Faculty Archive

A big shout out to Dr. Ying Zhang! The paper, titled CognixShield: PoV-Guided Vulnerable API Usage Detection in Large Codebases via LLMs, has been accepted at theESEM 2026! Congratulations!

“A vulnerability in code, configuration or infrastructure may already pose a risk, but AI agents can amplify its impact by autonomously exploring systems and attempting attacks at a scale beyond human capability,” said Ying Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science at Wake Forest University. […]

A big shout out to Dr. Grey Ballard’s research group! The paper, entitled “Communication Avoiding Parallel Sketching via Sparse Subspace Embeddings,” is a collaborative work between CS faculty member, postdoctoral researcher, and former CS MS graduate. The work has been accepted to the 33rd IEEE […]

A big shout out to Drs. Hussain, Ballard and Devarakonda! The paper, entitled “High-Performance Star-M SVD for Big Data Compression,” is accepted to the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2026). “High-Performance star-M SVD for Big Data Compression,” presents the first high-performance implementation of the […]

We are excited to announce that Prof. Alex Hicks will be joining our WFU Computer Science department as an Instructor starting in July 2026. His research focuses on computer science education, with an emphasis on help-seeking behavior, software testing, and automated feedback systems that support […]

A big shot out to Dr. Devarakonda! His paper, entitled “Scalable GNN Explanations with Distributed Shapley Values” has been accepted to the 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2026! The paper, “Scalable GNN Explanations with Distributed Shapley Values”, is a collaboration with […]

A big shot out to Dr. Devarakonda! His paper, co-authored with researchers at Cornell University and the University of Trento entitled “Communication-Avoiding Linear Algebraic Kernel K-Means on GPUs” has been published at the 40th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS ’26)! The paper […]

A big shout out to Dr. Grey Ballard’s research group! The paper, entitled “Communication Lower Bounds and Algorithms for Sketching with Random Dense Matrices,” is a collaborative work between CS faculty member, postdoctoral researcher, and recent & former CS MS graduate. The work has been […]

Our amazing CSC 331 students applied their AI in software engineering knowledge and vibe coding skills through dynamic team projects! Whether you are a student who finds navigating the Tribble Hall basement a challenge, looking for reliable peers to help you ace your exams, or […]

A big shout out to CS our undergraduate alumni, Bruce Shao & Alex Zhang! Their paper, “DecodeShare: Tracing the Shared Pathways of LLM Decode-Time Decisions”, has been accepted at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026). The paper was selected as a “Spotlight” […]