LAVA Students Win 2018 Business Plan Prize
May 3, 2018 Computer Science PhD students, Alberto Gonzalez, Dylan Kobayashi, and MS student Ryan Theriot won the $10,000 2018 University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Business Plan Competition. The students...
View ArticleTiffany Eulalio Joins Phi Beta Kappa, Heads to Stanford
Tiffany Eulalio is double-majoring in Computer Science (B.S.) and Biology (B.A.), with a minor in Mathematics. Since 2015, Tiffany has been an undergraduate researcher in the Algorithms and Parallel...
View ArticleSuraj Pandey Selected as Student Marshal for May’s Commencement
ICS student, Suraj Pandey, has been selected to be the student marshal representing the College of Natural Sciences at December’s commencement ceremony. For each commencement, the College of Natural...
View ArticleACM Student Chapter Spring 2018 Graduation Bash
Congratulations to our Spring 2018 ICS Graduates Thanks ACM Student Chapter for throwing a bash:
View ArticleRobertson Publishes New Book on Social Media and Civic Engagement
Department Chair, Professor Scott Robertson, has just published Social Media and Civic Engagement: History, Theory, and Practice, as part of Morgan & Claypool’s Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered...
View ArticleCongratulations to Depeng Li on Promotion and Tenure
Congratulations to Depeng Li on his promotion to Associate Professor and award of tenure. Dr. Li’s research interests are in information, cyber and physical security, with an emphasis on applied...
View ArticleSeeing is Believing – Visualizing Solutions to Hawaii’s Energy Challenges
VERGE Hawaii was held in Honolulu from June 11-14, 2018, attracting attendees worldwide interested in learning about the state-of-the-art in the energy industry. Professor Jason Leigh, director of the...
View ArticleCIS Alumnus Kar-Hai Chu Awarded NIH Grant at Pitt
CIS alumnus, Dr. Kar-Hai Chu, has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Chu is now an Assistant Professor at the Center for Media, Technology and Health at the...
View ArticleLAVA and Oceanit receive award from US Army
August 1, 2018 Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications and Oceanit receive $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the United States Department of the Army. The project...
View ArticleWelcome Dr. Tonia Sutherland!
The LIS Program is happy to announce the appointment of Dr. Tonia Sutherland as Assistant Professor, starting Fall 2018. Tonia’s research and teaching interests include Digital Culture and...
View ArticleWelcome Dr. Peter Sadowski!
The ICS Department is excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Peter Sadowski as a new Assistant Professor. Dr. Sadowski was previously a postdoc at the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics in...
View ArticleJohnson, Moore awarded NSF grant to study retention and diversity in CS...
Professors Philip Johnson and Carleton Moore in ICS, along with Professors Seungoh Paek and Peter Leong in the College of Education, have been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Science...
View ArticleLAVA Receives National Science Foundation Award for Cybersecurity
The SAGE Development Team at the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications (LAVA) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the...
View ArticleLAVA Completes Construction of CyberCANOE for the Hawaii Data Science Institute
September 15, 2018 CyberCANOEs (Cyber-enabled Collaboration Analysis Navigation & Observation Environments) are environments that allow groups of users to collaborate over large amounts of data...
View ArticleLAVA Receives Grant from the National Security Agency
June 2018 The Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications receive a $46,194 award from the National Security Agency in Hawaiʻi to conduct research and development in next-generation...
View ArticleICS Undergrad wins award at 2018 Innovation Days
Andrea Narciso (ICS), along with Carl Peretania and Omid Sharbati (UH Travel Industry and Management) took first place honors at the 2018 Innovation Days–Hawaii. This event ran in parallel to the...
View ArticleLAVA Receives Funding from the Trans-Eurasia Information Network
October 10, 2018 Professor Jason Leigh, founding director of the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications (LAVA) is awarded $233,518 from TEIN for LandSage- a project to provide...
View ArticleSusanne Still Receives a Grant from the Foundational Questions Institute
Professor Susanne Still has received a $115,000 grant from the Foundational Questions Institute for her project titled “Thermodynamics of Agency.” The goal of the Foundational Questions Institute...
View ArticleEPIC Meets in Honolulu
The 2018 Ethnographers in Business (EPIC) conference met in Honolulu from October 9-12. Professor Scott Robertson served as co-chair, along with Dawn Nafus from Intel and Tye Rattenbury from...
View ArticleICS Colloquium (11/16) – Robert Tarjan
Friday, November 16, 2018, 12:15-1pm (with pizza at noon) ICSpace (POST 318B) ICS Colloquium series: Algorithms: Theory Meets Practice Robert Tarjan Princeton University and Intertrust Technologies...
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