BLACKSBURG, Va., May 19 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:

The Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science honored two alumni whose careers reflect the department's long-standing impact on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing research.

The awards were presented during the department's spring banquet at the Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center. Randy Marchany, Virginia Tech information technology security officer and the director of the university's IT Security Lab, was inducted as the 15th member of the Department of Computer Science Academy of Distinguished Alumni.

Ashwin Aji, principal researcher at AMD Research, became the seventh r...