The Stony Brook University Department of Computer Science (CS) welcomed three SUNY Empire Innovation Program (EIP) professors to the faculty in September 2019. Haibin Ling, Michael Ryoo and Zhaozheng Yin are all new to Stony Brook University and join the CS faculty as members of the new Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation.

On Friday, September 20th through Saturday the 21st, the 2019 SBUHacks 24-hour hackathon event took place in the Frank Melville Jr., Memorial Library. With more than 375 attendees, the hackathon built on the success of last year’s debut event. Students came from across the United States (including Chicago, California and Boston) and there were even students visiting from other countries such as Canada, Egypt and India!

A $1.14 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to research 3D computational pathology has been awarded to a team led by Fusheng Wang, associate professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Computer Science and an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation.

The research aims to revolutionize digital pathology from 2D to 3D imagery, which would improve the efficiency and accuracy of clinical diagnosis, particularly in the context of cancer.