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PURDUE CS E-NEWS February 2023

News from Purdue University's Department of Computer Science

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Associate Professor Aniket Bera

Aniket Bera is an expert in the interdisciplinary field of affective computing: using machine learning and other computer science methods to program artificial intelligence programs to better incorporate and understand human behavior and emotion.

Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

Professor Eugene H. Spafford

During Eugene H. Spafford’s more than three decades as professor of computer science at Purdue University, he has made groundbreaking contributions to computer and network security. Read his profile in IEEE Spectrum.

Two undergrads earn honorable recognition in CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Competition

Undergraduates, Trung Dang and Shreyas Kharbanda, earn honorable mention in CRA Undergraduate Researcher competition.

Trung Dang and Shreyas Kharbanda pursued research as undergraduates in distinct areas. Dang in theoretical computer science and Kharbanda in distributed systems. Both brought with them the innovation and creativity that is part of their persistent pursuit to solve complex challenges in any field. Their efforts earned both computer science majors an honorable recognition in the 2023 Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher competition.

A NEW HOME FOR DATA SCIENCE

Your support for the Data Science building renovation will give Data Science students and faculty an exciting hub in which to collaborate and conduct research and will ensure that Purdue remains at the forefront of this rapidly changing field that impacts all aspects of life.

Contact James Parker at japarker@purdueforlife.org or at 765-496-3525 to learn how you can support this project.

AAAI 2023

This year, Purdue CS faculty presented four papers at the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Held in Washington, D.C., February 7 to 14, the AAAI conference is one of the most prestigious forums for artificial intelligence research, attracting experts from around the world to discuss their latest findings. Professor Lin Tan and Assistant Professor Ming Yin both had papers selected for an oral presentation. Professor Jennifer Neville serves as co-chair for the conference.

DisGUIDE: Disagreement-Guided Data-Free Model Extraction | Jonathan Rosenthal (Purdue University), Eric Enouen (The Ohio State University), Hung Viet Pham (York University), Lin Tan (Purdue University)

Learning Combinatorial Structures via Markov Random Fields with Sampling through Lovasz Local Lemma | Nan Jiang (Purdue University), Yi Gu (Northwestern University), Yexiang Xue (Purdue University)

Modeling Human Trust and Reliance in AI-assisted Decision. Making: A Markovian Approach | Zhuoyan Li (Purdue University), Zhuoran Lu (Purdue University), Ming Yin (Purdue University)

Scaling Up AI-driven Scientific Discovery via Embedding Physics Modeling into End-to-end Learning and Harnessing Random Projection | Yexiang Xue (Purdue University), Md Nasim (Purdue University), Xinghang Zhang (Purdue University), Anter El-Azab (Purdue University)

NDSS 2023

At the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, four papers will be presented by Purdue CS faculty. Held in San Diego February 27 to March 2, NDSS is a leading security forum that fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security.

Evasion Attacks and Defenses on Smart Home Physical Event Verification | Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Ruoyu Song, Habiba Farrukh, and Z. Berkay Celik (Purdue University)

Breaking And Fixing UTXO-Based Virtual Channels | Lukas Aumayr (TU Wien); Pedro Moreno-Sanchez (IMDEA Software Institute); Aniket Kate (Purdue University); Matteo Maffei (TU Wien)

OptRand: Optimistically Responsive Reconfigurable Distributed Randomness | Adithya Bhat (Purdue University); Nibesh Shrestha (Rochester Institute of Technology); Aniket Kate (Purdue University); Kartik Nayak (Duke University)

BEAGLE: Forensics of Deep Learning Backdoor Attack for Better Defense | Siyuan Cheng, Guanhong Tao, Yingqi Liu, Shengwei An, Xiangzhe Xu, Shiwei Feng, Guangyu Shen, Kaiyuan Zhang, and Qiuling Xu (Purdue University); Shiqing Ma (Rutgers University); Xiangyu Zhang (Purdue University)

Future students may visit Purdue's campus and tour the Department of Computer Science. Our visit opportunities give you a chance to experience life at Purdue - whether you want to do that in-person or virtually. Learn more about the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University.

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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

AN ERA OF GROWTH

In the profession of computer science, demand for our majors continues to grow - once again we have broken our own record for the number of applications for freshman admissions at more than 8,700. At the start of fall classes, 785 freshman students joined our previous classes for more than 2,600 undergraduates.

This year, freshman women students represent 26% of the undergraduate population and women are 24.3% among all undergraduate students.

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GRADUATE PROGRAM

Our graduate population has exploded with 538 MS and PhD students for the 2022-23 academic year. This represents a 26% increase in growth from the previous year.

Purdue Computer Science graduate students work in any of the 11 research areas in the department.

Purdue Computer Science offers the traditional PhD and master's degree programs in addition to both an in-person and online professional master's degree in information security.

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