Joseph E. Michaelis has been awarded an U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop a social robot to assist students with their science homework, mimicking the social interactions in class that are conducive to learning UIC CS Department bit.ly/3rdqYHq

Barbara Di Eugenio is one of three winners of the 2022 Association of Women in Science Zenith Award, which, "Honors senior career professional’s lifetime of innovative achievements in STEM and commitment to workplace diversity.” Association for Women in Science @uiccs

The application window for May 2023 Sprinternships™ is open! Apply by Dec. 11 to be considered for a three-week paid micro-internship in tech. Learn more and access the application: chicago.breakthroughtech.org/sprinternship-…

Interested in a CS PhD in US? UIC CS Department is organizing a webinar to talk about the application process. The department is growing rapidly, offers a culturally diverse environment, and is located in the beautiful city of Chicago. Nov 2nd 7am CDT Webinar: tinyurl.com/uicwebinar2022

Congratulations to Barbara Di Eugenio for receiving the Association for Women in Science Zenith Award for her lifetime achievements in STEM and her commitment to workplace diversity. bit.ly/3gMgU6G

Xiaorui Sun received a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency's most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty, for his project "On Non-Linear Graph Eliminations.” UIC CS Department

UIC Students, register now for SparkHacks 2023, a free hackathon held on campus April 7 and 8. No coding experience required. sparkhacksatuic.com/about

Congratulations to Clinical Associate Professor Gonzalo Bello Lander, who received UIC's 2023 Harold Simon Teaching Award for teaching excellence

CS Lecturer Mark Hallenback was selected by this year's senior class to receive the 2023 Silver Circle Award for teaching excellence

The semester may be over, but our construction crews are still working hard on the new CDRLC! The building will double the capacity of UIC CS Department & will allow us to continue the cutting-edge research that has become a hallmark of the department. Construction will be completed in 2024

Chris Kanich’s received two grants to help internet users, by making the flow of data online more transparent, and to help internet users make safe choices. UIC CS Department today.uic.edu/investigating-…

.UIC CS Department Xiaouri Sun's new algorithm can quickly determine whether two mathematical groups are equivalent. His work was featured in Quanta Magazine: quantamagazine.org/computer-scien… Quanta Magazine

Barbara Di Eugenio and Chris Kanich talk about improving ChatGPT and other language models in UIC Today's Learning with the Machines feature, on how UIC educators and researchers are exploring the impact of these tools. UIC CS Department today.uic.edu

Gordon Research Conferences Come check out our poster on Monday about what we learned regarding designing educational geo-data visualization applications for multi-touch spherical display in Earth Science classrooms. Illinois Space Grant Consortium UIC CS Department (w/Stefany Sit, UIC)

Prof. Barbara Di Eugenio will present a keynote on how to effectively engage with the patient in healthcare on coming Thursday (9am CEST) at SIGdial, 2023: 2023.sigdial.org/keynotes/

Our very own Professor Barbara Di Eugenio was recently on NBC5 Chicago to discuss AI in healthcare! Watch the interview here: nbcchicago.com/top-videos-hom… UIC CS Department

Assistant Professor Luís Pina received his first U.S. National Science Foundation grant for broadening the use of multi-version eXecution to managed languages such as Java and Python. This will make software better, more reliable, and easier to use. UIC CS Department cs.uic.edu/news-stories/p…

Brian Ziebart and Xinhua Zhang received an U.S. National Science Foundation grant to train AI systems to learn through imitation, and ultimately exceed the capabilities of the humans that teach them. UIC CS Department

Joe Michaelis received two new grants: one to immerse high school STEM teachers in computational modeling and simulation and devise ways to use this knowledge in the classroom, and one to develop social companion robots to integrate into long-term care. UIC CS Department

Computer Science Assistant Professor Sidharth Kumar's paper, "Speculative Progressive Raycasting for Memory Constrained Isosurface Visualization of Massive Volumes", received the best paper award at the IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization. IEEE Xplore @uiccs