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CAREER award for Kuang

The CS&E department is proud to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Assistant Professor Rui Kuang a CAREER Award. Kuang's grant is titled "Predicting and Mining Phenome-genome Association across Species."

Dr. Kuang and his lab will attack the problem of understanding how genetic material determines the observable characteristics (phenotypes) of an organism by investigating new computational methods for predicting and understanding the relation between the whole collection of phenotypes and the complete genome (phenome-genome association) across multiple species. This work can have applications in areas such as disease treatment, biofuel generation, and food production

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

Best paper award for Ph.D. student Zhang

Ph.D. student Qingquan Zhang recently won a best paper award for his paper "Collaborative Scheduling in Highly Dynamic Environments Using Error Inference" at the International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2011). His paper was selected from 135 papers submitted.

Zhang's work was completed under supervision by Associate Professor Tian He, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Tennessee Knoxville and Singapore University of Technology and Design.

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