School of Computing and Information Science

2020 marks the 30th year that the University of Maine has been conveying PhDs in Spatial Information Science and Engineering (and the degree’s predecessor, the PhD in Surveying Engineering). During that timeframe, 62 students have graduated and entered highly successful careers. Over half of them work or worked in academia at such institutions as Penn […]

Are you interested in how the Congressional gerrymandering crisis might be addressed? If so, join us at a presentation on pioneering work being accomplished by University of Maine System researchers to guide State legislatures and the courts towards far more defensible redistricting results. When: Tuesday Dec. 3 at noon, Where: Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB), University […]

The University of Maine School of Computing and Information Science seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2020. Our primary target focus is the broad area of data science (machine learning, data mining, data analytics, graph analysis, data visualization), but we will consider exceptionally qualified candidates […]

Continuing the trajectory that was begun last year, the Computer Science Capstone class has become a two-semester program in professional practice, concentrating on software development.  Dr. Terry Yoo has organized the class into four- to five-person programming teams, and a request for proposals was circulated around the UMaine campus.  The clients who are sponsoring these […]

When: Monday, November 25 at 4:00 pm Where: Hauck Auditorium, Memorial Union, University of Maine Dr, James Burrell is the former head of FBI Cyber Security (as in reporting directly to the White House and Director James Comey). He retired in 2016 but is still very active and engaged as a global cybersecurity consultant. Here […]

Dr. Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh will present a talk on one aspect of her research concerning machine learning algorithms at noon this Friday. Anyone interested from the campus community is invited and welcome to attend. Title: Advanced Graph-Based Techniques with Applications in Dimensionality Reduction  Time: November 8, Friday, at 12:00 PM Location:  Soderberg Lecture Hall, Jenness Hall, University […]

Dr. Nicholas Giudice, Professor of Spatial Informatics in the School of Computing and Information Science was among the recipients of a University-wide Faculty Mentor Impact Award. He was recognized for his support, advocacy, and mentorship of his students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Students from across campus nominated hundreds of faculty mentors for […]

As part of the new NSF-funded research “INSPIRES”, we’re looking for a PhD student that will work in the broad theme of Environmental Informatics, bringing together semantic and statistical, data-driven methods to understand spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal patterns in forest data. The ideal candidate holds a Masters’s degree in a related discipline (e.g. Computer Science, […]

Dr. Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh (salimeh.yasaei@umaine.edu) will be offering this new course from 9:30-10:45 am on Tue/Thu. The course addresses the foundations of machine learning with applications in real-world problems. The ML techniques recognize hidden patterns that often provide dramatic competitive advantages with significant computational improvements in learning tasks never imagined before. Please download the full […]