The designation, awarded by the National Security Agency, recognizes the strength of W&M’s doctoral program in computer science and interdisciplinary research collaborations across data science, law and business.
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In the 2025 USNews and World Report rankings of undergraduate Computer Science Program, CS@W&M soared 18 spots.
Motion Medix, led by Ph.D. student Johnny Clapham, earned top honors from W&M Entrepreneurship Hub for its innovative wearable devices treating Parkinson’s symptoms.
William & Mary’s annual hackathon, &hacks, took place from October 4-6, 2024, setting a new standard for future hackathons. From Friday to Sunday afternoon, students across all majors and multiple schools came together to create interdisciplinary projects that address real-world challenges.
The William & Mary Cybersecurity Center, in partnership with Mantech International, organized TribeCTF 2024, W&M’s first Capture-The-Flag (CTF) competition, on campus from October 4th (Friday) to October 6th (Sunday), co-located with &hacks, W&M’s premier hackathon. Competitors vied for prizes totaling $9,000, and the fame of besting some of the best in Virginia.
Though William & Mary undergraduates often pursue summer internships with specific goals in mind, perhaps the greatest benefits of gaining hands-on experience in a potential career field are the zigs, zags, and unexpected life lessons that inevitably arise.
Ph.D. student Johnny Clapham led the Parkinson’s-focused startup to success in W&M’s six-week program, earning a $2,000 prize.
Come to our second Symposium on Graduate studies on November 9, 2024. Learn everything you wanted to know about our top-notch MS and MS/PhD degrees, CS research at W&M, and CS career pathways for non-CS majors through our MS bridge program!
Duong's award-winning research introduces the CAT model, enhancing deep neural network interpretability for high-stakes applications like healthcare and finance.
We are excited to announce two new faculty members joining our department, including Antonio Mastropaolo and Yuchen Wang.
Computer Science PhD students Nathan Wintersgill and Trevor Stalnaker, along with their advisors and collaborators, have been honored with an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the prestigious ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024).
Researchers from the Computer Science Department at William & Mary and the University of Central Florida have been recognized with a Distinguished Paper award at the prestigious 45th Symposium on Security and Privacy of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
The Health Comp Group at W&M received the Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE) in June 2024.
TribeHacks IX, W&M’s annual hackathon, came to a close a few weekends ago on April 21st. W&M undergraduate students spent the weekend in Swem Library, working on computer science and engineering projects to showcase their skills and solve real-world problems!
Inspired by positive student feedback, the William & Mary Computer Science department has established two new awards to recognize outstanding faculty and teaching assistants.
One of the symposium’s most popular events, the student poster session, had 58 posters. Anna Schmedding, a Ph.D. student from William & Mary, took home the 2024 Best Poster Award
Amit Seal Ami, a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate, has been honored with the International Student Achievement Award for his significant contribution to security and software engineering (SE) research and service.
William & Mary graduates working in Tech earn about $13,121 more than the median.
The 2024 Virtual Summer Bootcamp on Deep Learning, will take place from June 3rd to June 14th, 2024. No background in machine learning is required, undergraduate and graduate students are welcome.
We are happy to announce that Professor Denys Poshyvanyk has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2024 Arts & Sciences Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award.
In a remarkable display of skill and determination, William & Mary Computer Science teams showcased their prowess at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest this past Saturday. The teams returned with an impressive array of medals, reflecting their exceptional performance.
This is the highest recognition given by by the ACM for pre-tenure faculty in the field of software engineering.
This past December, William & Mary approved the establishment of its first Cybersecurity Center, a visionary initiative that will not only enhance our university's standing in the field but will also contribute significantly to the broader academic community.
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 52 Distinguished Members for significant contributions in 2023 and Denys Poshyvanyk is one of them.
The first annual Eastern Atlantic Students in Software Engineering Colloquium (ESSEC) will be hosted at William & Mary on January 20, 2024.
Willam & Mary Cyber teams from the Computer Science Department were recognized for their prestigious efforts during the National Cyber League (NCL) Fall 2023 competition season by earning a spot in the top 100 colleges in the nation.
The William and Mary Computer Science Department hosted its second Symposium for Graduate Studies on November 4, attracting over 90 in-person attendees to our beautiful campus. Aimed at prospective graduate students, the symposium provided a comprehensive look into the vibrant and innovative world of computer science at William & Mary.
Professor Denys Poshyvanyk has been appointed as a Guest Editor-in-Chief of the AI-SE Continuous Special Section at the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Come to our second Symposium on Graduate studies on November 4, 2023. Learn everything you wanted to know about our top-notch MS and MS/PhD degrees, CS research at W&M, and CS career pathways for non-CS majors through our new MS bridge program!
We are excited to announce five new faculty members joining our department, including Matthew Chapman, Ye “Ashley” Gao, Sidi Lu, Yanfu Zhang, Yixuan “Janice” Zhang.
William & Mary graduates working in Tech earn about $9,880 more than the median.
Spanning the decades, five computer science alumni celebrate their time at W&M
Woosub Jung has been selected by the review committee for the Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Natural and Computational Sciences!
This award recognizes outstanding research contributions to the field of mobile software engineering for researchers in the early stages of their career. As a recipient of this award, Professor Moran will be invited to give a mini-keynote presentation during MOBILESoft 2023.
CRA’s Education Committee (CRA-E) has recently selected its 2023 CRA-E Graduate Fellow – Alejandro Velasco Dimate, from William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
WM students won third place in NSWCDD Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Innovation Challenge
Gang Zhou appointed co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare
Join us in congratulating Lishan Yang (CS@W&M PhD'22, assistant professor of Computer Science at George Mason University) for being the winner of the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2022.
After serving as an Associate Editor from 2014 to 2018, Professor Gang Zhou has just been promoted to Area Editor for "Area 1: Sensors and Devices for IoT" in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J).
Join us on October 22, 2022 to learn about our graduate programs leading to exciting tech careers.
Large segments of the world’s research community refocused in early 2020 in response to the growing COVID-19 pandemic.
William & Mary’s Commonwealth Center for Energy and the Environment had its genesis about a decade ago after members of the university’s Board of Visitors expressed interest in encouraging new research, especially interdisciplinary initiatives.
Amanda Watson is a 2021 MIT EECS Rising Star
Robert West ’23 helped design a Get Out the Vote program that has gotten more than 1.7 million people registered to vote since last fall.
In science there is a term called “ground truth,” the baseline from which data is judged for accuracy. For William & Mary student Ken Koltermann, the term may better be described as “boots-on-the-ground truth.”
A tech startup co-founded by a William & Mary computer scientist has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Amy Zhao’s knowledge of blockchain technology goes back to a course she took through William & Mary’s Global Research Institute. Now she wants to use her expertise to help others, including artists who face intellectual property threats.
Adwait Jog's work on GPUs recognized by Google.
Bin Ren has received a prestigious NSF CAREER award for his proposal "Achieving Real-Time Machine Learning with Sparsification-Compilation Co-design".
Adwait Jog, an assistant professor in William & Mary’s Department of Computer Science, is working to make computers more efficient by improving the architecture of the machines, necessary for computational handling of projects ranging from machine learning to genomics.
William & Mary’s move to modified academic operations is prompting departments to look into alternative ways of conducting dissertation defenses of Ph.D. candidates.
William & Mary computer scientist Evgenia Smirni has been elected to the 2020 class of fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Xu Liu has received a 2019 IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing.
A paper from Prof. Xu Liu's group has been selected as an ACM SIGPLAN Research Highlights paper.
Professor Zhenming Liu is co-PI on a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the digital humanities and the Georgian Papers Programme.
