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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join us Friday 3:30-4:30pm in SH140. Adam Pollack crispapoll.bsky.social SEES Assist. Prof. will share insights from research about quant methods & policy approaches for allocating limited resources for flood-risk reduction more efficiently & equitably. Deets @ bit.ly/pollack_10_2 #AcademicSky

Friday, Oct. 2, 3:30 - 4:30 pm CS Colloquium Series Quantifying and managing climate risks and inequitable outcomes Adam Pollack, Ph.D. Abstract available at cs.uiowa.edu Assistant Professor, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa RM 140 SH - (reception to follow in MLH 3)

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

PhD students Shweta Rajiv & Sage Binder attended @floc2026.bsky.social in Lisbon. At ITP 2026 Sage presented his research on a tool for converting proofs in the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL from one particular format to another. More at cs.uiowa.edu/news/2026/09.... #FLoC2026 #AcademicSky

ITP / FLoC 2026 Lisbon, Portugal 2026 Shweta (L) and Sage (R)

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week's speaker is Samir Khuller, PhD, Chair of Computer Science, Northwestern University, who will speak on Approximation Algorithms: Some ancient, some new —the good, the bad and the ugly. Join us tomorrow Friday 3:30-4:30pm in SH140. Deets @ bit.ly/khuller_9_25 or cs.uiowa.edu!

Portrait of speaker and Samir Khuller, Ph.D., Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science, Northwestern University, who will speak on Approximation Algorithms: Some ancient, some new —the good, the bad and the ugly.

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Big congratulations to our very own Dr. Tianyu Zhang and Dr. Steve Goddard for their recent National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to Improve Communication Infrastructure for Next-Gen Manufacturing. Read more about the project at cs.uiowa.edu/news/zhang-g... #AcademicSky

Zhang and Goddard portraits for NSF grant to Improve Communication Infrastructure for Next-Gen Manufacturing.

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join us Friday at 3:30pm in 140 SH! Colloquium speaker Sanvesh Srivastava will present "Learning Sparse Dependence Structure in Complex-Valued Tensor Data." Deets @ bit.ly/srivastava_9... PS: Reception to follow in 3 MLH/Muhly Lounge! #AcademicSky

Speaker portrait: Sanvesh Srivastava, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Data Science and Statistics, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa. "Learning Sparse Dependence Structure in Complex-Valued Tensor Data Friday at 3:30pm in 140 SH!

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Our distinguished guest Dr. Cris Moore (sfiscience.bsky.social) challenged his audience last night on matters of "#Transparency and #Fairness in #AI for #CriminalJustice." He will present "Easy, Hard, and Impossible: Phase Transitions in Computation" Friday 3:30pm events.uiowa.edu/event/38377/...

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Prof. Cris Moore on "𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲" Sept 8, 6-7pm in BBE 101 in Iowa City. Moore [ sfiscience.bsky.social ] is a computer scientist and physicist whose work spans CS, math, physics, and the liberal arts. #AcademicSky

Cris Moore picture with title: "Transparency and Fairness in AI for Criminal Justice" and 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: Tuesday, Sept. 8, 6-7pm 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: BBE 101 𝗪𝗵𝗼: Students, alums, faculty, and the general public are all most welcome!

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We are immensely proud of Dr. Cesare Tinelli who received the honor of Erich Funke Professorship in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 🏅 Tinelli is the Co-Director of the Computational Logic Center. More at cs.uiowa.edu/news/2026/07...

Tinelli portrait and text: Congratulations! New CLAS Erich Funke Professor

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Kudos to Dr. Octav Chipara and collaborators for their "Outstanding Paper" award at IEEE #ICHI2026 last month for “Real-Time Environment-Specific Deep Denoising for Edge-Assisted Hearing Aids.” More at cs.uiowa.edu/news/2026/07/creating-strategy-improve-hearing-aid-performance. #AcademicSky

"Real-Time Environment-Specific Deep Denoising for Edge-Assisted Hearing Aids.” with pictures of collaborators

