Computer Science

The University of New Mexico is planning a celebration on Monday, Oct. 10 in honor of alumnus Jack Dongarra, the recipient of the 2021 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of...

Growing up, Lydia Tapia was curious about computers, but didn’t have much interest in what would eventually become her area of expertise: computer science. An Albuquerque native, the now-professor and incoming chair of the Department of Computer Science...

Among the many programs for student researchers at The University of New Mexico, the only school in the state with the prestigious R1 designation from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, is the Undergraduate Research Training...

It is every researcher’s goal to make a long-lasting impact with their work. And for one computer science professor at The University of New Mexico, that is exactly what he has accomplished. Abdullah Mueen, an associate professor in the Department of...

The University of New Mexico Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) has launched a new condo cluster. The cluster, named Hopper, will provide general compute resources to the UNM community and also includes hardware funded by individual UNM researchers to meet support...

Brendan Mulkern’s background would suggest that he was on track to play in a philharmonic. Instead, he is starting a full-time position as a software engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. Mulkern earned a master’s degree in computer science from The...

Since he was a kid, Jorge Loredo Duran was always into all kinds of sports, including cycling, martial arts, competing in a triathlon, and even playing on an e-sports team. The Mexico City native and current doctoral student at The University of New...

Vanessa Job, a Ph.D. student in the UNM Department of Computer Science, has been selected as a Charles Griffith Graduate Fellow in Science and Technology by UNM Graduate Studies. The Griffith Fellowship is reserved for UNM doctoral students in STEM...

Between classes, exams, and learning to live on their own – college can be a difficult time of growth for students. On top of that stress, 29 percent of undergraduate students at UNM report they are food insecure and are not able to consistently access...

Alyshia Bustos, a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science, has been selected as a finalist for the National Center for 2022 Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Collegiate Award. Bustos’ project is “New Technologies and Approaches to...