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Students Featured in 2025 Dare to Discover Campaign
Monday, February 10, 2025
Congrats to all University of Iowa Dare to Discover '25 campaign rising stars! Special shout out to our own IGPI and Computer Science students Phuong Nguyen (Informatics PhD), Delaney Norris (Informatics MS), Nahid Zeinali (Informatics PhD), and Liao Zhu (CS BS | Mathematics BS).
Quizly Earns Undergrads Second Place at Swan Hacks 2024: A New Way to Gamify Studying
Friday, February 7, 2025
Third Place Success at Swan Hacks 2024: Students Build SpreadSim to Simulate Disease Spread
Friday, January 31, 2025
In November 2024, undergraduate students (3rd year CS and music major) Eric Newton, (3rd year CS) Fin Deevy, (2nd year CS major) Kyle Chi, and (3rd year CS and linguistics major) Nick Theuerkauf participated in Swan Hacks, securing 3rd place with their creation of SpreadSim.

UIowaCS move to IATL in "Facilities upgrades to CLAS research spaces will spur discovery, creative activity"
Monday, January 27, 2025
The growing Department of Computer Science will find a new home in the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories (IATL) as part of a $25 million project to renovate the west wing and to build an addition that was originally intended but never completed. The design phase is progressing, and construction will begin this summer with completion in summer 2027.

"Faster Set Cover in the MPC Model" Won Best Paper in Distributed Computing Track at ICDCN25
Monday, January 27, 2025
Professor Sriram Pemmaraju, Emeritus Faculty Sukumar Ghosh, and UI Alum Shreyas Pai along side computer science PhD students Hongyan Ji and Joshua Sobel recently won the Best Paper in Distributed Computing Track award for their paper “Faster Set Cover in the MPC Model” at the ICDCN 2025 conference.
Department Welcomes Two New Faculty Members in Spring '25
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Join us in welcoming two new faculty members as we begin the Spring '25 semester: Naimul Hoque and Tasfia Mashiat!
Sobel and Zeinali awarded Competitive Spring '25 Fellowships
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
PhD candidate Josh Sobel (CS - 4th year) received a Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship for Spring 2025. Fellow doctorate student Nahid Zeinali (IGPI - 4th year) was awarded a Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship.

MCS student Veetrag Nahar on his experience as a Software Engineering Intern for CRST - The Transportation Solution
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Nahar reflects on his time at CRST - The Transportation Solution and provides insight into what he learned from his experience.

UIowaCS Attendees — SC24 Debrief
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
In November, PhD students Yafan Huang, Md Hasanur Rahman, Shihui Song, and Bohan Zhang traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to attend SC24. In the following Q&A, each student shares their unique experience, reflecting on what it is like to volunteer, present, attend, and/or receive recognition for their work at one of the most prestigious conferences in HPC. Read on for Prof. Guanpeng Li accolade as well!

From the Lab to Miami: Maaz Bin Musa Shares his Journey of Presenting C3PA
Thursday, December 19, 2024
PhD student Maaz Musa attended the EMNLP conference in Miami this November to present his collaborative research on a novel dataset aimed at automating privacy compliance. His paper, titled "CP3A: An Open Dataset of Expert-Annotated and Regulation-Aware Privacy Policies to Enable Scalable Regulatory Compliance Audits," focuses on helping organizations identify privacy-related disclosures in line with data privacy regulations, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
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