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The induction ceremony of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) was held Friday, March 8, 2019.  This year’s inductees are:

Undergraduate

• Alexander Boyle          
• Geoffrey Cohen          
• Joseph Demoneris      
• Alen Dimitrov       
• Abigail Eastman        
• Matthew Halloran       
• Max Henning        
• John Kubach         
• Alex Lam            
• Gabriella Mayorga        
• Zachary Miles          
• Vincent Pedata         
• Christopher Pham           
• Madeline Presnell       
• Nicholas Santoro        
• Victoria Scavetta       
• Kevin Swan           

Graduate

• Anthony Ratliff
• Paolo Trinchieri  

The Nhan Huynh Medallion Award for excellence in computer science is awarded in memory of Nhan Huynh, Rowan ’89.  It is presented to the student with the highest GPA in CS courses.  This year the honor goes to Wen Cao.

                In addition to being a member of ACM and being a tutor/LA, Wen has also volunteered over many weeks to set up and troubleshoot a multiuser Rowan flask environment.  His current research project focuses on applying Machine Learning and Computer Vision techniques towards data challenges that have been proposed by the National Science Foundation (NSF). (i.e. detecting car accidents within traffic data).  Congratulations Wen!

               The Dean’s Outstanding Senior Awards (DOSA) are given each to year to graduating seniors in the College of Science & Mathematics and School of Health Professions. Programs within the College and the School nominate and select students to receive the awards.  Although important, it is not based solely on students’ grade point average, rather on the individuals overall contributions to department, university, and/or community.  This year the computer science honor goes to Russell Binaco.

                Russell Binaco has a stellar academic record with a double major in CS and ECE, Bantivoglio Honors College member, Mathematics minor, Spanish CUGS, and enrollment in the accelerated CS Masters. His most notable research used machine learning to classify cognitive decline levels in Alzheimer's patients. He volunteers regularly for Computer Science activities, like our programming contests and open houses. As a sophomore, he was one of our first Learning Assistants/Tutors. Russ has helped and enriched the lives of hundreds of students in this capacity. Russ initiated a tutoring service project for three Computer Science clubs, is a member of two honors societies –Tau Beta Pi (Engineering) and Pi Mu Epsilon (Math), and a president of a third i.e., Upsilon Pi Epsilon (CS).

The Head’s Outstanding Senior Award (HOSA) is presented to the graduating senior with not only an impressive GPA but who has made significant contributions to the department, university and/or community.  This year we have 2 recipients of this award, Caroline Grala and Philip Quinn.  These students’ best represent our department and their field of study.

Caroline Grala is a founding member of ACM-W.  She has served on its board each year since its founding as its treasurer, vice president, and now president.  Under her tenure, ACM-W has been a part of many outreach programs. 

She has used her internships at NAVSEA and Lockheed Martin to conduct research which include methods of integrating training for sailors and using machine learning techniques for predictive maintenance.  She has also worked on projects for ASRC Federal as part of her software engineering class.  After graduation she will be working at Lockheed Martin where she has received and accepted a full time position as a systems engineer.  Congratulations, Caroline!

Philip Quinn is currently a student in our 4 + 1 program.  He has served the computer science department in many capacities including being a CS learning assistant and tutor, UPE member and vice president, and webmaster of Rowan IEEE.  He volunteers at the CS open house and MathCounts and has presented at LiBBy, 2017 summer STEM symposium, and 2018 PHICWIC conference.  In addition to these achievements, Philip was an RA for 3 years and a member of several honor societies including Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society and Pi Mu Epsilon Math Honors Society. 

Philip interned at Lockheed Martin working with artificial intelligence and has an upcoming internship with RunSignup as a full stack intern.

Please join in us in congratulating all of these deserving students.