News | Drexel CCI

- CCI Corporate Partners Program Hosts Executive Panel on Cybersecurity
  
  November 07, 2018
  
  The expert panelists included Nicholas W. Santillo, Jr. (Vice President, Chief Digital infrastructure and Security Officer at American Water), Stephen Stewart (Chief Technology Officer at Nuix) and Chuck Ludwig (Head of Information Security at Susquehanna International Group, LLP).
- Faculty Highlights: Grants and Awards From Spring and Summer 2018
  
  October 09, 2018
  
  Over the past two terms, there has been a lot of research funding, commercialization activity and faculty honors at Drexel University.
- University-Level Business Solutions Institute Launched
  
  September 26, 2018
  
  Drexel University announced the creation of the Business Solutions Institute, which is partnering with the Steinbright Career Development Center to act as Drexel’s gateway for industry to reframe co-op partnerships.
- Area STEM Teachers Go Back to School for REThink CS at Drexel
  
  August 15, 2018
  
  The teachers participating in this year’s research institute explored a wide range of topics including information privacy, machine learning, human-computer interaction, brain computer interfaces, smart textiles, computer graphics and medical imaging. Teachers will remain engaged year-round by taking part in monthly electronic meetings with their faculty mentors, attending a winter campus meeting and other regional events.
- Denise Agosto Receives 2018 SIG-USE Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Research Award
  
  July 26, 2018
  
  The award recognizes Agosto's outstanding contribution to information behavior research and her achievements having significant impact in the field.
- Confessions of a Career-Switcher
  
  July 06, 2018
  
  Adena Ellner, a recent graduate from the master of science in information systems and certificate in healthcare informatics programs, came to Drexel after leaving a career in the financial services industry. In a Q&A with DrexelNow, she relays what made her Drexel experience so rewarding, as well as her advice for fellow students.
- Drexel’s College of Computing & Informatics Celebrates the Class of 2018
  
  June 20, 2018
  
  On June 14 and 15, the College of Computing & Informatics (CCI) graduated its fourth class of more than 240 undergraduate and graduate students at Drexel University’s Commencement Ceremonies.
- Drexel CCI Congratulates 2018 Computer Science Student Award Winners
  
  June 06, 2018
  
  On Monday, June 4, fourteen students were honored by the Department of Computer Science for their outstanding achievements in leadership, research, teaching assistantship, and academics.
- N.Y. Mayor Taps Drexel Professor For First Algorithm Quality-Control Task Force
  
  June 04, 2018
  
  Algorithms aren’t just deciding the content of social media feeds and online advertising anymore. To guard against bias creep and streamline decisions about the allocation of resources, many urban areas across the country are turning to these automated decision systems. But how do we ensure that the algorithms are the impartial arbiters we expect them to be? Drexel University professor Julia Stoyanovich is part of the first group in the nation helping to answer this question in the biggest urban area in the world. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tapped Stoyanovich to serve on the city’s Automated Decision Systems Task Force, a team charged with creating a process for reviewing algorithms through the lens of fairness, equity and accountability.
- Drexel CCI Introduces New Graduate Data Science Programs for Fall 2018
  
  June 04, 2018
  
  This fall, Drexel CCI will offer a comprehensive suite of graduate and professional development programs in data science: Master of Science in Data Science, Graduate Certificates in Applied Data Science and Computational Data Science, and graduate minors in Applied Data Science and Computational Data Science.