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, [email protected] if you plan to attend. Details at cs.uiowa.edu. #FinalExam #PhDLife #UIowaGrad2026 #AcademicSky

🎉👏 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

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

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 ! 🎆

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!

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

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

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

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🤞

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

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!

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

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

#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

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

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 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👨‍🎓 🤞

🎉 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 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👨‍🎓 🤞

📢 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 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!

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

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

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

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

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 😉

Join us this Friday 12/6 3:30-5pm! Arjun Arunasalam (Purdue); Matthew DeVerna (Indiana U. [email protected]); 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]

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 (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 👨‍🎓 🤞

🚨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

📢 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

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!