Mississippi State’s Gang Li, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been honored with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions’ Faculty Explorer Award. Li received the $4,000 award for his interest, ideas and materials promoting energy entrepreneurship at the collegiate level. He joins a group of ten national collegiate faculty members to…
Adam Jones, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Mississippi State University, has been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. The prestigious CAREER Award provides $625,000 in funding over five years to support Jones’ innovative research using virtual reality to advance the…
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has another award-winning paper. Associate Professor Maxwell Young, doctoral student Trisha Chakraborty, and University of New Mexico Professor Jared Saia were awarded the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking. To win the award, their paper, Defending Hash Tables from Subterfuge with Depth…
The MSU Bagley College of Engineering’s Samee Khan, a distinguished member of its academic community, has been honored with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award. This esteemed accolade recognized Khan’s outstanding contributions to the electrotechnology profession through exemplary technical and professional abilities. “Receiving this prestigious recognition from IEEE R3…
Mississippi State University’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering has launched a new open-access academic journal focused on advancements in artificial intelligence. The journal AI Letters aims to fill a gap in peer-reviewed publications covering AI research. Department Head Shahram Rahimi and Assistant Research Professor Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz, editors-in-chief of the journal, saw the need…
Associate professor and distinguished faculty member Brian Smith was recently elected as one of the technical vice presidents of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers. “The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) is the professional organization of my field and has served me greatly throughout my career. I began being engaged with IISE…