Silas Richelson is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering who studies theoretical computer science, cryptography, and security. His CAREER project will explore the subtle connection between the mathematical discipline "pseudorandomness" and "codes", which are the main gadgets which enable error-free communication across a noisy channel. The broad goal of the work is to design better communication protocols.

Assistant Professor Zhaowei Tan has received two OASIS awards, relating to networking support of agriculture and connected transportation.

Amey Bhangale received his CAREER award titled "CAREER: Analytic and Algebraic Methods in Approximating CSPs and Their Applications". The project aims to develop optimal approximation algorithms for a broad class of problems known as constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs).

CSE student Dawon Ahn won the Best Short Presentation Award for the paper titled "Global and Local Structure Learning for Sparse Tensor Completion". The paper was presented as part of the Doctoral Forum at the IEEE BigData 2024 conference that took place in Washington DC during December 15-18 2024.