Research

UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) hosted the annual Cybersecurity Symposium on Oct. 22-23 on the University’s campus, marking the event’s 25th anniversary. The annual gathering once again provided a forum for students, researchers and industry professionals to interact, sharing best practices and career advice while looking forward into the next quarter-century of […]

It’s the year 2000. Dial-up internet reigns supreme. AOL has over 20 million customers. Cell phones don’t have cameras, let alone app stores. Most computers are bulky, desk-bound plastic rectangles. And if your company is forward-thinking enough to have a chief technology officer, chances are that person is still using a pager. Twenty-five years ago […]

UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics Dr. Richard Allen White III, faculty in the College of Computing and Informatics and the North Carolina Research Campus, has published new research explaining how microscopic protist organisms and tiny animals called metazoans affect the growth and health of modern microbialites, which are modern versions of ancient ecosystems that […]

Dr. Richard Allen White III — Assistant professor of bioinformatics in UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics and the North Carolina Research Campus — along with a global group of scholars argue the scientific community’s understanding of the causes and impacts of global climate change could be deepened by paying more attention to how […]

The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded UNC Charlotte researchers an R01 grant to develop point-of-care mobile health technology to reduce heat and pesticide-induced farmworker health disparities.  Professors Jun Wang and Xiuxia Du from the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics in the College of Computing and Informatics […]

When Shirish Yasa was a 10 year-old kid attending educational summer camps at UNC Charlotte, he walked through the beautiful campus each day dreaming about what it’d be like to be a student at his hometown university. “I was very familiar with the campus and I really liked walking around when I was doing those […]

Manuel Pérez Quiñones, Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems in the College of Computing and Informatics, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, one of the nation’s most influential computing research and policy nonprofit organizations. An advocate for broadening participation in computing, Pérez Quiñones is excited […]

The Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City, Utah isn’t just one of the most well-known ecological features in America and one of the largest lakes on the planet. Like all lakes, it is also teeming with viruses that are not harmful to humans and only infect microbes, and instead play pivotal roles in maintaining […]

Mehdi Bourahla’s path to UNC Charlotte and the College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) has been a long one – over 4,600-miles long across the Atlantic Ocean from the nation of Algeria, in fact. A recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship awarded by the U.S. State Department, Mehdi is part of an exclusive group of […]

The most important digital currency in ecommerce is data. As personal information is collected and shared, risks to individual privacy climb, and UNC Charlotte computer scientist Liyue Fan is researching novel ways to better protect individuals’ personal data. Through a five-year National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award, Fan is investigating data-sharing algorithms that can be […]