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• • 9/3/2024
    

    CS alumnus Robert Pierce Warden (MS '60) passed away on August 12, 2024. Warden worked on the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Sky Lab, and Space Shuttle programs. He founded Programs Inc., which did contract engineering and high-frequency electronic prototype development. One of the devices developed there was the first wireless Cardiac Telemetry Monitor for Medtronics.

  • 9/3/2024
    

    CS alumnus Yu Meng, mentored by Jiawie Han, received the ACM SIGKDD 2024 Dissertation Award at KDD2024, for his Ph.D. thesis, "Efficient and Effective Learning of Text Representations." Meng is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Engineering & Applied Science.

  • 8/26/2024
    

    CS alumnus Kumaresh Pattabiraman (MS '09) has been named Country Manager and Product Head of LinkedIn India. He previously held the position of Senior Director – Product Director of Product, Feed, Search and Generative AI products. 

  • 8/23/2024
    

    CS professor Zhiyong Lu was interviewed by Medscape Medical News about his research study published in July. The study measured the new Chat GPT-4V model's ability to respond to medical questions and the justifications it provided for its responses.