Department News

NSF-funded Research and Crowdsourcing Come Together during the Chennai Floods

Dec 14, 2015

Team members (Sep., 2015), from left to right - Siva Kumar, Hussein Al-Olimat, Riccardo Tommasini, Prof. Valerie L. Shalin, Prof. Amit Sheth, Prof. Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Dr. Tanvi Banerjee, Pavan Kapanipathi, Sarasi Lalithsena.

The objective of the recently awarded NSF project Social and Physical Sensing Enabled Decision Support for Disaster Management and Response is to use physical and social data to improve situational awareness during natural disasters. Prof. Sheth and his students at the Kno.e.sis center working on this project sprung to action during recent...

Wright State researchers develop software to detect cyberbullying

Nov 20, 2015

Wright State University researchers are developing new software that can detect cyberbullying. The new software can search social media sites, like Facebook and Twitter, and detect messages that may be offensive or hurtful — and then alert the person who’s being targeted. …

Teams successful at the Regional ACM Contest

Nov 16, 2015

The three top teams from our ACM programming contest competed in the 2015 East Central NA Regional Contest on October 31, 2015. They were up against teams from Ohio State University, Miami University, and Purdue University among others.

Overall our teams held their own. The Wright Team consisting of Paul Fuchs, Aidan Cole, and Josh Childers along with The Irish Wristwatches consisting of Matthew Hangen, Matthew Weber, and Anthony Botting were tied for 6^th place. This put...

DaSeLab at ISWC2015

Nov 13, 2015

In the picture: Raghava Mutharaju, David Carral, Amit Joshi, Pascal Hitzler, Adila Krisnadh, Michelle Cheatham, Reihaneh Amini

Seven members of the Data Semantics Lab – Reihaneh Amini, David Carral, Michelle Cheatham, Pascal Hitzler, Amit Joshi, Adila...

Technology for technology-induced disease

Nov 10, 2015

Researchers at Wright State's Kno.e.sis center are developing computer technology to analyze social media posts in an effort to identify and reduce cyberbullying.

11 faculty members honored for excellence in classroom, service

Sep 2, 2015

Wright State recognizes select faculty members for excellent work in the classroom, research, community engagement, professional service and early career achievement.

Thomas Sudkamp appointed to serve as provost at Wright State University

Aug 19, 2015

Thomas Sudkamp will serve as Wright State's chief academic officer with the title provost and vice president for curriculum and instruction, and Mark Polatajko has been named chief operating officer and vice president of business and finance.

Engineers Club of Dayton to welcome another Wright State engineering researcher to historic “Barn Gang”

Aug 4, 2015

Mike Raymer, professor of computer science and engineering, is the latest engineering researcher to join the so-called "Barn Gang" at the Dayton Engineers Club.

Courses at Wright State push the academic envelope

May 14, 2015