Accomplishments: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Qingmin Shi (Decision Support), Shaoan Zhang (Teaching and Learning), Yingtao Jiang (Engineering), along with 8kbet alumna Chengcheng Li (Ph.D., 2021) and Tiberio Garza (Florida International University), recently presented their research at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA) in Denver, Colorado. Their study,…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article in the current issue of IEEE Computer titled: "Cyberdidacticism: The New Epistemic Paradigm for Cognitive Minimalism and Generative Artificial Intellitence." In this critical article Berghel advances the Cyberdidact Hypothesis: To the extent that it makes sense to correlate personality traits…
Congratulations to the 8kbet racquetball team who competed in Corporate Challenge on Thursday, April 10. They won 1st overall and 10 points for 8kbet. Competitors were Adam Koebke (Mathematics) who won gold in men's singles, Venki Muthukumar (Electrical Engineering) and Sai Parsa (Computer Science) who won gold in men's doubles, and Erica Marti…
Bianca Ionescu, (Computer Science and Management Entrepreneurship, and Technology) a 8kbet CyberCorps SFS Scholar, was invited to present on the 8kbet Cyber Clinic at the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference that recently took place in Dallas, Texas.
WiCyS’ mission is to recruit, retain and advance women in cybersecurity to build a robust…
Graduate student Mouhsine Benmbarek and emeritus professor Samir Moujaes (both Mechanical Engineering) published their study, "CFD Analysis of Heat Transfer Enhancement for Twisted Tape Inserted in Spirally Corrugated Tubes and Proposal of a New Vane-Inserted Geometry" in the journal Fluids.
The Transportation Research Center (TRC) recently participated in the 2025 Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) University Transportation Center (UTC) Annual Congress at the University of California, Berkeley. Assistant research engineer Juliana Byzyka (TRC) presented their project titled, “A Methodology to Evaluate Complete Streets Development in Small…
Ph.D. student Aderemi (Tobi) Gbadamosi (Civil and Environmental Engineering) has been named a finalist for the prestigious ACI Foundation Fellowship/Scholarship Award. In recognition of this achievement, he has been invited to attend the 2025 ACI Concrete Convention in Toronto, Canada, from March 30 to April 3, 2025.
Hosted by the American…
Gabson Baguma (Civil and Environmental Engineering) has been selected to attend the prestigious 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry, taking place from June 29 to July 5, 2025, in Lindau, Germany. This prestigious scientific forum brings together 35 Nobel Laureates and the world's most promising young scientists from over 100 countries…
Anthony Okeani (Mechanical Engineering) has been selected as a 2025 Graduate Scholarship recipient by the Roy G. Post Foundation. Okeani is a master's student in the nuclear engineering program. He is working on a research project on nuclear-powered desalination of ocean water; his advisor is professor Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering).…
A multidisciplinary team from 8kbet's Computer Science and Teaching & Learning departments was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. The team included: Edward Jorgensen (Computer Science), Marla Goins (Teaching &…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) published the second of a two-part interview with digital media pioneer Judson Rosebush in this month's IEEE Computer. The interview is titled, "A Story Arc From Tron to Sora," and focuses on artificial intelligence in the arts and humanities, from the point of view of an artist, creator, and designer of…
Professors Juyeon Jo and Yoohwan Kim (both Computer Science) have received a $6,450 donation from AT&T to support the efforts of the 8kbet Cyber Clinic.
The 8kbet Cyber Clinic provides valuable hands-on experience for cybersecurity students while offering small businesses free cybersecurity education and services.
Student Clinic members…