P.h.D. candidate Yafan Huang visited The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis in November 2025, for his third time at the conference.

Two University of Iowa professors, Dr. William Thiel and Dr. Rahul Singh, combine their expertise to create a new approach in preventing restenosis. The project recently received a grant from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust Catalyst Program.

A recap of UICC 2026, the UIowa Computing Conference hosted by WiCS — featuring speakers from Microsoft, Disney, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, plus workshops, panels, and a student research expo.

Alberto Maria Segre, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, is one of six UIowa recipients of the annual prestigious award from the Board of Regents.

Rishab Nithyanand, an Emeriti-Faculty Scholar, and CLAS Dean’s Scholar in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa, received the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor Award this fall.

We welcome Eric Ewing, PhD, our new assistant professor of instruction to the UIowa Department of Computer Science.

Congrats to Prof. Elizabeth Kleiman, recognized as a 'CAFÉ Barista' for course accessibility. CAFÉ stands for Course Accessibility for Everyone, and is sponsored by the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology.

The Department of Computer Science is proud of its two students, Vinay Pursnani and Meredith Onions, who were both recently celebrated by banners in the "Dare to Discover" program.

"My work is grounded in the belief that programming should be a fundamentally creative and joyful activity. Programming involves exploring and understanding a problem, giving it a precise computational form, devising a solution, and then being able to execute and evaluate that solution."

UICC speakers have gone on to lead at top tech companies and shape the industry. See their journeys and register for 2026 to witness the next wave of innovation.