Our own Omar Chowdhury featured in February 2022 CLAS Research Newsletter talking about the focus of his work, its impact, what excites him about our College, his hobbies (he likes to cook!), and favorites things to do in Iowa City.

Congrats to all University of Iowa Dare to Discover '22 campaign rising stars! Special shout out to our own Joshua Doucette (CS Minor), Alexis Graves (Informatics PhD | UIowa SLIS), Hussam Habib (CS PhD) & Laura Weiler (Dual Physics | CS undergrad). More @ http://dare.research.uiowa.edu, on twitter @UIowaCS, and in Physics & Astronomy's own spotlight of Doucette and Weiler.

A paper co-authored by Geoinformatics PhD student Han Bao and advisor Xun Zhou has received the IEEE ICDM 2021 Best Paper Award. The award has been officially announced on the ICDM'21 website and was presented during the (virtual) conference in December.

"I’m the Engineering Manager of the Order Processing Team. I graduated from the University of Iowa with a doctorate in Computer Science, and worked in the engineering department of a few companies before joining Shopee. I’ve now been with Shopee for about 2 years..."

FutureScope, a hands-on career guidance program, won first place and $1,000 at IowaJPEC Startup Games pitch competition Oct. 24.

Prof. Aaron Stump and his co-authors* received one of two 2021 Test Of Time Awards, honoring papers published twenty years ago in the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, which have "stood the test of time"

PhD candidates Sulyun Lee and Lakshmi Devi Subramanian were awarded a Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship. Fellow CS doctorate students Anthony Cantor and Hankyu Jang have received Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowships for Spring 2022.

The University of Iowa Computer Science Department invites applications for multiple tenure-track Assistant Professor positions effective August 2022.

Postdoctoral neuroscientist Victoria Muller Ewald is starting a coding boot camp to encourage more students to learn the skill. She also mentors graduate students and has been involved in various coding initiatives.