University of Kentucky Computer Science

Congratulations to Ayaan Haque, Dr. Adam Wang, and Dr. Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran for the publication of their paper, "Task-specific self-supervision for CT image denoising", in the journal Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization. Excellent work!

Dr. Simone Silvestri will be giving a keynote talk titled "ChatGPT for Scientific Writing: Navigating Potentials and Challenges" at the The IARIA Fifteenth International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications!

The conference will be held from June 26, 2023 to June 30, 2023 in Nice, Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France. More information about the conference can be found here: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2023/ProgramFUTURECOMPUTING23.html

FUTURE COMPUTING 2023 Program Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

Dr. Brent Harrison was recently interviewed on WEKU about the implications of current AI systems with respect to trust in human interactions. Listen to the 15 minute interview here: https://esweku.org/track/3435806/june-1-2023-ai-and-trust

Dr. Silvestri just received an NSF REU grant to support an undergraduate student on his NSF CAREER award. The REU will support the student, Jackson K Butcher. Jackson will work on developing a LoraWAN based testbed using Raspberry P*s. Congratulations to Dr. Silvestri and his student, Jackson!

“Computing and Technology Ethics: Engaging Through Science Fiction” – an interview with the authors! Congratulations to Dr. Goldsmith who is a co-author for this amazing book, read the full interview here:
https://aihub.org/2023/04/26/computing-and-technology-ethics-engaging-through-science-fiction-an-interview-with-the-authors/

“Computing and Technology Ethics: Engaging Through Science Fiction” – an interview with the authors - ΑΙhub Emanuelle Burton, Judy Goldsmith, Nicholas Mattei, Cory Siler and Sara-Jo Swiatek are the authors of a new book entitled: Computing and Technology Ethics: Engaging Through Science Fiction. We caught up with them to find out more about the book, what it covers, and what inspired them to use science f...

Many congratulations to Dr. Abdullah for receiveing a High Impact Pilot Grant Award ($50k) from the UNITE Research Priority Area at UK. This award will enable Dr. Abdullah's group to study bias mitigation in dermatology AI.

See more: https://www.research.uky.edu/unite-research-priority-area/pilot-grants

Pilot Grants | University of Kentucky Research Pilot Grants Current Pilot Grant Opportunities Past Pilot Grant Opportunities The CHET Health Equity Pilot Grant in Partnership with the UNITE Research Priority Area The CHET Health Equity Pilot Grant in Partnership with the UNITE Research Priority Area Pilot funding will be made available to suppor...

Congratulations to Dr. Silvestri and his co-authors for publishing the following paper.

R. Alden, A. Timilsina, S. Silvestri, D. Ionel
"V2G Optimization for Dispatchable Residential Load Operation and Minimal Utility Cost"
in Proceedings of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC), 2023.

https://itec-conf.com

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Dr. Silvestri is giving a talk on Machine Learning in Energy Management Systems at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, next week. Checkout the flier for the talk!

Congratulations to Ayesha Dina and her advisor Dr. Manivanan for having their paper accepted in the following venue:
Ayesha S.Dina, A.B.Siddique and D.Manivannan. "A Deep Learning Approach for Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things using Focal Loss Function" Internet of Things journal(16 pages), Volume 22, July 2023, 100699, Elsevier.

Congratulations to Afsaneh Mahanipour and her advisor Dr. Khamfroush, for having their paper entitled "Wrapper-Based Federated Feature Selection for IoT Environments" accepted in the ICNC 2023 Conference which will be held this February in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Afsaneh also recently attended ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) conference where she received a travel grant to present her PhD proposal in a PhD forum.

Keep up the great work Afsaneh!

Dr. Silvestri had an interview with TechGuide on topics related to computer science. Read the full interview here:
https://techguide.org/computer-science/bachelors-in-computer-science/ =simone-silvestri

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Congratulations to Ayesha and her advisors of publishing the following paper in IEEE Access journal which has h5 index of 200.

Ayesha S. Dina, A. B. Siddique and D. Manivannan. "Effect of Balancing Data Using Synthetic Data on the Performance of Machine Learning Classifiers for Intrusion Detection in Computer Networks" IEEE Access journal, IEEE.

