Faculty Kudos Fall 2024
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Department of Biological Sciences
Sept. - Dr. Jennifer Mandel, an associate professor in the UofM Department of Biological Sciences, was featured in the cover story "ACRE Take Root" in the Memphis Business Journal on Aug. 22.
Department of Computer Science
Sept. - Dr. Kan Yang, associate professor of Computer Science, wins the Best Paper Award at ACM ASIACCS 2024 for "Silent Proof." SilentProof is a cutting-edge privacy-preserving authentication protocol. The research, led by doctoral student Jamal Mosakheil, offers a groundbreaking solution to key challenges in anonymous credential systems.
Aug. - Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta and Dr. Arunava Roy in the UofM Computer Science department recently published their research papers in top-ranked AI journals. "A Distributed Conditional Wasserstein Deep Convolutional Relativistic Loss Generative Adversarial Network with Improved Convergence" was published in IEEE Journals & Magazine and "Defending Learning Systems Against Mean-Shift Perturbations" in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence at IEEE Xplore. Their article "DRD-GAN: A Novel Distributed Conditional Wasserstein Deep Convolutional Relativistic Discriminator GAN with Improved Convergence" was published in ACM Transactions on Probabilistic Machine Learning.
Department of English
Sept. - Drs. Rebecca Adams and Emily Thrush, professors in the English Department, have been awarded a grant under the U.S. Department of Education's National Professional Development program. The project will receive $2.6 million over the next five years, beginning with $503,580 in the 2024-2025 academic year. These funds will be used to increase the number of licensed ESL teachers in local school systems.
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Sept. - Irena Lasiecka, distinguished professor in the UofM Department of Mathematical Sciences, was one of nine plenary speakers at the Dynamical Systems and Applications (DSA) 2024 Conference. The conference was held June 26-28, 2024 at the Lodz University of Technology, Poland, on the occasion of 90th birthday of Avner Friedman – renown expert in the area of differential equations, former director of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications IMA in Minneapolis and presently a director of Mathematical Bioscience Institute in Columbus, Ohio. The plenary lecture of Lasiecka was titled, “Can we control oscillations in flow-structure interactions?”.
Department of Philosophy
Aug. - Professor Shaun Gallagher delivered the keynote address, ‘Halting at the edge of action in exceptional aesthetic experiences’, at the Italian Aesthetics Association. Venice (31 May 2024).
Aug. - Professor Shaun Gallagher presented a paper on the classic “Molyneux Question” (whether someone with congenital blindness if they were given sight would be able to recognize geometrical shapes by sight alone) at the University of Montreal in May 2024.
Aug. - Professor Shaun Gallagher participated in the World Congress of Philosophy in Rome, in August 2024. He gave four presentations on topics that ranged from aesthetics to gestures to the experiences of astronauts in space to the use of virtual reality. The stage was set for the World Congress on the first night at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome where approximately 4000 philosophers were welcomed by the mayor of Rome and then enjoyed Puccini's opera Tosca.
