🎉Exciting news! Our paper "[Re] Network Deconvolution" is now published in rescience-c ! This project started as a class assignment and turned into a journal publication over a year of careful work. 🔗 zenodo.org/record/15321683 📘 TL;DR👇 Kumushini Thennakoon Jian Wu Sarah Rajtmajer

Dr. Philippe Giabbanelli, Director of the VMASC Modeling & Simulation for Health and STEM, has received the inaugural Springer Nature Author Service Award for ensuring sound science and timely peer review as an editorial board member. Congrats on this well-deserved recognition!

Congratulations Bhanuka Bhanuka Mahanama, for a successful Ph.D. defence titled "Mutli-Eyes: Multi-Use Eye Tracking Using Commodity Hardware. " My 4th Ph.D. student from the nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science @odusc. Also, a Sri Lankan-style feast including yellow rice, cashews, and chicken!

Very excited about the opportunity to share @nirdslab WS-DL Group, ODU CS research at my alma mater, Department of Computer Science, University of Peradeniya University Of Peradeniya. Thank you for the souvenir! Thank you both Kumushini Thennakoon and Rochana R. Obadage for joining the session and demos. ODU College of Sciences

Paper accepted to ACM Hypertext '25! 🎉 We show we can improve open-source LLMs to human level accuracy at distinguishing between human-written and LLM-generated science news. Thankful for my advisors for their support. Jian Wu Meng Jiang WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

I am pleased to announce that my student Xin Wei passed her dissertation defense today. Congratulations! I thank all committee members, Michele Weigle Lusi Li and Sarah Rajtmajer and the WS-DL Group, ODU CS! Special thanks to Michael L. Nelson for taking pictures!

🎉 Congratulations to Yash (Yash Prakash) on successfully defending his dissertation on Human–Data Interaction for blind & low-vision users. Wishing you continued success, Dr. Prakash! /cc Vikas G Ashok Old Dominion University ODU College of Sciences ODU Computer Science Accessible Computing Lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Excited to present my research, Integrating AI and Data Science for Meaningful Social Impact, at U.S. MORS Military OR Society! Thanks to Barry Ezell for the invitation. Grateful for the opportunity to contribute and engage with the community. cc:/ODU Office of Enterprise Research and Innovation ODU WS-DL

Congratulations to Mohan (Mohan Krishna Sunkara) for successfully defending his dissertation! 🎉 His research introduced innovative tools that transformed how blind users efficiently navigate online discussions and reviews using screen readers. /cc Old Dominion University ODU College of Sciences ODU Computer Science Accessible Computing Lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS

For those Web Science aficionados, come read the latest trip report for the WebSciConf '25 conference at Rutgers University by Kritika garg and I! ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-0…

Earlier this month, I had the privilege to deliver an invited talk at the Digital Business Day event at Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal in Magdeburg, Germany. 🇩🇪 nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science ODU College of Sciences Petanux GmbH DAAD News Sampath Jayarathna Michael A. Herzog SPiRIT #eyetracking #vr #business #daad #rise

IEEE IRI 2025 kickstarted in San Jose, CA with an introduction to the conference by Dr. Nan and the first keynotes speech by Dr. Prem Devanbu from University of California, Davis. nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS #IRI_2025

Excited to present our work “Enhancing RAG with Domain-Specific Knowledge Graph for Accurate Medical Data Retrieval” at IEEE IRI 2025 in San Jose, CA! Grateful for the support of Dr. Poursardar Faryaneh Poursardar. CC:/ Virginia Modeling, Analysis, & Simulation Center ODU Office of Enterprise Research and Innovation WS-DL Group, ODU CS Old Dominion University ODU Computer Science #IRI_2025

Had an amazing time attending DAAD News RISE Professional Conference in Kassel, Germany last week. It was inspiring to connect with fellow interns across Germany - sharing research experiences and networking.🤝 👉 daad.de/rise/en/rise-p… WS-DL Group, ODU CS nirds-lab ODU College of Sciences Petanux GmbH

Today I had the opportunity to present our research paper, "Beyond Gaze Overlap: Analyzing Joint Visual Attention Dynamics Using Egocentric Data" at the IEEE IRI 2025. Thanks to my advisor Sampath Jayarathna and co-authors Yasasi Bhanuka Mahanama Vikas G Ashok nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Our team is at Willoughby Spit for the Old Dominion University Maritime Autonomous Systems Test Site (MASTS) Opening Celebration! A landmark collaboration between ODU and the City of Norfolk HR, MASTS is positioning Hampton Roads as a global hub for unmanned maritime systems innovation. #ODUVISA

We are celebrating the nirds-lab this Fall 2025. Bhanuka Bhanuka Mahanama successfully defended and will start as a teaching faculty ODU Computer Science. Two new Ph.D. students joining, Pasindu Sankalpa Pasindu S. Thenahandi and James Owens James Owens (not pictured). WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Excited to begin my PhD journey at Old Dominion University in the nirds-lab, WS-DL Group, ODU CS research group under the supervision of Sampath Jayarathna I’ve written a short post about my background, research interests, and journey so far 👉 ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025-0…

Wrapped up my internship Fermilab! From particle accelerators to bison, it’s been an unforgettable summer. Blog post here: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025-0… WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

Hussam Hallak (Hussam Hallak) passed his candidacy exam on Thursday, 2025-07-21, and then advanced his avatar on the WS-DL Group, ODU CS crush board. Congrats!