Florida State University Department of Computer Science 2012

Florida State University Department of Computer Science 2012 Honors and Awards Ceremony Friday April 13, 2012 1

Awards Program n Recognition of Guests and Opening Remarks … Dr. Robert van Engelen Computer Science Department Chair 2

Special Guests Today n n n n Julene Irwin, Harris Corp. Thomas Leonard, Red Rocket Solutions Michael Clarke, Citilabs Carl Owenby, Maclay School Ermine Owenby Tami Thomas, Infinity Software Jonathan Taylor, Infinity Software Ed Tunstall, retired from Eli Lilly 3

Departmental Highlights and News n Newest Degree Programs ¨ MS in Computer and Systems Network Administration reactivated in Fall 2011 n Dean of Arts and Sciences funded 5 Students to support this degree program ¨ BA in Computer Science activated in Fall 2011 n Enrollment ¨ Undergraduate ¨ Graduate – – 471 136 4

Departmental Highlights and News n n n Dr. Robert van Engelen took over as Chair, August 2012 Feifei Li accepted another position at the University of Utah Department has authorization to hire two new faculty: 5

Staff News n Carl Forney II : new in the department as Administrative Support Assistant n Esther Diaguila : became Undergraduate Advisor (replacing Matthew Claypool) n Betty Stanton: returned to department as a part time Distance Learning advisor 6

Recent Research Grants n n n Dr. Wang – Exploiting Semantic Equivalence of Files to Improve Storage System, NSF $499, 904 Dr. Burmester – Scholarships for Information Assurance at FSU, NSA, $19, 326 Dr. Zhang – Energy-Efficient Wi-Fi Partial Packet Recovery for Android System, Google, $31, 216 7

Faculty Recognitions … Dr. Robert van Engelen n n Dr. Michael Mascagni was awarded the Distinguished Scientist award by the ACM for 2011 Dr. Ted Baker professor of Computer Science Selected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to real-time computing applications. " ¨ Dr. Baker was awarded Emeritus status for his contributions to the Department, College and University. ¨ 8

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards… Mr. Robert Myers Jonathan Jenkins n Santosh Mahapatra n Biswas Parajuli n Surjyendu Ray n Myles Wright n 9

ACM Recognitions… n n FALL 2011 ACM Programming Contest 1 st Place Team ¨ Andrew Szyzadlisk, Patrick Tully n 2 nd Place Team ¨ Steven Burgart, Justin Danielson, Robert Griesmeyer 10

ACM Recognitions… Dr. Zhang n n SPRING 2012 ACM Programming Contest 1 st Place Team ¨ Steven Bronson, Nick Newson, Patrick Tully n 2 nd Place Team ¨ Brandon Davis n 3 rd place ¨ Josh Lindsey, Matt Lundberg 11

Student Publications n n n S. Chatterjee B. Neff M. Mitchell C. Meyers F. Sposaro I. Finlayson F. Sanchez P. Chen P. Yount G. Miller S. Zhou n n n n n O. Redwood A. Marathe D. Lowenthal Z. Gu M Small W. Nienaber S. Mahapatra H. Yu J. Xie W. Hu http: //www. cs. fsu. edu/~zzhang/paperlist. htm 12

Student Career and Award Recognition n Presidential Fellowship ¨ Alejandro Cabrera 13

Student Career and Award Recognitions… p. 2 n Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) ¨ Michael Backherms ¨ Patrick Dwyer ¨ Sean Easton ¨ Ryan Gidus ¨ David Guidry ¨ Ivan Lozano ¨ Sereyvathana Ty 14

The Graphics and Multimedia Contest n The Art Category ¨ Varun Venkatesan ¨ Heidy Khlaaf ¨ Frank Brailsford n Research Category ¨ Nigel Nye ¨ Rajat Raychaudhuri 15

Harris Corporation Awards Presented By Ms. Julene Irwin n Graduate Fellowship ¨ Melina Vastola n Undergraduate Scholarship ¨ Brandon Davis ¨ Cassandra Coan ¨ Cassandra Urmano 16

Carl and Ermine Owenby Sr. Scholarships n Presented By ¨ Ms. Ermine Owenby ¨ Mr. Carl Owenby n Scholarship Awardees ¨ Jake Jennings (Fall 2012) ¨ Clark Wood (Spring 2013) 17

Certificates in Information Security… Dr. Mike Burmester William Owen Redwood n William Falcon Street n Zheng Gu n Sereyvathana Ty n 18

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Electees … Ms. Ann Ford Tyson Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest honor society in the United States, founded in 1776, and is the nation's leading advocate for the liberal arts and sciences at the undergraduate level n Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Electees 2012 Britton Dennis III ¨ Steve Rutkowski ¨ Andrew Szydlik ¨ PBK Induction ceremony was held Sunday April 15 th this year 19

Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society Induction … Heidy Khlaaf, Caitlin Carnahan, Patrick Tully 20

UPE Inductees n n n n n Paul Ackerman Brandon Davis Matthew Davison Thomas Erskine Haonan Lu Stephanie Ramseier Sarah Reinhardt Timothy Valentine Clark Wood 21

The 6 Chairs of UPE 22

Reception Following Please join us now in Room 151 of the Love Building for our Celebratory Reception Thanks To… Organizing the Reception and Refreshments: CS Alumna Diana Orrick And… to all of the CS department faculty, staff and students who helped out in many ways too numerous to list here 23