CSE News

Every time you use your fingerprint to unlock your smartphone or access a banking app, you're using biometrics—a way to authenticate identity using a unique biological characteristic.

New facial recognition software and app invented at Michigan State University can help protect endangered primates - more than 60 percent of which face extinction.

An essay written by two Spartan Engineers in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is trending in national publications. Computer science PhD student Pranshu Bajpai and Richard Enbody, associate professor of computer science and engineering co-wrote an essay for The Conversation on cryptojacking or the secret use of your computing device to mine cryptocurrency.

No two people are believed to have identical fingerprints, but researchers from New York University and Michigan State University have found that partial similarities between prints are common enough that the fingerprint-based security systems used in mobile phones and other devices can be more vulnerable than previously thought.

Jiayu Zhou of the Michigan State University College of Engineering is the newest Spartan Engineer to be awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.

MSU's Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE); and Women in Engineering, Recruitment and K-12 Outreach teamed up to host MSU's fourth Co-ed High School Programming competition on Oct. 28.