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Updated CS advising options stir mixed reactions The Scarlet & Black – Scarlet and Black
This week, 70 2nd-year intended computer science majors received assignments to their new advisors. This year, nine options were available to students a list that included pre-tenure, retired and non-computer science faculty, and even a non-faculty department member.
Ellie Seehorn `25, a computer science Student Educational Policy Committee member, explained that while students declaring most other majors directly ask professors to be their advisors, computer science majors-to-be fill out an adviser preference form to rank all available options. An algorithm is then run to match advisers with advisees based on their rankings.
Very CS, she said.
According to Seehorn, the assignment process ensured students were spread evenly among faculty, particularly important in a large department where not all faculty are equally popular.
My adviser primarily teaches 300-level courses, Seehorn said. A lot of people wouldnt even know her but shes an awesome adviser.
Aside from tenured faculty, this years list included Leah Perlmutter, first-year assistant professor, Liz Rodrigues, associate professor of Humanities, and Professor Emeritus Henry Walker, digital scholarship librarian who currently lives and teaches in California and advises online. Sarah Dahlby Albright, a peer education coordinator, is another non-faculty option for double majors who already have another faculty advisor.
Jayson Krunkel `26 was assigned Rodrigues, who he had ranked first on the adviser preference form.
She does a lot with figuring out how to overlap very different interests, so I thought that would be a really good choice for me, said Krunkel, who intends to declare majors in computer science and anthropology, as well as a digital studies concentration. She could be my CS adviser and my digital studies adviser.
Jinny Eo `26, who is considering declaring a second major in philosophy, also ranked Rodrigues as first choice for her interdisciplinary background. She added that a good personal impression had been a primary factor in her rankings Some advising styles I didnt really want to have so I just eliminated those.
Rodrigues said she had been brought onto the advising team after she began teaching CSC-105: The Digital Age, a computer science course for non-intended majors. To her, the department has been very deliberate in teaching for inclusion to the greatest extent possible.
They thought about putting me on the list for a very long time because they had talked to me about it, she said. But it was still a couple more years before I actually started.
Charlie Curtsinger, associate professor and department chair, said the advisers, with their range of backgrounds, bring something different to the process. As a tenured professor, he said he takes on 20-25 advisees yearly, and personally enjoys group advising not just to manage those numbers, but because students often have good ideas for each other.
On the other hand, Curtsinger continued, students could pick Dahlby Albright for the math and education in her background, while Walker, who helped found the major at Grinnell, has a perspective on the department nobody else has.
However, Curtsinger added, Its also what allows us to not have 35 advisees each.
To further reduce the workload on advisers, intended majors are only allowed to declare in the spring of their second year a restriction not applied in other departments.
Seehorn said this long wait was the only thing Ive heard people dont like about this system.
As for Krunkel, the two-week window between receiving ones adviser assignment and the deadline for the major declaration form was too short. I wish they started this process a little earlier, so that we have more time to talk to our advisers and figure things out.
Rodrigues said she thinks the department has grappled carefully with balancing the numbers of advisors and students.
Theyve been looking to bring people into the advising process to make sure students stay connected with the resources, she said.
While Curtsinger acknowledged it was not ideal for advisors to have to split their attention across so many advisees, he said it was better than not letting a student pursue the area that they care about. He emphasized that the goal of the computer science department is to continue ensuring all potential majors can take the classes they need.
Were not that far away from the time when departments ask to be able to hire more faculty, he said. We will be asking to hire more.
Although the department has had to change their advising process to cope with rising demands, Curtsinger said they were still trying to maintain a system that preserves as much of the original experience as possible.
We tweak it a bit every year, he said. But the goal is to just do something that we can make work as well as possible while still keeping the spirit of how advising works.
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‘Girls Who Code’ on closing the gender gap in technology – Spectrum News 1
DUBLIN, Ohio "Girls Who Code" is a school club that has been offered in the U.S. and around the world since 2012, but with Intel moving in, it could start paving the way for the companys future female workforce in Ohio.
Thirteen year olf Ruby Elliott is scrambling for her laptop to start coding.
