News

Faculty members and graduate students from our department recently presented five research articles at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025, one of the premier conferences in machine learning.

Three Department of Computer Science faculty and staff members have received well-deserved awards from Iowa State University and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

As innovative new technologies continue to evolve, researchers are exploring new ways to integrate them into our communities.  One such researcher is Dr. Regis Kopper. Dr.

Dr. Ali Jannesari, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, is a member of the SymphonyLearn team, which has received a €458,000 ($481,330) grant. Dr.

Dr. Lin Yan, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, works in the field of data visualization – creating tools that help with the graphical or visual representation of information and data.

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.