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A student sits at an outdoor table in the Volker Hall plaza, looking at his laptop, with greenery in the foreground
Research & Innovation • Published 7 months ago

Inspired by a police press conference, Yuliang Zheng, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Computer Science, developed a way to prove that digital files are authentic while obscuring secret information. His work is now an International Standard in cybersecurity, paving the way for large-scale adoption by tech companies.

People of UAB • Published 10 months ago

Spend a minute with this slideshow and enjoy some twin bunnies in the neonatal intensive care unit, spring fun on the Campus Green, dramatic photos of new graduates and more captured by UAB's official photographers in April 2025.

Amber Wagner, Ph.D.
In the Know • Published more than a year ago

Amber Wagner, Ph.D., says AI tools are allowing her to accelerate student learning and can help future programmers keep pace with the constant change that has always been part of the profession.

Closeup of the adaptive cruise control setting on a car's indicator knob
Research & Innovation • Published more than a year ago

Driver assistance tech that comes standard on new vehicles can be tricked into causing accidents — but there is a way to alert humans in time. A UAB grad student and his mentor will share their findings this month at a global conference.

A mainframe in a large datacenter is superimposed with several samples of code from older programming languages in this illustration
Research & Innovation • Published more than a year ago

UAB computer scientists are contributing to a DARPA-funded initiative with artificial intelligence-based programming languages that allow humans to understand the “safety and correctness of code in the wild.”

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