Coding is one of her strong suits.
Ive always been like a pretty creative person, she said. I love art, and Im also super into math. It is fun being able to tell a computer to do something and something cool happens.
Shes part of the Girls who Code at Davis Middle School in Dublin. The club is designed to close the gender gap in technology and computer science.
Elliott said coding runs in her family.
I basically grew up with my dad, always coding on his computer for work, she said. And I guess it was kind of like ingrained in my brain.
Cary Lindberg is the clubs adviser at the school.
With Intel moving in, Lindberg explained exposing girls to the tech industry is more important than ever.
Theres a lot of jobs opening up as Intel is coming in, she said, and so, especially with it being so close to us, there are going to be more opportunities for them to join that workforce and fill those jobs. And if they didnt see themselves in it, it wouldnt even be on their radar of something that they could do.
Girls Who Code is also about breaking gender norms, which is especially important to Elliott.
Throughout the entire history of the world, women in general, have been like very much pushed aside, Elliott said, but having a club where its all girls, doing things that usually you see men doing, I feel like its an important thing because we can do what they can do too and better sometimes.
While Girls Who Code has been around since 2012, Davis Middle School offered the club since 2016.
The club said its on track to help close the gender gap in entry-level tech jobs by the year 2030.
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John Brown University to Offer AI Degree; Other Universities Plan New Classes – Arkansas Business Online
Justus Selwyn, chairman of the computer science department at John Brown University, helped start a program to let students major in artificial intelligence. (Michael Woods)
John Brown University of Siloam Springs wants to stay ahead of the artificial intelligence curve, a mission it started several years ago, so in February it became the first university in Arkansas to announce plans to offer a bachelors degree in AI.
Officials at John Brown, which has an enrollment of slightly more than 2,200 students, also said it is the first Christian university to offer a bachelors degree in artificial intelligence, a program that will begin in the fall semester of 2024. About a dozen universities nationwide offer AI degrees. JBU began offering a minor in AI in the fall of 2023.
Other universities in Arkansas, including the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, offer or are planning to offer AI classes.
Mariofanna Milanova, a computer science professor and AI expert at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, said she hopes her school will begin offering AI degrees soon.
This is the future, Milanova said. They cannot escape from this future.
Bloomberg Intelligence reported last year that generative AI was a $40 billion industry that would grow to more than $1.3 trillion by 2032. Generative AI, such as ChatGPT, includes programs that use prompts and patterns to produce texts and images.
The applications of artificial intelligence range from cloud computing to natural language processing to the Internet of Things.
For Justus Selwyn, the plan to offer the degree at JBU started around the time he joined John Brown as the chairman of the computer science department in the summer of 2021. The university and members of its advisory board were discussing prominent technologies that John Brown needed to address with its students.
We didnt have courses like that in 2021, 2022, Selwyn said. After I joined JBU, I was trying to bring those advanced courses to JBU for computer science students. Those are some of the topics that are so important evolving around AI.
We thought we can bring these courses and start a separate major so we can send our students to companies who three or four years from now will want AI students, students [who] have had hands-on AI. That is where the thought process came in 2022 and we started to work on it.
The hope is that John Browns degree announcement and the growing market for an AI-fluent workforce will create momentum in the academic community in Arkansas.
Justin Richie, vice president of data and AI for Nerdery of Minneapolis, a data products studio, worked with several for-profit universities about how to develop an AI curriculum. Richie said that as AI has grown, it has become important for prospective employees to know how to use the technology.
The interesting aspect of AI right now, especially from an education [standpoint], is where does it fit in? Does it fit in its own segment of majors or does it fall under a computer science program? Richie said.
I see it being on both the technology major side, but also from a business major perspective, training our students to be fluent in AI is going to be a key employment advantage when they hit the marketplace.
Milanova said AI education is important because it is not just about creating new artificial intelligence programs; it is also creating new ways to use old technologies.
There is so much possibility for creativities, Milanova said. There are so many opportunities for people to create amazing algorithms It is not necessary to be completely innovative. Little changes, they can make significant differences. This is the beauty.
