Each edition of Research Bytes showcases the scholarly and professional achievements of Drexel School of Computer and Information Sciences (SCIS) faculty and students. Research Accomplishments Recent Grant Awards Computer Science Assistant Professor Feng Liu, PhD received an in-kind gift of $32,000 in GPU hours from the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program to support autonomous driving AI research. Learn more. Liu is also a Co-PI on two recently awarded 2026 Longsview Fellowships. The first, awarded to his colleague, Drexel School of Engineering professor Fernanda Campos da Cruz Rios, PhD (PI), will support their research on automated detection of façade-level material to advance urban material stock and flow analysis. The second, awarded to the PI, Drexel professor Matthew McDonald, PhD (chemical and biological engineering), will be focused on using generative AI for organic crystal structure prediction. Computer Science Assistant Professor Li “Harry” Zhang, PhD is a Co-PI on a recent 2026 Grimes Family Faculty Award with School of Engineering colleague Zhiwei Chen, PhD (PI). The award will support their research on neurosymbolic learning for safe autonomous driving under ambiguous trust. Computer Science Associate Professor Edward Kim, PhD received a grant of $11,025 from trading firm Hard Eight Trading, LLC that will support PhD research on comparative analysis of machine learning models for gold futures forecasting. Honors & Recognition Professor and Information Science Department Head Helena Mentis, PhD received the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Lifetime Service Award. This award highlights Mentis’s remarkable contributions to the growth and success of SIGCHI over many years. Learn more. First-year information science PhD student Tzu-Yu Weng and Information Science Assistant Professor Karthik S. Bhat, PhD received an Honorable Mention Award for their paper “A Blessing and a Challenge: Unpacking Boundary Ambiguities Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults” that will be