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Department of Computer Science at Wake Forest University. Main office is Manchester Hall, Room 233.

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The paper tackles the problem of grouping large collections of data into meaningful clusters.

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A big shot out to Dr. Devarakonda!

His paper, co-authored with researchers at Cornell University and the University of Trento entitled "Communication-Avoiding Linear Algebraic Kernel K-Means on GPUs" has been published at IPDPS '26!

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The work is a collaborative work between CS faculty member, postdoctoral researcher, and recent & former CS MS graduate. This showcases the strength of our collaborative environment, as it was co-authored with our CS Faculty. To read more, visit:
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A big shout out to Dr. Grey Ballard's research group!

The paper, entitled "Communication Lower Bounds and Algorithms for Sketching with Random Dense Matrices," has been accepted to the 38th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Applications (SPAA'26). Congratulations!

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Wake Forest Research Fellowships are designed to provide students with the opportunity to participate in intensive scholarship under the mentorship of a WFU faculty member across the summer months. We are so proud of your achievements!

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Congrats to Eric Gao ('28), Jack Perry ('27) and Jackson Strauss ('27) for receiving partial or full support from the URECA Center through Wake Forest Research Fellowship!

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Dr. Ying Zhang is offering this course again the Fall 26 if you are interested in learning more!

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Whether you are a student who finds navigating Tribble Hall basement a challenge, looking for reliable peers to help you ace your exams, or just wanting to play poker against LLM-powered AI, we have it all.
Our students applied their SE knowledge to solve real-world problems!

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A big shout out to CS UG alumni, Bruce & Alex! Their paper has been accepted at ICML 2026. This impressive work showcases the strength of our collaborative environment, as it was co-authored w/ our CS Faculty. Congratulations!

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A big shout out to CS MS student Suraj Prasai!
This paper, "AwakeForest: An Interactive Geospatial Platform for Large-Scale Forest Imagery," has been accepted at IJCAI 2026.
This impressive work showcases the strength of our collaborative environment. Congratulations!

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We celebrated the last day of classes & recognized our well-respected Chair, Dr. Turkett, for his service fr 2020 to 2026. As we express our deep appreciation to Dr. Turkett, we are thrilled to announce that Dr. Pete Santago has been appointed as Interim Chair effective July 1!

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When the weather is this good, you take the GPU Programming class outside. Dr. Cho & students traded monitors for picnic tables. They covered everything from parallel computing to ethics & linguistics behind tech. Turns out, the quad is a pretty high-performance environment!

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Huge congratulations to our newest members! On April 20, 2026, we gathered for the UPE Induction Ceremony to honor our students' exceptional academic drive and technical mastery. We are so proud of you!

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A big shout out to our former UG student, now MS student at Duke University, Alex Zhang, and Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Bhisham Dev Verma! Their paper, coauthored with Dr. Ballard, was published in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. Congratulations!

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For details, visit: https://t.co/E030gLhYY9

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A big shout-out to CS MS student Risal & former CS MS student (now PhD student in the Dept of Biomedical Engineering at WFU) Debashis on their recent collaborations with Dr. Sarra Alqahtani!

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Shout out to our MS students DuBose, Suraj, and Postdoctoral Researcher Bhisham! They showcased their latest work and diving into a fantastic collaboration with Dr. Grey Ballard and other CS Faculty members during the WFU School of Medicine Research Day. So proud of this group!

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We invite you to celebrate their hard work and academic achievements with us.

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During the week of April 13, we will have six CS MS students ready to share their findings after months of deep dives and hard work. Here are the other three students who will be defending their work later this week.