Selwyn said incarnations of AI have been around for decades. If you are on a website and a movie recommendation for you pops up, that is an example of artificial intelligence at work.
These are all AI components; these are already in place but a layman, a user didnt know this was an AI thing, Selwyn said. Industry is already going in that direction, so JBU and in northwest Arkansas, we are wanting our students to know what is AI.
Selwyn said business leaders responded positively to John Browns degree announcement.
I dream [that] after four years they will want our AI grads from JBU, Selwyn said. Name an industry and they are going to hire AI and mission learning and data analytics.
Richie said many in the academic world are just trying to figure out how to incorporate an AI curriculum.
I definitely see a lot of momentum behind that curriculum, Richie said.
Im bullish, but I do believe it is going to be our fourth industrial revolution. It is changing the narrative in the last 10 years [for] people like me who went to school for math and computer science.
Now people dont really need to know that stuff. It is a lot more of what you do with it rather than knowing how the entire engine works.
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Could AI coding threaten software jobs? – The Boston Globe
But now the gravy train may be about to end in a way that not only shocks budding software engineers but also threatens the hefty salaries of mid-career professionals.
In February, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang turned heads when he told the World Government Summit that over the course of the last 10, 15 years, almost everybody who sits on a stage like this would tell you it is vital that children learn computer science. Now, he said, its almost exactly the opposite. Because artificial intelligence systems can now help create software and theyll only get better.
Nvidia has benefited tremendously from demand for the hardware that fuels AI, sending its stock surging from about $130 a share in 2021 to nearly $900 today. And Huang has become Wall Streets go-to AI guru.
But is he right? With all the talk about AIs promise and peril, is there enormous upheaval coming to software jobs and the people and places that rely on them?
Yes, says Matt Welsh, a former professor of computer science at Harvard. A massive shift is on the horizon though he doesnt believe it will happen overnight.
Ive seen trends come and go, notes Welsh, who worked at Apple and Google before cofounding Fixie.ai. Ive seen technologies emerge over time. Ive never seen anything like AI, in terms of the pace of innovation and the dramatic effect its having on the whole industry. Not the introduction of personal computers. Not the iPhone. Not the internet. None of these things have had quite a dramatic effect in this [short] period of time.
He says that programming has long been a kind of priesthood, an exclusive club for the lucky few. But thats not going to last.
Soon, much as Huang has predicted, programming will become something that anyone can do. Because the language that youll need to program wont be Java or C++. Itll be English.
Late last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk argued that AI could be the most disruptive force in history and that there will come a point where no job is needed.
Welsh believes that the disruption to the tech industry will come in two waves. First, an initial phase in which software engineers using ChatGPT or Microsofts Copilot become considerably more productive. And, for many, that phase is already underway.
Increased productivity may allow tech companies to reduce the number of engineers on the payroll while maintaining the same level of output. If you just look across the software industry, the vast majority of it is people doing things that are extremely mundane and easy to automate at some point in the not-too-distant future, he says.
But the second wave will likely bring much more disruption, Welsh argues. That will happen when we stop needing programmers to write these programs in the first place ... and that, I think, is not something that anyone in the industry is prepared for. This change, he believes, will start to unfold over the next several years.
In November, the job site ResumeBuilder polled 750 leaders at businesses that currently or plan to use AI in 2024 and discovered that more than a third say the technology replaced workers this year, and close to half believe that AI will lead to layoffs in 2024. Forty-two percent of workers, meanwhile, worry about how AI might affect their job, according to a survey by CNBC and SurveyMonkey.
When I challenged Welsh on the notion that an entire industry and millions of careers could be turned upside down, he countered with history. Disruption has come for industry after industry, he said. Highly skilled people once wove cloth. Now, for the most part, sophisticated machines weave cloth. And across the manufacturing sector, millions of jobs have been lost or drastically altered over the past century.
But what about the low quality of AI-generated code? A recent research paper argued that code written with an AI assistant tended to resemble the not-so-hot work of an itinerant contributor.
