Greg Nichols (10PhD) says the graduate degree he earned in CLAS prepared him for an exciting career in animation, leading to fulfilling work on major motion pictures like Moana, Zootopia, and more. He came to the University of Iowa to study his doctorate in Computer Science — he thought he was on a path toward a career in academics, but instead, as a graduate student, landed a competitive internship with Disney that changed his professional trajectory.  

Maaz Musa - a 4th year PhD as of Fall '22, advised by Rishab Nithyanand - recently attended PETS 2022: The 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium... ... and his first 1st-author paper was a runner-up for the PETs Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award!

... for a project entitled A Systematic Approach to Minimize Compression Error Propagation in HPC Applications, that aims to develop a Compression-Error-Aware-Program-Analysis (CEAPA) framework for data-intensive domains.

Academic researchers, government agencies, industry groups, and individuals have produced forecasts at an unprecedented scale during the COVID-19 pandemic. To leverage these forecasts, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) partnered with an academic research lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to create the US COVID-19 Forecast Hub.