Senior Project Design Awards

Students of the Senior Design course, CSE379, presented their research to a group of CSE and CSB alums and CSE faculty on December 2, 2009. The purpose of the Senior Project course is to involve students with the design, implementation, and evaluation of a computer science project that represents a real-world scenario.

Whitney Levine and Eric Wasserman won the Outstanding Senior Project award for their poster, “Abnormality Detection in Medical Images”.  Professor Xiaolei Huang served as their advisor. Chris Boston and Kenny Rentschler presented a poster entitled “Simultaneous Localization and Mapping” and received the Peers’ Choice award for their effort. They were advised by Professor John Spletzer.

The posters were judged by Sara Dillon '84, Managing Director at NYSE Euronext; James Maida '85, President and Co-Founder of Gaming Laboratories International and Scott Menzer '07, Consultant with IBM Global Business Services.  

Eric Wasserman and Whitney Levine, Outstanding Senior Project winners 

Peers' Choice winners Chris Boston and Kenny Rentschler

 ACM Programming Contest

Zubair Chaudary, Justin Sonntag and Karol Zieba represented Lehigh as the C++ team at the ACM Mid-Atlantic USA Collegiate Programming Contest held at Wilkes University on November 7, 2009. The team received an Honorable Mention at the event. Andrew Lexa, Scott Woodward and Joseph Siefers represented Lehigh as the Java team. Professor Henry Baird served as their coach.

                ACM Programming Team

Appropriations awarded to CSE Department

The Department of Computer Science was recently awarded a congressional appropriation totalling nearly $1 million to work toward building a national resource for document analysis and exploitation. Henry Baird serves as the PI, with Dan Lopresti and Hank Korth serving as co-PI's. This work builds on an existing relationship the department has established with BBN Technologies in Cambridge, MA to support DARPA's MADCAT (Multilingual Automatic Document Classification Analysis and Translation) effort.

Promotions

Congratulations to Liang Cheng, Brian Davison and John Spletzer. All three were recently promoted to the rank of associate professor.

Professor Cheng's research interests include middleware, network processing and processor, wireless sensor networks, embedded systems, and high-speed networking.

Professor Davison's research is in web search and mining, focusing on the integration of text and link analysis applied to search and classification problems on the Web. He is a recipient of a 2006 NSF Faculty Early CAREER award.

The research interests of Professor Spletzer include intelligent vehicle systems, assistive technologies, and multi-robot systems. He received an NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Award in 2009 to investigate smart wheelchair technologies for navigating urban environments