Welsh likens this to a story of burritos and lasagna. The invention of the microwave in American homes enabled people to plop a frozen burrito into the microwave and have a meal in two minutes, he notes. Was this meal as nutritious and good as the homemade lasagna that mom would have made in the oven for four hours? No. But was it sustenance and calories? Yes.
Still, its a huge topic of debate, and not everyone is convinced that the rise of AI will lead to a massive restructuring of the industry.
Jonathan Bell, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern, says hes certainly seen an AI-powered surge in engineers productivity. But he believes that if the stakes are high on the software youre building, youre going to want a human defining and refining the problem and, crucially, running quality control.
Bell, who studies how automation affects coders, is currently working on software to help facilitate Northeasterns doctoral admissions process: Could I ask some large language model thing to write that entire piece of software for me? Possibly. Would I want to trust that it was correct? Definitely not.
He argues that increased productivity may simply allow companies to get more ambitious and work on more projects. What weve generally seen in the past, he says, is that companies say, Wait! With the same amount of money, I could have software that does more stuff? And its more complicated, and delivers more value to our users? Lets do that ... Thats the optimistic view, and the cynical view is that you can lay off 30 percent of your staff.
Welsh maintains that we should gird ourselves for a major shift in the tech industry one that big companies know is coming: I just think that were actually now on the cusp of this, versus something that seemed completely fantastical even five or ten years ago. I think it may become reality much sooner than we anticipate.
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AI passes computer science course with 100% accuracy – The Daily Universe – Universe.byu.edu
An artificial intelligence system achieved a perfect grade in BYUs Computer Science 110 class.
Conversations and questions about AIs place in academia continue among parents, students and teachers.
Porter Jenkins is a BYU computer science professor who researches AI. He shed light on the evolving landscape of education in the age of AI.
My biggest concern is that (AI systems) become so much of a crutch for people, Jenkins said.
According to an article by Exploding Topics, 70,000 AI companies have emerged since 2006. This has caused a widespread use of AI that permeates all aspects of daily life, including education.
Jenkins said the AI model ChatGPT, released in late 2022, was able to decipher and pass all coding assignments and tests for BYUs introductory programming course.
The advent of ChatGPT led many to wonder about its role in cheating, according to a University of Chicago study. This trend is concerning because BYU emphasizes academic integrity through its Honor Code.
The university cautions students against practices and topics such as plagiarism, fabrication and cheating.
Jenkins remains optimistic about reconciling technological advancements with academic integrity. He said while there are risks of AI misuse, students can genuinely use the technology to deepen their understanding and enhance learning experiences.
We shouldnt ban it, Jenkins said. We just need to learn how to live with these new things that we create.
As universities navigate the landscape of technology and academia, an AI systems success in BYUs computer science class serves as a poignant reminder of the evolving nature of education and the imperative to uphold academic integrity while embracing technological innovation.
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North Park University Introduces New Bachelor of Arts in Applied Computer Science for Fall 2024 – PR Newswire
CHICAGO, March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- North Park University announced today that it is adding a new major in applied computer science (BA) to provide students with expertise in high-growth areas where employers are searching for talent.
The hybrid program will be taught both on North Park's campus and online via a partnership with the Lower Cost Models Consortium (LCMC) and Rize Education. The LCMC is a strategic partnership of private colleges and universities nationwide, collaborating with Rize Education to provide access to a cutting-edge curriculum that prepares students for successful careers.
The involved parties directly collaborated with Google to build computer science courses that will develop graduates to fill essential and understaffed roles across tech industries. With employment in the field expected to grow at roughly 22% over the next decade (nearly three times the national average), graduates will qualify for increasingly valuable jobs in Illinois and nationwide. Project-based and portfolio-building classes will help students produce impressive resumes before graduation and hone skills that hiring managers demand.
North Park Provost Michael Carr said, "Our faculty and academic leadership have worked creatively to develop this program, which will provide our students with opportunities to acquire skills for the growing field. Combined with our liberal arts core, this new major will prepare students for lives of significance and service."
