Accomplishments: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Seungman Park (Mechanical Engineering) and Lina R. Nih (Brain Health) have co-authored an article titled “Cellular Viscous Properties in Senescence: An Emerging Biophysical Perspective and Potential Biomarker,” published in the scientific journal Ageing Research Reviews. The publication is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration with Dr.…
The interdisciplinary team of Avinash Yaganapu (Computer Science), Amarnath Singam (Mechanical Engineering), Sai Phani Parsa (Computer Science), Calvinique Lee (Biomedical Engineering), Jennifer Zheng (Life Sciences), Sunjeet Saha (Mechanical Engineering), Seungman Park (Mechanical Engineering), and Mingon Kang (Computer Science) in collaboration…
The UNLV Cyber Clinic took gold last night at the Stars of Nevada Governor’s Points of Light Awards in the Collegiate Community Leadership category. The Governor’s Points of Light celebrates the individuals and organizations who help make a vibrant future for all Nevadans by generously donating their time and talents in our communities.…
On Sept. 30, the Harrah College of Hospitality hosted an interdisciplinary seminar with faculty and students from Hospitality, Engineering, and the School of Medicine, demonstrating how the college's PGA Golf Management Center can serve as a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration in sport performance and entertainment.
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The paper “A Single-Pass Generative Framework for Intrinsic Dense Visual Explanations,” coauthored by Hongbi Jeong, An Huang, Zuobin Xiong, and Junggab Son (all Computer Science), has been accepted in Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2026), a renowned conference in Computer Vision.
Shaikh Arifuzzaman (Computer Science) is leading a three-year project with collaborators at the University of Kansas to address one of the fundamental challenges in earthquake science: understanding how active fault systems are organized, connected, and evolve across some of the world's most tectonically active regions. Backed by a $590,000…
Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant Melissa Swinehart (Computer Science; International Gaming Institute) presented her research, "Detecting Unusual Gambling Transaction Patterns," at the European Association for the Study of Gambling (EASG) conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Sept. 9, 2026. Her presentation highlighted advanced methods…
Moses Karakouzian (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) published a 1,200-page book in 2026 titled Advanced Foundation Engineering: Principles, Performance, and Prospects, co-authored with A. H. Eslami and published by Wiley.
Beomsu Baek, Eunyoung Jang, Phani Parsa, and Mingon Kang (all Computer Science) published an article, titled "Knowledge-guided learning with curated prior genetic biomarkers for robust model interpretation", in the 25th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2026) (Acceptance rate: 19.64%). The study introduces an innovative idea…
Lina R. Nih (Brain Health) and Seungman Park (Mechanical Engineering) have co-authored an article entitled “Cellular Viscous Properties in Senescence: An Emerging Biophysical Perspective and Potential Biomarker,” published in Ageing Research Reviews. This article explores changes in cellular viscosity during aging and their potential use as a…
Shengjie Zhai (PI), Emma E Regentova (co-PI), Ming Zhu (co-PI) (all Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Vanessa Vongkulluksn (co-PI) (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) from the have received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NF) award of $899,898 for developing "Pocket TA: A Multimodal AI Platform for…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has co-authored an article entitled "Generative AI in Higher Education: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" that is published in the current issue of IEEE Computer. This article offers a balanced perspective of all aspects of the use of artificial intelligence in education.