Welcome to the Spring/Summer 2005 Ram Bytes newsletter. The newsletter
has a new format that permits greater content flexibility and color
graphics. We hope you enjoy it! more...
New Faculty
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 Dr. Asa Ben-Hur
joined the department in August as an Assistant Professor.
He recently completed postdoctoral work in the Department
of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. His research
focuses on bioinformatics and machine learning. |
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 Dr. Michelle Strout joined
the department in July as an Assistant Professor. She
recently completed a joint appointment as an Enrico Fermi
scholar at the Argonne National Laboratory and a research
associate at the
University of Chicago. Her
research focuses on compilers, domain-specific and dynamic program
analysis, and parallel computing. |
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On
TheMove... |
Dr. Robert France was promoted to Professor effective July 1. Elaine Regelson has been named the departement's Director of Mentoring and Retention. Dr. Roger Alexander has accepted a postion at Washington State University. He will continue
his research collaboration with the department and remain on staff as an affiliate faculty
member. Susan Short has moved to Abbotsford, British Columbia. 
Darrell Whitley, Intelligent Agents for Severe Weather Tracking, Raytheon. Daniel Massey, DNS Security Revisited: Enabling Cryptographic Defenses
in Large-Scale Distributed Systems, NSF-CISE. 
Students
Sudip Chakraborty
Robert T. DeMaria
Dae Gon Kim
Joseph D. Overby
Jeffrey P. Pontius
Nayot Poolsappasit
Daniel A. Rouleau
Sellappa Saravanan
Justin B. Smethie
Eunjee Song
Gary L. Tempus
Xinhang Ye
Faculty
Daniel F. Massey
Robot Club
The CSU Robot Club is a group of interested students and mentors who gather once a week to try projects with robots. Students work in groups to write new applications or demos and to try experiments. Past projects have included working with whole robots and with some of the parts that comprise the robot (such as speech generation or the camera).
The CSU Robot Club is a group of interested students and mentors who gather once a week to try projects with robots. Students work in groups to write new applications or demos and to try experiments. Past projects have included working with whole robots and with some of the parts that comprise the robot (such as speech generation or the camera).
Research Symposium
Our first Graduate Research Symposium was a big success! The symposium was held April 18 in Ammons Hall and featured over 45 graduate student posters highlighting the department's research activities. The symposium welcomed visitors from both the university and industry. Poster award winners were:
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Ph.D. (tie):
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1. Gautam Gupta 2. Monte Lunacek and James Knight |
| Masters: |
Eric Gaylon |
| Runner-up Masters: | Ben Randall |
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Student Choice:
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Fadi Wedyan, Aby Paul, and Adedeji Adewale |
Spring/Summer 2005
Master of Science
Ali A. Al-Saloom
Elizabeth S. Boese
Lin Jiang
Vamsi K. Kambhampati
Ashwinikumar S. Kurup
Albert C. Lionelle
Aditya K. Maroo
Benjamin J. Randall
Roopashree P. Shankar
Xinhang Ye
Elizabeth S. Boese
Lin Jiang
Vamsi K. Kambhampati
Ashwinikumar S. Kurup
Albert C. Lionelle
Aditya K. Maroo
Benjamin J. Randall
Roopashree P. Shankar
Xinhang Ye
Master of Computer Science
Christopher C. Alfonso
Anil Chandupattla
Ketan A. Durve
Timothy M. Fluharty
Jeffery B. Fowler
Lawrence S. Hudson
David L. Janovy
Kristopher R. Johnson
Clifford T. Jones
Hari S. Khalsa
Prabhu S. Khalsa
Hsu-Cheng Lin
George M. G. Mitry
Paul R. Miyasaki
Vladislav Y. Orzhekhovsky
Michael J. Russell
Ranjan Saikia
Sivan I. Segev
Patrick S. Smith
Xiuping Wang
Some Computer Science courses now require students
to pay a supplemental tuition charge. CSU assesses supplemental tuition on a per credit hour basis for undergraduate students enrolled in upper division courses and/or courses in certain high cost and/or high demand programs. One of the things our department is doing with that money is hiring additional faculty. We're doing another search this year and hope to have 19-20 tenure track faculty by next year. Bioinformatics is an area we'd like to expand. For more information on supplemental tuition, please visit the Registrar's Office.
Plans
for the construction of our new building are approaching
final approval. If all goes as planned, our new building
should be ready by summer 2008. We're excited about
moving "on" campus at last!
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| Dr. Wim Bohm 2005 College of Natural Sciences Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Dr. Bohm received one of two 2005
automobiles. |
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SLS 2005 Outstanding Science Students  Weston Pace: Outstanding Up-and-Coming Researcher Steven DiBenedetto and Libby Johnson: 110% Effort Award Jason Remington: Outstanding Computer Science Student Jeff Pontius: Excellence in Academics and Research Chris Rogers: 3C's Award: Commendable Creativity in the Cross Disciplines.The Students as Leaders in Science (SLS) organization provides undergraduate students with academic excellence and leadership opportunities to excel in the field of science. Students are nominated by College of Natural Sciences professors and researchers. |
 Linda VanCeylon joined the department in July as our new Accounting Tech. |
 Katie Albright is our new student staff assistant. She is from Wisconsin and majors in Human Development and Family Studies. |
 Trista Yard is our new student staff assistant. Trista is from Wyoming and majors in Art History. |
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