COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AT A GLANCE
FACULTY AND STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
» Enrollment: In fall 2014, 450 undergraduates and 237 graduate students were enrolled in the Department.
» Beth Corcoran was recognized as an Outstanding Staff Member in the Statler College.
FACILITY UPDATES » The Lane Department relocated its academic offices to WVU’s new Advanced Engineering Research Building. The building includes a lecture hall, a computer classroom with dual boot drives to support both Windows and Linux and a learning center. When fully completed in fall 2015, AERB will feature shared research labs and additional academic facilities.
» Thirimachos Bourlai was named an Outstanding Researcher by the Statler College.
» Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Xin Li and Natalia Schmid were promoted to the rank of professor.
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» David Graham, Yuxin Liu and Afzel Noore received Statler College Outstanding Teacher awards. » Guodong Guo and Yuxin Liu were promoted to the rank of associate professor and awarded tenure.
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» The WVU Office of Technology Transfer granted a license for certain biometrics technologies to Confirmix LLC. The company will utilize technologies developed in WVU’s Multispectral Imagery Laboratory by Thirimachos Bourlai and a team of students. The licensed technologies include capabilities for image enhancement and restoration, face and eye detection, task detection and matching and dual-mode and dual-scenario matching.
» Richard Beal and Alex Dilelo received Provost Doctoral Fellowships to support their graduate work.
» Guodong Guo and a team of students have developed a computer vision algorithm that can analyze a photo and predict a person’s body mass index, which is commonly used to classify underweight, overweight and obesity in adults. Guo’s work, which has received accolades from academia, industry and government agencies, is being refined in an effort to make it more robust by using more sources of information from both the human face and body. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation.
» Doctoral student Stephen Itschner received the STEM Mountain of Excellence Fellowship for his work on signal processing for radio astronomy.
» Jacob Tyo received a scholarship from the IEEE Power Electronic Society. » Jerin Young received a scholarship from Lockheed Martin as the winner of a student paper competition.
WVU STATLER COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MINERAL RESOURCES
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» For the second straight time, a team of WVU students has been selected to compete in the DOE’s Solar Decathlon, scheduled for October in Irvine, California. The team is advised by Dimitris Korakakis and Cindy Tanner.
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» Faculty in the Lane Department are collaborating with faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering on the launch of a NASA CubeSat satellite, which will be used to study the performance and durability of III-V Gallium Nitride electronic materials. The experiment is designed by Dimitris Korakakis and Jeremy Dawson.
» Orlando Madrigal received a scholarship from the Upsilon Pi Epsilon computer honorary society.
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» Xin Lin and a team of students have received an NSF grant to further his work in the area of collective sensing, which allows for the efficient identification and use of specific types of information that is needed by users. Li’s work takes into account human perception in determining how to extract information from a sensor network.
» Students from the Lane Department are participating in WVU’s entry into the U.S. Department of Energy’s EcoCAR3 competition. Yaser Fallah serves as a team advisor.
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