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Join us Monday, October 19 at 4:00 PM in Alumni Hall 286! Dr. Ron Doyle will share his insight on topic entitled The One-Person Startup: Building a Real MVP with an AI Coding Agent.
All are welcome.
All are welcome.
October 5, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Join us Monday, October 19 at 4:00 PM in Alumni Hall 286! Dr. Ron Doyle will share his insight on topic entitled The One-Person Startup: Building a Real MVP with an AI Coding Agent.
All are welcome.
All are welcome.
We’re leading, but this isn't locked in until the last hour —and every single lap brings us closer to making a real impact!
In these final 60 minutes, our students, faculty and staff will keep the relay going to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund at
@AtriumHealthWFB!
In these final 60 minutes, our students, faculty and staff will keep the relay going to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund at
@AtriumHealthWFB!
October 1, 2026 at 7:53 PM
We’re leading, but this isn't locked in until the last hour —and every single lap brings us closer to making a real impact!
In these final 60 minutes, our students, faculty and staff will keep the relay going to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund at
@AtriumHealthWFB!
In these final 60 minutes, our students, faculty and staff will keep the relay going to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund at
@AtriumHealthWFB!
It's this time of the year!
Fundraising hour for Hit the Bricks is 2pm-3pm. The team that raises the most during this period will gain twenty-five extra laps! Come support Compile & Run, and the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist before 5pm!
Fundraising hour for Hit the Bricks is 2pm-3pm. The team that raises the most during this period will gain twenty-five extra laps! Come support Compile & Run, and the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist before 5pm!
October 1, 2026 at 3:48 PM
It's this time of the year!
Fundraising hour for Hit the Bricks is 2pm-3pm. The team that raises the most during this period will gain twenty-five extra laps! Come support Compile & Run, and the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist before 5pm!
Fundraising hour for Hit the Bricks is 2pm-3pm. The team that raises the most during this period will gain twenty-five extra laps! Come support Compile & Run, and the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist before 5pm!
"When the agent skill is flawed or developed with malicious intent, it will steal your data and maybe pass it back to a remote server to be used in some malicious way"
Ying Zhang, Computer Science Department
Ying Zhang, Computer Science Department
September 28, 2026 at 4:39 PM
"When the agent skill is flawed or developed with malicious intent, it will steal your data and maybe pass it back to a remote server to be used in some malicious way"
Ying Zhang, Computer Science Department
Ying Zhang, Computer Science Department
It's that time of year again! Get pumped for Hit the Bricks and join us as we run (and walk!) our socks off to support cancer research at one of Wake Forest's most beloved traditions. Our very own CS Dept has a team - Compile and Run, and we want YOU to join us!
September 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM
It's that time of year again! Get pumped for Hit the Bricks and join us as we run (and walk!) our socks off to support cancer research at one of Wake Forest's most beloved traditions. Our very own CS Dept has a team - Compile and Run, and we want YOU to join us!
Join us Tuesday, Sept 22 at 4:00 PM in Alumni 286! Our students will share insights into their research and internship experiences
Geng - Internship@encent in China
Boone - Internship@Centripetal Networks
Jackson - URECA Research
DuBose - Research@Rutherford Appleton Lab in UK
Geng - Internship@encent in China
Boone - Internship@Centripetal Networks
Jackson - URECA Research
DuBose - Research@Rutherford Appleton Lab in UK
September 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Join us Tuesday, Sept 22 at 4:00 PM in Alumni 286! Our students will share insights into their research and internship experiences
Geng - Internship@encent in China
Boone - Internship@Centripetal Networks
Jackson - URECA Research
DuBose - Research@Rutherford Appleton Lab in UK
Geng - Internship@encent in China
Boone - Internship@Centripetal Networks
Jackson - URECA Research
DuBose - Research@Rutherford Appleton Lab in UK
Join us Monday, September 14 at 4:00 PM in Alumni Hall 286! Dr. Ron Doyle will share his insight on topic titled Computing & Entrepreneurship – Thriving in the AI Era.
cs.wfu.edu/computing-an...
All are welcome!
cs.wfu.edu/computing-an...
All are welcome!
Computing and Entrepreneurship - Thriving in the AI Era by Dr. Ron Doyle | Department of Computer Science
Join us Monday, September 14 at 4:00 PM in Alumni Hall 286! Dr. Ron Doyle will share his insight on topic entitled Computing & Entrepreneurship – Thriving in the AI Era. What happens when computing me...
cs.wfu.edu
September 1, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Join us Monday, September 14 at 4:00 PM in Alumni Hall 286! Dr. Ron Doyle will share his insight on topic titled Computing & Entrepreneurship – Thriving in the AI Era.
cs.wfu.edu/computing-an...
