Missouri State University Computer Science Department

🎉 Congratulations to Our Outstanding Faculty! 🎉
We are proud to celebrate and congratulate our College of Natural and Applied Sciences faculty members who were recently recognized with awards for their dedication, excellence, and contributions to teaching, research, and service in the 2025-2026 academic year. Your hard work and commitment make a meaningful impact on our students, our campus, and our community.

Our Computer Science faculty were presented with the following awards:
• Dr. Jamil Saquer - The Atwood Faculty Research and Teaching Award, given to faculty who have exemplary academic performance, significant publications, and potential to positively influence student lives.
• Dr. Razib Iqbal – CNAS Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research Faculty Award, recognizing faculty involved in collaborative research efforts where results reflect integration of ideas/knowledge from 2 or more disciplines, and/or have shown leadership in promoting interdisciplinary research.
• Dr. Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi – CNAS excellence in Research Faculty Award, given to faculty who published multiple international, national, and/or regional peer-reviewed articles; submitted and/or received multiple external and internal grant proposals; and presented at a number of local, state, regional, national, or international conferences.

Please join us in applauding their achievements—we are grateful to have such exceptional faculty among us! 👏✨

Congratulations to CSC graduate student Md Abdur Rahman Fahad, who received an Outstanding Poster Presentation award at the 33rd Annual Einhellig Interdisciplinary Forum (EIDF) for his research, "Adaptive Smart-Home Actuation with Resource-Efficient Transformers"!

https://graduate.missouristate.edu/CurrentStudents/EIDF.htm

Congratulations to CSC undergraduate student Christopher Housholder, who won first place in the Computer Science category at the CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium for his work, "Scalable Polynomial Interpolation via Mapreduce and a new Recurrence-Based Quotient-Ring Interpolant"!

https://science.missouristate.edu/Undergraduate-Research-Day.htm

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Congratulations to Dr. Hazhar Rahmani! His paper, "Preference-Based Probabilistic Planning with Partially-Ordered Temporal Goals", co-authored with Dr. Abishek Kulkarni (University of Texas at Austin) and Dr. Jie Fu (University of Florida) was accepted for publication in Automatica. A journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control, it is a leading archival publication in the field of systems and control.

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This month's Graduate College Blog featured our former graduate student Shusmoy Chowdhury!

Meet Shusmoy Chowdhury: From Research Success to Professional Impact - Graduate College Blog This month, the Graduate College is proud to feature Shusmoy Chowdhury, an alum of the Master’s in Computer Science program and now an Enterprise Software Engineer at Digital Monitoring Product Inc. Persistent, motivated, and reliable – these words he uses to describe himself are reflected throu...

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Graduate Students: this year's College of Natural and Applied Sciences 3-Minute Thesis Competition will be on Monday, October 20th. Entries must be submitted by 5:00 PM on Friday, October 17th.