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Department to Move to Former SunTrust Building The Department of Computer Science has begun moving to the former SunTrust Bank building at 25 Park Place. This building is just across Woodruff Park from the department’s current offices at 34 Peachtree Street, where it has been located for the past ten years. Last December, the department’s Ph.D. students were relocated to the sixth floor of 25 Park Place, which Computer Science shares with the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Over 60 computer science Ph.D. students currently have cubicles on the sixth floor. The department’s space also includes six small discussion rooms, a kitchen, and a conference room that is shared with Physics and Astronomy. In the second phase of the move, which will happen sometime between December 2013 and April 2014, faculty and staff offices will move to the seventh floor of 25 Park Place. This floor, which measures approximately 14,500 square feet, will be completely occupied by Computer Science. The Georgia State University Foundation purchased the 26-story SunTrust Bank building in 2006, along with several adjoining buildings and a parking deck. However, SunTrust was given a multi-year lease to continue occupying 25 Park Place, so it was not until 2012 that Georgia State was able to begin moving in. The building is being renovated floor by floor as money becomes available. Six departments in the College of Arts and Sciences are expected to move to the building by next year. 25 Park Place was built in 1971 to house the Trust Company of Georgia, the predecessor of SunTrust Bank. (Posted 4/21/13)
Ph.D. Students Win Travel Grants for ACM BCB 2012 Ph.D. students Bismita Srichandan and Serghei Mangul won travel grants to attend the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB 2012), which was held on October 7–10 in Orlando. Ms. Srichandan received a $1,000 travel grant from ACM BCB to participate in the conference’s Ph.D. Forum. In addition, she presented the paper “An Iterative MapReduce Approach to Frequent Subgraph Mining in Biological Datasets” at one of the conference’s four workshops. The paper was co-authored by Steven Hill, a student at the University of Maryland, and Dr. Raj Sunderraman, Ms. Srichandan’s Ph.D. advisor. Ms. Srichandan received additional travel support from Georgia State’s Molecular Basis of Disease program. Mr. Mangul also received a $1,000 travel grant to attend BCB, where he participated in the Ph.D. Forum and presented a paper. The paper, titled “An Integer Programming Approach to Novel Transcript Reconstruction from Paired-End RNA-Seq Reads,” was co-authored by Ph.D. student Adrian Caciula; Dr. Dumitru Brinza of Life Technologies; Dr. Sahar Al Seesi, Dr. Abdul Banday, Dr. Rahul Kanadia, and Dr. Ion Mandoiu (all of the University of Connecticut); and professor Alex Zelikovsky, Mr. Mangul’s Ph.D. advisor. Mr. Mangul received his Ph.D. from GSU last December. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA, working for Dr. Eleazar Eskin in ZarLab, Dr. Eskin’s computational genetics group. ACM BCB is the flagship conference of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics (SIGBioinformatics). The focus of the conference, which has been held annually since 2010, is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research that spans the fields of computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine. (Posted 4/20/13)
Cai Receives NSF CAREER Award Assistant professor Zhipeng Cai has received a five-year, $400,000 award from the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. The CAREER grant, which emphasizes high-quality research and novel education initiatives, is the most competitive and prestigious award from NSF to young faculty members in science and engineering fields. Dr. Cai will use funding from the award to study routing in cognitive radio networks. A cognitive radio is a transceiver that attempts to optimize wireless communication bandwidth by changing its operating parameters, which include the channels that it uses for sending and receiving. Users of a cognitive radio network are classified as either primary or secondary. Secondary users (SUs) communicate through unassigned spectrum bands without disrupting primary users (PUs). Dr. Cai is studying how SUs can take advantage of the social activity patterns of PUs to obtain more spectrum opportunities. After joining Georgia State University in 2011 as an adjunct faculty member, Dr. Cai became an assistant professor in 2012. Prior to his arrival at GSU, Dr. Cai held research positions at Georgia Tech, Mississippi State University, and the University of Alberta. Dr. Cai holds a B.S. degree in computer science from the Beijing Institute of Technology and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computing science from the University of Alberta. Dr. Cai's research interests include algorithm design and analysis, cognitive radio networks, social networks, and computational biology. Dr. Cai is the sixth faculty member from the Department of Computer Science to win an NSF CAREER award. The previous winners are Dr. Raheem Beyah (2009), Dr. Xiaojun Cao (2006), Dr. Xiaolin Hu (2009), Dr. Yingshu Li (2006), and Dr. WenZhan Song (2010). Dr. Beyah left GSU in 2011 and is now an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. (Posted 4/14/13)