Congratulations to to Ayesha Dina, a Ph.D student of Dr. Manivannan, on receiving the Lexmark Fellowship as well the University of Kentucky Woman’s Club Endowed Fellowship. Ayesha also received scholarship to attend Women in CyberSecurity conference. These are great achievements, and we are proud of you Ayesha!

Congratulations to Dr. William Bailey (and his advisor, Dr. Judy Goldsmith) who just defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Small Approximate Pareto Sets With Quality Bounds"! We are incredibly proud of William and look forward to great things as he moves on to an Assistant Professor position at Centre College. We wish William the best of luck!

Congratulations to our grad student William Bailey, Prof. Goldsmith, Prof. Harrison and our MS graduate Johnny Xu for having their paper on "Fast approximate bi-objective Pareto sets with quality bounds" accepted in Springer Nature.
A full-text access to a view-only version of the paper is avaiable by using the following SharedIt link: https://rdcu.be/cZuPA

Fast approximate bi-objective Pareto sets with quality bounds - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems We present and empirically characterize a general, parallel, heuristic algorithm for computing small $$\epsilon $$ ϵ -Pareto sets. A primary feature of the algorithm is that it maintains and improves an upper bound on the $$\epsilon $$ ϵ value throughout the algorithm. The algorithm can be used as...

Congratulations to Dr. A.B. Siddique and his co-authors for having their paper accepted in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2022) December 17-20, 2022 to be held in Osaka, Japan.

Here is a short summary of the paper:

In this work, we proposed a new framework, PPrior, that enables proactive prioritization of app issues through identifying critical app issues from user reviews automatically, along with introducing a large scale dataset of 2.1 million user reviews from Google Play.

Congratulations to Dr. Silvestri who is the TPC Co-Chair of the 2022 NSF CPS PI meeting. Read more about this meeting here:

https://cps-vo.org/group/cps-pimtg22

2022 NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators' Meeting | CPS-VO The 2022 Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Principal Investigators' (PI) Meeting will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel located at 1700 Richmond Highway in Arlington, VA 22202 on Monday, November 7, 2022 (arrival night) and Tuesday, November 8, 2022 and Wednesdsay, November 9, 2022 (meeting d...

Seun Adekunle, one of our amazing undergraduate students received the Torch Bearer award. Congratulations Seun!
Read more on this:
https://www.engr.uky.edu/news/2022/10/engineering-students-and-alumni-were-honored-31st-annual-lyman-t-johnson-awards-program

Engineering Students and Alumni Were Honored at the 31st annual Lyman T. Johnson Awards Program | University of Kentucky College of Engineering Seun Adekunle, a civil engineering student, Maya Bentley Anthony, a biosystems engineering graduate, Jayla McCoy, a mechanical engineering student and Austin Mitchell, a civil engineering graduate were honored during the 31st annual Lyman T. Johnson Awards program Friday, Oct. 14 at the Gatton Stude...

Prof. Ken Calvert, of our department, has been interviewed by a reporter for WFPL in Louisville Wednesday about the DDoS attacks on SDF, CVG and some other airports. Do you want to know more about what has happened?

Here is a link to their website where Prof. Calvert is quoted:

https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwfpl.org%2F2-kentucky-airport-websites-disrupted-after-threat-by-pro-russian-hackers%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ckhamfroush%40uky.edu%7C8967480c93524c234a0308daad7cd0db%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C638013048868124420%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a61ZUnTjFNIVbBJogXpjUKR90pu9WfRGm97ivk1p%2Bdk%3D&reserved=0

2 Kentucky airport websites disrupted after threat by pro-Russian hackers – 89.3 WFPL News Louisville Hackers who claimed responsibility for taking down state government websites last week targeted airports across the country on Monday.

Congratulations to Dr. Hana Khamfroush for receiving a research initation award from NASA-KY program. This is a one-year research award to support performing research on "Federated Learning-based Communication Channel Prediction for Autonomous Distributed Robotic Explorers in Moon, Mars, and Beyond" in collaboration with NASA-JPL team.

We are so proud of Dr. Hayes and so not surprised at this recognition!

