As part of our ongoing inclusive computing initiative, we are organizing a roundtable with UR alum currently working at Google.

Congratulations to Sangwu Lee, a junior student in CS, for being among the 18 junior students to be inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

Boyu Zhang (finalist) and Ashely Tenesaca (honorable mention) are recognized by the CRA outstanding undergraduate researcher award.

Hoque and Bai have received an exploreCSR grant to establish “Inclusive Computing Program” to engage UR undergraduate students from underrepresented groups with diverse computing research, career pathways, and practical skill development.

Imagine being able to diagnose PTSD using a portable wearable neuro-headset and validating it with a standard PTSD questionnaire.

Ehsan Hoque, a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader, harnesses nonverbal cues to improve health and human connection.

Hoque speaks at the panel on Trustworthy AI in pandemic response organized by the G20 The Digital Economy Task Force (DETF).

Shoutout to all the members of the ROC HCI family who graduated in 2020.  We are very proud of your achievements and your growth as an individual over the years!

Ehsan Hoque is one of 10 new emerging leaders selected by the National Academy of Medicine to collaborate with the organization on “sparking transformative change to improve health care for all.”

Graduating senior Minh Tran and Melissa Wen are among the 120 seniors to be inducted into the Phi Beta Honor Society.

Melissa Wen, graduating senior in Computer Science and Brain and Cognitive Science, receives an honorable mention in NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP).

A generous gift from Google to continue our ongoing work on Parkinson’s research.

Ashely Tenesaca and Jianyuan Zhong won honorable mention award for the outstanding CRA undergraduate researcher award. This award recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.

A double major in computer science and psychology, Bose is passionate about human emotion and translates this into her projects.

The 2019 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) was held November 18 – 20 in Stockholm, Sweden. About 60 outstanding engineers under the age of 45 met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium.

Ehsan Hoque weighs in on the impact of AI in society at the Daily connections by Evan Dawson at WXXI.

Sangwu Lee is among the 16 students who were honored with the Suzanne J. O’Brien Book Award, recognizing those who excelled academically and in leadership roles in their first year at the College.

Wells Award, given each year to high-achieving students in the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who also excel in the humanities, as determined by highest GPAs at the end of their junior year.

Henry Kautz noted that accuracy is “really only one dimension we care about in theory and in practice.” Others, he said, include how much energy is used, how much data is required and how much skilled human effort is needed for A.I. technology to work.

A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will provide additional impetus to a University of Rochester initiative applying augmented and virtual reality in health, education, product design, remote communication, entertainment, and other fields.

ROC HCI (Hoque) to collaborate with colleagues from Georgia Tech (Arriaga, Ploetz) and Emory Veterans (Sherill, Rothbaum) to develop automated predictions to deliver better therapeutic treatment and individualized feedback, and patients with better understanding of the progress.