2015 COMPUTING SCIENCE NEWS STORIES
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Surrey partners establish new ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV chair for youth addiction-recovery and mental health
December 10, 2015A new ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV research chair will support young people struggling with addiction... read more
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Excellence awards recognize faculty, staff and teaching assistants
November 20, 2015Faculty of Applied Sciences staff, students and faculty submitted nominations for the Excellence... read more
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Pacific Blue Cross opens big-data lab at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
November 09, 2015Link to photos: http://at.sfu.ca/vqPSEj Using big data to improve healthcare delivery,... read more
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Girls explore careers in engineering at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
October 26, 2015Cardboard, rubber bands, lollipop sticks, packing tape. It reads like an arts and crafts shopping... read more
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Meet Nadia Ciobanu, Rajan Family Undergraduate Entrance Scholarship Winner
October 13, 2015A top student from Port Moody Secondary School, Nadia Ciobanu is the inaugural recipient of a... read more
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Meet David Woods (B.Sc. in Computing Science, '15)
October 09, 2015David Woods, who graduates this fall with an almost perfect GPA (4.24/4.33), is proof that when it... read more
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Buckle up for the next 50 years of engagement!
September 23, 2015The Faculty of Applied Sciences kicked off ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's 50th Anniversary year with a Back to the... read more
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Capt. Trevor Greene partners with ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV to walk again
September 17, 2015Former Canadian soldier Trevor Greene, who survived a debilitating brain injury while on duty in... read more
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Co-op work terms wrap-up for ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's inaugural master's in big data program student group
August 30, 2015¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s first group of Big Data Master’s students is completing Co-op work terms in... read more
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Professor Jian Pei selected for 2015 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP)
July 29, 2015¶¡ÏãÔ°AV computing science professor Jian Pei is one of only 24 researchers to... read more
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Professor Jian Pei receives Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) 2015 Service Award
July 23, 2015¶¡ÏãÔ°AV computing science professor Jian Pei has received a prestigious award from... read more
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Computing science grad finds way to create compact furniture
July 01, 2015Bikes that collapse into backpack-sized packages, micro-umbrellas that compact to a quarter of... read more
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Greg Mori begins term as new computing science director
June 30, 2015Excellence in teaching, research and recruiting more female students top priorities Greg Mori is... read more
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Four researchers awarded $480,000 from NSERC DAS program
June 26, 2015Four Faculty of Applied Sciences projects have been awarded a competitive Discovery Accelerator... read more
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Computing science student awarded 2015 Governor General’s Silver Medal
June 10, 2015Paul Vicol had his heart set on ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV and computing science even before he began his undergraduate... read more
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Doctoral grad first to earn dual PhD in computing science
June 09, 2015The latest success story from the Dual Degree Program (DDP) in Computing Science, jointly run by... read more
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Graduate student awarded Dean's Convocation Medal for outstanding research
June 09, 2015By ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Fellows As one of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's most outstanding graduate... read more
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Molescope to be unveiled at World Dermatology Conference
June 05, 2015¶¡ÏãÔ°AV PhD graduate Maryam Sadeghi will unveil MoleScopeâ„¢, an innovative hand-held... read more
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Portico competition invites students to work on high-tech business case
May 28, 2015Fifteen ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV students participated in a competition held by a high-tech Gastown... read more
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¶¡ÏãÔ°AV students take top prize at Windows 10 hackathon
May 27, 2015More than 40 burgeoning programmers put their coding skills to work on May 16, when they competed... read more
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¶¡ÏãÔ°AV chair for Women in Science and Engineering established in partnership with Simba Technologies
May 22, 2015¶¡ÏãÔ°AV engineering science associate professor Lesley Shannon is one of two new... read more
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Innovation Boulevard medical imaging lab receives $3.6 million in federal investment
May 19, 2015A world-class medical imaging lab—designed to further translational brain research and focus... read more
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New student fund honours Lana Cooke
May 12, 2015Lana Cooke worked at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV for 28 years and provided unwavering dedication to... read more
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Creating Connections forum (May 22 & 23) champions diversity in STEM fields
May 11, 2015<h2> Creating Connections forum (May 22 & 23): championing diversity in STEM... read more
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Professor receives Test of Time Paper Award, IEEE INFOCOM
May 07, 2015¶¡ÏãÔ°AV computing science professor Jiangchuan Liu has been awarded the 2015 IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time... read more
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"¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Data Crunchers" Win Best Student Team @ Canadian Open Data Experience 2015
April 30, 2015"¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Data Crunchers" Win Best Student Team at the Canadian Open Data Experience 2015,... read more
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Network Systems Lab Wins Best Paper Award
April 10, 2015The latest work from the Network Systems Lab conducted by Saleh Almowuena, a PhD student under the... read more
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Professor Hamarneh Wins Best Paper Award
April 10, 2015"Auto Localization and Segmentation of Occluded Vessels in Robot-Assisted Partial... read more
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DDP Students Win Mandarin Speech Contest
March 22, 2015Sean Bergunder and Monica Luna-Estrada, two students in the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV-Zhejiang University Dual Degree... read more
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Professor Rob Cameron awarded Google Faculty Research Award
February 27, 2015The award is in support of Dr. Cameron's Research Proposal entitled "Unicode Level 2 Support... read more
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Professor Harmaneh Awarded NIH Grant
February 20, 2015Dr. Ghassan Hamarneh is a co-PI on a $2M grant funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research... read more
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Professor Jiangchuan Liu awarded Steacie Fellowship
February 17, 2015<h2>Professor Jiangchuan Liu receives Steacie Fellowship</h2>... read more
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Healthy mind and body improves academic success
February 02, 2015Reaching out to first-year students to help them develop and enhance strategies for success in... read more
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Software Systems hosts Code Sprint student event
January 23, 2015¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s Surrey campus welcomed 42 computing science students from across Canada... read more