News
Nahrstedt Named One of N2Women’s 10 Women to Know in Networking/Communications
December 14, 2015 Klara Nahrstedt has been named to the inaugural list of “10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Should Know."
Three CS @ ILLINOIS Women among World’s Top Rising Stars
December 9, 2015 Three CS @ ILLINOIS women researchers attended the 2015 Rising Stars workshop at MIT.
Sha Receives Simon Ramo Medal
December 7, 2015 CS Professor Lui Sha was named a co-recipients of the 2016 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal.
Warnow Named a Fellow of ACM
December 6, 2015 CS and Bioengineering Professor Tandy Warnow has been named a 2015 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Wang Wins 2015 SIGKDD Dissertation Award
December 6, 2015 Chi Wang (PhD 2014) won the 2015 SIGKDD Dissertation Award for new approach to mining unstructured data.
Engineer in Residence Scott Fisher Shares History of Computing and Career Insights
December 3, 2015 Scott Fisher returned to CS @ ILLINOIS as an Engineer in Residence to share his insights after a career in industry.
NSF Grant Funds DataHub Project to Make Data Science More Collaborative
November 22, 2015 Aditya Parameswaran is co-PI of DataHub, an NSF-funded initiative to make collaborative data science simple.
ChicTech Introduces High School Girls to Computer Science
November 22, 2015 In early November, 49 high school girls took part in the ChicTech retreat put on by Women in Computer Science.
Heeren Receives Teacher of the Year Award
November 11, 2015 Cinda Heeren has been named the recipient of the 2015 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Teacher of the Year Award.
Poloney Shares His Entrepreneurial Experience
November 4, 2015 Google's Joel Poloney shared his entrepreneurial journey with students on as an Engineer in Residence in the CS Department.
Kolla Receives NSF CAREER Award to Investigate NP-Hard Problems
November 1, 2015 CS Assistant Professor Alexandra Kolla recently received a young faculty NSF CAREER award.
Alumnus Andrew Yao Sees Quantum Computing as the Next Great Science
October 28, 2015 Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (PhD ’75) gave a a keynote address on the topic of quantum computing.
CS Department Recognizes Outstanding Alumni
October 27, 2015 On October 23, CS @ ILLINOIS held its annual Alumni Awards Ceremony and Banquet, where it recognized 14 alumni and faculty.
Vikram Adve Named University Scholar
October 15, 2015 CS Professor Vikram Adve was one of seven Urbana campus faculty members selected as a 2015 University Scholar.
Alumni-Founded Fullstack Academy Offers Cutting-Edge Coding Education
October 14, 2015 Fullstack Academy, a software engineering school, was founded by David Yang (BSEE '04) and Nimit Maru (BS CS '04).
Bailey Applies Crowdsourcing Solutions to Enhance Design Education
October 8, 2015 CS Professor Brain Bailey is leading a team developing ways to bring crowdsourcing solutions to computer science classes.
CS Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members
September 28, 2015 Seven new faculty members will be joining CS @ ILLINOIS over the coming year.
Is Backscatter X-ray a Safe Tool for Airport Security?
September 28, 2015 CS Professor Sheldon H. Jacobson helped assemble a new NAS report on backscatter X-ray machines.
Gems Camp Encourages Young Women’s Interest in Computer Science
September 22, 2015 The weeklong Gems: Computer Science Camp for Middle and High School Girls saw nearly 140 participants.