Faculty Receives Prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation

Ray P. Authement College of Sciences Newsletter for 2017

Dr. Sheng Chen, Assistant Professor in the Center for Advanced Computer Studies within the School of Computing and Informatics, has received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. He is the fifth faculty member from the School to receive this prestigious award. Dr. Chen's work focuses on type error debugging in programming languages and it is funded for five years with approximately $500,000. His research project will make languages with advanced type systems and type inference more usable, leading to improved programming productivity and increased adoption of languages for constructing more correct and reliable software. A reduced learning curve will specifically increase the adoption of such languages in both K-12 and higher education.