Dear Bowers CIS community,

2022 continues to be an exciting year at the college. As the fall semester winds down and winter break approaches, I want to thank each of you for making Cornell Bowers CIS rewarding place to work and study.

There is a lot happening at the college and I want to share with you some of the groundbreaking research happening as well as recent awards and accolades received by our community members. Also, do not forget to tell us about your news! Please connect with us via goodnews@cis.cornell.edu.

Best wishes,

Kavita Bala

Dean

Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

dean@cis.cornell.edu

The college welcomes new majors

Bowers CIS rolled out the red carpet at its New Majors Welcome Event, a celebration to embrace newly declared students and showcase the breadth of opportunities, activities, and services now available to them. More than 200 attendees received a warm welcome from Dean Bala, and introductions to LeeAnn Roberts, director for the Cornell Bowers CIS’ Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Ingrid Jensen, director of Student Services. A faculty panel offered advice to the new majors, and leaders from student groups promoted their organizations.

Community celebrates life of Juris Hartmanis

People recently gathered to honor the life and work of Juris Hartmanis. At the celebration, a dozen colleagues spoke about Hartmanis’ contributions to the field of computer science, his dedication to building a vibrant department, and the deep impact of his friendship and mentorship.

Students can now choose new minor in data science

Undergraduates can now minor in data science, a field that has become increasingly important for students in nearly any major, from humanities and social sciences, to sciences, engineering, and math.

Kleinberg, Liben-Nowell ’99 Receive Test of Time Award from ACM CIKM

“Given a snapshot of a social network, can we infer which new interactions among its members are likely to occur in the near future?” asks the 2003 paper and recent Test of Time Award-winning research from Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science, and David Liben-Nowell ’99, currently a professor of computer science and associate provost at Carleton College.

Programming tool turns handwriting into computer code

Ian Arawjo

Shrutarshi Basu

Anthony DeArmas

Tapan Parikh

Michael Roberts

App creates time-lapse videos with a smartphone

Abe Davis

Longxiulin Deng

Jiatian Sun

Ruyu Yan

Wearable wristband captures body in 3D

Matthew Dressa

Jae Hoon Kim

Hyunchul Lim

Cheng Zhang

Ruidong Zhang

Research aims to design infrastructure for rural living

Phoebe J. Sengers

Personal sensing at work:

Tracking burnout, balancing privacy

Daniel Adler

Tanzeem Choudhury

Emily Tseng

Computer science major wins award from SETI Institute for planetary research

Ze-Wen Koh ’23 is one of three winners of the SETI Forward Award, given to undergraduates to support their work focused on the search for life beyond Earth.

Decode-It program makes its debut with murder mystery dinner

Students shared murder theories – and personal stories – during the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’s murder mystery dinner.

Student Spotlight: Matthew Law

Matthew Law, a doctoral candidate in information science, studies how robots can help humans make creative decisions at Cornell under the guidance of Guy Hoffman.

Saito named Forbes 30 Under 30 Japan

Yuta Saito, a graduate student in the field of computer science, has been named to Forbes 30 under 30 Japan for his research in counterfactual learning – a field that lies at the intersection of machine learning and causal inference.

Afghan Dreamers, Cornell Cup Robotics launch World Cup Dreams

The world’s biggest soccer tournament began Nov. 20 in Qatar, and Cornell students are partnering to inspire young people to dream big, in both soccer and STEM learning.

BodyTrak wrist camera constructs 3D models of the body in real time

A Bowers CIS research team (Matthew Dressa, Jae Hoon Kim, Hyunchul Lim, Cheng Zhang, Ruidong Zhang) has demonstrated this functionality in a novel camera system for the wrist, which could work in smartwatches of the future.

Cornell University selected for Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

Led by Carla Gomes, Cornell was one of nine educational institutions worldwide selected to take part in the multi-million-dollar program, which will bring up to 100 postdoctoral students to Ithaca.

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