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Faculty Positions, Fall 2025

The University of Iowa Computer Science Department invites applications for applications for multiple tenure- and instructional-track positions effective August 2025.
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MCS student Veetrag Nahar on his experience as a Software Engineering Intern for CRST - The Transportation Solution

Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Nahar reflects on his time at CRST - The Transportation Solution and provides insight into what he learned from his experience.
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UIowaCS Attendees — SC24 Debrief

Tuesday, December 31, 2024
In November, PhD students Yafan Huang, Md Hasanur Rahman, Shihui Song, and Bohan Zhang traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to attend SC24. In the following Q&A, each student shares their unique experience, reflecting on what it is like to volunteer, present, attend, and/or receive recognition for their work at one of the most prestigious conferences in HPC. Read on for Prof. Guanpeng Li accolade as well!
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From the Lab to Miami: Maaz Bin Musa Shares his Journey of Presenting C3PA

Thursday, December 19, 2024
PhD student Maaz Musa attended the EMNLP conference in Miami this November to present his collaborative research on a novel dataset aimed at automating privacy compliance. His paper, titled "CP3A: An Open Dataset of Expert-Annotated and Regulation-Aware Privacy Policies to Enable Scalable Regulatory Compliance Audits," focuses on helping organizations identify privacy-related disclosures in line with data privacy regulations, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
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Balancing Beats and Bytes: Let’s Talk!

Wednesday, December 11, 2024
As marching band season kicks into high gear, many Hawkeyes find themselves navigating the challenging balance between academic commitments and the vibrant world of music. Here’s our students of marching band answer our questions about how they tackle this challenge.

2024 NSF FMitF PI Meeting Wrap-up

Friday, December 6, 2024
The Nov 12-13 event brought together current and aspiring PIs, NSF representatives as well as guest speakers. We are proud to have assembled, in Iowa City, researchers from UC-Berkeley to MIT, and from the University of Minnesota to the University of Texas-Austin.
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CS student Nathan Jankowski on his experience as a Data and Analytics Intern for Discover Financial Services

Monday, December 2, 2024
Jankowski reflects on his summer at Discover Financial Services' headquarters in Riverwoods, Illinois, and provides insight into what he learned from his experience.
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Guanpeng Li Receives IEEE-CS Technical Community on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing at SC24

Each year, the IEEE Computer Society recognizes up to three individuals who have made “outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of high-performance computing” within five years of receiving their PhD. Li received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2019 and has since has since garnered several best paper awards, nominations, as well as competitive funding for his research.

The WECode Conference 2025: A Can't-Miss Event for Women Pursuing Tech Careers

Thursday, November 21, 2024
The WECode (Women Engineers Code) Conference is organized by undergraduate women at Harvard University and WECode Tech Fellows as part of the Harvard Undergraduate Women in Computer Science initiative. Curious about what more the conference has to offer?
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Bachelors Alumna Daniela Rus one of "Three of the World's Leading Robotics Researchers will share the Coveted 2024 John Scott Award"

Daniela Rus specializes in developing the science and engineering of "autonomy," which expands the ability of machines to reason and learn so that they can become "pervasive" in performing daily tasks that improve quality of life for people. Dr. Rus holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Iowa, and she earned her Master's and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University.