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New Faculty Spotlight: Lin Yan

Meet Lin Yan, our new Assistant Professor of Computer Science. She started in February of 2024.  She received her BS and MS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2010 and 2013, respectively. She received her Ph.D.

Turing Awardee Jack Dongarra Gives Robert Stewart Distinguished Lecture

On February 21, 2024, Dr. Jack Dongarra delivered Iowa State University’s Department of Computer Science 2024 Robert Stewart Distinguished Lecture.

New Faculty Spotlight: Bowen Weng

Meet Bowen Weng, our new Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He started in January of 2024. He received his Master's in System and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2016 and a Ph.D.

Kang Zhou: Enhancing Efficiency and Training Data Acquisition

In today's digital age, the Internet stands as an invaluable resource capable of extracting a wealth of information. However, there is a lot of information that can make it challenging to navigate.

New Faculty Spotlight: Clay Stevens

Meet Clay Stevens, our new Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He started in August of 2023. His research focuses on software engineering and formal methods.

New Faculty Spotlight: Liyi Li

Meet Liyi Li, our new Assistant Professor. He started in August of 2023. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2020.

Undergraduate Student Spotlight: Ranai Srivastav

Meet Ranai Srivastav, a senior computer science student.

“I really enjoyed coding since it is a very different kind of thinking and problem-solving from anything I had seen until then.”

The Right to Be Forgotten: Mengdi Huai on Navigating Security Challenges for Ensuring User Privacy with Machine Unlearning

Recent regulations such as GDRP and the California Consumer Privacy Act have given users the right to erase the impact of their sensitive information from the trained models to protect their privacy.

Kathy Hahn-Davidson Joins External Advisory Council

The Department is pleased to announce that Kathy Hahn-Davidson ('73) is our newest appointee to the External Advisory Council. Davidson graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Iowa State in 1973.

Exploring 2023 Computer Science Conferences: Diversity, Inclusion, and Women’s Leadership

As either undergraduate or graduate students, all of our students have the opportunity to attend conferences where they can network, share knowledge, and be inspired by fellow researchers in the field of Computer Science.

ISU Team Heads to ICPC Nationals

Lutz to Deliver NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conference Lectures

From May 20 to 24, 2024, at the NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conference in Mathematical Sciences at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Professor Jack Lutz from Iowa State University's Computer Science department will deliver a series of ten lectu

A Journey of Growth and Resilience: Elizabeth Nible’s Experience at Iowa State

“As I get towards the finish line of my degree, I know it was completely worth it...

Poster Presentation 2023 Winners

1st Place

Ali Jannesari is Scaling Computing for AI Innovations

Ali Jannesari, a Computer Science Assistant Professor at Iowa State University, is conducting research at the forefront of technology.

Karthik Balakrishnan Receives Distinguished Alumni Award

On November 2, 2023, Computer Science Alum Karthik Balakrishnan received the Distinguished Alumni Award at the LAS Alumni Honors and Awards Ceremony. The award recognizes outstanding alumni from the Department.

Chin Khor and Robyn Lutz Receive Award for Best Industrial Innovation Paper

Pavan Aduri's CSPs and Data Stream Models Research in CACM Highlights

The research work of Pavan Aduri, a professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, along with N. V. Vinodchandran, Arnab Bhattacharyya, and Kuldeep S.