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Department Welcomes Six New Faculty Members

Celebrating 2024-25 Scholarship Award Recipients

Prof. Nithyanand earns NSF CAREER Award

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Celebrating 2024-25 Scholarship Award Recipients

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
The University of Iowa Department of Computer Science recognizes this academic year’s scholarship recipients: Joseph Barkmeier and Ann Tice Computer Science Scholarship - Lawrence Deng; Arthur A. Collins Scholarship - Adeola Dokun, Molly Riepe; Frank A. Park Scholarship - Zach Mulholland; Principal Scholars Award - Eric Lucas; Lawrence E. Sheets and Susan J. Sheets Graduate Fellowship - Brenden Latham; David Sprang Award - Liao Zhu; Jason and Leslie Weber Women in Computer Science Scholarship - Elizabeth Elias; Jason and Leslie Weber Emerging Technologies Scholarship Fund - Anaïs Ponsonnet, Randy Zhang; Gerard P. Weeg Scholarship - Aricin Gilrain

CS Student Isabelle Paulsen on her Internship with Collins Aerospace

Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Paulsen reflects on her summer with Collins Aerospace and provides insight into how her experience will help her as she prepares to enter the Undergrad-to-Grad program. As an intern, Paulsen was able to see the real-life applications of her work by visiting a NASA research center, where she was able to fly a simulated aircraft!

Department Welcomes Six New Faculty Members in Fall '24...

Friday, August 30, 2024
An exciting and successful faculty recruiting season will have us welcome six new faculty members to our midst in Fall '24: Katherine Kosaian, Erik Krohn, Lucas Silva, Weiran Wang, Muchao Ye, and Tianyu Zhang. In addition, Naimul Hoque will be joining us in Spring '25!

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ACM@UIOWA: State Farm Enterprise Tech - Internship Informational promotional image

ACM@UIOWA: State Farm Enterprise Tech - Internship Informational

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Schaeffer Hall
Interested in learning more about computer science, technology, and software in a fun and friendly environment?  ACM@UIOWA is the local student chapter of the International Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), one of the oldest and largest professional organizations in tech. We promote computing and technology in a fun and casual environment and serve as the premier Computer Science student organization at Iowa (of course, students of all majors are welcome to join!). Association for...
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Women in Computing Science Introductory Meeting

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 6:00pm to 7:00pm
MacLean Hall
Are you passionate about tech and want to be part of a vibrant network that's dedicated to encouraging women and other gender minorities to thrive in technology-related fields? UIOWA Women in Computing Sciences is here to provide you with an exciting space to meet like-minded individuals, gain professional skills, and make lasting memories. Why join WiCS? At WiCS, we are big believers in empowerment. We're dedicated to creating an inclusive and safe environment for discussion, finding support...
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ACM@UIOWA: Software Engineer @ NVIDIA Remote Guest Speaker

Thursday, September 19, 2024 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Interested in learning more about computer science, technology, and software in a fun and friendly environment?  ACM@UIOWA is the local student chapter of the International Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), one of the oldest and largest professional organizations in tech. We promote computing and technology in a fun and casual environment and serve as the premier Computer Science student organization at Iowa (of course, students of all majors are welcome to join!). Association for...

Business Analytics Seminar Speaker

Friday, September 20, 2024 11:00am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Muchao Ye Title: Evaluating and Certifying the Adversarial Robustness of Neural Language Models Abstract: Language models (LMs) built by deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in various areas of artificial intelligence, which have played an increasingly vital role in profound applications including chat bots and smart health care. Nonetheless, the vulnerability of DNNs against adversarial examples still threatens the application of neural LMs to safety-critical tasks. To...
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CS Colloquium - Tight Finite Time Bounds of Two-Time-Scale Linear Stochastic Approximation with Markovian Noise

Friday, September 20, 2024 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall
Sajad Khodadadian (Virginia Tech) on "Tight Finite Time Bounds of Two-Time-Scale Linear Stochastic Approximation with Markovian Noise."
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Full-Time Faculty
in the Department

1030

Students taught in introductory courses per year (2015-2020)

158

Women declared majors in the four undergraduate programs (2023-2024)

136

Graduate students in Computer Science and Informatics