The Graduate College at the University of Iowa has awarded Jihyun Kim (Ph.D. student in Informatics) and Hieu Vu (Ph.D. student in Computer Science) Spring '27 Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowships. 

"I am truly honored and grateful to receive the Post-Comprehensive Research Award. My research focuses on applying computational approaches to complex biomedical data, with the goal of improving our understanding of human diseases. This fellowship will provide valuable support for my dissertation research on genomic alterations in osteosarcoma using whole-genome sequencing. I sincerely thank my advisor, Dr. Erliang Zeng, for his continued guidance and support, and the Graduate College for this opportunity."

Jihyun Kim, Ph.D. student, Informatics

"I am honored to receive this competitive Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship. I am deeply grateful to my advisor, Professor Bijaya Adhikari, my collaborators, and especially the Department of Computer Science, as well as the many faculty, staff, and colleagues whose guidance and support have shaped my Ph.D. journey so far. This fellowship is truly encouraging. It is a meaningful recognition of my efforts and will give me dedicated time to advance my research and pursue work with practical impact, especially in developing graph learning methods for healthcare applications."

Hieu T. Vu, Ph.D. student, Computer Science

About the fellowships

The Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship

This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced Ph.D. students to benefit from protected and supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities. The fellowship is intended to recognize students with distinguished academic achievement during their early graduate training.