All the latest from the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Tianyin Xu attributes his NSF CAREER award to his faculty mentors, professors Darko Marinov & Josep Torrellas. 🔶🔷
As a junior faculty, he was inexperienced in turning research ideas into grant proposals. Their advice guided his recent successes.
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Announcing the
#ILLINOIS
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at The Grainger College of Engineering, made possible with a $50 MM gift from Thomas M. Siebel.
With our
#5
in-the-nation computer science program and 21 blended degree programs, the best is yet to come! 🔸🔹
#ILLINOIS
Computer Science professor Ling Ren has received a five-year $500,000 NSF CAREER Award to establish an algorithmic foundation for blockchains rooted in decades of research called the Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus.
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We are thrilled to welcome four new
#IllinoisCS
faculty members! Meet each of them with our full story and learn more about their expertise in areas like Security and Privacy, Formal Methods, Quantum and Wireless Systems.
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Announcing the
#ILLINOIS
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at
@uofigrainger
made possible with a $50 MM gift from
@TomSiebel
.
With our
#5
in-the-nation computer science program and 21 blended degree programs, the best is yet to come! 🔸🔹
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Varsha Krishnakumar, 2023
@UofIllinois
graduate in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Computer Science, will start her career at
@northropgrumman
& pursue her graduate degree. 🔸🔹👇
Varsha Krishnakumar, BS '23
@grainger
accepted a position as a guidance, navigation, and control engineer at Northrop Grumman and will begin an MS in astronautical engineering at the University of Southern California. Read the full interview at
Congratulations to
#ILLINOIS
Computer Science professor Lingming Zhang honored with the Grainger College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Research for his influential studies on software engineering and machine learning.
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With sadness, we note the passing of Frances Allen, a computing pioneer & friend of the department. Allen, the first woman to win a Turing Award, made seminal contributions to compiler research.
@Illinois_Alma
honored her w/ an honorary doctorate in 2004.
Congrats,
#ILLINOIS
Computer Science professor Ram Alagappan, for receiving an NSF Career Award to revolutionize storage for data centers. 🔸🔹
He aims to transform data storage systems from conventional SSDs to a software-centric model.
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🏅 Feeling a bit surprised at first, Illinois CS professor Deepak Vasisht quickly realized this was a happy moment. His alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, had just honored him as a Graduate of the Last Decade.
🔗 Full story:
#ILLINOIS
students didn't let the rainy weather stop them - or Alma - from celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights, on Saturday, while following social distancing guidelines.
Photos by Illinois CS MS student Aniket Shirke.
Congratulations,
#ILLINOIS
Computer Science professor Deepak Vasisht on being awarded a prestigious $648k National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to lead the advancement of real-time satellite imagery analytics. 🔸🔹
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We are the
#5
best graduate computer science program in the nation. 🔸🔹
With four top-five grad programs 🔽🔥
#3
Programming Languages
#4
Systems
#5
Artificial Intelligence
#5
Theory
Is your Amazon Echo secure? What’s it doing with your data?
#IllinoisCS
’s Carl Gunter &
@AdamBatesOrg
are part of a 10-person team investigating the lifecycle of smart home tech. The new $10M project aims to improve security & privacy for consumers.
23 new faculty are joining
#IllinoisCS
, bringing expertise on topics ranging from online misbehavior to broadening participation in computing, climate forecasting to data-driven agriculture, human-robot interaction to machine learning, plus a lot more!
We’re delighted that Dr. Nancy Amato (PhD CS ‘95) is returning to
@Illinois_Alma
to be the next
#IllinoisCS
Department Head & an Abel Bliss Professor of
@ILLengineering
, starting in January!
🤩 First year Illinois CS professor Elahe Soltanaghai found inspiration in being named to N2Women’s Rising Stars in Networking and Communications list, as she seeks to further her connection with students through research and instruction.
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Congratulations to Illinois CS prof. ChengXiang Zhai on winning the Gerard Salton Award from ACM SIGIR!
His work has defined many of the theoretical foundations of the language modeling approach to information retrieval.
#IllinoisCS
’s Christopher Fletcher & Edgar Solomonik have received
@NSF
CAREER awards, which support early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education. Congrats!
Congratulations,
#ILLINOIS
Computer Science professor Reyhaneh Jabbarvand on her $580K+ NSF CAREER Award for making ground-breaking advancements in neural testing & software debugging. 🔸🔹
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#ILLINOIS
Computer Science Professor Darko Marinov received the 2022 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award. 🏆
He takes a considerate, thoughtful approach to mentorship when students are interested in the research process. ⭐️
CS
#ILLINOIS
professor Talia Ringer won a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award to develop the PRICELESS project, which uses programming languages to improve automation and make it easier to prove programs correct.
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We're hiring tenure-track faculty! Join a top CS department, teach amazing students, & collaborate in the world-class
@uofigrainger
. We particularly encourage applications in quantum computing. For more, see: & .
Illinois is the top college for entrepreneurs and a catalyst for innovation, according to Forbes. 🔸🔹
Illini have built Tesla, AMD, YouTube, Yelp, PayPal and Oracle—just to name a few.
