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Dr. Regis Kopper, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded a $800,000, 3-year grant from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance.

We are thrilled to announce that our alumnus, Dr. Jyotishman Pathak, will lead the School of Technology for Public Health at Arizona State University as its inaugural dean.

Alumnus Dr. Srinivas Aluru was awarded the prestigious 2025 Charles Babbage Award for his work in parallel computational biology.

Dr. Ying Cai, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded a $236,977 grant from the U.S.

Ali Jannesari, an Associate Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded a $420,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his research “Generating Highly Performant Code via Polyhedral Compilation and Graph-based Learning.” The project

The ICPC North Central North America (NCNA) Regional Programming Contest took place on Saturday, November 14. 95 teams from across the region participated.

Sarah Schinckel has joined our External Advisory Council.

One of our undergraduate academic advisors for computer science students, Snow Gray, presented at the Iowa Academic Advising Network (IowaAAN) conference on September 18th.

Shu-Hui (Susan) Chang has been awarded the Quality Matters (QM) and the CELT High-Quality certifications for COM S 1060: Introduction to Web Programming.

Kristine Loes, a Cost Center Manager for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) at Iowa State University, has been awarded the 2024 LAS Institutional Service Award at the LAS Fall Convocation and Awards on September 12, 2024.

Mengdi Huai, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded $300,000 by the National Science Foundation to address security and privacy challenges in machine unlearning.

Liyi Li, Myra Cohen, and Ali Jannesari have been awarded a $1,000,000 collaborative grant with the University of Illinois at Chicago from the National Science Foundation’s Formal Methods in the Field program for their research on just-in-time veri

Professor Myra Cohen, Lanh and Oanh Chair in software engineering, gave a keynote talk in July in Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, at the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE).

Iowa State University has awarded a Distinguished Professorship to Robyn Lutz, Professor of Computer Science. This permanent title is the highest academic honor that ISU bestows. Lutz works to build safer software systems.

Wallapak Tavanapong, Professor of Computer Science, was awarded the Lange Faculty Excellence Award by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. Created by alumnus Gene C.

Iowa State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announced the appointment of Pavan Aduri, professor of computer science, as interim chair of the Department of Computer Science.