Research Highlights
Recent Research Highlights
Highlights of student and faculty research activities are included below.
2024
- 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.
2023
- 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.
2022
- 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).