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Josh Sobel [Advisor: Sriram Pemmaraju] will defend his doctoral thesis entitled "Distributed Sampling & Counting Algorithms" today July 14 at 11am in MLH B11. Please contact Josh, joshua-sobel@uiowa.edu if you plan to attend. Details at cs.uiowa.edu. #FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad2026 #AcademicSky

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🎉👏 to Sarmad Chandio + co-authors @osamakhalid.bsky.social (PhD '24), Sharaf Zia & Ethan Kutlu for their @icwsm.bsky.social “Best Paper;” 1 of 3 UIowa papers from CS and CSD accepted. Kudos to Manisha Keim & Rishab Nithyanand as well! More @ cs.uiowa.edu/news/2026/06/ICWSM #ICWSM26 #AcademicSky

Collage of co-authors for those three papers and text: CONGRATULATIONS UIowa! ‘26 Int’l AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media One of three accepted papers awarded BEST PAPER!!!

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

PhD student Ushna Malik [Advised by @rishabn.bsky.social] presented her paper: “Prompting, Oversight, and Adoption: Physicians’ Use of Large Language Models for Diagnostic Reasoning in an LMIC” at @chi.acm.org #CHI2026 Full deets at cs.uiowa.edu/news/2026/04... #AcademicSky

Ushna presenting @ CHI 2026 Barcelona, Spain Ushna Malik Computer-Human Interaction 2026

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Congrats indeed to the winners of this year's ‪ icwsm.bsky.social‬ Best Paper including own @osamakhalid.bsky.social (PhD '24) and Sarmad Chandio and their UIowa collaborators Sharaf Zia and ethankutlu.bsky.social ! 🎆

https://icwsm.bsky.social‬

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Join us tomorrow Friday at 3:30pm in 140 SH! Our last Spring speaker Lana Yarosh [U. of Minnesota CS&E] will present "Computing for Recovery: How Computer Science Can Help People Reclaim Their Lives." Deets @ bit.ly/yarosh_4_24 or cs.uiowa.edu! PS: Reception to follow in 3 MLH/Muhly Lounge!

Speaker portrait with text: Friday, Apr. 24, 3:30 pm CS Colloquium Series Computing for Recovery: How Computer Science Can Help People Reclaim Their Lives Lana Yarosh, Ph.D. Associate Professor Computer Science & Engineering University of Minnesota RM 140 SH - (reception to follow in MLH 3)

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Yafan Huang [Advisor: Guanpeng Li] will defend his doctoral thesis entitled "Data-efficient and Fault-tolerant Exascale Computing" tomorrow Thursday 4/16 at 3pm. Deets at bit.ly/huang_4_16 #FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad26 #HPC #FaultTolerance #AcademicSky

Yafan Huang (CS PhD) portrait with exam date and time: Thursday, April 16, 2026 03:00 PM

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 Weiran Wang has defined his career by exploring #ML & #SpeechProcessing. “By preventing phantom narratives and limiting AI’s responses to facts present in the audio, the reliability of models ↗️.” Read at cs.uiowa.edu/news/2026/04...! #AcademicSky

Weiran Wang picture with text: 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝘁 𝗨𝗜𝗼𝘄𝗮: 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Join us Friday at 3:30pm in 140 SH! Chao Wang will present "Transfer Learning for Individualized Prediction" and offer two complementary frameworks for individual unit-level transfer learning from stochastic process and neural process perspectives. Deets @ bit.ly/wang_4_10! #AcademicSky

Friday, Apr. 10, 3:30 pm CS Colloquium Series Transfer Learning for Individualized Prediction Chao Wang, Ph.D. Associate Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering College of Engineering University of Iowa RM 140 SH - (reception to follow in MLH 3)

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Yihua Wei [Advisor: Peng Jiang] will defend his doctoral thesis entitled "Runtime and Compiler Optimizations for Subgraph Matching Algorithms on GPUs" on Monday 4/6 at 4pm. Deets at bit.ly/wei_4_6 #FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad26 #parallelization #optimization #AcademicSky🤞

PhD Candidate: Yihua Wei Final Exam Monday, April 6, 2026 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Shihui Song [Advisor: Peng Jiang] will defend her doctoral thesis entitled "Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems" tomorrow Friday 4/3 at 4pm. Deets at bit.ly/song_4_3 #FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad26 #GNN #HPC🤞 #AcademicSky

Shihui Song portrait with exam date/time: Friday, April 3, 2026 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Join us Friday at 3:30pm in 140 SH! Cori Faklaris will present "From Anxiety to Agency: Empowering users against SMiShing and digital stress in the age of AI." Deets @ bit.ly/faklaris_4_3! PS: Reception to follow in 3 MLH/Muhly Lounge!

