Professor Zhigang Zhu (PI), along with Co-PI's Tony Ro (Psychology, CCNY), Ying Li Tian (EE, CCNY), Kok-Meng Lee (Georgia Tech) and Boris Prilutsky (Georgia Tech) have been awarded a 4 year NSF EFRI award under the topic Man, Machine and Motor Control (M3C) for their proposal: Mobility Skill Acquisition and Learning through Alternative and Multimodal Perception for Visually Impaired People. [Details]
Professor Zhigang Zhu with Professor Jizhong Xiao have received a NCIAA grant for a senior design course on: Wearable Multimodal Wayfinding Techniques for Blind and Visually Impaired People. [Details]
Professors Nelly Fazio, Gilbert Baumslag, William Skeith, together with Vladimir Shpilrain (Mathematics/CCNY) and Antonio Nicolosi (Computer Science/Stevens), have received a 3-year NSF TC award entitled “Collaborative Research: Provable Security from Group Theory and Applications” . [Details]
Professors Michael Grossberg and Irina Gladkova, together with Maria Binz-Scharf (Economics and Business) and Karin Block (Earth and Atmospheric Science) have received a City Seed grant entitled “Designing Cyber-infrastructure to Facilitate Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in the Geosciences”.
The Department of Computer Science and the Department of Mathematics have received up to $5000 budget from the provost’s office for inviting inter-departmental seminars to prompt the steady development and exchange of ideas. A serial of seminars have been planned during 2011-2012 academic year and the schedule will be announced soon.
Professor Peter Brass organized of the 21st Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry held on Nov. 4-5 2011 at the CCNY. The workshop attracted more than 100 attendees worldwide. [Details]