Congratulations,
#ILLINOIS
Computer Science graduates, on your extraordinary accomplishment! 🔶🔷
We are proud to welcome you to the world-changing
@UofIllinois
@uofigrainger
alumni family. 🎉
#IllinoisCS
prof. Bo Li has been named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators Under 35! Li devises adversarial attacks to detect flaws in AI systems and make them more robust.
“Young girls should know that programming is fun and creative and they shouldn’t be afraid of a screwdriver,” says Ruzena Bajcsy. 🖥🔧
Bajcsy and her daughter Klara Nahrstedt are the 1st mother and daughter inducted into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
#ILLINOIS
CS students Xudong Sun, Wenjie Ma, Jiawei Tyler Gu, Zicheng Ma, professor Tianyin Xu, and their collaborators received the USENIX OSDI ‘24 Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award.
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Congratulations to seven
#ILLINOIS
computer science professors for being 2024 Faculty Award winners at The Grainger College of Engineering.
Tiffani L. Williams
Eric Shaffer
Dakshita Khurana
Tianyin Xu
Nancy M. Amato
Josep Torrellas
Yael Gertner
Two Illinois CS faculty were recently honored by the ACM, the world’s largest educational & scientific computing society, for contributions to CS:
➡️Prof Jose Meseguer, 2020 ACM Fellow
➡️Prof Hanghang Tong, 2020 ACM Distinguished Member
Congrats! ➡️
#ILLINOIS
CS professor
@sanmikoyejo
is one of 128 promising young researchers who have been recognized by
@SloanFoundation
as a 2021
#sloanfellow
. Fellows "represent the most promising scientific researchers working today." Congratulations!
Congratulations to
#ILLINOIS
computer science professor Aishwarya Ganesan for winning the NSF Career Award for her proposal focusing to bridge performance and reliability in fault-tolerant systems! 🎉
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Congratulations,
#ILLINOIS
Computer Science Professor Ling Ren, who received the 2023 Google Research Scholar Award for analyzing how to use algorithms to help users conduct private searches online.
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Congratulations to
#ILLINOIS
computer science professors Nancy M. Amato and Rashid Bashir on being elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! 🔸🎉🔹
Thank you, Tom Siebel, for your generous contribution of $50M toward establishing the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science! Your gift is greatly appreciated by the
#ILLINOIS
community and we look forward to the future of computing and data science at Illinois! 🧡💙
Congratulations to
#ILLINOIS
CS professor Shenlong Wang for winning the NSF CAREER award to go toward creating AI systems that can imagine hypothetical scenarios in the physical world! 🔸🎉🔹
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Excited that
@laparisa
(BS CS ’05, MS ‘07), Director of Engineering for
@googlechrome
& Security Princess will return to campus to give this year’s Keynote for
@IllinoisEOH
! 5 pm, March 9.
Illinois CS faculty & students produced 10% of the papers accepted to the International Computer Education Research conference, taking place this week!
ICER is the premiere publication venue for CS education research.
#icer2021
#IllinoisCS
faculty have recently received NSF research grants totaling $4.2M! Learn about these 5 new projects, which span topics including data mining, software engineering, autonomous systems, cloud computing, computer architecture, & bioinformatics:
Thanks to
#ILLINOIS
professor Mohammed El-Kebir and a CS + ECE student workgroup, a new tool will accurately identify & classify coronaviruses' evolution.
Their CORSID-A algorithm helps medical & scientific communities prepare for new coronaviruses.
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Computer Science professor Heng Ji's pioneering work in information extraction &
#NLP
helps people separate valuable information from noise as she leads the
#ILLINOIS
Blender Lab & Amazon-Illinois AICE center as an Amazon Scholar.
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#ILLINOIS
CS PhD student Sam Cheng’s Distinguished Paper Award is one more example of what his co-adviser, Professor Darko Marinov, believes is the true strength of software engineering research.
🤝 A collaborative spirit that bolsters our work:
Congratulations to our four
#ILLINOIS
computer science professor for being named 2024 Google Research Scholars! 🔸🎉🔹
Han Zhao
Nan Jiang
Yupeng Zhang
Dakshita Khurana
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#ILLINOIS
CS professor Darko Marinov & former students Qingzhou Luo, Farah Hariri & Lamyaa Eloussi were awarded 2024 Test of Time Honorable Mention by the ACM ICF of Software Engineering for their 2014 paper "An empirical analysis of flaky tests." 🔸🔹
A $1 million grant from the
@NSF
will provide more opportunity for Illinois CS professor Sarita Adve and graduate student Muhammad Huzaifa to ensure that the Illinois Extended Reality (ILLIXR) testbed becomes everything it’s intended to be.
🗞️Full Story:
Prolific
#Illinois
alumnus Tom Siebel (BA History ’75, MBA ’83, MS CS ’85) has announced today that his company,
@C3_AI
, will cover the total cost for employees to earn an
#IllinoisCS
master’s degree online through
@coursera
’s platform!
This week at
#ISMB2020
,
#IllinoisCS
prof.
@peng_illinois
was recognized w/ the 2020 Overton Prize, given to early- to mid-career researchers who have made significant contributions to computational biology through research, teaching, & service. Congrats!
