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05/28/2026

CSE has a new Office Assistant IV, Sue Ellen Clark.

She has been with the university for many years and has worked in units such as IT, IPF, and most recently the Provost's Office. She will be helping with our undergraduate administration, key maintenance, events communications, committee and chair support, as well as a number of other things.

Please help us welcome Sue Ellen to Team CSE!!

05/13/2026

Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, has just released the 2026 Edition of our Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Computer Science.

Anik K. Jain has ranked 2 in the world ranking and 1 in United States. He was also recognized with their 2026 Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award.

The ranking is based on D-index (Discipline H-index) metric, which only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline. The ranking includes only leading scientists with D-index of at least 30 for academic publications made in the area of Computer Science.

The full world ranking is available here: https://lnkd.in/dKjT8BvG
The full ranking for United States is available here: https://lnkd.in/gEm63Dim

05/08/2026

Eight distinguished alumni of the Michigan State University College of Engineering were honored with 2026 Alumni Awards on Saturday, April 25, at MSU’s Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center.

Interim Engineering Dean John Papapolymerou said the annual celebration honors graduates for their outstanding professional and personal accomplishments. Awards are presented each spring in East Lansing.

“These world-class alumni are living examples of how Spartan Engineers improve our communities and world every day,” Papapolymerou said. “We extend our sincere congratulations to each of them and celebrate their accomplishments and impact.”

The 2026 Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award goes to Salil Prabhakar, Ph.D., 2001.

Salil Prabhakar is the founder and CEO of OptiML Vision, Inc., where he is building Verifiable Live Identity (VLI) - a new identity architecture that makes impersonation fail by design. He previously co-founded Delta ID, a pioneer in mobile biometrics, where his team developed touchless iris recognition deployed on consumer devices. Delta ID was successfully acquired. He is an expert in the area of biometrics - fingerprints and iris scanning technology that are deployed at a global scale.

He is a founding architect for biometrics for India’s UIDAI / Aadhaar system, the world’s largest ID system with 1.4 billion people enrolled.

He is a Fellow of IEEE, IAPR and SPIE. He has co-authored 50+ publications (14,000+ Google Citations), two editions of the award-winning Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition, five book chapters, and eight edited proceedings.

He has several patents granted and pending. He has served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, EURASIP Journal of Image and Video Processing, Elsevier Pattern Recognition, and Current Bioinformatics.

He was lead guest co-editor of April 2007 IEEE TPAMI Biometrics Special Issue.

He has been a co-chair/program chair for 10+ IEEE, IAPR and SPIE conferences, was general co-chair of the 5th International Conference on Biometrics in 2012 in New Delhi. He was vice president - finance of IEEE.

04/24/2026

We are delighted to share that Dr. Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Florida - Gainesville have secured funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in the amount of $815,000. Borzoo is the PI from MSU.

Abstract:
Binary code similarity detection is the process of comparing two or more binary code segments to identify similarities and differences, without relying on the source code. This technique is crucial for various functional and security applications like preserving functional objectives after software updates and patching, vulnerability detection, malware analysis, and code reuse identification, especially when the source code is unavailable. Existing approaches such as combining static and dynamic analysis techniques as well as learning-based methods often only analyze the structure of the code or the input/output relation and miss the semantics similarity of the code in satisfying complex functional and security properties.
QUBICS will introduce several novel techniques to quantify similarity between a legacy and an updated binary-level code with respect to temporal formal specification of properties of interest. Our proposed techniques are based on statistical model checking (SMC). The results of the proposed project will ensure access to robust code analysis tools that can provide quantifiable confidence in similarity between the original and revised software artifacts with respect to their formal specifications without having access to the source code.

04/20/2026

Congratulations to our 2025-26 Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Student Awardees!

Fitch H. Beach Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research
The Fitch Beach Award is the most prestigious research competition in the College of Engineering. Established by Janet M. Beatty in honor of her uncle, Fitch H. Beach, this award recognizes the most outstanding PhD student researchers within the College of Engineering. The faculty within each department selected one nominee, and the award was judged based on nominees’ records and presentations.
- Jinghan Jia, First Place Presentation Award & Computer Science and Engineering Departmental Winner (Advisor: Sijia Liu)

Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
This annual award recognizes the most outstanding graduate student from each doctoral program in the College of Engineering. These outstanding PhD students were selected by the faculty within their program, and each receive a $1,000 stipend, certificate, and a medal to be worn at graduation which will be presented at a Graduate Awards ceremony later this month.
- Pengfei He, Computer Science and Engineering (Advisor: Jiliang Tang)

3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Graduate Student Awards
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students around the world. Developed by The University of Queensland, the competition cultivates graduate students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills.
The faculty within each department selected one nominee, and the award was judged based on nominees’ 3MT® presentations. Winners receive stipends, a desk trophy, and a certificate which will be presented at a Graduate Awards ceremony later this month.
- Tzu-Han Hsu, Computer Science and Engineering Departmental Winner (Advisor: Borzoo Bonakdarpour)

03/26/2026

Our programming team (Minh Nguyễn, Hoang Phúc Nguyễn, and Đức Hung Lượng), led by Dr. Metin Aktulga, qualified for the 50th Annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals to be held in Dubai from Nov 15-20, 2026. Further, as part of the 2026 ICPC North America Championship (NAC) activities, they came second in the OpenAI Challenge.

You can see the full results of the competition here:
https://nac.icpc.global/scoreboard/2026/nac/index.html

Congratulations to the team members and Dr. Aktulga!

03/25/2026

CSE Apparel Pop-Up Shop OPEN NOW for a limited time only!! Check out the shop site below for the latest CSE polo, tshirt, crewneck sweatshirts, and full zip jacket!

The shop closes at 11:59PM on Wednesday, April 8, and orders will ship out on April 22nd, with expected delivery by April 29.

Feel free to share with other faculty, other students, friends, family, alumni, and anyone else that may be interested!

Help us represent our CSE department! Happy shopping!

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03/24/2026

Former MSU CSE PhD student Brendan Klare's company Rank One Computing (ROC) listed on NASDQ recently.
Pictured are the co-founders and employees (all former MSU CSE students!) and CSE Professor Dr. Anil Jain attending the bell ringing event at NASDAQ, Thursday, March 19.

Pictured left to right: Joshua Engelsma (Ph.D., 2021), Ellie Cozzo (B.S., 2020), Anil Jain (University Distinguished Professor and Douglas E. Zongker endowed professor), Brendan Klare (Ph.D. 2012, Co-founder ROC), Keyur Patel (M.S., 2016), Scott Klum (M.S., 2014, Co-founder ROC), Steven Grosz (Ph.D., 2024).

02/20/2026

Former MSU CSE PhD student Brendan Klare's company Rank One Computing (ROC) listed on NASDQ today.

Brendan received his PhD from MSU CSE in 2012. Other former CSE students employed at ROC include Steve Grosz (PhD 2024) Josh Engelsma (PhD 2021), Keyur Patel (MS 2016), Scott Klum (MS 2014).

The three founders are: Brendan Klare, Scott Klum and Josh Klontz. While Klontz didn’t get any degree from MSU, he spent a semester in the PRIP lab. 🧪

See stock analysis here: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/roc/statistics/

02/20/2026

Faculty Spotlight Friday!

Li Xiao received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary in 2002. She is a member of the Experimental Laboratory for Advanced Networking and Systems. Her research interests include distributed and networking systems, overlay systems and applications, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, system resource management, and design and implementations of experimental algorithms.

Check out more about her research here: https://elansweb.cse.msu.edu/

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