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October 11, 2024
As a 12-year-old, David Madrigal-Giraldo arrived in the U.S. speaking no English. Fast forward a decade, and he’s an information technology student at Kennesaw State University actively shaping his future.
October 07, 2024
At a time when data is doubling every two years, the U.S. is projected to create over 40 billion gigabytes of data by 2025. To prepare for the influx, Kennesaw State University associate professor Yong Shi, an expert in quantum machine learning (QML), aims to unlock insights from the data surge and educate future QML researchers. Shi was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop open-source, hands-on QML training materials to address the shortage of researchers and its limited presence in higher education.
September 25, 2024
A 2023 cybersecurity breach that compromised the data of 37 million T-Mobile customers highlights the need for better privacy solutions, something Kennesaw State University’s Xinyue Zhang is working to deliver. Zhang’s research focuses on the crucial intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. Her goal is to develop secure AI models that not only protect personal information, but also reduce energy use.
August 28, 2024
Born at the height of the Civil Rights movement as the son of one of the nation’s first black physicists, Alan Shaw stands on the shoulders of giants who changed the course of history. Now an associate professor and the associate chair of the Computer Science department at Kennesaw State University, he is carving his own path by impacting the lives of countless students through educational technology and the theory of social constructivism.
August 21, 2024
On Nov. 31, 2022, a group of students gathered around Jeanne Law’s computer and stared in wonder. It was the day after OpenAI released an early demo of ChatGPT, and Law, a professor of English at Kennesaw State, was curious to see what the chatbot could do. “In that moment, I knew it could have a profound impact on all of us,” Law said.
August 08, 2024
Kennesaw State University leaders have unveiled “Taking Flight,” a new strategic plan that embraces the institution’s status as an emerging top public research university, while expanding its impact through excellence in teaching, relevant research, and community partnerships that benefit the region, state, and nation.
July 23, 2024
Toni Kamau is a digger. When something grabs the Kennesaw State University sophomore’s attention, she wants to find out everything about it she can, which serves her well in research. “When I assigned a goal for Toni and she reached that goal, she had the initiative to go further,” said Chloe Xie, assistant professor of information technology and Kamau’s research mentor in the First-Year Scholar’s Program. Last fall and spring semesters, Kamau worked with Xie, along with other students to examine processes of how DNA is damaged and how it repairs itself.
July 22, 2024
From crochet to calculus, and much more in between, Mercy Olaniran’s interests seem unlimited. But the rising Kennesaw State University sophomore said she is certain her career interest lies in computer science, which is her major in the College of Computing and Software Engineering.
March 15, 2024
Most people know someone with a “go-getter” personality – that person who is energetic and determined to be successful. There might not be a person who better encompasses the idea of being a go-getter than Kennesaw State University student Tashin Kazi. While still a junior at Woodstock High School, he started emailing professors at Kennesaw State asking to join a research team. It was through that outreach that Kazi was connected to Maria Valero, an assistant professor of information technology in KSU’s College of Computing and Software Engineering (CCSE).
February 13, 2024
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia today approved a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI) degree program at Kennesaw State University, beginning in the Fall 2024 semester.