Paper accepted at AERA 2018 annual meeting
Our new paper (with Dr. Candido Cabo) on “Building Community Improves Student Performance in First-Year Computing Courses” has been accepted for presentation at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2018 annual meeting. AERA received over 13,000 submissions this year. The conference will be held in New York City, New York, from Friday, April 13 to Tuesday, […]
New Student: Jan Way Chen
I am pleased to announce that Jan Way Chen will be my new research student (for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018). He will be working on Filtering noisy instances in Big data project. He has already started reviewing and running experiments with the ensemble noise filtering code. Welcome aboard Jan!
Elected as Vice Chair for ASEE Mid-Atlantic
I am happy to announce that i was elected as the Vice Chair of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Mid-Atlantic Section. I will taking on the new role starting June 1st, 2017.
Awarded PSC CUNY Grant (Traditional A)
I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded the 2017-2018 Cycle 48 PSC-CUNY Research Award (Traditional A) for research in “Cloud Robotics using Big Data and Neuromorphic Computing” to begin July 1st 2017.
CST student Alisa Kalegina got admitted into the PhD program at UW, Seattle.
I am happy to announce that one of my research students Alisa Kalegina got into the CS department at University of Washington, Seattle and will be working with Prof. Maya Cakmak (human-centered robotics lab).
Appointed as Doctoral Faculty Member at Graduate Center (CUNY)
I am now a member of the Doctoral Faculty of The Graduate School and University Center’s PhD Program in Computer Science. If you are interested in doing research in Big Data Analytics or Data Mining (Sampling and Filtering Massive datasets), please shoot me an email. I will be teaching “Information Retrieval” course in Fall 2017.
Paper published at International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
Paper titled “Introducing computational thinking through hands-on projects using R with applications to calculus, probability and data analysis” is now published. This is work done in collaboration with Math professors (Nadia Benakli, Boyan Kostadinov, Satyanand Singh) at CityTech. Abstract: The goal of this paper is to promote computational thinking among mathematics, engineering, science and technology […]
Fatima Checbchoub selected for Microsoft summer research program
Congratulations to my student Fatima for getting into the Microsoft summer research program. It was an extremely competitive process, with hundreds of students applying for just eight positions. She will be doing research on Big Data, and learning from experts in the field. DS3 includes both course work in data science and group research projects. The […]
Journal Paper published at Microprocessors and Microsystems Journal
Paper titled “Performance modeling of CMOS inverters using support vector machines (SVM) and adaptive sampling” is accepted at the Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems (Elsevier). Abstract: Integrated circuit designs are verified through the use of circuit simulators before being reproduced in real silicon. In order for any circuit simulation tool to accurately predict the performance of […]