Friday at 3:30pm in 140 SH!

Cori Faklaris will present "From Anxiety to Agency: Empowering users against SMiShing and digital stress in the age of AI" and introduce the Cybersecurity Anxiety Scale (CybAS), a new tool for measuring the "invisible stress" of digital vigilance, and showcase research on "educational migrants" that leverages AI capabilities and inclusive design to transform user anxiety into agency.

Deets @ bit.ly/faklaris_4_3 or cs.uiowa.edu!

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Tomorrow 3:30pm in SH140, we're hosting a Colloquium featuring 🌟Rising Stars🌟: • 𝗖𝗮𝘆𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹, Carnegie Mellon • 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆𝗮𝗺 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗿, Stony Brook • @yash-vekaria.bsky.social, UC Davis Reception at 4:30pm in MLH 3 as part of our 𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝘿𝙖𝙮. We'll be serving 🍨! Deets @ events.uiowa.edu/event/36919

Portraits of speakers for https://events.uiowa.edu/event/36919

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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 😊 .

#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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#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

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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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

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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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 👨‍🎓 🤞

Hussam Habib name, portrait, and exam time.

Maaz Musa name, portrait, and exam time.

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

📢 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👨‍🎓 🤞

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

📢 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👨‍🎓 🤞

Kowsar Hossain portrait/name and exam date/time

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

🎉 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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

📢 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👨‍🎓 🤞

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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

📢 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👨‍🎓 🤞

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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

📢 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 👨‍🎓 🤞

Mudathir Mohamed portrait with exam date/time

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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!

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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

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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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

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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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

Scans of Fall 1965 course offerings and program requirements overview

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

📢 #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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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

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Project Aria Case Study: University of Iowa

YouTube video by Meta Open Source

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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!

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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

📣 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 😉

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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

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.

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

#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]

Punched card-inspired banner used by UIowaCS students at 1978 Homecoming.

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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

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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

📢 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 👨‍🎓 🤞

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

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🚨On the CS academic market this year? @uiowacs.bsky.social is hosting a 3rd annual academic interview (virtual) workshop Dec 11 to demystify components of the process. Faculty will share insights into topics to deliberate on prior to your interviews. Deets/register at bit.ly/uiowacs_acad_job_24

Academic interview: What to expect UIowaCS faculty will demystify various components of the academic job interview process. You will gain insights into the types of interactions to expect at your job interviews and topics you should deliberate on prior to your first interview. Wednesday, December 11 2024 3:30-5 pm Virtual Event events.uiowa.edu/89385

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

📢 UIowaCS invite applications for multiple #CSfaculty positions effective Aug 2025. Deets @ cs.uiowa.edu/hiring ⚠️ 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆; full consideration to apps received by 1/1/25 🗓️ #ComputerScience #AcademicSky #EduSky #AcademicChatter #Hiring #TenureTrack #InstructionalTrack

Aerial shot of U of Iowa Pentacrest, centered on historic Old Capitol building - and home to U of Iowa Computer Science - with text "We're hiring!" in a speech bubble.

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UIowa Computer Science @uiowacs.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Join us today Friday 11/15 at 3:30pm! Our very own Prof. Segre will talk about "Computational Epidemiology at the University of Iowa "describing "fascinating computational problems" encountered since he became interested in Epidemiology circa 2006. Deets @ bit.ly/segre_11_15 or cs.uiowa.edu!

Prof. Segre portrait with text "Friday, Nov. 15, 3:30 pm
CS Colloquium Series
Computational Epidemiology at the University of Iowa
RM 110 MLH
Abstract available at cs.uiowa.edu
Alberto Segre
Professor and Chair in the Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa" using "Black and Gold" color scheme.

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