UIowa Computer Science

#NSFFunded-#REU: #Computing for #Health & #WellBeing 5/25-7/31! 𝗣r𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: • 7K stipend • On-campus • Mentored research experience • #ResearchBootcamp •  #CareerDevelopment workshops • Fun #social events and more ! • Students from populations underrepresented in #STEM or schools w/ limited research opp and those with disabilities encouraged to apply by March 15. Picture shows the UIowa Old Capitol building

We are accepting applications until 3/15 for #NSFFunded #REU: #Computing for #Health and #WellBeing 5/25-7/31/26!

Details [and past "debriefs"] @ bit.ly/uiowacs_reu
#healthcare #research #CSforGood

Undergraduate students are encouraged to apply; others to help disseminate this information 😊 .

Join us today at 3:30pm in 140 SH!

Colin Gray [Indiana University] will present "Supporting #EthicalDesign & Confronting the Threats of #DarkPatterns."

Deets @ bit.ly/gray_1_30!

PS: Reception to follow in 3 MLH/Muhly Lounge!

#AcademicSky

Garrett Morris is seeking applications for a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Iowa, starting in November of 2025.

#PostDoc #JobAlert! Please share within your networks.

Garrett Morris is seeking a post-doctoral scholar.

#PostdoctoralScholar will contribute to an NSF-funded project exploring a new semantic foundation for type classes/families in #Haskell.

Deets at cs.uiowa.edu/jobs

#AcademicSky

Portrait of Dr. Taylor Olson, incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Taylor Olson as an Assistant Professor! Dr. Olson received his PhD from Northwestern.

His research focuses on theoretical machine ethics 🤖🧠

We look forward to the expertise and insight he brings to our department.🙌

#AcademicSky

Hussam Habib name, portrait, and exam time.

Maaz Musa name, portrait, and exam time.

Two @rishabn.bsky.social students defend tomorrow!

Maaz on "Protecting Users #OnlinePrivacy Through Enhanced #Transparency and #Accountability" at 10 bit.ly/musa_7_9
Hussam on "How do #SocialMedia Platforms Influence our Beliefs & Behaviors?" at 2 bit.ly/habib_7_9

#FinalExam #UIowaGrad25 👨‍🎓 🤞

📢 Zhengyang He will defend his doctoral thesis entitled "Enhancing Software-Based Soft Error Resilience in #HPC Systems through Cross-Layer Optimization and Performance Variation Analysis" tomorrow Tuesday 6/24 at 10am.

Deets at bit.ly/he_6_24

#FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad25 #AcademicSky👨‍🎓 🤞

Kowsar Hossain portrait/name and exam date/time

📢 Kowsar Hossain will defend his doctoral thesis entitled "Overcoming Communication Failures in Reliable and Real-Time Cyber-Physical Networks" tomorrow Thursday 6/19 at 3pm in B-13 MLH.

Deets at bit.ly/hossain_6_19

#FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad25 #CPS #WirelessNetworks #AcademicSky👨‍🎓 🤞

@rishabn.bsky.social officially tagged now!

Rishab Nithyanand portrait

🎉 Huge congratulations to Rishab Nithyanand [@rishabn.bsky.social] for his promotion to Associate Professor [with tenure] and for being named a UIowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Scholar Awardee 👏!

Full CLAS piece (and a bit of background) at bit.ly/RN_Tenure

#AcademicSky #Promotion

Ingroj Shrestha portrait with exam date/time: Monday, May 12, 2025 12:30 PM

📢 Ingroj Shrestha will defend his doctoral thesis entitled "Detection and Mitigation of Biases in Large Language Models Through Diverse Lenses and Methods for Fairness" on Monday at 12:30pm.

Deets at bit.ly/shrestha_5_12

#FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad25
#LLM #NLP #fairness #bias #AcademicSky👨‍🎓 🤞

[Edit: SMT hashtag not applicable here - human error😉]

Hammas Tanveer portrait with Final Exam date and time (4/15 noon CT)

📢 Hammas Tanveer [𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳: @rishabn.bsky.social] will defend his doctoral thesis entitled "𝚃𝚘𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚜 𝚊 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚝 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝙸𝙿𝚟𝟼" tomorrow Tuesday 4/15 at noon in UCC 2390.