The Life Time Service Award goes to Jane Hayes. Congratulations Jane, well deserved and we know how much you care!

Congratulations to Dr. Ware and his students at Narrative Intelligence Lab for having the following papers accepted in upcoming AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 2022. Excellent job!

Full paper presented as poster:
Salience Vectors for Measuring Distance between Stories (Rachelyn Farrell, Mira Fisher and Stephen G. Ware)

Workshop paper:
Intelligent De-Escalation Training via Emotion-Inspired Narrative Planning (Cory Siler, Mira FIsher, Stephen G. Ware)

Doctoral consortium:
Open-World Narrative Generation to Answer Players' Questions (Cory Siler)
Narrative Planning in Large Domains Through State Abstraction and Option Discovery (Mira Fisher)

https://sites.google.com/view/aiide-2022/

Today (Sept, 7-8, actually) is a great day to preorder Computing and Technology Ethics, co-authored by our own Prof. Judy Goldsmith because is offering a 25% discount with the code PREORDER25, today and tomorrow only.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/computing-and-technology-ethics-emmanuelle-burton/1141756669;jsessionid=8699F495AD6481C8B15C639EC64ABAE2.prodny_store01-atgap05?ean=9780262048064

Congratulations to Dr. Khamfroush who has been awarded a supplemental grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her research on edge computing systems to start a research collaboration with King's College of London, on " Bayesian Federated Learning for resource management in Edge computing Systems".

Our own Dr. Silvestri is the TPC co-chair of DCOSS-IoT 2023 Conference which will be held in Cyprus. Consider submitting your novel research work here: https://dcoss.org

DCOSS-IoT 2023 – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING IN SENSOR SYSTEMS AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS General Information DCOSS-IoT 2023Coral Bay, Pafos, CyprusJune 19-21, 2023 DCOSS-IoT has always been technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP). Approval for DCOSS-IoT 2023 pending. The 19th Annual International Conference on Distribu...

We're excited about the new ACM Journal of Responsible Computing https://dl.acm.org/journal/jrc, and our own Dr. Judy Goldsmith on the editorial board! Do you have papers appropriate for this journal?

ACM JOURNAL ON RESPONSIBLE COMPUTING Home The ACM Journal on Responsible Computing (JRC) publishes high-quality original research at the intersection of computing, ethics, information, law, policy, responsible innovation, and social responsibility from a wide range of convergent, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary p...

Dr. Khamfroush will give an invited talk on “QoS-aware resource management for Edge-AI” in the RAGE 2022 workshop, co-located with Design Automation Conference 2022.
https://rage2022.github.io/agenda/

RAGE 2022 @ DAC The edge computing paradigm is becoming increasingly popular as it facilitates real-time computation, reduces energy consumption and carbon footprint, and fosters security and privacy preservation by processing the data closer to its origin. Please consider submitting a contribution to RAGE 2022, th...

Congratulation to Dr. Hana Khamfroush, and her co-authors for having two papers recently accepted for publication in IEEE Systems Journal (IF: 4.47).

[1] S. Azizi, M. Othman, H. Khamfroush, "DECO: A Deadline-aware and Energy-efficient Algorithm for
Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing", To appear in IEEE Systems Journal 2022.

[2] M. Ebrahimi, K. Khamforoosh, A. Sheikhahmadi, H. Khamfroush, "Adaptive-Persistent Non-orthogonal Random Access scheme for URLL Massive IoT network", to appear in IEEE System Journal 2022.

Congratulations to Dr. Silvestri and his PhD student, Enrico Casella for piblishing their research in frontiers in animal science!
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fanim.2022.852359/abstract?fbclid=IwAR3Q_7rUyraXjzZo5vmpIevIjAq6_nbxqTvGNuZbL39jc2qBof1kZApi_Q4

Using machine learning and behavioral patterns observed by automated feeders and accelerometers for the early indication of clinical Bovine Respiratory Disease status in preweaned dairy calves The objective of this retrospective cohort study was to evaluate a K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) algorithm to classify and indicate clinical Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) status using behavioral patterns in preweaned dairy calves. Calves (N=106) were enrolled on this study from one facility for the pr...