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UIowa Computer Science
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Department of Computer Science
The University of Iowa
Est. March 11, 1965
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#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.
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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.
September 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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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.
July 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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📢 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👨‍🎓 🤞
June 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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📢 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
June 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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🎉 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
Rishab Nithyanand portrait
May 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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📢 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
May 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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📢 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)
April 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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📢 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
April 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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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
March 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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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!
February 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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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 / AJB Hosted 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
February 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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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!"
January 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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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
January 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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📢 #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
January 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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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
December 10, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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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
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.
December 3, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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#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.
November 22, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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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
November 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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📢 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"
November 19, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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🚨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
November 19, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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📢 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.
November 15, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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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.
November 15, 2024 at 3:36 PM