The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou’s research on “Raising Flags: Detecting Covert Storage Channels Using Relative Entropy” has been selected for presentation at the IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference. The conference will be held July 22-24, 2017 in Beijing, China. Her research was co-authored with Dr. Josephine Chow…
Category Archives: Accomplishments
Eric Hofesmann Captures ‘Best of the Best’ at SSM Undergraduate Research Poster Session
Congratulations to Eric Hofesmann for receiving the ‘Best of the Best’ award at the School of Sciences and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Poster Session! Hofesmann presented his research, “Individual Fingerprints Using the Brain Connectome: A Deep Learning Approach,“ with the guidance of Dr. Brent Munsell and his research lab, Machine Learning and Medical Image Analysis. Also,…
Cyber Club Hacked to Top Prize at Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition
When it comes to cyber security, no other university in South Carolina hacked it as well as the College of Charleston last weekend. That’s because students in the College’s Cybersecurity Club took home the top prize at the Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition on Sunday, April 10, 2017, at Trident Technical College in North Charleston…
Student Spotlight: Sarah Wiegreffe, Research Accepted to the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Translational Bioinformatics Summit
Congratulations to Sarah Wiegreffe for the acceptance of her research, “Can Classifications of Publications into Translational Categories be Automated?” at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Translational Bioinformatics Summit, which will take place March 27-30, 2017 in San Francisco, CA. Wiegreffe’s research is a collaborative effort between Dr. Paul Anderson’s data science research lab at…
Students Gain Valuable Insight at Women in Data Science Conference
By Rachel McNeely Every semester Dr. Anderson’s Data 101 class participates in a Kaggle data science competition to compete for a trip to a data science conference. As the winners of the Fall 2016 semester competition, my teammates, Mackenzie Schaich and Allison Hansen, and I were flown to Washington, D.C. to attend the annual nationwide…
Student Spotlight: Luis Mejia Ricart Caba
The Department of Computer Science is excited to welcome Luis Mejia Ricart Caba, one of two international students enrolled in the Spring 2017 semester for the Master of Science in Computer and Information Sciences degree program. A joint program with the Citadel, international students comprise approximately 30% of the student body. Luis, a software engineer…
CS Students Participate in National Cyber League Season Games
During the Fall 2016 semester, the Department of Computer Science had students participate in the National Cyber League (NCL). The NCL provides an ongoing virtual training ground for collegiate students to develop, practice, and validate their cybersecurity skills using next-generation high-fidelity simulation environments with individual and team games. The content of the competition involves solving…
DATA 101 Students Compete in 2nd Annual CofC Data Science and Analytics Competition
The department’s Data Science program, directed by Dr. Paul Anderson, held the second annual CofC Data Science and Analytics Competition last week. Teams consisting of Data 101 students competed to develop a solution for a real-world business question. This year’s question was focused on sports analytics, where the team tried to beat bookies and…
Student Spotlight: Maz Little, Research Accepted at International Conference for Internet Technology & Secured Transactions
Congratulations to Maz Little for the acceptance of his research, “Temporal Resource Scheduling Equity,” to be presented at the 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST). The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from December 5-7, 2016. Little will present remotely and will be published in the IEEE digital library. Little…
Student Spotlight: MH Johnson, Internship Experience with Google
Internships are a critical aspect of the college experience that the department strongly recommends to our computer science majors. Students gain significant benefits, including experience, skill development, and connections, to build your resume and secure a full time job. Finding an internship is the responsibility of the student, however, through partnerships with tech companies, the…