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Dr. Jay Kuo, Dean’s Professor of Electrical Engineering-Systems and professor of Electrical Engineering-Systems and Computer Science at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, was the keynote speaker Monday at UTRGV’s first International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, being held through April 10 on South Padre Island.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Around Campus
By Marci Caltabiano-Ponce
South Padre Island, Texas – Computer science faculty from around the world gathered at the Hilton Garden Inn on South Padre Island on Monday for UTRGV’s first International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security.
Dr. Hansheng Lei, UTRGV associate professor of Computer Science who organized the conference, said key people are in attendance from the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, and other agencies focused on data intelligence and security.
Dr. Parwinder Grewal, UTRGV executive vice president for Research, Graduate Studies and New Program Development, on Monday welcomed attendees to the conference.
Keynote speaker was Dr. Jay Kuo, Dean’s Professor of Electrical Engineering-Systems and professor of Electrical Engineering-Systems and Computer Science at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. He spoke on the topic, “Why and Why Not Convolutional Neural Networks.”
The conference concludes on Tuesday, April 10, 2018.
ABOUT UTRGV
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was created by the Texas Legislature in 2013 as the first major public university of the 21st century in Texas. This transformative initiative provided the opportunity to expand educational opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley, including a new School of Medicine, and made it possible for residents of the region to benefit from the Permanent University Fund – a public endowment contributing support to the University of Texas System and other institutions.
UTRGV has campuses and off-campus research and teaching sites throughout the Rio Grande Valley including in Boca Chica Beach, Brownsville (formerly The University of Texas at Brownsville campus), Edinburg (formerly The University of Texas-Pan American campus), Harlingen, McAllen, Port Isabel, Rio Grande City, and South Padre Island. UTRGV, a comprehensive academic institution, enrolled its first class in the fall of 2015, and the School of Medicine welcomed its first class in the summer of 2016.
