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SCDS adds seven new computer and data science faculty

Interest in computer and data science at the University of Oregon continues to build, and the School of Computer and Data Sciences is expanding to accommodate the growing number of students who want to enter the field. This year, the school added seven new faculty members—five in computer science and two in data science—to help meet the demand for courses in key subject areas.
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Ready, Willing, and Able to Build a Better Internet

COMPUTER SCIENCE - When Ramakrishnan (Ram) Durairajan, associate professor and Ripple Fellow in the School of Computer and Data Science, decided it was time to take on the beast that is the internet, he came prepared. Durairajan’s team is developing a new, more agile defense framework that can be programmed to control network infrastructure and forward behavior.
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Hacking the Job Market

COMPUTER SCIENCE - Cybersecurity jobs to protect users and companies from hackers are in growing demand, and a new undergraduate degree in the College of Arts and Sciences is training students to fill that role. Launched in the fall of 2023, the cybersecurity major combines rigorous courses and hands-on fieldwork with the aim of preparing students to hit the ground running in a cybersecurity career.

Battling to Learn

COMPUTER SCIENCE - Robotics champion and international women's education advocate Saghar Salehi escaped certain death in Afghanistan to continue her fight for Afghan women’s rights as a computer science major in the UO College of Arts and Sciences. Read more in the March/April issue of CAS Connection.

Professors Rejaie and Durairajan Receive $1M+ from NSF to Push the Frontiers of Runtime Programmable Dataplanes

Professors Reza Rejaie and Ram Durairajan, co-directors of Oregon Networking Research Group (ONRG) and faculty members in the CS department, recently received a competitive $1M+ grant from the NSF Computer and Network Systems program in support of their research project titled: “Distributed Runtime Dataplane Telemetry as an Adaptive Query Scheduling Problem: Algorithms and Applications.”
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