ABOUT THE LOWER COST MODELS CONSORTIUM (LCMC) Formed in 2015, the LCMC is a national consortium of over 130 fully accredited nonprofit colleges and universities. LCMC members are committed to collaborating to address the challenges of increasing costs in higher education by implementing innovative programs and reducing institutional expenses for these programs to pass savings along to students. In this way, the LCMC hopes to develop new models of higher education that benefit students while contributing to the sustainability of accredited, nonprofit, four-year institutions.
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U.S. Senate confirms Schmidt to lead operational testing and evaluation for the Department of Defense – Vanderbilt University News
Douglas Schmidt, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Computer Science, has been confirmed to become Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for the Department of Defense following a full vote by the U.S. Senate on Feb. 29, 2024.
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Jan. 23, Schmidt said if confirmed that hes ready to fulfill his duties.
Im committed to fostering robust collaborations with our research and engineering community, acquisition programs, armed services and international partners, he told the committee. Im eager to fulfill my responsibilities by collaborating closely with key stakeholders, including Congress, the department, the services and industry partners.
An internationally renowned computer scientist, Schmidts professional involvement with national security spans four decades, marked by extensive work in researching, developing and testing military systems.
Professor Schmidts distinguished career of bold discovery and innovation at Vanderbilt will serve him and our nation well in his new role, Chancellor Daniel Diermeier said. His work, and his collaborations across sectors in forums like our Summit on Modern Conflict, make him especially qualified to help shift the nations defenses forward toward a greater focus on cyber conflict and digital innovation. I congratulate Professor Schmidt on this great honor and wish him every success in serving our country.
Schmidt has particular expertise in the integration of software systems with hardware, mobile systems and other physical components. He is a senior researcher at the Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems and a visiting scientist at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
In his written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Schmidt emphasized the pressing need to shift from pursuing innovations in hardware-centric systems to focusing on a landscape defined by software, data and complex algorithms.
Professor Schmidt is an accomplished computer scientist who possesses a successful record of translating research innovation into real-world results, said Krishnendu Roy, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of the School of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor. He has had a distinguished career in academia and government, especially in the defense sector. His selection for the role of DOT&E is an inspired choice and is another example of how Vanderbilt researchers are making a lasting societal impact for the United States and beyond. I congratulate him on this well-deserved honor.
Schmidts experience includes evaluating software product lines for mission computing systems in military fighters and leading mission-critical technology projects for the Navy and Air Force as a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. From 2010 to 2014, he served as vice chair of a study on cyber situational awareness for Air Force mission operations as a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
Most recently, Schmidt led research and development efforts at Vanderbilt University and CMU/SEI focused on responsible application of generative augmented intelligence in automated programming and testing of defense acquisition systems.
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UTSA joins federal consortium to advance AI safety – The University of Texas at San Antonio
MARCH 6, 2024 UTSA has joined the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), an organization established by the U.S. Department of Commerces National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to bring together government, university and industry researchers, AI creators and users, and community groups to support the development and deployment of trustworthy and safe AI.
UTSAs inclusion in the national consortium is a testament to its expertise in artificial intelligence, data science, computing and cybersecurity as well as its robust educational programs to develop career-ready Roadrunners who are prepared to succeed in the growing artificial intelligence workforce.
We are proud to collaborate with this consortium to help lead the way in these cutting-edge fields and to continue to expand the universitys collective expertise for the benefit of the institution and our UTSA students, said Heather Shipley, interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.
The AISIC includes more than 200 member organizations and institutions that are on the frontlines of researching, developing and/or leveraging AI systems to positively transform society. These entities represent the nations largest companies and innovative startups, creators of the worlds most advanced AI systems and hardware and representatives from professions with deep engagement in AIs use today.
The universitys combined assets, particularly within the School of Data Science and the National Security Collaboration Center, position UTSA to play a crucial role in advancing the mission of the consortium, said Jianwei Niu, interim executive director of the School of Data Science and interim dean of University College.
