An exciting and successful faculty recruiting season will have us welcome six new faculty members to our midst in Fall '24: Katherine Kosaian, Erik Krohn, Lucas Silva, Weiran Wang, Muchao Ye, and Tianyu Zhang. In addition, Naimul Hoque will be joining us in Spring '25!

A research team led by Professor Cesare Tinelli (PI) and Professors Katherine Kosaian and Garrett Morris (co-PIs) will contribute to the DARPA-funded project PEGISUS: Proof EnGineering and Integration with Satisfiability modUlo theorieS.

Sixth year CS PhD students Hussam Habib and Osama Khalid joined forces to ride the first few days of RAGBRAI LI and share some highlights, insights, and advice for fellow students. Read on for bonus blog posts and more!

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded UI computer science professor Garrett Morris $77,430 for a three-year research project entitled "Integrating Formal Methods into the Foundational Undergraduate Curriculum". Morris and Alberto Segre will partner with Grinnell College and Iowa State University faculty on this collaborative "Formal Methods in the Field" proposal.

Rishab Nithyanand, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, will tackle the enforcement of consumer privacy regulations with the help of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty, includes a five-year grant for $633,023. Nithyanand and his team will develop a variety of computational tools to help enforcement agencies perform large-scale audits to determine if organizations are complying with consumer privacy regulations.

Katherine Kosaian, formerly Cordwell, who received her doctoral degree from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Bill McCune PhD Award. Her dissertation, Formally Verifying Algorithms for Real Quantifier Elimination, was chosen for its strong theoretical and practical contributions to formally verified quantifier elimination for the first-order logic of real arithmetic. The award was presented at the 12th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2024).