College of Computing and Informatics

UNC Charlotte chemistry major Alexis Brown is spending her summer participating in a groundbreaking program at the North Carolina Research Campus, exploring the plant pathways of food crops such as blueberries, oats and strawberries.  And more.
“We are trying to create the super broccoli,” she said.

The UNC Charlotte Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in conjunction with the IEEE Charlotte section, is sponsoring a presentation on the Raspberry Pi from 11 a.m. to noon, Friday, Aug. 8, in EPIC, Room G287.

Shaoting Zhang, an assistant professor in the College of Computing and Informatics Department of Computer Science, has received a 2014 Ralph E. Power Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.  Presented by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU),  the award provides seed money for research by junior faculty at ORAU member institutions. These awards are intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty and result in new funding opportunities.

College of Computing and Informatics alumnus Hakim Touati and graduate students Fadi Mohsen, Saeed Al-haj and Mohammed Al-saleh finished second in “The Money Event (TME) Charlotte Challenge Hackathon.” 
This regional event, held in the PORTAL Building, was one of several competitions sponsored around the world.  The CCI team created a mobile solution called “SkipLine” that helps customers skip checkout lines at busy bakeries or coffee shops.  The winning team was comprised of professional developers with three to four years of experience.

Olin Broadway, executive-in-residence in the UNC Charlotte College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during Charlotte Business Journal’s second annual Chief Information Officer of the Year reception Thursday, July 17. The event honors Charlotte’s top technology leaders.
Broadway joined CCI in 2000; during the past 14 years, he has organized or directed a number of college initiatives, including the Charlotte Informatics Conference, Software as a Service Conference and the eBusiness Technology Institute.

UNC Charlotte recently hired three individuals to support the Data Science and Business Analytics initiative, which is an industry-University-state partnership led by the College of Computing and Informatics and the Belk College of Business with strategic input from the College of Health and Human Services and other academic units.
Mark Armstrong, Rick Hudson and Shannon Schlueter are the industry/University program coordinator, senior project manager and data scientist, respectively, for the DSBA initiative.

Four student teams, comprised of a total of 10 to 12 individuals from the College of Computing and Informatics, will participate in a regional hackathon set for Saturday and Sunday, July 12-13, in the PORTAL Building.

Mohammad Rashedul Hasan, a doctoral student in computing and information systems in the College of Computing and Informatics, will defend “Topology-aware Approach for the Emergence of Social Norms in Multi-agent Systems” at 1 p.m., Thursday, June 26, in Woodward Hall, Room 338. Anita Raja is the dissertation advisor.

Scott Heggen, a doctoral student in computing and information systems in the College of Computing and Informatics, will defend “Lowering the Barrier to Development and Adoption of Participatory Sensing Applications” at 12:30 p.m., Monday, June 16, in Woodward Hall, Room 338. Jamie Payton is the dissertation advisor.

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have re-designated UNC Charlotte as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Research.  In 2008, the University was one of the first in the country to receive this designation.
“This is an incredible honor, as this recognition reflects upon the outstanding research accomplishments of our faculty and staff,” said Bill Chu, a professor in the College of Computing and Informatics’ Department of Software and Information Systems.