Articles from March 2021

Alumni News: Opera hires PayPal and WeChat Pay veteran Allen Hu ['96 MS CS] as new EVP of its fintech arm, Dify

"Allen's expertise will be invaluable in helping us drive the fintech division and achieve our ambition to continue to bring new services to market under the Dify brand."...

CLAS: "Garrett Morris and Kyle Rector of Computer Science earn prestigious NSF CAREER awards."

Morris’s funded project will improve software reliability and programmer productivity; Rector’s will help make virtual reality accessible for people with vision impairments.

PhD Alumna Yelena Mejova awarded Best Paper Award at ACM SIGCHI Conference...

... for "Clandestino or Rifugiato? Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy"...

Announcing new NSF-funded REU site: Computing for Health and Well-being

A ten-week program will run from May 24 to July 30, 2021 in-person.

Hourcade Awarded CLAS Collegiate Teaching Award...

... for his Distinguished Contribution to the quality of University of Iowa Teaching. Congrats!