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January 17, 2024
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. Kathy began her career at Hewlett Packard (HP) as an R&D software engineer....
January 17, 2024
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. Attending conferences is an opportunity to have a variety of experiences that...
December 04, 2023
On November 4, Iowa State University hosted a regional site for the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). This year, 130 teams participated. Twenty-five teams from Drake University, Simpson College, Graceland University, and Iowa State University competed at our regional site...
December 01, 2023
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 lectures on Algorithmic Fractal Dimensions. He will be...
November 16, 2023
“As I get towards the finish line of my degree, I know it was completely worth it... I realize how much I have grown in all aspects of my life in the last year and that I have overcome a major hurdle and turned it into an extremely positive experience.”
Meet Elizabeth Nible.
In the Fall of...
November 10, 2023
1st Place
Mohna Chakraborty, Adithya Kulkarni, and Qi Li, "Zero-shot Approach to Overcome Perturbation Sensitivity of Prompts", 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for computational Lingusitics (ACL), Toronto, Canada, July, 2023.
2nd Place
Shibbir Ahmed, Hongyang Gao, and...
November 04, 2023
Ali Jannesari, a Computer Science Assistant Professor at Iowa State University, is conducting research at the forefront of technology. His work focuses on scalable computing, machine learning methods, performance engineering, and parallel programming. These technical areas have practical...
November 03, 2023
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.
Balakrishnan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University in...
October 13, 2023
Ph.D. student Chin Khor and Dr. Robyn Lutz recently received the 2023 award for Best Industrial Innovation Paper at the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. Khor presented the paper, “Requirements Analysis of Variability Constraints in a Configurable Flight Software...
October 06, 2023
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. Meel was invited to the CACM Research highlights and appeared in the September 2023 issue of Communications of the ACM (CACM)....
October 06, 2023
In our Undergraduate spotlight, we sit with some of our undergraduate students to learn about their experiences at Iowa State University and in the Department of Computer Science.
Meet Hannah Ashley, a senior computer science major.
"Don't underestimate yourself! You are capable of much more...
September 20, 2023
Dr. Ali Ghanbari, currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, and Dr. Hridesh Rajan, Kingland Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science, have received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 38th IEEE/ACM International...
July 20, 2023
Wei Le, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, secured a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation in collaboration with Columbia University to fund their pioneering project “Learning Semantics of Code To Automate Software Assurance Tasks," out of which $...
July 10, 2023
Industries worldwide are increasingly using drone technology to enhance the efficiency of their business practices. However, the growing number of drones also brings concerns regarding congestion and safety in a limited airspace. To address these challenges, government agencies and researchers are...
July 07, 2023
Qi Li, an assistant professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, has been honored with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in recognition of her outstanding research on information extraction from scientific documents. This esteemed accolade is bestowed upon promising...
June 26, 2023
Large language models such as ChatGPT are becoming more relevant in the workforce as a tool to increase work efficiency. In the several months since becoming publicly accessible, ChatGPT has become the hot tool in corporate America. ChatGPT can be used to automate various writing tasks such as...
May 16, 2023
One of the biggest pieces of advice our alumni have for our current undergraduate students is to network with your professors and take advantage of undergraduate research opportunities. For Iowa State University Department of Computer Science undergraduate students Roba Abbajabal [left] and Maxim...
May 15, 2023
The Department of Computer Science had four of our undergraduate students participate in the ISU 17th Annual Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression. Research is an important foundation of quality education at all levels of education, and research symposiums such as this are a...
May 11, 2023
This year, 30 graduate and 71 undergraduate students are getting their degrees. Congratulations to all our students for their accomplishments!
“Congratulations to the Iowa State University Department of Computer Science graduates, the Cyclones of the tech world!” said Hridesh Rajan. “Your...
May 10, 2023
We are pleased to announce that Deb Holmes, Assistant Director Academic Advising, Liberal Arts & Sciences Student Academic Services, has been named a 2023 ISU Award for Academic Advising Impact recipient. The award recognizes Iowa State faculty or staff who have continued to demonstrate...
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