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Adhikari & Li secure NSF CAREER awards

Department Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

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Adhikari and Li secure CAREER awards from the NSF

Monday, March 24, 2025
Bijaya Adhikari and Guanpeng Li, both assistant professors in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, recently earned CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation. The award, the organization’s most prestigious honor in support of early-career faculty, includes a five-year research grant for each faculty member.

Computer science faculty member receives NSF grant to improve safety of autonomous vehicles

Monday, March 10, 2025
Guanpeng Li, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, received a $310,077 National Science Foundation grant which focuses on ensuring autonomous vehicle systems are dependable and safe.

Prof. Emeritus Hantao Zhang publishes book on "Logic in Computer Science"

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
The textbook grew out of his namesake UIowaCS lecture notes.

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CS Colloquium - Cloud System Security: From Cloud Orchestration to Hardware Attacks - CANCELLED promotional image

CS Colloquium - Cloud System Security: From Cloud Orchestration to Hardware Attacks - CANCELLED

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker Chongzhou Fang Abstract In recent decades, cloud computing has profoundly changed our lives, providing the foundational infrastructure that supports countless applications. However, these shared environments are vulnerable to various hardware-based attacks, including microarchitectural side-channel attacks initiated by malicious users. Such exploitable vulnerabilities can be found across the entire cloud hierarchy, from resource orchestration software to the underlying heterogeneous...
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5th Annual BioBlitz at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory

Saturday, July 12, 2025 9:00am to 11:00am
Ashton Cross Country Course
What types of plants, animals, and fungal life might you find at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory? Let's find out!  Join researchers in collecting, observing, and recording biodiversity at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory in our 5th Annual BioBlitz. Your findings will inform a major research project and will contribute to the fifth data point in a multi-year documentation of how diversity changes at this site over time. Collections will be housed with the UI Museum of Natural History...
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