Department of Computer Science

Assistant Professor Jia Xu and her team graduate students in Stevens Department of Computer Science have been awarded a $250,000 AlexaPrize Grant by Amazon. With this project, her team aims to realize a social bot that acts like one's close friend, not only having the functions of answering correctly, knowledgeably, and fluently but also with care and attention, sharing the unique experience that only a true friend would have.

Associate professor Samatha Kleinberg recently joined a large, sprawling project that converges many of her research interests, “Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program,” which is funded by the National Institutes of Health at $170 million over five years. The goal is to “develop algorithms to predict individual responses to food and dietary routines,” according to a news release on the study. As part of this study, Kleinberg and her research lab are receiving $1.26 million of that grant.

Stevens Institute of Technology's Center for the Advancement of Secure Systems and Information Assurance (CASSIA) – which fosters collaboration and catalyzes research, education and entrepreneurship in information assurance and cybersecurity – has recently been redesignated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) through the academic year 2027. The National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity program is managed by National Security Agency’s National Cryptologic School and aims to recognize exemplar cybersecurity programs. Stevens has held this designation since 2003. In addition to the CAE-CD designation, Stevens is also one of only two institutions in New Jersey to have two designations. Since 2008, Stevens has also been recognized as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R).