Niu noted that David Mongeau, former founding director of the SDS, was instrumental in leading UTSAs efforts to join the AISIC along with SDS core faculty and project leads Adel Alaeddini, professor of mechanical engineering and SDS associate director for academic programs, Gabriela Ciocarlie, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Paul Rad, associate professor of computer science and SDS associate director of research.
The AISIC aims to advance AI safety by bringing together government, academia and industry to develop and deploy trustworthy and safe AI systems. Through collaboration and guidance, the consortium seeks to set standards, promote AI development practices and cultivate a skilled AI workforce.
The U.S. government has a significant role to play in setting the standards and developing the tools we need to mitigate the risks and harness the immense potential of artificial intelligence, said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. President Biden directed us to pull every lever to accomplish two key goals: set safety standards and protect our innovation ecosystem. Thats precisely what the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium is set up to help us do.
The SDS is the only school of its kind at a Tier One, Hispanic Serving Institution. The school was established to educate top data scientists for Texas workforce while leading the nation in data-intensive research. Its commitment to excellence, innovation and community engagement makes it a hub for data-driven and AI-powered solutions and a driving force in the ever-evolving data and AI landscape.
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Computer scientist wins NSF CAREER Award to advance Alzheimer’s research using AI | Wake Forest News – Wake Forest News
In her groundbreaking work as a computer scientist, assistant professor Minghan Chen is using artificial intelligence to create new techniques to better understand the mechanisms behind Alzheimers disease and predict its progression across brain networks.
Chen was recently awarded a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her research project entitled: Towards a Living Neuron Twin for Improving Human Cognitive Health.
My NSF research project will work by developing a holistic computational framework called Neuron Twin, said Chen. This pioneering framework will combine two powerful algorithmic approaches multiscale modeling and deep learning.
Her research will help facilitate the analysis and comprehension of complex medical and health data and will help medical researchers address emerging questions in health data science.
Chens work proposes techniques that will help overcome limitations of other contemporary work in this area, including techniques for the integration of diverse types of data, handling of small data sets, and building of interpretable models, said William Turkett, associate professor and chair of the computer science department. The findings of her work are expected to be highly valuable facilitating the development of treatment strategies and personalized medicine for Alzheimers disease.
Alzheimers disease is a fatal and devastating cognitive disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Currently, there is no effective treatment.
By developing a better understanding of the diseases mechanisms, we can improve early diagnosis and treatment, ultimately improving the quality of life for patients and their families, Chen said. Such a framework can be transferred for use in broader applications of neurodegenerative diseases, including but not limited to Parkinsons disease and Lewy body dementia that share similar disease pathogenesis and therapeutic challenges.
For Chen, the NSF CAREER Award is more than an opportunity to grow in her field. She was inspired to pursue this project by her passion for applying computer science to solve real-world health challenges.
As a child, I was always interested in how things work, which naturally led me to computer science, Chen said. My interest in healthcare applications was further fueled by my parents, who are doctors. Witnessing people struggling with incurable illnesses like cancer and brain diseases made me realize the profound impact technology can have on advancing healthcare and alleviating societal burdens.
In addition to the research, there is also an outreach component to the CAREER award. Wake Forest undergraduate and graduate students will work with Chen on the project. Workshops, seminars, and other educational activities both on campus and in the local community are also being planned.
Chen is developing a new interdisciplinary course on modeling and learning for Wake Forest students as well as a summer boot-camp on those topics open to students at other universities.
She has curated strategic partnerships for her work. Collaborating institutions include the Alzheimers Disease Research Center, which will help disseminate and apply her findings in the clinical setting, and the UNC-Chapel Hill Advanced Medicine Laboratory.
Winning an NSF CAREER Award is more than just an achievement for me; its a significant encouragement and support, said Chen. As a female researcher, it recognizes the impact and potential of my work, which is particularly meaningful in a field where women are underrepresented. This recent award provides me with the resources and support to further advance my research, enabling me to make a more substantial contribution across the fields of computer science and medical and health science.
Chen is one of six WFU winners of NSF CAREER Awards announced within the past year. This includes faculty members from the physics, chemistry, math and statistics and engineering departments.
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