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Department of Computer Science News

The Department of Computer Science is nationally and internationally recognized for research in theoretical and experimental computer science. We are especially known in areas such as real-time algorithms, information retrieval, document analysis, parallel computing, language design, software engineering, computer science education, graphics, computational geometry, networking, information customization, cybermedia, and internet security.

Current Computer Science News

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Campus News |

A scholarship program built around community has graduated 74% of its students and earned a $2 million NSF grant to expand.

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Campus News |

Do you know how to use a makerspace? This class will teach you.

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People |

Bite-sized stories of how friendship is a core element of the Rebel experience.

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Business and Community |

The inaugural event brought together students and industry leaders for competitions and crucial professional development.

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Research |

This latest initiative from the International Gaming Institute is setting the standard for ethical AI use in the industry.

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Business and Community |

While unremarkable in style, the now-destroyed University Gardens plaza offered some beloved businesses to the neighborhood over the years.

Computer Science In The News

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This research was conducted as an international joint research project involving Professor Mingon Kang of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

Nevada Independent

Officials say the tool, which will require human verification, will increase efficiency, but others are worried about its transparency and security.

The Center Square

Nevada legislators passed a sweeping bill, which took effect Nov. 18, to prevent the next state cyberattack. Experts recently explain what the bill means for Nevada’s future online safety.

The Center Square

Nevada legislators passed a sweeping bill, which took effect Nov. 18, to prevent the next state cyberattack. Experts recently explain what the bill means for Nevada’s future online safety.

Las Vegas Sun

It’s about the size of a microwave, costs more than a house and could change how artificial intelligence runs. At CES in Las Vegas last week, tech startup Odinn showed off a countertop computer it calls “Omnia,” a compact powerhouse that the California-based company with an office in Las Vegas says can handle the kind of data-hungry AI tasks normally reserved for massive data centers.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

From the Las Vegas dry cleaner to the ritzy multimillion-dollar casino, cyberattacks are continuing to bring the city to a halt, but university professors have had enough.

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Recent Computer Science Accomplishments

Avinash Yaganapu, Sai Phani Parsa, and Mingon Kang (all Computer Science) published a paper, "Prediction of bacterial Cytochrome P450-compound interactions based on positive-unlabeled deep learning," in Bioinformatics. Many biological interaction datasets (e.g., protein-compound interactions) suffer from a fundamental problem: we often only…
Dillon Davidson, Zuobin Xiong, and Junggab Son (all Computer Science) had their paper accepted, titled “GPU Accelerated Fully Homomorphic Encryption Framework for End-to-End Logistic Regression,” at the 22nd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (acceptance rate: 29.1%).
Mina Attin (Nursing), Bryer Shareef (Computer Science), Xan Goodman (University Libraries), and Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with their student researchers, have published “Predicting In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Using Machine Learning Models: A Scoping Review” in Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Medicine. The study highlights the growing…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article in the March 2026 issue of IEEE Computer entitled "From Trolls to Edgelords: The Use of Social Media to Support Extreme Ideology" that focuses on sinister, anti-social use of social media platforms to support extremism. Summary data provided by federal law enforcement agencies, the…
A paper authored by Daniel Ogenrwot  and John Businge (Computer Science) titled:  "How AI Coding Agents Modify Code: A Large-Scale Study of GitHub Pull Requests" has been accepted in the 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR). MSR is the top-ranked venue for software evolution and repository…
Louis Dumontet and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) have published a research article titled, “Trustworthy prediction of enzyme commission numbers using a hierarchical interpretable transformer" in Nature Communications. This study introduces a cutting-edge AI model that predicts enzyme functions from protein sequences and offers…