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CS Dept. Students to Present at 9th Annual Fall Undergraduate Research Festival 11/14/18

Tuesday, November 13, 2018
The 9th Annual Fall Undergraduate Research Festival (FURF) presented by the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ICRU) will be held on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 from 4:30-6:...

Student programmers compete at Hackathon

UI graduate student Alic Szecsei said his team’s project involved using Microsoft Hololens, a type of smart glasses that merges virtual reality with reality, for image text processing.

Jones on "The Crisis of Election Security" (NYT Magazine)

As the midterms approach, America’s electronic voting systems are more vulnerable than ever. Why isn’t anyone trying to fix them? "...

IowaNow: UI grad student uncovers security issues at Facebook, Twitter

"From his office in MacLean Hall, Farooqi uses his knowledge of internet security and privacy to explore some of the darkest corners of the internet.

Chipara, Yang, et al. Awarded NSF Grant on Optimizing Hearing Aids

Monday, September 10, 2018
Computer Science Associate Professor Octav Chipara and Assistant Professor Tianbao Yang and the UI Hearing Aid and Aging Research Laboratory (HAAR)'s Dr.

Shafiq awarded NSF grant to improve mobile security and privacy

Monday, September 10, 2018
Assistant Professor Zubair Shafiq was recently awarded an NSF Grant entitled "A Multi-Layer Learning Approach to Mobile Traffic Filtering." The objective of this project is to "defend against [...
New faculty Bianchi and Nithyanand standing in front of Old Capitol

Department welcomes two new faculty members - 2018

Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Antonio Bianchi is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Turning Exercise Into a Game Can Make Fitness More Fun and Effective

"Lucas J. Carr, PhD, assistant professor in the department of health and human physiology at the University of Iowa, was one of the lead researchers behind the pilot study.