All are welcome!
cs.wfu.edu/computing-an...
All are welcome!
A big shout out to Dr. Zhang!
The paper, titled CognixShield: PoV-Guided Vulnerable API Usage Detection in Large Codebases via LLMs, has been accepted at the
ESEM 2026!
Congratulations!
The paper, titled CognixShield: PoV-Guided Vulnerable API Usage Detection in Large Codebases via LLMs, has been accepted at the
ESEM 2026!
Congratulations!
August 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
A big shout out to Dr. Zhang!
The paper, titled CognixShield: PoV-Guided Vulnerable API Usage Detection in Large Codebases via LLMs, has been accepted at the
ESEM 2026!
Congratulations!
The paper, titled CognixShield: PoV-Guided Vulnerable API Usage Detection in Large Codebases via LLMs, has been accepted at the
ESEM 2026!
Congratulations!
An exciting new chapter is beginning for our department in Alumni Hall!
Our new home gives us more space to grow, innovate, and connect. With upgraded facilities, we’re better equipped than ever to support hands-on learning and faculty-student collaboration.
Our new home gives us more space to grow, innovate, and connect. With upgraded facilities, we’re better equipped than ever to support hands-on learning and faculty-student collaboration.
July 31, 2026 at 1:24 PM
An exciting new chapter is beginning for our department in Alumni Hall!
Our new home gives us more space to grow, innovate, and connect. With upgraded facilities, we’re better equipped than ever to support hands-on learning and faculty-student collaboration.
Our new home gives us more space to grow, innovate, and connect. With upgraded facilities, we’re better equipped than ever to support hands-on learning and faculty-student collaboration.
"Vulnerabilities in code, once considered low risk in traditional software can become much more dangerous in AI-powered environments.” said Ying Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science at WFU.
July 24, 2026 at 4:17 PM
"Vulnerabilities in code, once considered low risk in traditional software can become much more dangerous in AI-powered environments.” said Ying Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science at WFU.
Congrats to Dr. Grey Ballard's research group! The paper, entitled "Communication Avoiding Parallel Sketching via Sparse Subspace Embeddings," has been accepted to the 33rd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (SC ’26)
July 2, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Congrats to Dr. Grey Ballard's research group! The paper, entitled "Communication Avoiding Parallel Sketching via Sparse Subspace Embeddings," has been accepted to the 33rd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (SC ’26)
Congrats to Drs. Hussain, Ballard and Devarakonda! Their paper "High-Performance Star-M SVD for Big Data Compression" is accepted to ICPP 2026. This work is in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and the Indian Institute of Science.
July 2, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Congrats to Drs. Hussain, Ballard and Devarakonda! Their paper "High-Performance Star-M SVD for Big Data Compression" is accepted to ICPP 2026. This work is in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and the Indian Institute of Science.
We are excited to announce that Prof. Alex Hicks will be joining our WFU Computer Science department as an Instructor starting in July 2026. His research focuses on computer science education, software testing, and automated feedback systems.
Welcome to WFU!
Welcome to WFU!
July 2, 2026 at 12:10 AM
We are excited to announce that Prof. Alex Hicks will be joining our WFU Computer Science department as an Instructor starting in July 2026. His research focuses on computer science education, software testing, and automated feedback systems.
Welcome to WFU!
Welcome to WFU!
A big shot out to Dr. Devarakonda! His paper, entitled "Scalable GNN Explanations with Distributed Shapley Values" has been accepted to the 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2026!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
June 18, 2026 at 11:20 PM
A big shot out to Dr. Devarakonda! His paper, entitled "Scalable GNN Explanations with Distributed Shapley Values" has been accepted to the 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2026!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
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!
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!
June 2, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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!
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!
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!
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!
June 1, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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!
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!
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!
May 26, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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!
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!
Our students applied their SE knowledge to solve real-world problems!
May 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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!
Our students applied their SE knowledge to solve real-world problems!
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!
May 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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!
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!
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!
May 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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!
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!
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!
April 30, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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!
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!
April 28, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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!
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!
April 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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!
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!
April 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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!
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! For details, visit: cs.wfu.edu/recent-publi...
April 16, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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! For details, visit: cs.wfu.edu/recent-publi...