Important Information
- School of Computing faculty and staff meeting —
- Computing Advisory Board meeting —
- First day of fall 2026 classes —
Faculty Achievements
- Congratulations to Athlene Jones and Indika Kahanda on the acceptance of their paper, “A Comparative Analysis of In-Context Learning and Fine-Tuning for Biomedical Information Retrieval and Sentence Extraction Using Research Domain Criteria,” to the BioNLP workshop.
- Congratulations to Vishwaa Shah and Indika Kahanda on the acceptance of their paper, “A Multi-View Framework for Cross-Domain Nutrition Misinformation Detection in Social Media,” to the BioNLP workshop.
- Congratulations to Tejaswi Vemuri on the acceptance of the poster “Motif2Gene: Interpreting Model-Identified Important Regions via Motifs, Transcription Factors, and Nearest Genes” to Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2026.
- Congratulations to Trung Dinh on the acceptance of the poster “Predicting Accessible Chromatin Regions in Plants Using Co-linear Chaining and Machine Learning” to Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2026.
- Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy received the Postsecondary Partner of the Year Award from the St. Johns County School District. Additionally, he and Dr. Dan Richard received the Data for Good Award from the Nonprofit Center for Northeast Florida. Congratulations!
- Dr. Anirban Ghosh’s paper, “Constructing Doppelgängers of Greedy Geometric Spanners in Practice”, received the Best Practice Paper Award at the 42nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry, held in New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 2–5, 2026. Congratulations!
- “A Scalable Rule-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for the Next Release Problem,” co-authored by Dr. Nan Niu, has been accepted at the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. Congratulations!
- The proposal “Supporting Legacy Code Evolution in Research Software through Generative AI-driven Refactoring and Metamorphic Testing: A Pilot Study,” submitted by Dr. Upulee Kanewala, principal investigator, and Dr. Nan Niu, co-principal investigator, has been approved for funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This one-year project will receive $105,000 in funding. Congratulations to the principal investigator team!
- Congratulations to Dr. Anirban Ghosh and Ayan Dutta on the acceptance of their paper, “TACO-Net: Topological Signatures Triumph in 3D Object Classification,” to the 19th European Conference on Computer Vision.
Successful Promotions at the School of Computing: Candidate Reflections
Dr. Sandeep Reddivari, Full Professor
Reflecting on the promotion process, my advice is to view your academic career as a long-term commitment to excellence rather than a checklist of accomplishments. Focus on creating meaningful impact through teaching, research, and service, and allow your contributions to build a strong and sustained record over time.
Invest in your students by creating engaging learning experiences, supporting their growth, and continuously improving your teaching. Pursue research that addresses important challenges and seek opportunities to contribute to academic programs. Mentoring students and engaging in meaningful service activities within the School of Computing and the university provide valuable opportunities to support our students, strengthen our programs, and make a lasting impact.
When preparing your promotion portfolio, present a clear narrative of your professional journey. Highlight how your teaching, scholarship, and service have evolved, and demonstrate the value your work has brought to the School of Computing, the College of Computing, Engineering and Construction, UNF, and the broader computing community. Seek feedback from trusted colleagues throughout the process, and remember that promotion recognizes not only your past accomplishments but also your continued commitment to contributing to the university and the profession.
Elise Marshall, University Instructor
Congratulations to all of you. Your work is impressive, and you are each doing important things. For those preparing for promotion or tenure, keep your focus on impact: the ways your teaching elevates student learning, the ways your research, for those on the tenure track, moves the computing discipline forward, and the ways your service strengthens the School of Computing, the College of Computing, Engineering and Construction, and UNF.
Be specific about how you and your students have grown, where you have led, and where your work is headed. Keep building innovative teaching approaches, meaningful research, and service that reflect initiative and results.
Make space to create a packet that truly represents your achievements. Invite feedback from colleagues you trust, and confidently highlight the work that best reflects who you are as a scholar and educator. You have earned the right to tell your story proudly.