News
2025 Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering Awards
Congratulations to Dr. Sean Yaw,who received the NACOE Excellence in Teaching Award!
2025 Gianforte School of Computing Awards
- Outstanding Ph.D. Researcher: Giorgio Morales
- Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher: Alex Ellingsen
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Dillon Shaffer
- Outstanding Undergraduate Course Assistant: Matthew Vandeberg
- Student Selected Professor of the Year: Reese Pearsall
DARPA Award
DARPA awarded Montana State University's HACR Lab and Kudu Dynamics a three-year, $7.1 million contract to support the INGOTS program. MSU's portion of $780k will support two GRAs.The HACR Lab is an MSU cybersecurity lab developing novel automated analysis techniques for tasks such as vulnerability discovery and reasoning about exploit chains. Congratulations to PI Dr. Matt Revelle! [April 2025]
Securing Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Congratulations to Dr. Ann Marie Reinhold, who in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has spearheaded a $4 million interagency agreement funded by the Department of Homeland Security to make Electric Vehicle charging stations more secure. MSU Article. [April 2025]
Book Publication
After a six year journey, Dr. John Sheppard's co-edited book, entitled Realizing Complex Integrated Systems, will be released in hard copy form on February 19th. The 36-chapter book includes
submissions from numerous authors that include GSoC faculty members Clem Izurieta,
Laura Stanley and John Sheppard. [February 2025].
PECASE Award
Congratulations to Dr. Brittany Fasy who received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers. White House Press Release. MSU News Article. [January 2025]
Gianforte Hall
Gianforte Hall is on track for occupancy during Summer 2026 and for classes by Fall 2026. The building will house students, staff and faculty from the Gianforte School of Computing, as well as facilities for some of the digital arts from the College of Arts and Architecture. Track the progress! [January 2025]
Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Dr. Fangtian Zhong, who co-authored a paper entitled DynaDetect 2.0: Improving Detection Accuracy of Data Poisoning Attacks. The paper received the Overall Best Paper Award at IEEE CARS (Cyber Awareness & Research Symposium) this past October. [January 2025]