Dr. Sun visited our lab from National Central University
Dr. Sun visited our lab from National Central University.
Auburn Engineering professors awarded editorships at top journals
Auburn Engineering faculty Bo Liu and Wei-Shinn (Jeff) Ku were recently appointed associate editors of prominent engineering journals published by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and IEEE Computer Society.
DSE lab student awarded Alabama Technology Foundation Scholarship
Pavani Ankireddy, a master’s student in computer science and software engineering, was recently announced as one of three winners of the Alabama Technology Foundation Scholarship.
Google's image recognition AI fooled by new tricks
Researchers at Auburn University trained a neural network to fool Google's best image-recognition system, Inception, by rotating objects in space to novel positions. The lesson is that today's AI doesn't really identify objects very well.
Dr. Wei-Shinn Ku won Senior Research Award in Auburn Engineering spring ceremony
The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering held its annual Spring Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 6, in the Shelby Center Lowe Grand Foyer. The college handed out 35 student awards, 20 faculty awards and 10 alumni awards, in addition to honoring 48 faculty members who hold named professorships and chairs.
Dr. Wei-Shinn Ku was promoted to full professor
Wei-Shinn (Jeff) Ku, associate professor of computer science and software engineering, was promoted to full professor. Ku joined the Auburn Engineering faculty in 2007 after completing his doctorate at the University of Southern California. His research interests include spatial databases, data science, cybersecurity and mobile computing. Ku directs the Auburn Data Science Lab and has published more than 100 research papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Spatial Information.
Wei Li was awarded statewide graduate research fellowship
Wei Li was accepted into a prestigious Alabama research program, providing them with up to $25,000 to support his research.The Alabama Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research’s Graduate Research Scholars Program aims to keep the top graduate students in engineering and science in Alabama and bolster the state’s research in emerging technologies.