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).

In November 2024, undergraduate students (3rd year CS and music major) Eric Newton, (3rd year CS) Fin Deevy, (2nd year CS major) Kyle Chi, and (3rd year CS and linguistics major) Nick Theuerkauf participated in Swan Hacks, securing 3rd place with their creation of SpreadSim.

The growing Department of Computer Science will find a new home in the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories (IATL) as part of a $25 million project to renovate the west wing and to build an addition that was originally intended but never completed. The design phase is progressing, and construction will begin this summer with completion in summer 2027.