Esra Akbas, an assistant professor of computer science whose research focuses on graph mining and machine learning, has been named a recipient of the 2025 Dean’s Early Career Award.
Several computer science faculty members were honored at Georgia State’s 2025 Ignite Awards, held on March 27. Assistant professor Armin Iraji won the Early Career Research Impact Award in Natural and Physical Sciences. The Research Impact Award was given to the TReNDS Center, whose members include Dr. Iraji, assistant professor Dong Hye Ye, associate professor Jingyu Liu, and professor Sergey Plis.
Professor Zhipeng Cai was recently named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a leading professional society for computer scientists.
New research by a team at Georgia State University is uncovering surprising insights about brain pathways that could offer alternative ways for practitioners to identify early signs of schizophrenia. Assistant professor Armin Iraji is the lead principal investigator on the study.
Assistant professor Esra Akbas has received a five-year, $500,000 award from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER).
A paper co-authored by Distinguished University Professor Alex Zelikovsky has been selected by Nature Communications for a list of 50 best papers recently published in the area of microbiology and infectious diseases.
Professor Anu Bourgeois and CIS clinical professor Nannette Napier have created a program called Reaching for Inclusion — Striving for Excellence (RISE) in Computing, which aims to increase the number of Black women graduating with degrees in technical fields.
A recent paper co-authored by department chair Armin Mikler and Ph.D. candidate Emma McDaniel discusses the results of benchmarking a fast vehicle routing algorithm for public health emergency planning.
Professor Anu Bourgeois and lecturer William Johnson are members of a joint Georgia State/Georgia Tech team that received a $394,020 grant to help computer science teaching assistants develop and incorporate more inclusive teaching practices.
Professor Zhipeng Cai has been named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to resource management and scheduling for high-performance computing.
