The University of Iowa Department of Computer Science recognizes this academic year’s scholarship recipients: Frank A. Park Scholarship - Tinh Tran Arthur A. Collins Scholarship - Kate Doolittle Principal Scholars Award - Tran Jasmine, Oliver Papay Gerard Weeg Scholarship - Zack Mulholland Jason & Leslie Weber Scholarship for Women - Lauren Bernstein Jason & Leslie Weber Emerging Technologies Scholarship - Luke Moenning; David Roth Barkmeier Tice 2023-24 - Dayne Cordray; Anna Davis Sheets Fellowship 2023-24 - Sage Binder

Andrew Marmaduke (PhD student) and Audrey Powers (2nd year MCS student) have been chosen to receive Computer Science Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards for 2022-23.

... for a project entitled Scalable and Resilient Modeling for Federated-Learning-Based Complex Workflows, that aims to improve our understanding of scalable, federated, privacy-preserving machine learning.

Associate Professor Octav Chipara is the Principal Investigator for an NSF grant entitled "SCH: Shallow and Deep Personalization for Hearing Aids." Fellow Computer Science faculty Bijaya Adhikari as well as Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty Inyong Choi and Yu-Hsiang Wu are Co-PIs.

Collaborative grant aims to uncover vulnerabilities in online platforms and their recommendation algorithms which enable coordinated mass manipulation.

The Computational Epidemiology (CompEpi) group at the University of Iowa is seeking applicants for a post-doctoral fellowship, ideally starting in Fall of 2023.

"The Apple Vision Pro was just announced and it’s already the center of the conversation and quite a polarizing device. Juan Pablo Hourcade, Ph.D, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics at The University of Iowa explains what the device does and gives a few use cases for manufacturing and perhaps even agriculture."

Geoffrey Fairchild (PhD '14) recently agreed to a follow-up Q&A to his 2015 Alumni Profile piece. Still at Los Alamos National Laboratory but in a new role as Group Leader, he shares insightful updates, advice, and more!

Austin Beschen ('21 CS BA), who graduated this May 2023 with an MCS degree, was chosen to receive the award for “Academic Excellence in the Masters Program” for 2022-23. This competitive honor recognizes academic prowess, the variety and difficulty of courses taken along the way, as well as instructor feedback.

Leading privacy law and computer science scholars met March 31-April 1, 2023 at the Harvard Law School to identify and propose solutions to the challenges that inhibit the enforcement of privacy rights in the United States in “Beyond the FTC: The Future of Privacy Enforcement”. The interdisciplinary symposium was organized by Professor Mihailis Diamantis (University of Iowa College of Law) and Professor Rishab Nithyanand (University of Iowa Department of Computer Science).