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University of Iowa Spearheads Revolutionary NSF-Funded Water Science CyberTraining Initiative

Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Ibrahim Demir, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Bijaya Adhikari, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, won a $125,000 award from the National Science Foundation to contribute hydroinformatics and machine learning training to a cutting-edge initiative entitled "Inclusive Cyberinfrastructure and Machine Learning Training to Advance Water Science Research."

Singh’s NSF grant aims to develop structure-phenotype data management

Monday, February 19, 2024
Dr. Rahul Singh joined us in Fall 2023 from San Francisco State University. He is also a professor (by affiliation) at the Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases, University of California, San Diego. Dr. Singh brings to UIowaCS a $516,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the research project entitled Designing Structure-Phenotype Query-Retrieval and Analysis Systems for Microscopy-Based Whole Organism Studies.
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Tanmay Inamdar (PhD '20) Alumnus Q&A

Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Tanmay Inamdar graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Iowa in 2020. In this Q&A, Inamdar discusses his research and the value of a close-knit computer science department.

Peng Jiang earns prestigious NSF CAREER award

Thursday, February 8, 2024
The project will develop a suite of compiler and runtime tools to simplify the implementation of sampling-based algorithms and improve their performance in computing and big data applications while enhancing their capacity to solve real-world problems at a large scale. In doing so, the project will provide solutions to limitations of sampling-based hardware without sacrificing the accuracy and efficiency of sampling strategies.

Tinelli et al. receive NSF grant to further improve reliability of computer systems

Thursday, January 25, 2024
Professor Cesare Tinelli and long-time Stanford collaborator and Principal Investigator Clark Barrett were recently awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation for their project entitled POSE: Phase II: An Open-Source Ecosystem for the cvc5 SMT Solver.
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Students Featured in 2024 Dare to Discover Campaign

Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Congrats to all University of Iowa Dare to Discover '24 campaign rising stars! Special shout out to our own Computer Science students Hannah Bäck (Data Science BS), Liz Elias (CS BA | Microbiology BS), and Charles Wilmot II (CS & Engineering BSE).
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Jeff Hajewski (PhD '20) Alumnus Q&A

Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Jeff Hajewski graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Iowa in 2020. In this Q&A, Hajewski discusses what he’s been up to since graduating and advice for current students.
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SC'23 conference debrief Q&A with three PhD students...

Friday, December 15, 2023
In November, Yafan Huang, Md Hasanur Rahman, and Zhengyang He traveled to Denver, Colorado to attend SC’23, the International Conference for High Computing Networking, Storage, and Analysis. The three Ph.D. candidates were joined by their advisor, Guanpeng Li. In total, the University of Iowa CS group had three papers accepted to the conference, which were then presented in different sessions throughout the week: 

Nithyanand et al. receive NSF grant to help CS students develop a lawful approach to computing

Friday, December 1, 2023
In a collaboration between the University of Iowa Department of Computer Science and the University of Iowa College of Law, Professor Rishab Nithyanand and Professor Mihailis Diamantis won a $299,994 award from the National Science Foundation to investigate if early and continuous exposure to computing-related laws helps computer science students develop a lawful approach to computing.
Yuanyuan Jiang, recipient of the Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Award for the fall 2016 semester.

Yuanyuan Jiang (PhD '18) Alumna Q&A

Monday, November 20, 2023
After receiving her doctorate in computer science from the University of Iowa in 2018, Yuanyuan Jiang joined California State University – San Marcos (CSUSM) as an assistant professor.