UVM Department of Computer Science

12/20/2021

We celebrated our 2021 CS Fair last week.

Congratulations to all participants and awardees!

CS for good, from saving the bees, to bad data detection and COVID prevention.

See the full list of projects and awards at csfair.w3.uvm.edu/index.php

07/08/2021

Congratulations to our faculty member Peter Dodds for being named a Fellow of the Network Science Society for his foundational contribution to network science!

Follow more of his work through our The Vermont Complex Systems Center.

And please join us in congratulating Peter!

05/05/2021

“Women are definitely underrepresented in computer science and working toward gender parity is something close to my heart.” - Lisa Dion

After completing graduate school at the University of Michigan in 2016, Lisa Dion cast about for a summer internship before taking up her duties as a lecturer at UVM. Then an ad for a program called Girls Who Code caught her eye.

04/17/2021

Pete Clark (UVM Natural Resources and CragVT Board), Christian Skalka (UVM Computer Science and CRAG-VT Board), and Devin Farkas ( ), led a group of UVM student volunteers on a day of trail stewardship at Rock Point in Burlington, an urban green space managed by the Episcopal Church and featuring hiking and rock climbing on the shores of Lake Champlain

03/31/2021

Earlier today, our faculty Dr. Jeremiah Onaolapo (Highlighted in UVM Green in the picture) briefed the United States Federal Trade Commission about his work on SocialHEISTing

https://www.uvm.edu/~jonaolap/papers/usenix2021socialheisting.pdf

03/24/2021

Congratulations to our graduate student Caitlin Grasso, for winning National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2021!

National Science Foundation (NSF) GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions.

https://nsfgrfp.org

03/10/2021

Our faculty Dr. Jeremiah Onaolapo and his collaborators, including some at Facebook, created 1008 realistic Facebook accounts, populating them with fake information, photos and posts, unraveling behavior and biases of Cybercriminals. This work has been covered in detail on New Scientist (Paywall alert!)

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2270552-hackers-act-differently-if-accessing-male-or-female-facebook-profiles/

Research Paper:https://www.uvm.edu/~jonaolap/papers/usenix2021socialheisting.pdf

Cybercriminals seem to behave differently depending on the age and gender of the owner of the Facebook accounts they hack into

03/02/2021

Working with fellow interns, engineers and pilots, UVM CS Major Shauna Kimura, Class of 2022, has developed such software tools as an interactive dashboard to view statistics on runtime for flight-test hardware parts at Beta Technologies

The Burlington area teems with innovative companies, and right now, one of the most innovative is Beta Technologies, which is designing revolutionary new aircraft. Now, Shauna Kimura ‘22, has taken off in her role as a software intern at Beta, which began in December 2020 after three consecutive i...

03/02/2021

Our faculty Dr. Laurent Hébert-Dufresne won Outstanding Referee award to recognize scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the prestigious APS Physics journals! Congratulations Laurent! 🎉

02/12/2021

A year ago, our student Sam Kriegman and Dr. Josh Bongard made history by publishing their work on building first living robots in the proceedings of National Academy of Sciences

were widely covered in media worldwide and they scored 54th spot in Altmetric Top 100 list. Altmetric tracked 87.7 million mentions of 3.4 million works in 2020
https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2020/

01/08/2021

Congratulations to our faculty - Robert Erickson and Lisa Dion! Their work on promoting Computer Science Education in the state of Vermont, in collaboration with Regina Toolin from College of Education and Social Services at UVM is published in the Journal of Computational Science Education Volume 12 Issue 1

"The Computer Science Education Collaborative:
Promoting Computer Science Teacher Education
Programs for Preservice and In-service Teachers"

Link:http://shodor.org/media/content//jocse/volume12/issue1/1_toolin.pdf

12/09/2020

"SocialHEISTing: Understanding Stolen Facebook Accounts" has been accepted at the USENIX Security '21 conference!

Congratulations to lead author and our faculty Jeremiah Onaolapo, Nektarios Leontiadis (Facebook), Despoina Magka (Facebook), Gianluca Stringhini (Boston University)

The paper will soon be available. See https://uvm.edu/~jonaolap/ for more on Jeremiah's work!