College of Computing and Informatics

The College of Computing and Informatics and Office of Continuing Education are sponsoring the free webinar, “Understanding the Science Behind the Pandemic,” at 1 p.m., Thursday, June 11.Daniel Janies, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics, and Denis Jacob Machado, a bioinformatics postdoctoral researcher, will talk about the history and evolution of COVID-19, the current state of the pandemic and what to expect going forward.Register to view the webinar.

UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science, North Carolina’s first undergraduate program in data science, is now enrolling undergraduate students for the fall semester.

Fatma Mili, dean of the College of Computing and Informatics, will participate in a panel discussion related to the film, “The Great Hack,” from 4 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 26, in the Cone University Center, McKnight Hall.A screening of the “The Great Hack,” a documentary about the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, precedes the panel discussion, which will address how data is, and can be, weaponized for political gain.

A new study published in Nature Communications by a research team including UNC Charlotte lead author Tingting Xiang sheds light on how sea anemones, which are closely related to coral, control the size of their algal populations.

UNC Charlotte has opened the Carolinas’ first School of Data Science. This interdisciplinary school allows UNC Charlotte to expand on its programs in the field and open up the growing and diverse field of data science to students with varied career interests.

Associate Professor of Urban Design Ming-Chun Lee has collaborated with the Levine Museum of the New South to integrate augmented reality (AR) technology and GIS mapping into an exhibition about Charlotte neighborhoods, past and present.

Assistant Professor of Architecture Rachel Dickey and School of Architecture alumni Ali Karduni ’17 M.S./M.Arch.  and Noushin Radnia ’18 M.S./M.Arch. have received a 2020 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Research Incentive Award for their proposal, “Reconfigurable Space: Kinematic Environments Controlled with Computer Vision.”

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Manuel Pérez-Quiñones as one of its Distinguished Members. This honor recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and five years of continuous professional membership who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field.

A $1.83 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will allow UNC Charlotte researcher Rebekah Rogers to continue her focus on complex genetic mutations, which are important in the study of autism, cancer, immune disorders and reproductive disorders.

Stratifyd, a tech startup founded at UNC Charlotte, will expand its operations and add at least 200 jobs and move to a new 30,000-square-foot office located within an opportunity zone in Charlotte’s FreeMoreWest neighborhood.