Research Highlights

Recent Research Highlights

Highlights of student and faculty research activities are included below.

Faculty members Dr. Grey Ballard and Dr. Aditya Devarakonda (March 5-8, 2024) presented their work at the SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP24).
Faculty member Dr. Minghan Chen was highlighted in the Wake Forest news for her recent National Science Foundation CAREER grant award.
Faculty member Dr. Fan Yang is participating as a mentor during the summer of 2024 in Wake Forest’s LEAP Program which provides hands-on STEM experience to high school students.

Faculty member Dr. Grey Ballard is quoted and cited in a June 2023 Communications of the ACM news article titled Better Algorithms Through Faster Math.
Faculty member Dr. Xueyuan Vanbastelaer is participating as a mentor during the summer of 2023 in Wake Forest’s LEAP Program which provides hands-on STEM experience to high school students.
Student Yimin (Michael) W. has received a SC23 HPC Immersion program award, covering expenses to attend the SuperComputing 23 conference as well as targeted training in high performance computing. Yimin works with faculty member Dr. Natalia Khuri in the DataMine Lab.

Undergraduate student Konghao Z. (’24) has been selected to present his URECA-funded research (with mentor Dr. Natalia Khuri) “Multiobjective Evolutionary Clustering of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data” at the 2022 Sigma Xi International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE) in November 2022. He is a member of the DataMine@WFU Research Group led by CS faculty member Dr. Natalia Khuri.
Undergraduate student Konghao Z. (CS BS ’24) has had his work “Multiobjective Evolutionary Clustering of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data” accepted as an undergraduate poster for presentation at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC22). He is a member of the DataMine@WFU Research Group led by CS faculty member Dr. Natalia Khuri.
Sarah P. (CS minor ’16, CS MS ’20, current visiting instructor), Nathan W. (CS BS ’23), Sapan B. (CS MS ’21), and faculty member Natalia Khuri are co-authors on the manuscript titled “Interpretable Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of Cell-Type Distributions in COVID-19 Disease” accepted for publication and presentation at the 56th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2022).

Undergraduate Nathan W. (CS BS ’23), a member of the DataMine@WFU research group, has been selected to present his single-cell research as part of the at the 2022 National College Research Conference at Harvard University in January 2022.
Undergraduate Konghao Z. (CS BS ’24), a member of the DataMine@WFU research group, was selected to participate in the HPC Immersion Program at the 2021 Supercomputing conference in St. Louis, MO. The award covered air travel, a stipend for meals and incidentals, housing, and Technical Program registration, including Workshops, at SC. In addition to technical talks, Shelton participated in hands-on training sessions, networking and career panels.
Alumnus and visiting instructor Sarah P. (CS minor ’16, CS MS ’20) and undergraduate Nathan W. (BS ’23) discuss their research on the University’s DEAC Cluster as part of their work in the DataMine@WFU group led by Dr. Natalia Khuri in these two videos: