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EECS Team Earns Top 10 Finish in 2017 Mid-Central Regional ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
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Yiding Feng, Ruohong Zhang, & You Li |
The WildWildCats, consisting of NU EECS Students
Yiding Feng
(2nd year PhD),
Ruohong Zhang
(5th year BS), and You Li
(2nd year PhD) have placed 9th out of 119 teams in the
2017 Mid-Central USA Programming Contest
, held on Saturday, November 4, at the University of Chicago.
The regional contest represents the geographic area of Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois (including the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area in Indiana), Kentucky, and Tennessee.
The team solved some very challenging algorithmic problems in a very high-pressure situation and faced some very stiff competition, including five teams from UIUC who trained with a world-class coach during a special one-credit course last Spring.
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Andi Zang Wins Best Paper Award at AutonomousGIS 2017
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Workshop Co-chair & Andi Zang |
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Pengfei Wang & Aleksandar Kuzmanovic's Research Featured in STATS Evaluation
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Iman Hassani Nia Publishes Article in Scientific Reports
In the article, published Friday, November 10, 2017, he
presents a simple non-invasive computational technique that, when coupled with experiments, has the potential for characterization of a wide range of biological tissues, such as cancer diagnosis, therapeutic applications, and drug efficacy tests.
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