Learn more about the 2024-2025 Distinction Award recipients.

The full list of recognized faculty and staff included the following from the UI Computer Science Department:...

Mauricio Monsalve graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Iowa in 2015. In this Q&A, Monsalve discusses his current role as a postdoctoral scholar at CIGIDEN in Chile and shares more about some of the exciting projects he is working on!

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.

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.

The textbook grew out of his namesake UIowaCS lecture notes.

Mrs. Weeg was the widow of our founding chairperson, Gerard Weeg, who passed away in 1977. The Weeg name is familiar to many alumnae/i for the Gerard P. Weeg Computing Center [A precursor to Information Technology Services (ITS)]. To Computer Science Department constituents, the name may invoke the decades-long support that Mrs. Weeg, her family, and fellow benefactors have offered students via the Gerard P. Weeg Scholarship.

The group found out that some of the thickest plastic that's only used one time and then thrown away is laundry detergent bottles. Refiller Me has made it their mission to reduce plastic waste by providing refill stations for liquid laundry detergent. The project has been in development just over a year.

Assistant Professor Lakshmi Subramanian, Ph.D., of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, is leading a team of Kean undergraduate researchers who are conducting research to understand how pedestrians behave when crossing streets in the era of autonomous vehicles.

Congrats to all University of Iowa Dare to Discover '25 campaign rising stars! Special shout out to our own IGPI and Computer Science students Phuong Nguyen (Informatics PhD), Delaney Norris (Informatics MS), Nahid Zeinali (Informatics PhD), and Liao Zhu (CS BS | Mathematics BS).