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Liz Elias standing in front of a sign that says "Structural Biology"

CS Student Liz Elias on her Internship with St. Jude's POE Program

Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Elias reflects on her summer with St. Jude's Pediatric Oncology Education (POE) program and provides insight into what she learned from her experience.
Paulsen sitting in front of two large screens displaying an overhead view of a simulated city and two smaller screens mimicking the dashboard of an aircraft.

CS Student Isabelle Paulsen on her Internship with Collins Aerospace

Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Paulsen reflects on her summer with Collins Aerospace and provides insight into how her experience will help her as she prepares to enter the Undergrad-to-Grad program. As an intern, Paulsen was able to see the real-life applications of her work by visiting a NASA research center, where she was able to fly a simulated aircraft!
Group picture of incoming UIowaCS faculty, with Old Capitol building in the background

Department Welcomes Six New Faculty Members in Fall '24...

Friday, August 30, 2024
An exciting and successful faculty recruiting season will have us welcome six new faculty members to our midst in Fall '24: Katherine Kosaian, Erik Krohn, Lucas Silva, Weiran Wang, Muchao Ye, and Tianyu Zhang. In addition, Naimul Hoque will be joining us in Spring '25!

Lee Named 2023-24 Computer Science Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awardee

Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Mingi Lee (MCS alum) has been selected to receive the Computer Science Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for 2023-24.

Kosaian, Morris, Tinelli, et al. to contribute to DARPA-funded Research

Friday, August 16, 2024
A research team led by Professor Cesare Tinelli (PI) and Professors Katherine Kosaian and Garrett Morris (co-PIs) will contribute to the DARPA-funded project PEGISUS: Proof EnGineering and Integration with Satisfiability modUlo theorieS.
Hussam and Osama celebrating reaching Winterset - in from of "Welcome to Winterset" postcard-style mural, after an 80 miles day

UIowaCS PhD Students Debrief RAGBRAI

Monday, August 12, 2024
Sixth year CS PhD students Hussam Habib and Osama Khalid joined forces to ride the first few days of RAGBRAI LI and share some highlights, insights, and advice for fellow students. Read on for bonus blog posts and more!

Morris NSF grant to help undergraduate computer scientists appreciate the relevance of math to CS

Friday, August 9, 2024
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded UI computer science professor Garrett Morris $77,430 for a three-year research project entitled "Integrating Formal Methods into the Foundational Undergraduate Curriculum". Morris and Alberto Segre will partner with Grinnell College and Iowa State University faculty on this collaborative "Formal Methods in the Field" proposal.
Rishab Nithyanand portrait - submitted

Prof. Nithyanand earns NSF CAREER Award

Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Rishab Nithyanand, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, will tackle the enforcement of consumer privacy regulations with the help of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty, includes a five-year grant for $633,023. Nithyanand and his team will develop a variety of computational tools to help enforcement agencies perform large-scale audits to determine if organizations are complying with consumer privacy regulations.
Award winner Katherine Kosaian with PhD advisor André Platzer (left) and Carsten Fuhs.  Courtesy of https://csd.cmu.edu/

Incoming UIowaCS Faculty Katherine Kosaian Receives 2024 Bill McCune PhD Award

Katherine Kosaian, formerly Cordwell, who received her doctoral degree from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Bill McCune PhD Award. Her dissertation, Formally Verifying Algorithms for Real Quantifier Elimination, was chosen for its strong theoretical and practical contributions to formally verified quantifier elimination for the first-order logic of real arithmetic. The award was presented at the 12th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2024).

HawCHI Lab Awarded Best Paper Award & Social Impact Honorable Mention at IDC '24

Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Professor Juan Pablo Hourcade and co-authors/student advisees Flannery Currin - who recently defended her doctoral thesis, Summer Schmuecker and Delaney Norris recently published “Understanding Adult Stakeholder Perspectives on the Ethics of Extended Reality Technologies with a Focus on Young Children and Children in Rural Areas”. This paper was awarded the Best Full Paper Award and Social Impact Honorable Mention at IDC '24 - the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.