Edgar Amalyan and Shahram Latifi (both Electrical and Computer Engineering) published a paper titled, "Data-Driven Machine Learning-Informed Framework for Model Predictive Control in Vehicles," in MDPI Information special issue Feature Papers in Information in 2024-2025. A machine learning framework is developed to interpret vehicle subsystem…

A collection of stories by Francis McCabe and Beth DeBouck (both Integrated Marketing & Branding), Afsha Bawany (Urban Affairs), and Natalie Bruzda (Engineering) won a Gold Award in News/Feature Writing in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education's 2024 Circle of Excellence Competition. The collection related to…

Graduate students Garrett Prentice (Computer Science) and Anubhab Mahapatra (Computer Science and Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology) recently presented on the UNLV Cyber Clinic at the United Way of Southern Nevada’s Nonprofit Connection meeting. Nonprofit Connection is a monthly gathering that serves as a vital space for nonprofit…

Professor Yoohwan Kim and Cheryl Bella (both Computer Science) recently presented on the UNLV Cyber Clinic to the Clark County Board of Commissioners at their meeting on June 17, 2025. The Clinic was invited by Commissioner William McCurdy II, representing District D. The Clinic and Commissioner McCurdy have worked together previously including…

Ibtihaj Ahmad (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) published his first peer-reviewed research article, titled "Assessment of Vegetation Dynamics After South Sugar Loaf and Snowstorm Wildfires Using Remote Sensing Spectral Indices," in the journal Remote Sensing. The study utilizes satellite-based remote sensing to evaluate…

Jemin Ahn, Zuobin Xiong, Junggab Son (all Computer Science), Homook Cho, and Kyungtae Kang's paper "Efficient Phishing Website Detection via HTML Tag Sequence Analysis Using Encoder Models," was accepted in the 34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2025). 

Qingmin Shi (Decision Support), Shaoan Zhang (Teaching and Learning), Yingtao Jiang (Engineering), along with UNLV alumna Chengcheng Li (Ph.D., 2021) and Tiberio Garza (Florida International University), recently presented their research at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA) in Denver, Colorado. Their study,…

Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article in the current issue of IEEE Computer titled: "Cyberdidacticism: The New Epistemic Paradigm for Cognitive Minimalism and Generative Artificial Intellitence." In this critical article Berghel advances the Cyberdidact Hypothesis: To the extent that it makes sense to correlate personality traits…

Congratulations to the UNLV racquetball team who competed in Corporate Challenge on Thursday, April 10. They won 1st overall and 10 points for UNLV. Competitors were Adam Koebke (Mathematics) who won gold in men's singles, Venki Muthukumar (Electrical Engineering) and Sai Parsa (Computer Science) who won gold in men's doubles, and Erica Marti…

Bianca Ionescu, (Computer Science and Management Entrepreneurship, and Technology) a UNLV CyberCorps SFS Scholar, was invited to present on the UNLV Cyber Clinic at the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference that recently took place in Dallas, Texas. WiCyS’ mission is to recruit, retain and advance women in cybersecurity to build a robust…

Graduate student Mouhsine Benmbarek and emeritus professor Samir Moujaes (both Mechanical Engineering) published their study, "CFD Analysis of Heat Transfer Enhancement for Twisted Tape Inserted in Spirally Corrugated Tubes and Proposal of a New Vane-Inserted Geometry" in the journal Fluids.

The Transportation Research Center (TRC) recently participated in the 2025 Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) University Transportation Center (UTC) Annual Congress at the University of California, Berkeley. Assistant research engineer Juliana Byzyka (TRC) presented their project titled, “A Methodology to Evaluate Complete Streets Development in Small…