Recent Publication at ESEM 2026
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!
Can we build software secure enough to thwart AI attacks?” — Dr. Ying Zhang, featured on WFU News
“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. […]
Recent Publication at 33rd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (SC ’26)
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 […]
Recent Publication at ICPP 2026
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 […]
Welcome Prof. Alex Hicks!
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 […]
Recent Publication at VLDB ’26
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 […]
Ruby Flanagan, BS May 2026
Ever since she took her first computer science class at Wake Forest, Ruby Flanagan knew that the major was the right path for her. Having previously excelled in other computer science and math classes in high school, Flanagan understood both the challenges and rewards that […]
Recent Publication at IPDPS ’26
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 […]
Recent Publication at SPAA’26
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 […]
Congrats to CS Students for Receiving Support from the URECA Center through Wake Forest Research Fellowship!
Congrats to Eric, Jack and Jackson for receiving partial or full support from the URECA Center through Wake Forest Research Fellowship! Wake Forest Research Fellowships are designed to provide students with the opportunity to participate in intensive scholarship under the mentorship of a WFU faculty […]