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Eight CS Faculty and Students Receive Engineering, Campus Awards for Excellence
May 10, 2020 Eight CS faculty and students won Grainger Engineering or campus-level awards for their outstanding contributions to research, teaching, or mentoring.
CS Faculty Produce a Quicker Way to Analyze Deluge of COVID-19 Related Research
May 9, 2020 PaperRobot is an AI-enabled knowledge discovery framework that summarizes important information to aid in decision making.
Overton Prize Winner Jian Peng Finds Further Motivation in the Honor
May 8, 2020 Fifth year Illinois CS professor earns one of the most prestigious awards in the computational biology field.
Just in Time for Mothers’ Day: New Scholarship Honors a Mother’s Inspiration
May 5, 2020 Amy and Eric Tamura have established the Ruey-Feng Shieh Li Scholarship in Computer Science in hopes that it will inspire others.
Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Winner Strives to Support Mental Health Resources
May 2, 2020 Illinois CS junior Ananya Cleetus wants people to know that good things can come from failure.
Two CS Seniors Named Knights of St. Patrick, Top Grainger Engineering Student Honor
May 2, 2020 Nupoor Gandhi and Caren Zeng were among the 11 students selected as 2020 Knights of St. Patrick.
CS Researchers Demonstrate IoT Privacy Concerns with ShoesHacker
April 24, 2020 While they may have many applications, CS researchers show the potential risks in the newly developing technology of smart shoes.
Abdelzaher Repurposing Social Networking Models to Predict COVID-19 Spread Under Different Social Distancing Policies
April 23, 2020 Professor Tarek Abdelzaher has modified information propagation models to make predictions of COVID-19's spread.
A Desire for Data Accessibility Sparked the Creation of a Viral Visualization
April 10, 2020 Teaching Associate Professor Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider found himself with some unexpected free time and questions about COVID-19.
New $367 million C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Seeks Proposals to Use AI to Mitigate COVID-19 Pandemic
April 10, 2020 Chaired by Thomas M. Siebel, a new research consortium has the goal of using AI to scale digital transformation.
Hauser Leads Work on Robotic Avatar for Hands-Free Medical Care
March 25, 2020 The use of avatar robots would allow medical professionals to reduce the amount of face-to-face contact and could slow the spread of future pandemics.
How Reddit's Coronavirus Community Became a Destination
March 18, 2020 NBC News -- PhD student Rick Barber has helped to make Reddit's fast-growing conronavirus community a destination for information-seekers.
University of Illinois Takes Steps to Address COVID-19 Risks
March 13, 2020 Courses will migrate online by March 23rd, events with more than 50 attendees have been suspended, and travel has been curtailed.
March Madness Bracket Analysis Shows Picking Your Final Four First Leads To Better Brackets
March 3, 2020 University of Illinois data science researchers have some advice for optimal March Madness strategies, based on new research.
BAAC Student Club Wins State Farm Grant to Support Outreach Efforts
February 19, 2020 Blacks and African Americans in Computing (BAAC) has received $5,500 from State Farm's Good Neighbor Citizenship® Company Grant program.
The Home Team
February 18, 2020 Coohom—3D software from Hang Chen, Victor Huang and Hao Zhu—lets users easily design their own “cool homes”.
Sun, Williams Join Illinois Computer Science Faculty
February 14, 2020 Two new faculty add expertise in artificial intelligence for healthcare as well as in creating bridge programs to make advanced CS degrees more accessible.
Knowledge Engine is Ready to Accelerate Genomic Research
February 6, 2020 A center led by Professor Saurabh Sinha has created a first-of-its-kind analytical platform, KnowEnG, to help interpret complex genomic datasets.
Team Creates Game-Based Virtual Archaeology Field School
January 29, 2020 CS PhD student Cameron Merrill has helped to create a VR laboratory that brings an in-depth archaeological field school experience to campus.