Computer Science Researcher Dr. John O'Donovan collaborated with a team led by Dr. Jin-Hee Cho at Army Research Lab, and their paper titled "Modeling and Analysis of Uncertainty-based False Information Propagation in Social Networks,"  has recently received the GLOBECOM 2017 Best Paper Award in the Selected Areas in the Communications symposium track in Singapore this week. The paper was authored by Cho, Trevor Cook, also of ARL; Scott Rager, Raytheon BBN Technologies; John O'Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara; and Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

The Internet Society recently held an Indigenous Connectivity Summit focused on connecting Indigenous communities in North America to the Internet.  Prof. Elizabeth Belding spoke on a panel titled “Advocating for Community Networks” about the work she has done with her Native American partner organizations to understand how Indigenous people use the Internet, and to build Internet access and architectural solutions that are more inclusive of Indigenous populations.

Sayan Ranu, a PhD graduate from Prof. Ambuj Singh's lab, is recently featured in the Hindu Business Line for his work that appears at the Bioinformatics journal. After graduated from UCSB's CS department, Dr. Ranu became a researcher at IBM Research Bangalore, and then an assistant professor at the renowned IIT Madras. Last year, Dr. Rano moved on to the CSE department at IIT Delhi.