Department Seeks to Hire Three Faculty Members in 2013 The Department of Computer Science is currently accepting applications for three faculty positions: Full Professor – Bioinformatics Assistant/Associate Professor – Interferometric Imaging or Astroinformatics/Image Database Development and Mining Associate/Full Professor – Content-Based Visual Information Retrieval All positions will begin in Fall Semester 2013. (Posted 3/29/13)
Department Welcomes Visitors The Department of Computer Science is hosting 11 visiting scholars and Ph.D. students during the 2012–2013 academic year. Jifeng Chen. Dr. Chen is a professor in the College of Computer Science and Technology at Hunan International Economics University (HIEU) in China. His research areas include software engineering and user interface design. During his visit, which will last from October 2012 to April 2013, he is collaborating with Dr. Ying Zhu on user interface design for mobile devices. Dr. Chen is supported by HIEU. Xiaojun Ding. Mr. Ding is a Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Central South University in China. During his visit, which will last from October 2011 to October 2013, he is collaborating with Dr. Yi Pan on bioinformatics research. Mr. Ding is supported by the China Scholarship Council. Haihua Gu. Dr. Gu is an associate professor in the Computer and Software Institute at the Nanjing College of Information Technology in China, where she performs bioinformatics research. During her visit, which will last from March 2013 to September 2013, she is collaborating with Dr. Yi Pan. Dr. Gu is supported by the Jiangsu Scholarship Foundation. Ming Liu. Dr. Liu is a professor in the School of Computer Science at Central China Normal University. His research areas include wireless networks, mobile computing, and intelligent information processing. During his visit, which will last from August 2012 to August 2013, he is collaborating with Dr. Xiaojun Cao on research related to wireless sensor networks and mobile social networks. Dr. Liu is supported by the China Scholarship Council. Ling Tian. Dr. Tian is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Her research areas include video coding, video communication, and rate control. During her visit, which will last from January 2013 to December 2013, she is collaborating with Dr. Xiaojun Cao on multimedia communication research. Dr. Tian is supported by UESTC. Hua Wang. Dr. Wang is a lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Her research areas include transfer protocols for low-cost RFID systems. During her visit, which will last from January 2013 to January 2014, she is collaborating with Dr. Yi Pan. Dr. Wang is supported by UESTC. Xuefeng Yan. Dr. Yan is an associate professor in the College of Information Science and Technology at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China. His research areas include modeling and simulation. During his visit, which will last from August 2012 to July 2013, he is collaborating with Dr. Xiaolin Hu on dynamic data-driven simulation research. Dr. Yan is supported by Dr. Hu’s NSF CAREER grant. Chuanhua Zeng. Dr. Zeng is an associate professor in the School of Transportation and Automotive Engineering at Xihua University in China. His research areas include computer applications in transportation, intelligent transportation systems, and transport planning and management. During his visit, which will last from July 2012 to July 2013, he is collaborating with Dr. Ying Zhu on computer graphics and visualization research. Dr. Zeng is supported by Xihua University. Junbo Zhang. Mr. Zhang is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information Science and Technology at Southwest Jiaotong University in China. During his visit, which lasted from February 2012 to February 2013, he collaborated with Dr. Yi Pan on cloud computing research. Mr. Zhang was supported by the China Scholarship Council. Kui Zhao. Dr. Zhao is an associate professor in the College of Computer Science at Sichuan University in China. His research areas include disaster recovery and cloud computing. During his visit, which will last from September 2012 to August 2013, he is collaborating with Dr. Yi Pan. Dr. Zhao is supported by the China Scholarship Council. Yimin Zhou. Dr. Zhou is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). His research areas include video coding and multimedia. During his visit, which will last from February 2013 to April 2013, he is collaborating with Dr. Xiaojun Cao on video communication research. Dr. Zhou is supported by UESTC. (Posted 3/28/13)
Pan and Li Win Best Paper Award at MSN 2012 A paper co-authored by department chair Yi Pan and associate professor Yingshu Li won the best paper award at the 8th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2012). The winning paper, "Constructing Load-Balanced Data Aggregation Trees in Probabilistic Wireless Sensor Networks," was also co-authored by Dr. Jing (Selena) He and Shouling Ji. Dr. He received her Ph.D. degree from our department last year; she is now an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Pan was her Ph.D. advisor, with Dr. Li as a co-advisor. Mr. Ji is a Ph.D. student currently working under Dr. Li’s supervision. MSN 2012 was held in Chengdu, China, on December 14–16. The conference was organized by the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and supported by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the City University of Hong Kong. (Posted 3/6/13)