PhD Candidate: Flannery Currin Abstract As children develop the abilities to engage in more sophisticated forms of play, play serves as a context in which children can practice and develop skills in other domains. StoryCarnival is a tool designed over 39 sessions at a preschool, working with two groups of 3-5-year-old children, with the goal of setting up a specific type of developmentally beneficial face-to-face sociodramatic play using 1) e-book stories on which to base play 2) a play...

Join WiCS for a fun cookie decorating social! During this event, we will be distributing WiCS shirts to those who have been registered and handing out pottery from our previous pottery painting event!

Ning Luo (Northwestern) on "Going From Strength to Strength: Synergizing Formal Methods and Cryptography."

Adithya Murali (UIUC) on "Democratizing Verification: Overcoming Expertise Gaps using Logic Learning and New Predictable Paradigms."

Weiran Wang (Google) on "Disentanglement of Variations via Multi-view Representation Learning."

ACM invites you to attend an "Introduction to Transformers," the foundation under GPT and other models. Free Pizza! Those who are not ACM@UIOWA members should go to Chapter website for more information and to join!

Amir Ghasemian (U Penn) on "The limits of model selection, link prediction, and community detection."

Nairen Cao (Boston College) on "Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Large-scale Graphs."

ACM invites you to play pickleball at the Field House. Come play pickleball, or explore the other options such as basketball with us!    Those who are not ACM@UIOWA members should go to Chapter website for more information and to join!

On the occasion of our 59th anniversary, the Department of Computer Science at Iowa cordially invites you to attend our 2nd Annual Founders Day Celebration. This event will be held Friday, March 29, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Muhly Lounge (3 MLH). Please join us for ice cream sundaes as we celebrate the achievements of the extraordinary students and faculty in our department! RSVP by Tuesday, March 26.

Lingxiao Wang (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago - TTIC) on "Towards Distributed and Overparameterized Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning."

Every year, thousands of Hawkeyes come together to make an important—and meaningful—impact for Iowa. All gifts made in March will count toward the One Day for Iowa total.

Jyotikrishna Dass (Rice) on "Distributed Machine Learning for Intelligent Edge Computing Systems."

Jingyan Wang (Georgia Tech) on "Understanding and Improving Evaluation: People, Algorithms, and Design."

ACM invites you to attend a Résumé Workshop by Leepfrog, an education technology company known for CourseLeaf, a product used by more that 500 universities globally.   Free Insomnia Cookies will be provided! Those who are not ACM@UIOWA members should go to Chapter website for more information and to join!

WiCS will be having a pottery painting event at Renee's Ceramic Cafe!

Tianyu Zhang (UConn) on "Towards Deterministic and Reliable Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems."

M. Ozgur Ozmen (Purdue) on "Achieving Compositional Safety and Security in IoT Environments."

Keke Wu (UNC at Chapel Hill) on "Empowering People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities through Cognitively Accessible Visualization."

ACM invites you to attend a Tech Talk by Darsh Dalal, a SDE at Amazon. If you’re interested in software engineering, this is the perfect talk to attend! Free Pizza will be provided! Those who are not ACM@UIOWA members should go to Chapter website for more information and to join!

Join WiCS for a Game Room social at the IMU HawkEyesports Arcade room!

Georgie Jin (University of Minnesota) on "Building the Future of Educational VR: Towards an Immersive and Social Learning Experience."

Prof. Octav Chipara will be one of three featured speakers at this NSF | NIH Symposium entitled "Smart Health Frontiers: Driving Innovation with Fundamental - Technology to Improve the Lives of Older Adults"

Lucas M. Silva (UC-Irvine) on "Towards Multi-Device Ecosystems for Personal and Family Health Tracking."

Kaushal Kafle (College of William and Mary) on "Investigating the Latent Security and Privacy Risks in Consumer Software Systems."

ACM invites you to attend our weekly meeting discussing our personal experiences with interview processes for companies.   Free Pizza will be provided! Those who are not ACM@UIOWA members should go to Chapter website for more information and to join!

