From internship to industry: How two computer science students discovered their passion for cybersecurity

Bonna Mesfin and Shertal St Luce didn’t know what the future held for their career, until landing their dream internship at QSMI.

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FBI presents VCU College of Engineering professor with leadership award for work advocating cybersecurity and outreach programs

For dedication in advancing the field of artificial intelligence to protect the United States’ critical infrastructure from cyber attacks, Milos Manic, Ph.D., computer science professor at the VCU College of Engineering, was presented with the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA) by FBI Director Christopher Wray.

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The VCU College of Engineering hosts annual high school programming contest

Every year, the Department of Computer Science invites high school students from across Virginia to put their programming skills to the test.

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Class of 2024: From 40 schools and $1.6M in scholarship offers, Sam Lyons picked a winner

Impressive size and diversity attracted him to VCU, where the computer science major will continue on an accelerated pathway to his master’s.

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Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering alumnus Andriy Mulyar is transforming how people think about large datasets in AI model training.

“The principle behind us is that we bring transparency and democratic access to the datasets and training data that fuels AI systems,” said Andriy Mulyar, VCU Engineering alumnus and Forbes’ 30 under 30 recipient.

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VCU College of Engineering to offer six new master’s programs

The College of Engineering launches new master’s concentrations in aerospace engineering, engineering management, environmental and sustainable engineering, rehabilitation engineering, systems engineering, and tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

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VCU College of Engineering to offer six new minor programs

The College of Engineering launches new minors in artificial intelligence, aerospace engineering, nuclear engineering, software engineering, cybersecurity and data science.

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VCU to expand GPU computing capacity thanks to National Science Foundation grant

Alberto Cano, Ph.D. receives $300,000 grant to purchase high-performance computing equipment.

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Professor of computer science Lukasz Kurgan inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology

Kurgan is a leader in the bioinformatics community who has developed popular bioinformatics tools and databases.

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Class of 2023: With the spirit of a grandpa she never knew, Maisha Mahmood excels in the ‘guilty pleasure’ of math and computer science

VCU student from Bangladesh embraces generational connections and the sacrifice of her family to pursue her education.

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