Former provost David Kotz ’86, the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in the Department of Computer Science, is the Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow at Imperial College London for the academic year 2025-26. The fellowships bring together U.K. universities and research institutions and outstanding international researchers to share ideas and develop ongoing collaborative research connections.
“Dave Kotz has long been an innovative researcher, a highly respected mentor, and a collaborative leader,” says President Sian Leah Beilock. “This recognition from the Royal Society and Imperial College will benefit both of our institutions and our two nations as we consider how to harness increasingly ubiquitous technologies for good while balancing privacy and other challenges.”
An expert on a range of security and privacy challenges involving smart homes, wireless networks, and pervasive computing, Kotz was also named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last spring.
He is on sabbatical this year, working in Imperial’s Department of Computing, and has also been named a visiting professor at University College London.
Andrew Campbell, the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century professor of computer science, and his co-authors have been awarded the Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies Vol. 8 Distinguished Paper Award for their 2024 paper, which captured the dynamics of the mental health of 200 undergraduate Dartmouth students from high school to graduation.
The paper, "Capturing the College Experience: A Four-Year Mobile Sensing Study of Mental Health, Resilience and Behavior of College Students during the Pandemic", was co-authored by Subigya Nepal, Wenjun Liu, Arvind Pillai, Weichen Wang, Vlado Vojdanovski, Jeremy F. Huckins, Courtney Rogers, and Meghan L. Meyer.
This award was announced on October 14, 2025 at the UbiComp/ISWC 2025 conference and the dataset from the four-year study was released alongside the publication.
Fabrice Niyigaba '27 is the computer science department's winner of the Francis L. Town Scientific Prize for the class of 2027.
The prize is offered annually to "one meritorious and deserving student in each department of scientific study at the College" as of the end of the sophomore year.