This fair will focus on recruiting students pursuing any and all majors! All students are invited to attend! There will be a variety of industries of employers represented. Visit: https://careers.uiowa.edu/virtual-career-fair for more details.

Thai Le (Ole Miss) on "Security, Explainability and Trustworthiness of AI-Enabled Systems."

Athénaïs Vaginay (University of Lorraine, France) on "Constraint-based Abstraction of Reaction Networks to Boolean Networks."

Huining Li (Buffalo - SUNY) on "Harnessing Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Equity and Fairness."

Xiuying Chen (KAUST) on "Towards Trustworthy AI-Generated Text."

Phillipa Gill is a professor and researcher who will be joining us to do a presentation and Q&A. Her fields of expertise include computer networking, security, and more.

This job and internship fair will focus on recruiting students in ALL MAJORS! Typically about 100+ employers attend and 1,000+ students attend! Visit careers.uiowa.edu/all-majors-career-fair for more details.

Ruixiang (Ryan) Tang (Rice University) on "Backdoor in AI: Algorithms, Attacks, and Defenses."

"The UICC is hosted by the students and for the students to promote computing as a science and a profession." Date: Feb. 17 Check out past conferences! [ 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023] ACM@UIowa welcomes students, faculty, and all members of the community to our annual UIowa Computing Conference! The theme for UICC 2024 is "Computing in Entertainment." On Feb. 17, join us at the AJB and the Main Library SHAM auditorium for a deep exploration of how computer science and...

Guannan Wei (Purdue) on "Types and Metaprogramming for Correct, Safe, and Performant Software Systems."

ACM invites you to attend a Tech Talk by Ryan Wedoff (CS|Music BS ’17; MCS ’18), a SWE at Microsoft. If you’re interested in software engineering, this is the perfect talk to attend!  Free Pizza will be provided! Those who are not ACM@UIOWA members should go to Chapter website for more information and to join!

Each year the College of Engineering holds two career fairs, one in late September/early October and another in early February. This is a great way for students to meet over 100 engineering, manufacturing, consulting and governmental organizations to discuss full-time, co-op and internship opportunities in the areas of Biomedical, Chemical, Civil & Environmental, Electrical & Computer, Industrial & Systems, and Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science. The Spring 2024 Engineering Career...

Anshuman Chhabra (UC-Davis) on "Towards a Future Powered By Safe and Human-Centered AI and ML."

Renkai Ma (Penn State) on "Building Trust and Safety on Content Creation Platforms."

Naimul Hoque (Maryland - College Park) on "Designing AI-infused Supertools with Interactive Visualization."

This meeting will go over résumés and opportunities within CS, as well as upcoming events to pay attention to. Please be prepared to ask questions! Free Pizza will be provided! Those who are not ACM@UIOWA members should go to Chapter website for more information and to join!

Join us for crafts and treats! We will be holding a social and food drive! Bring in a food item to donate, and we will sign you up for a free WiCS T-shirt!!

Muchao Ye (Penn State) on "Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Language Models."

Michael Walker (UNC at Chapel Hill) on "The Design of Virtual and Mixed Reality Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction."

Building a community of technical women at the University of Iowa! Informative tech talks Career-building workshops Résumé, interview, career fair, etc. Fun social events Game Room Night, Cookie Decorating, Pottery etc

Zakir Durumeric (Stanford) on "Tracking the Spread and Sway of Misinformation Narratives at Scale"

Join us for our last meeting of the semester!

In "The Academic Interview: What to Expect", faculty at the Department of Computer Science at The University of Iowa will demystify various components of the academic job interview process. You will gain insights into the types of interactions to expect at your job interviews and topics you should deliberate on prior to your first interview. Faculty participants include UIowa Department of Computer Science's Hiring Committee, current Department Chair, former Dean, Director of Undergraduate...

Shiza Ali [Tackling Toxicity Online: Developing Comprehensive Approaches for Online Risk Detection]; Johanna Gunawan [Understanding and Regulating Dark Patterns]; Vinay Koshi [Supporting Governance of Dynamic, Diverse Online Communities]