The Department of Computer Science celebrates our 55 graduate and undergraduate students who received their degrees at University of Iowa Commencement ceremonies this December.

We’re especially proud of our CS undergraduate honor grads:

With Highest Distinction

• Tommy Khywnn Looi, BS Computer Science

With Distinction

• Chloe Elise Ovel, BA Computer Science
• Kira Nicole Semmens, BS, Data Science

With Honors

• Molly Ann Patterson, BA, Computer Science
• Adithya Mukundan, BS, Computer Science
   

We are also proud that five students received the master’s degree in Computer Science (MCS):

• Hyunjin Cho
• Bekir Zahit Demiray
• Abdullah Naveed
• Trung Thanh Nguyen
• Rohith Rao

In addition, nine of our graduate students received their PhD degrees:

Fall 2025

• Yumna Anwar, PhD, Computer Science
  Deep Learning for Real-World Sound Processing in Healthcare
  PhD Received December 2025
  Advisor: Octav Chipara
• Bekir Zahit Demiray, PhD, (IGPI - Information Science)
  Bridging Hydrological Modeling and AI: Advancing Streamflow Forecasting with Multi-Task Learning and Spatio-Temporal Data Improvement
  PhD received December 2025
  Advisor: Ibrahim Demir
• Zhengyang He, PhD, Computer Science
• Enhancing Software Based Soft Error Resilience in High-Performance Computing Systems Through Cross-layer Optimization and Performance Variation Analysis
  PhD received December 2025
  Advisor: Guanpeng Li

Summer 2025

• Hussam Habib
  How do Social Media Platforms Influence Our Beliefs and Behaviors?
  PhD received August 2025
  Advisor: Rishab Nithyanand
• Md Kowsar Hossain
  Overcoming communication failures in reliable and real-time cyber-physical networks
  PhD received August 2025
  Advisor: Octav Chipara
• Mudathir Mohamed
  Extensions to Theories of Relations and Tables in SMT
  PhD received August 2025
  Advisor: Cesare Tinelli
• Maaz Bin Musa
  Protecting Users Online Privacy Through Enhanced Transparency and Accountability
  PhD received August 2025
  Advisor: Rishab Nithyanand
• Ingroj Shrestha
  Detection and Mitigation of Biases in Large Language Models Through Diverse Lenses and Methods for Fairness
  PhD received August 2025
  Advisor: Padmini Srinivasan
• Mary Wilson (IGPI - Information Science)
  Transcriptomic and Metagenomic Characteristics of Visceral Leishmaniasis 
  PhD received August 2025
  Advisor: Andrew Kitchen

We wish all our graduates well in their future academic and professional endeavors and look forward to Spring 2026 Commencement.