Deets at bit.ly/tanveer_4_15

#FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad25
#SMT #security #accessibility #AcademicSky👨‍🎓 🤞

Mudathir Mohamed portrait with exam date/time

📢 Mudathir Mohamed will defend his doctoral thesis entitled "𝓔𝔁𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓡𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓣𝓪𝓫𝓵𝓮𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓢𝓜𝓣" this coming Monday 4/14 at 10:30am in B13 MLH.

Deets at bit.ly/Mohamed_4_14

#FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad25 #AcademicSky
#SMT #solvers 👨‍🎓 🤞

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗡𝗦𝗙 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀!

▸ 𝘽𝙞𝙟𝙖𝙮𝙖 𝘼𝙙𝙝𝙞𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙞 will develop new computational methods to tackle hospital-associated infections. 🏥

▸ 𝙂𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙞 will work to make high-performance computing more resilient to soft errors. 🖥️

Go to bit.ly/CAREER_Li_Adhikari 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗜𝗼𝘄𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲-𝘂𝗽!

#AcademicSky

Hosted by Yale Journal of Law and Technology, virtual access via UIowa Law, with support from Iowa IBL, UIowa CLAS, and @uiowacs.bsky.social.

🌐 More info: ibl.law.uiowa.edu/governing-data

#GoverningData #TechLaw #DataPrivacy #CyberSecurity #AI #BigData #LawAndTech #Policy #FutureOfData

𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗼𝘄𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗖) 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

𝗥𝗦𝗩𝗣 by EOD today @ bit.ly/uicc25 to secure your spot and guarantee admission (including prize opportunities, merch, and food).

We'd 🖤💛 to see you there next Saturday!

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMPUTING CONFERENCE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 2025 | 10:00AM Library SHAM / AJBHosted by ACM@UIowa, Sponsored by UIowa CS Dept. Featuring: GUEST SPEAKERS FROM CAPITAL ONE, DWOLLA, UIOWA & UCSD NETWORKING EVENTS & FREE FOOD RAFFLE PRIZES & GRAND PRIZE OF APPLE AIRPODS FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT bit.ly/uicc25 [Images: logos of event, ACM Chapter, and UIowaCS + QR code to same bit.ly/uicc25

Reading this in Eastern Iowa or nearby? We are excited to invite you to the University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2025 hosted by ACM@UIowa.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲: 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 📈💰
Date: Sat, Feb 22📅
Time: 10 am–6 pm CST

𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 and 𝗥𝗦𝗩𝗣 [𝗯𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟭𝟰 𝟭𝟭:𝟱𝟵𝗽𝗺 𝗖𝗦𝗧] @ bit.ly/uicc25
#FinTech

Collage of Hoque and Mashiat portrait with UIowa Photographer J. Torner picture "Sunday Snow" as background. Text reads: "Meet our new faculty members!"

Join us in welcoming Naimul Hoque & Tasfia Mashiat to
UIowaCS 👏!

Teaching-wise, students will be learning #HCI #EthicsInAI & Database Systems from them this term.

For more on our new faculty, see link in bio!

#WelcomeToIowa #DataViz #fairness #CSEd #HumanCentricComputing #CSforGood #AcademicSky

Scans of Fall 1965 course offerings and program requirements overview

With Spring '25 semester starting on Tuesday at IOWA, a #FlashbackFriday opp to share our first ever course offering for Fall '65!

One may notice that we were teaching #ArtificialIntelligence and #MachineLearning (among other current buzzwords) before it was cool 😎!

#RetroComputing #AcademicSky

📢 #NSFFunded - #REU: #Computing for #Health & #WellBeing 5/26-8/2!
Students from populations underrepresented in #STEM or schools w/ limited research opp and those with disabilities encouraged to apply by March 15.
Deets at bit.ly/uiowacs_reu

Reposts welcome 😊
#CSforGood #URM #CSforAll #AcademicSky

📢 On #CSfaculty #JobMarket? Join a rich pool of applicants to @uiowacs.bsky.social positions.

