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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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: 

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.

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.

In October, members from the University of Iowa Women in Computing Sciences (WiCS) student org traveled to Lenexa, Kansas to attend the 2023 Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas Women in Computing conference (MINK WiC)