Jun Wang, James E. Ashton Professor and interim departmental executive officer in the CoE’s Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, is the 2024 Scholar of the Year. The award celebrates nationally recognized recent achievement in outstanding research, scholarship, and/or creative activities. Wang’s research centers on the development of novel remote sensing techniques to characterize aerosols and fires from space. He serves as the University of Iowa’s lead investigator on NASA’s TEMPO, Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution, which Time magazine named one of its best inventions of 2023.

Shrisha Rao graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Iowa in 2005. In this Q&A, Rao discusses his new position as Dean of Faculty at IIIT Bangalore and advice for current CS students.

Dr. Garrett Morris, an assistant professor and inaugural Emeriti-faculty scholar in the Department of Computer Science, received a Distinguished Paper award while attending the 51st AMC SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2024). His research, titled “Soundly Handling Linearity”, proposes a novel approach to soundly combining linear types with multi-shot effect handlers.

The Department of Computer Science is seeking applications for a post-doctoral scholar to join the Computational Logic Center (CLC) within the department of computer science. The CLC performs research across programming languages, formal verification, and automated reasoning, and includes J. Garrett Morris, Cesare Tinelli, Katherine Kosaian, as well as several research scientists, post-doctoral scholars, and graduate student researchers.

The National Science Foundation recently awarded UI computer science professor J. Garrett Morris $599,000 for his research project entitled A New Semantics for Type-Level Programming in Haskell.

"In a tech world where diversity is critical yet often overlooked, unsung women are enriching the AI field with innovations that promise a future where technology is as diverse as the society it serves. [...] Daniela L Rus is the director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and holds the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professorship in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Rus’s contributions address challenges in machine learning such as data quality, bias, and adaptability of systems, alongside innovations in robotics like soft robotics, modular robots, and autonomous vehicle algorithms. She has developed technologies to assist the physically disabled."

After receiving his doctorate in computer science from the University of Iowa in 2021, Umar Iqbal became a CI Fellow Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Washington. In fall 2023, he joined Washington University in St. Louis’s faculty as an assistant professor and is sharing insightful updates, advice, and more!

Prof. Octav Chipara — PI of "Shallow and Deep Personalization for Hearing Aids" NSF-funded grant — will be one of three featured speakers at Tuesday March, 5 NSF | NIH Symposium [2-3pm CT online]! Chipara and fellow Smart Health researchers [inc. UIowaCS co-PI Bijaya Adhikari] are actively pursuing advancements in technology that improve the lives of older adults.

Informatics PhD student Rachel Fitzjerrells was recently awarded first place at the 71st Iowa Section of the American Association for Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR) and Iowa Institute for Oral Health Research for her presentation entitled “Machine Learning Approach Identifies Dysbiotic Oral Communities in Multiple Sclerosis.”

PhD candidates Andrew Marmaduke (Computer Science - 6th year) and Han Bao (IGPI | Geoinformatics - 5th year) were awarded a Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship. Fellow doctorate students Kowsar Hossain (CS - 6th year) and Osama Khalid (CS - 5th year), and Ingroj Shrestha (CS - 6th year) have received Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowships for Spring 2024.