As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe in early 2020, Binghamton University’s Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science went virtual for students, faculty and staff.
The Department of Computer Science stepped up to the challenges and attained notable achievements during the 2019-20 academic year.
The department earned an unprecedented three NSF CAREER Awards, which the National Science Foundation gives to supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.
Assistant Professor Yao Liu won a five-year, $486,169 grant for her work on immersive media. Her work centers on area-of-focus projections, which are generated by analyzing human behavior to decide which parts of a 360-degree image get most of a user’s attention.