Clement Zheng and Peter Gyory

"Hot Swap" wins top spot in alt.ctrl.GDC

March 29, 2019

Clement Zheng (right) and Peter Gyory celebrate at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco after winning the Independent Game Festival's alt.ctrl.GDC award, which came with a $3,000 payout.

Zack Weaver

Former ATLAS PhD student Zack Weaver coleads team that wins Library Journal Movers & Shakers award

March 12, 2019

Former ATLAS PhD student and BTU lab member, Zack Weaver, and his team from Building 61, the hacker/makerspace at the 麻豆影院 Public Library, received a Library Journal 2019 Movers & Shakers award.

Auguste uses a Markes Micro-chamber to extract volatile organic compounds from a sample.

Donna Auguste honored by Tau Beta Pi with 鈥榚minent engineer鈥 title

Oct. 22, 2018

Donna Auguste, ATLAS PhD student, is the first person at CU 麻豆影院 in roughly a decade to receive the prestigious "eminent engineer" designation from the national engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi.

Simone Hyater-Adams

Simone Hyater-Adams wins Harry Lustig Award

Oct. 15, 2018

Simone Hyater-Adams , a doctoral student in the ATLAS Institute, won the American Physical Society鈥檚 Harry Lustig Award , which recognizes outstanding graduate-level research performed in the Four Corners states. The award, given annually, consists of a $1,000 stipend and a certificate citing the contribution made by the recipient, as...

HyunJoo Oh

HyunJoo Oh defends PhD dissertation; accepts position at Georgia Tech

Oct. 9, 2018

On Aug. 31, ATLAS doctoral student HyunJoo Oh successfully defended her dissertation, 鈥淐omputational Design Tools and Techniques for Paper Mechatronics,鈥 which is focused on design tools and techniques for combining mechanical, electrical and computational components with paper crafting. The tools enable young learners and those who lack a background in mechanical engineering to design and build mechanical toys from paper and other everyday objects.

Hedayati with robot

Hooman Hedayati lands prestigious Microsoft Research internship

Sept. 11, 2018

Hooman Hedayati, a computer science PhD student based in the ATLAS Institute鈥檚 Interactive Robotics and Novel Technologies (IRON) Lab, participated in a prestigious summer internship at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, where he worked on teaching robots social skills in group conversations.

Jeeeun Kim

Jeeeun Kim, ATLAS affiliated PhD student, wins Adobe Research student fellowship

Aug. 27, 2018

Photo of Calvin Pohawpatchoko Jr.

Calvin Pohawpatchoko Jr. delivers PhD defense

Pohawpatchoko鈥檚 research investigates why Native Americans are underrepresented in computing and how Indigenous representation might be increased.

Hooman Hedayati

IRON Lab researcher wins Outstanding Research Excellence award

May 18, 2018

Hooman Hedayati, a computer science PhD student in the ATLAS Institute鈥檚 IRON Lab, was awarded an Outstanding Research Award by CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Department of Computer Science.

Mushroom

Wearable technology brings high-tech to mushroom hunting

May 9, 2018

Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf and Jen Liu, ATLAS doctoral student, co-authored a new study that brings wearable technology to one of humanity's oldest pursuits.

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