using data science to predict ICU outcomes
Chae is a computer science major. He is pairing his studies with the Certificate Program in Statistics and Machine Learning at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) and the Certificate Program in Engineering and Management Systems at the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
April 17, 2020
Teaching Faculty: The Key to ‘Opening the Door’
At Princeton, teaching faculty are especially important because computer science is the most popular major at the University, with more than 10% of undergraduates receiving a CS degree. But student interest in computer science extends well beyond those who want to make it a career. During the fall semester, 789 non-computer-science majors took courses offered by the department, and the total rose to 926 in the spring semester, according to Colleen Kenny, the department’s undergraduate program manager.
April 13, 2020
NSF RAPID grant backs Princeton research to track and contain pandemic
The National Science Foundation has awarded emergency grants to two teams of Princeton researchers developing ways to better track and contain pandemics including COVID-19.
April 9, 2020
PhD student Prakash Murali awarded 2020 IBM PhD Fellowship
Computer Science PhD student Prakash Murali has been awarded the 2020 IBM PhD Fellowship.
April 1, 2020
Computer Science PhD students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Aninda Manocha and Uthsav Rajaram Chitra, both second-year PhD students in Computer Science, have received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
March 23, 2020
COVID-19 Information and Updates
Princeton University is implementing a series of policies in response to COVID-19, commonly known as coronavirus. The University is enacting new policies and practices based on the concept of social distancing.
February 24, 2020
Student projects use computing to ensure technology serves society
Elena Lucherini achieved high grades in her computer science master's courses in Italy, yet she couldn’t help but feel that something crucial was missing. “You code all day and don’t have to care about anything else,” she said. “It was just the nerdy stuff with basically no focus on ethics or policy.”
February 20, 2020
Excellence in Teaching Awards given to six CS Professors, Teaching Faculty, and Teaching Assistants
The Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Councils presented the Excellence in Teaching Awards for the School of Engineering and Applied Science on Thursday, February 20, 2020. Of the sixteen SEAS awardees, six were from Computer Science!
February 19, 2020
Computer Science doctoral student Karan Singh wins Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton's top graduate student honor
Karan Singh, a doctoral student in computer science, is among four winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students.
February 14, 2020
Researchers devise approach to reduce biases in computer vision data sets
Addressing problems of bias in artificial intelligence, computer scientists from Princeton and Stanford University have developed methods to obtain fairer data sets containing images of people. The researchers propose improvements to ImageNet, a database of more than 14 million images that has played a key role in advancing computer vision over the past decade.
February 13, 2020
Matthew Weinberg named 2020 Sloan Research Fellow
S. Matthew Weinberg, along with two other Princeton faculty members, is among the 126 researchers from more than 60 research institutions in the United States and Canada named as 2020 Sloan Research Fellows.
February 5, 2020
Study uncovers potential cancer-causing mutations in genes’ control switches
The discovery involves areas of DNA that do not directly code for the proteins that carry out cellular activities, but instead control how genes are switched on and off. Scientists have long understood that these noncoding regions play an important role in cancer, but describing that role has been formidably difficult.
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