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Junyu Chen (CompSci, AstroPhys, Math'23) was recently highlighted by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for showing how mathematical models used in computer simulations can cause error and instability in planetary motion simulations.

Department of Computer Science professor Daniel Larremore, an NSF 2022 Waterman Award laureate, is a co-author in a new Nature journal article showing just five U.S. universities have trained 1-in-8 tenure-track faculty members. Larremore presents virtually on the research on Wednesday, September 28th.

The fellowship will provide tuition support, a $34,000 stipend for two years and a unique support system for 12 students to advance their PhD studies and research in computer science and other fields.

Clayton Lewis, a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Computer Science at CU Boulder receives 2022 Outstanding Contributions Award from ACM SIGACCESS for his significant contributions to computing technologies that improve the accessibility of media and services to people with disabilities.

When you should trust your robot teammate? Computer science PhD students Aaquib Tabrez and Matthew Luebbers, along with their advisor Assistant Professor Bradley Hayes, used augmented reality minesweeper to gain insight into a robot’s decision-making process and were awarded runner-up for best student paper at AAMAS 2022.

Tinycade, the brainchild of Gyory and his colleagues at ATLAS, brings a do-it-yourself spirit to the world of video games. Tinycade allows anyone, anywhere to make a working arcade machine that can fit on a side table, with just a smartphone, some cardboard, two small mirrors and bric-a-brac like rubber bands and toothpicks.

Assistant professor Orit Peleg in the Department of Computer Science will work on a new $497,000 grant with aerospace assistant professor López Jiménez Ann to explore how bees build honeycombs, research that supports bio-inspired system designs in swarm robotics and lightweight cellular structures.

Computer Science Professor Danny Dig has been selected to host a panel discussion at the AI Summit & IoT World Conference and Expo in Austin in early November. The summit is one of the most prestigious events in the industry.

Computer Science Associate Professor Claire Monteleoni is the AI/Machine Learning Lead for a new $20M NSF Center at CU Boulder, housed in CIRES, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. The new center is a major new data science and diversity effort including partners from multiple institutions around the world.

CS assistant professor Majid Zamani and his team are part of a new $5.8M grant from the NSF to help build the intelligent transportation systems of the future.