CS News Briefs

Read the latest news briefs from and about students and faculty in the UVA Computer Science Department.

  • UVA and UVA-Wise Win NSF MRI Award

    UVA has won a $2.5M NSF MRI award, led by Ron Hutchins, VP of IT and a member of the Computer Science Department. This is a partnership between the UVA Main Campus and UVA Wise, with Wise formally taking the lead.The University of Virginia at Wise (UVA-Wise) and the University of Virginia Main Campus are collaborating with ten other public universities in Virginia to develop ACCORD, an innovative research-computing cyberinstrument to support the storage, access, and usage of sensitive data. ACCORD is accessible to researchers at participating institutions across the State.

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  • Hongning Wang and Students Win Best Paper at SIGIR

    Hongning Wang and his group of four students earned the Best Paper Award at the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference.The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval was held July 21 to 25, 2019 in Paris, France.
    Professor Hongning Wang and his group Huazheng Wang (PhD student), Sonwoo Kim (Masters student), Eric McCord-Snook (recent BSCS grad), and Qingyun Wu (PhD student) won the Best Paper award for their paper “Variance Reduction in Gradient Exploration for Online Learning to Rank”.

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