CS Prof. Vikram Adve is leading a $5.6M effort to reduce the complexity and size of modern software systems, in part, by exploring the possibilities of LLVM’s lifelong optimization capability!
AI music was born at
#ILLINOIS
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The first AI music created was the "Illiac Suite: String Quartet No 4" by chemistry professor Lejaren Hiller Jr on the game-changing Illiac I computer.
Learn about Auto-Tune's origins
@guardian
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Congratulations!
Nikunj Tyagi
Avery Plote
Keerthana Nallamotu
Raymond Chen
Aryaman Dwived
They located hidden spy cameras with custom-made localization algorithms for CS professor Elahe Soltanaghai's midterm exam.
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We are still celebrating the newest additions to the
#ILLINOIS
family!
Welcome, Grainger Engineer Gabrielle, to the electrical engineering and computer science Class of 2026! 🔶🎉🔷
This team of
#ILLINOIS
Grainger Engineering students is giving robots a sense of touch! They are focused on improving robots' capabilities to perceive and interact with the physical world. 🤖🌎💻
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#ILLINOIS
computer science professor Heng Ji is part of a transformative $20 M nine-university NSF grant to develop better solutions for children with speech-language needs.
Ji will use advanced AI to build an AI Screener and AI Orchestrator.
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Congratulations to
#ILLINOIS
CS student Yinlin Deng for winning a Two Sigma PhD Fellowship that will go toward her research in software engineering and machine learning! 🔸🎉🔹
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Congratulations to Lingming Zhang for winning a Meta 2022 AI4AI Research award!
His innovative Intelligent Software Engineering (iSE) Lab will collaborate with Meta Research on learning to fuzz tensor compilers.
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Congratulations to
#ILLINOIS
CS professor Saugata Ghose honored with the 2023 Intel Rising Star Faculty Award!
Ghose is creating easier integration of Processing in Memory (PIM) technology in computers, leading to more accessibility for users.
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As
@IlliniBaseball
gets ready for its NCAA Tournament opener this afternoon, a look back at the team's analytics program, the
@IllinoisCS
student behind it, and his unique CS+X major (Go
#Illini
!): and
#ILLINOIS
Alumna Parisa Tabriz (BS CS '05, MS' 07), 15-years after graduating, returned as the Grainger Engineering Convocation speaker to talk about the opportunities for graduates to solve the world's most pertinent problems & plan their futures.
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#ILLINOIS
Computer Science Professor Heng Ji leads the $5.8M DARPA project to advance conceptual learning through MIRACLE: Multimodal InteRActive Conceptual Learning.
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📍 The Quintessential Engineer
In 2013 an
#ILLINOIS
engineering student Sakshi Srivastava petitioned for a statue to inspire women pursuing careers in a predominately male field. In 2017 "Quinn" became the face & expression of wonder, exploration, knowledge & perseverance.
Eight Illinois CS faculty and students have been recognized for their research, teaching, or mentoring contributions with awards at the campus or college levels this spring!
A team of computer scientists at
#ILLINOIS
led by professor Deepak Vasisht can conjure 'ghosts' that scare intruders from your home.
Using RF-Protect people appear real but don’t exist.
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New
#ILLINOIS
research by computer science professor Colleen Lewis &
@edILLINOIS
professor Paul Bruno examines the effects of California's push for CS education.
Despite the greater emphasis on CS, disparities persist among schools, students & faculty. ▶
Congrats to
#IllinoisCS
prof.
@adityagp
, who has won an award from the Army Research Office’s Young Investigator Program to support his work on improving the quality of crowdsourced information!
CS Profs
@AdamBatesOrg
,
@RanjithaSKumar
, and Matus Telgarsky have each received a prestigious
@NSF
CAREER Award. (Plus, Prof Ruta Mehta won a CAREER earlier this year.) Congratulations to all!
"Brain Train," a billion-dollar Chicago Hub-Union Station rail improvement/connectivity project, would be a game-changer for Chicago startups, help keep & recruit
#ILLINOIS
entrepreneurs, students & faculty, says Nancy Amato, computer science dept. head.🚆
#IllinoisCS
prof.
@RosuGrigore
’s company,
@rv_inc
, has earned its 3rd grant from
@NASA
’s Small Business Innovation Research program. It will check for inconsistencies & odd behaviors in technologies NASA uses where programs are written in the C language.
Congratulations,
#ILLINOIS
computer science professor Charith Mendis, for winning a prestigious NSF CAREER award to advance the automated generation of compilers for AI accelerators. 🎉
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🌎 Having moved from India to the US to pursue his PhD, Professor
@indygupta
knows the unique challenges that immigrants in CS face. Still, he admits to being surprised by every interview of his new podcast, “Immigrant Computer Scientists.”
🔗 Full story:
CS professor Josep Torrellas' $40 M Center for Evolvable Computing (ACE) is 1 of 3 hotbeds of interdisciplinary microelectronics research at
#ILLINOIS
Grainger Engineering, aiming to increase U.S. domestic research & manufacturing of semiconductors. ▶️