Faculty 2023: Innovation and Impact Highlight Achievements

2023 was a transformative year for the College of Computing community. The following is an excerpt from the College's recently published annual report.

Looking at the past year, we celebrate the achievements and contributions of the College’s faculty community. Their groundbreaking research, impactful publications, and exceptional teaching are pushing the boundaries of knowledge forward and inspiring their students and peers.

Early-Career Accolades

Six College faculty earned National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards. This prestigious award supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as research and educational role models. Each recipient receives approximately $500,000 over five years to support their research initiatives.

• School of IC Assistant Professor Judy Hoffman creates computer vision AI that can quickly and safely adapt to new environments and circumstances.
• School of CP Assistant Professor Paul Pearce investigates the reliability, repeatability, and efficiency of current and new techniques used in active internet measurement.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar combats online misinformation by empowering people to detect and counter deceptive or misleading social media content.
• School of CS Assistant Professor Joy Arulraj designs database systems for analyzing unstructured data, including photos, videos, or podcasts, using deep learning models to discover previously unseen connections and insights.
• School of IC Assistant Professor Zsolt Kira creates more robust open-world machine learning models that can automatically and continuously update with new knowledge without human intervention.
• School of CS Assistant Professor Ashutosh Dhekne explores ultra-wideband radio technology. He expects it will enable the development of infinitely scalable indoor navigation systems and advanced intrusion detection systems without cameras or GPS.

Zegura Honored with Institute Award

School of CS Regents’ Professor Ellen Zegura (pictured above), an integral member of the College for more than 30 years, received Georgia Tech’s Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award in April. The recognition reflects Zegura’s passion for new challenges and dedication to teaching, which are hallmarks of her career at Georgia Tech.

An Accomplished Career

The Association for Computing Machinery named School of IC Regents’ Professor John Stasko as one of its 57 new ACM Fellows earlier this year. The fellowship underscores Stasko’s career of outstanding accomplishments in data and information visualization and human-computer interaction.

Understanding the Brain

Anqi Wu, an assistant professor in the School of CSE, was selected for the 2023 cohort of the Sloan Research Fellowship for early-career researchers.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funds the fellowships. The funding supports Wu’s lab and her efforts to develop integrated data analysis tools to provide a systematic and comprehensive understanding of neural mechanisms and biological functions and push the boundaries of computational models for neuroscience.

Triple Play

School of CS Professor Moinuddin Qureshi earned three awards recently. He was named the winner of the 2022 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award for his contributions to the computer architecture community. Qureshi was also named a 2022 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow and a 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow. The ACM and IEEE recognized him for contributing to memory hierarchy design and scalable.