Deets @ cs.uiowa.edu/hiring.
Full consideration to apps rcvd by 1/1/25 🗓️

Want to help us out? Reposts/Quote Posts welcome 😉

#ComputerScience #CompSci #Informatics #AcademicSky
#EduSky #AcademicChatter

YouTube video by Meta Open Source Project Aria Case Study: University of Iowa

In this video by Meta Open Source, Prof. Octav Chipara provides an overview of his collaboration w/ Assoc. Prof. Yu-Hsiang Wu on a Project Aria effort to build contextually aware hearing-aid technology🦻 www.projectaria.com

#AcademicSky
#CSforGood
#ComputingForHealthAndWellBeing

Tagging gvrkiran.bsky.social in this comment. Some tweaks would make this app more device-agnostic...

Friday, Dec. 13, 3:30 pm CS Colloquium Series Kiran Garimella (picture submitted) Assistant Professor, Rutgers University RM 110 MLH Abstract available at cs.uiowa.edu Misinformation and Hate Speech on WhatsApp – Insights from a Large-scale Data Donation Study

Join us Fri 12/13 at 3:30pm!

Kiran Garimella [@gvrkiran.bsky.social] will present "Misinformation and Hate Speech on WhatsApp – Insights from a Large-scale Data Donation Study" looking at #misinformation #PoliticalPropaganda #HateSpeech on WhatsApp.

Deets @ bit.ly/garimella_12_13 or cs.uiowa.edu!

📣 Next Wednesday Dec. 11 3:30-5pm CT on Zoom!

Join peers and our own faculty to gain valuable insights re: academic job interviews.

RSVP ASAP @ bit.ly/uiowacs_acad_job_24 😉

Tagging @matthewdeverna.com, appropriately this time 😉

Submitted portraits [L-R] of Tanvir Mahdad (Texas A&M); Taylor Olson (Northwestern); Ananya Joshi (CMU); Arjun Arunasalam (Purdue); and Matthew DeVerna (Indiana U.) with text "RISING STARS TALKS December 6, 2024 RM 110, MacLean Hall 3:30-5:00 PM"

Arjun Arunasalam (Purdue); Matthew DeVerna (Indiana U.); Ananya Joshi (CMU) portraits with names and talk titles, respectively: Abuse within Socio-Technical Systems: Security and Privacy Consequences on End Users, Fact-Checking Information from Large Language Models can Decrease Headline Discernment, and Data Monitoring for Large-Scale Public Health Data.

Tanvir Mahdad (Texas A&M); and Taylor Olson (Northwestern) portraits with names and talk titles, respectively: On the Insecurity of Authentication in Untrusted Terminals: An Evaluation of FIDO2 Keys, Notification-Based Authentication, and more, and A Formal Theory of Norms - Towards Artificial Moral Agents.

Join us this Friday 12/6 3:30-5pm!

Arjun Arunasalam (Purdue); Matthew DeVerna (Indiana U. -@matthewdeverna.com); Ananya Joshi (CMU); Tanvir Mahdad (Texas A&M) & Taylor Olson (Northwestern) will be the speakers for these "#RisingStars Talks"!
Deets @ bit.ly/UIowaCS_12_6 or cs.uiowa.edu!
#AcademicSky

#FlashbackFriday courtesy of this @uiowacs.bsky.social alumna 😉.

For more punched card material from UIowa and beyond GOTO bit.ly/punched_cards!

Collection curated by very own Emeritus Prof. Doug Jones was even featured in book "Print Punch: Artefacts From #PunchCard Era" [bit.ly/print_punch]

Friday, Nov. 22, 3:30 pm CS Colloquium Series Learning and Control in Countable State Spaces Rayadurgam Srikant Co-Director, C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute; Professor, UIUC RM 110 MLH Abstract available at cs.uiowa.edu With speaker portrait

Join us tomorrow Friday 11/22 at 3:30pm!

R. Srikant will present "Learning and Control in Countable State Spaces.

Deets @ bit.ly/srikant_11_22 or cs.uiowa.edu!

#AcademicSky #Colloquium

Osama Khalid portrait with text: "FINAL EXAM: Osama Khalid Wednesday, Nov. 20 10:15 CT"

📢 Osama Khalid (osamakhalid.bsky.social) will defend his doctoral thesis
"Charting Sensorial Style: New Frontiers in Linguistic Style Analysis"
tomorrow Wednesday 11/20 at 10:15am in 2520C UCC.

Deets at bit.ly/khalid_11_20

#FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad24 #AcademicSky #stylometry #linguistics 👨‍🎓 🤞