August 26, 2026
A new medical grade robotic arm gifted to the ISU Department of Computer Science will enable students to work directly with sophisticated robotic technology.
Research and grant news
Research News
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The value of physical intelligence: How researchers are working to safely advance the capabilities of humanoid robots
November 5, 2025Iowa State researchers are working to develop and test new methods that could help advance the physical intelligence and capabilities of humanoid robots while also prioritizing the development of safety standards that will allow robots and humans
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July 16, 2025
Assistant Professor Dr. Mengdi Huai received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the highest honor awarded to junior faculty. Dr. Huai’s proposal “CAREER: Enabling Reliable Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making with Unreliable Data” works with conformal inference, a statistical distribution-free and model-agnostic technique that offers statistically rigorous measures of uncertainty for individual predictions, so that it can better handle unreliable data and enhance its effectiveness in real-world uncertainty studies. Dr. Huai is the 9th faculty member of the department to receive this distinction.
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June 20, 2025
Iowa State University Computer Science professors Qi Li, Yang Li, and Wallapak Tavanapong, and graduate students, will present four research articles at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) from July 27th to August 1st. ACL is a leading conference in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing.
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May 27, 2025
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.
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April 29, 2025
Dr. Kopper is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. His research focuses on using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), or extended reality (XR), to develop new trainings for first responders and medical professionals.
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March 24, 2025
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. Jannesari will participate in a research project on Heterogeneous Data-Centric Learning for the SPRIN-D Challenge "Composite Learning” from the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation SPRIND in Germany.
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March 12, 2025
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. Yan recently won the 2024 VGTC Visualization Dissertation Award for her research.
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March 7, 2025
Iowa State Professors, Dr. Yan-Bin Jia, Dr. Bowen Weng, and Dr. Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn, will represent the Department of Computer Science at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) this May in Atlanta, Georgia. ICRA is the premier conference for robotics researchers.
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February 10, 2025
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.
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January 24, 2025
Dr. Ying Cai, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded a $236,977 grant from the U.S.
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January 7, 2025
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
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August 30, 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.
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August 21, 2024
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
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June 12, 2024
Dr. Pavan Aduri, Professor of Computer Science, was awarded a $262,300 grant from the National Science Foundation for his research in studying new directions in algorithmic replicability.
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April 17, 2024
Think about when someone is going on a hike. Humans have an innate ability to adapt to the ever-changing environment we encounter along the trail.
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March 22, 2024
Think about how many tasks go into gripping a pen as you prepare to write your name. It’s a simple task, right? Well, maybe not.
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February 16, 2024
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.
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January 17, 2024
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.