CCIS Undergraduates & Groups Research and Awards
In addition to the CCIS students who have won awards, many have conducted research with faculty and have published papers in computing conferences and journals.
Senior Tyler Denniston received a 2012 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award from the Computing Research Association, making him the fifth CCIS undergraduate honored for his exemplary research.
NASA co-op Matthew Strax-Haber was named one of Northeastern’s first Presidential Global Entrepreneurs in recognition of his global business work after experiences in China and the United Arab Emirates.
The CCIS ACM student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery has won six international awards in the past eight years.
The 40th annual Cooperative Education Awards honored two CCIS seniors in recognition of their co-op success and accomplishments.
A team of Northeastern University computer science and information assurance students has bested seven other teams from institutions around the United States to earn top honors in the 2010 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
Northeastern undergraduate Praful Mathur’s web-enabled baby monitor could be the next big high-tech parent gadget.
After becoming the only graduate student to sit on the ECMAScript committee, PhD student Dave Herman has been granted a $60,000 grant from Mozilla to fund his research.
Active CICsters member Elizabeth Brown is representing CCIS at Google’s FUSE program as one of only 50 participants.
The College of Computer and Information Sciences has had additional successes in the CRA competition.
CICsters Founder Kaitlyn Hanrahan’s extensive co-op experiences led to an invitation from Adobe to return for a full-time position.
CCIS Student Tanya Cashorali can continue her cutting edge research on the genetic causes of Huntington’s disease, autism, asthma, and brain cancer at Children’s Hospital, all thanks to a research grant funded by the University.
CCIS Undergraduate Ken McGrady was named a Northeastern University Presidential Scholar, adding to an impressive array of achievements and accolades.
CCIS Student Nathan Faber developed an award-winning system that can help people locate parked cars, find empty parking spaces, and even reserve parking spaces in advance.
Andrea Grimes of the College of Computer and Information Science has won the top award in the Computing Research Association 2005 Outstanding Undergraduate Award competition.
CCIS Alumna Cristina Lopes received an outstanding Alumni Award from Northeastern in recognition of her doctoral dissertation.
