Kessler Inducted into HEVGA Fellows

Bob Kessler, Ph.D., EAE's co-founder and founding director, will be posthumously inducted as a HEVGA Fellow during a ceremony to be held at the Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco, CA, the week of March 20th, 2023. Kessler was a towering figure in the history of EAE, serving to co-found the program in 2008 and lead it as its first Director from 2010 through 2018. As a professor of Computer Science and EAE's Director at the University of Utah, he spent his entire career advocating for students and their success. His life-long commitment to education was driven by his passion for helping his students develop the skills and knowledge they needed to succeed, and his insight and wisdom provided the foundations for EAE's success as a leader in the academic games community.


Manish Parashar Receives Achievement Award in High Performance Distributed Computing

Congratulations to Manish Parashar for receiving the 2023 Achievement Award in High Performance Distributed Computing for pioneering strategic and technical contributions, and international leadership in high performance parallel and distributed computing, computational science, and cyberinfrastructure.


U's Air Quality Network Receives Award

University of Utah air quality researchers along with the Salt Lake County Health Department have received a Smart Cities North America Award for its Air Quality and You project, a network of air quality sensors deployed throughout the county that monitor air pollution in real time.


$15M gift announced for new Computer Science building

$15M gift announced for new Computer Science building


Capstone Demo Day

Senior Capstone Demo Day

The University of Utah’s Kahlert School of Computing recently showcased Senior Capstone Projects. Each project demonstrated the keen abilities of the seniors in computer science, and the wide range of skills they possess to solve a myriad of problems.

Demo Day 2023


Data Science Day 2023

Data Science Day 2023

On January 13, 2023, the Utah Center for Data Science hosted at least 280 participants at Data Science Day, making this perhaps the largest data science event ever at the University of Utah. The event was a gathering of all those interested in data science around campus, including students, researchers, and faculty — as well as data scientists from local industry and prospective data scientists from around the Salt Lake City area. This year, Data Science Day was held in the Union Ballroom on the University of Utah campus.

An exciting aspect of the event was the chance for those interested in data science from around the university to gather and meet each other — especially after a few years of mostly online meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was exemplified by the Research Expo part of the day, which saw dozens of research posters, demos, and information booths. The Research Expo provided a forum for researchers of all levels to show off their recent results and for institutes and centers to showcase the services they provide.

A highlight of the day was the research talks, especially the inspiring keynote by Jeff Leek, the chief data officer at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. His talk told the story of how he launched a massive online course in data science, and wherein the resulting curriculum has served more than 8 million students. He then described how he leveraged this towards designing and running a version of the curriculum, DataTrail, as an educational springboard for the underserved low-income communities of Baltimore and beyond. This work stimulated much discussion, including how it related to the maturing data science curriculum here at the University of Utah. Another engaging part of the day was an industry panel staffed by local data scientists that provided great insight into the trade-offs of in-person versus remote work, especially as it pertains to new data scientists.

The event also provided a great opportunity for many to interact with local industry. This included a career fair which included the day’s sponsors: Sorenson, Recursion, and bioMérieux. The organizers would also like to thank the Office of the Vice President of Research and the National Science Foundation for financial support and the One Utah Data Science Hub and Kahlert School of Computing for organizational support. The day was a great success and there is excitement to do it again.


Yang Yin

Yin Yang

Associate Professor

yin.yang@utah.edu
MEB 3454
Google Scholar

Research Interests
Visual Computing (Computer Graphics)


Wang Haitao

Haitao Wang

Associate Professor

haitao.wang@utah.edu
MEB 3418
Website | Publications

Research Interests
Algorithms (Algorithms & Data Structures, Computational Geometry)