Electric fish and robots may hold the key to achieving “autonomous lifelong machine learning,” based on research conducted at West Virginia University with the aid of a $2 million National Science Foundation grant.

The electrical grid faces a mounting barrage of threats that could trigger a butterfly effect – floods, superstorms, heat waves, cyberattacks, not to mention its own ballooning complexity and size – that the nation is unprepared to handle. With more than $1.3 million in combined funding, Anurag Srivastava and researchers are tackling two convergent studies aiming to transform power grid crisis response.

From the depths of space, astronomers have detected a “heartbeat.” The “heartbeat” turns out to be another mysterious Fast Radio Burst, but this one sounds quite unique.

Blurry, low-resolution images from security cameras or drones can throw hurdles at the efforts of law enforcement and military. This is where one WVU engineer hopes to paint a clearer picture by developing robust face recognition software algorithms capable of accurately identifying individuals at distances as far as 300 meters, or nearly 1,000 feet.

The Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University has partnered with Coursera to offer an online master’s degree program in software engineering to give students and professionals the skills and credentials needed to fill these vacancies.

Recognized for their exemplary academic achievement and extracurricular involvement, Callyn Zeigler and four other students have been named the West Virginia University 2022 Mountaineers of Distinction, a Mountaineer Week tradition.

Members of the cyber security student organization, CyberWVU, placed 13th in the eighth annual CyberForce Competition. The event, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and led by the Argonne National Laboratory, challenged 144 U.S. college and university teams from 35 states and Puerto Rico to thwart a simulated cyberattack.

To bolster partnerships with regional leaders in academia and industry, the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University hosted its first Industry Day on October 21.

Dear friends and colleagues,

As we enter the final days of the fall semester, I hope you have plans that allow you to rest, relax, and recharge. Also, please take a moment and pat yourself on the back for all you have accomplished this year. I am pleased to proudly highlight the list of accomplishments of our students, faculty and alumni during the past couple of months with a strategic focus on solving our society's biggest challenges.

We welcomed four new faculty members this semester— Piotr Wojciechowski, Amr El-Wakeel, Sara Tehranipoor and Nima Karimian. The Department hosted the first-ever Industry Day in October, focused on preparing our students to be industry ready. In November, computer science and computer engineering student Callyn Zeigler was named a WVU 2022 Mountaineers of Distinction. November also witnessed an agreement with Coursera to offer our highly-ranked online master's degree program in software engineering.

Our faculty have driven extraordinary growth in WVU engineering's interdisciplinary research program focusing on health, energy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and biometrics. We are proud of all the students, alumni and faculty for supporting our mission to a bright future.

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