Current news

• PhD candidate, Pihush Sharma's paper, "Investigating Manifold Neighborhood size for Nonlinear Analysis of LIBS Amino Acid Spectra" was accepted for oral presentation at the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (October 2015) in San Diego, CA. Congratulations Piyush!

• Paper, "A Prototype Distributed Framework for Identification and Alerting for Medical Events in Home Care" with Undergraduate, Leon Hunter, was among those papers in the 4th IJAC/ISAM Joint International Conference selected for journal publication. It was originally accepted in Fall 2014 and was published in Summer 2015. Fantastic job Leon!

• Undergraduate Michaela Barnett begins an exciting summer as a LEGO robotics instructor at DSU's Summer Robotics Camp. Have fun and make us proud!

• Undergraduate Deshaun Crawford begins exciting summer internship with NASA in Mountain View, CA. Have a productive summer and learn a ton!

• Undergraduate Janelle Boyd, begins exciting summer internship with CSC. Have a productive summer and learn a ton!

• Undergraduate student begins her Google Scholarship with a trip to the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA.

• Undergraduate student Tuba Abbasi builds and sends data collection experiment into space as part of NASA RockOn mission. We are very proud of Tuba.

• The Computer and Information Sciences Department welcomes new faculty member, Dr. Xiali Hei who will begin Fall 2015.. The lab looks forward to interesting future collaborations.

• Undergraduate student Janelle Boyd wins a nationally competitive Google Scholarship, including a trip to the Google Scholar's retreat at the Googleplex in Mountain View. We are very proud of Janelle.

• Undergraduate student Janelle Boyd was awarded a travel scholarship for the Emerging Researchers National Conference (ERN 2015) in Washington, DC. Congratulations Janelle!

• Undergraduate student Janelle Boyd's poster, "A Framework for Perceptual Processing in Autonomous Wheelchairs" is accepted to the Emerging Researchers National Conference (ERN 2015) in Washington, DC. Congratulations Janelle!

• Undergraduate student Deshaun Crawford was awarded a travel scholarship for the Tapia Conference in Boston, MA Congratulations Deshaun!

• Undergraduate student Tuba Abbasi was awarded a travel scholarship for the Tapia Conference in Boston, MA Congratulations Tuba!

• Undergraduate student Janelle Boyd was awarded a travel scholarship for the Tapia Conference in Boston, MA Congratulations Janelle!

• Undergraduate student, Tevin Brown, wins a travel scholarship to the 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Manhattan, NY. Congratulations Tevin!

• Paper, "A Prototype Distributed Framework for Identification and Alerting for Medical Events in Home Care" with Undergraduate, Leon Hunter, was accepted at the 4th IJAC/ISAM Joint International Conference in Miami, Florida. Congratulations Leon!

• Undergraduate student Deshaun Crawford wins a nationally competitive 2-year NASA Scholarship and Internship. We are very proud of Deshaun.

• Undergraduate student, Leon Hunter's Poster, "Identifying Precursor Warnings of Potentially Fatal Afflictions via Webservice" was accepted at the 2014 Emerging Researcher National Conference (ERN 2014) in Washington, DC. Congratulations Leon!

• In the competative market for Cyber Security Faculty, it is with great sadness that Dr. Hongxin Hu was poached by Clemson University.

• The Computer and Information Sciences Department welcomes new faculty member, Dr. Hongxin Hu

• The Computer and Information Sciences Department at Delaware State University is accepting applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level. The applicant must have a PhD in computer science, or a related field, experience in cybersecurity research and associated areas, and appropriate experience in, or proven potential for, teaching. The deadline for applications is February 15, 2012.

• The brand new course offered in our department in the fall of 2011 by Dr. Gary Holness, Building Intelligent Robots, was a complete success! The course was concluded with a robot soccer tournament, which drew a lot of spectators from the whole university. To watch the matches, please visit our YouTube channel.

• If you are a junior or senior in our department and are serious about enhanicng your chances of landing a great job after graduation, we encourage you to join our department group on LinkedIn. There, you will be able to network with your peers and faculty from the department, learn about exciting job opportunities, and much more!

• Two of our undergraduate students, Trevor Newell and Samantha McDaniel, traveled to Vienna, Austria, last summer to present their research project titled "Protein sequence annotation using classificatory decomposition" conducted under the supervision of Dr. Tomasz Smolinski. Trevor and Samantha presented the project at the Automated Function Prediction Special Interest Group Meeting which was held in conjunction with the 19th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2011).