Computer Summer Camp

Educating campers in a hands-on environment while having fun and making friends, websites, programs, robots and more.

RamHacks

A bi-weekly opportunity for majors, and those interested in technology topics, to network and collaborate.

News

• Rithmbhara Singh: Spatial and temporal modeling of single-cell gene expression using deep learning - When: Friday, October 17, 3:00 PM Where: Tyler 055 Abstract: Our current understanding of the regulation of cells is akin to solving a jigsaw puzzle. Many genomic factors governing cell development have been identified, resulting in vast data collection efforts. For example, obtaining single-cell-level spatial DNA organization or gene expression measurements at a continuous time […]
• Daniel Votipka — Vulnerability Discovery for All: A Human-Centric Approach to Software Vulnerability Discovery - When: Friday, October 10, 3:00 PM Where: Tyler 055 Abstract: Software vulnerabilities persist as an important and costly challenge. Significant effort has been exerted toward automatic vulnerability discovery, but human intelligence generally remains required, and will remain necessary for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, the pool of experts qualified to perform vulnerability discovery is small and […]
• Tina-Marie Ranalli: An HCI approach to identifying ways to better design computing technologies to meet the unique needs of medieval research - When: Friday, October 3, 3:00 PM Where: Tyler 055 Abstract: Medievalists are scholars, within the larger discipline of the humanities, who specialize in studying various aspects of the Middle Ages, which roughly took place from the year 500 to 1500 C.E., though it varies from culture to culture. In this work, we use a human-computer […]
• Suresh Venkatasubramanian – Are we winning yet? Frames, measurements, and tools for AI governance. - When: 9/26/25 3:00 PM Where: Tyler 055 Abstract: 2025 feels like the year that we started to throw caution to the winds when it came to AI deployment. AI policy priorities have shifted almost 180 degrees, global cooperation has been replaced by talk of American dominance, and the relentless march of LLMs into every nook […]
• Noah Daniels – HPC, parallelism, and MPI in Rust - When: Tuesday 9/30/25 5:00 pmWhere: Tyler 108 and ZoomAbstract:The Rust programming language was created when Graydon Hoare was frustrated with the elevator in his apartment building being out of order due to a Windows blue screen of death. In the decade since its 1.0 release, Rust has been the “most loved” programming language on StackOverflow […]
• Omar Montasser – Beyond Worst-Case Online Classification - When: 9/19/25 3:00 PM Where: Tyler 055 Abstract: In this talk, we revisit online binary classification by shifting the focus from competing with the best-in-class binary loss to competing against relaxed benchmarks that capture smoothed notions of optimality. Instead of measuring regret relative to the exact minimal binary error — a standard approach that leads […]

Recent Awards

• Sarah Brown Receives NSF CAREER Award - Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sarah Brown has received an NSF CAREER award for CAREER: Realizing Sociotechnical Machine Learning Through Modeling, Explanations, And Reflection. NSF CAREER awards are made in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission […]
• Department of Defense awards $100,000 for low-code or no-code tools - The United States Air Force (DoD) awarded Shaun Wallace and collaborator BAM Technologies a $100,000 SBIR/STTR Phase 1 grant. Their goal is to develop new, improve, or replace existing low-code or no-code technologies or frameworks that address end-users’ issues. Specifically, these tools will allow non-technical users to develop applications to solve organizational challenges secondary to the […]
• NSF Awards $599,999 for VR for Post-Trauma Self-Regulation - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $599,999 to Krishna Venkatasubramanian for Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Post-Trauma Self-Regulation for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, a project that will design VR-mediated technologies that empower adults with I/DD to engage in independent post-trauma self-regulation (PTSR) to cope with the negative effects of trauma.
• $100,000 Award for Sidewalk Stress Detection and Routing - $100,000 in scholarships from The 401 BridgeTech foundation have been awarded to Abdeltawab Hendawi’s AI Lab for Sidewalk Stress Detection and Routing. This project aims at the development of algorithms, spatial data structures, and artificial intelligence (AI) models for sidewalk feature identification to provide safer accessibility routing and services on sidewalks.
• Survival and Flourishing Fund Awards $163,000 for Fair Data Science - The Survival and Flourishing Fund awarded Sarah Brown $163,000 for Machine Learning for Socio-technical Systems Lab. The project will build a benchmark for LLM Agents at doing fair data science.
• NSF Awards $250,000 for Deforestation and Degradation Prediction - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Abdeltawab Hendawi $250,000 for Global Centers Track 2: Blue Climate Solution, a project that aims to improve predictions of deforestation and degradation, understand dynamic changes in carbon storage, and develop effective conservation policies. The Global Center (GC) for Blue Carbon Solutions, a partnership between the US and Indonesia, […]