We're thrilled to announce the addition of four new tenure-track faculty members and two faculty of instruction to the CS community starting this fall. We look forward to welcoming you! bit.ly/2yqWGJF
Northwestern University Computer Science
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Northwestern University Computer Science
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Computers are changing everything. Northwestern CS aims to lead that change.
- Congratulations to Professor Xiao Wang on receiving the prestigious @NSF CAREER Award! @wangxiao1254 will focus on bridging the gap between the critical need for secure multiparty computation and vital challenges preventing wide deployment.
- Congratulations to Marcelo Worsley for receiving an @NSF CAREER Award! The award will support his efforts to create athletics-centered learning experiences that connect computer science and sports. Read more: bit.ly/35yGRNM @sesp_nu
- We are thrilled to welcome new faculty members Karan Ahuja, Manling Li, and Kate Smith to the Northwestern CS community! @realkaranahuja @ManlingLi_ bit.ly/44CETbT
- A new generative methods class taught by @GalaxyKate bridges programming and theatre through virtual costumes. Read the story: bit.ly/3uAOFcd
GIF - Postdoctoral fellows Kathryn Cunningham and Emily Wall are advancing the field of #computerscience research. @katieirenec studies the way novices learn to program, and @profembwall studies decision making using data visualization and visual analytics. #WomensHistoryMonth2021
- On May 6, join the Technology & Social Behavior PhD program for their spring colloquium, featuring guest speaker @Diyi_Yang of @Stanford. Professor Yang will discuss "Human-AI Interaction in the Age of Large Language Models." ⏰ 1:30pm 📍 Frances Searle 1-122, Evanston Campus
- Xiao Wang @wangxiao1254 and Chenkai Weng @CWeng15 won runner-up for Best Paper Award at the 2021 @acm_ccs Conference. The team was recognized for their recent paper on zero-knowledge protocol, an important component of modern cryptography. bit.ly/3r4g73R
- Congratulations to Josiah Hester on receiving the 2022 Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity. @ProfJosiah helped create Code-N-Color, a support group for BIPOC PhD students in computing and coding-related disciplines.
- Congratulations to @JessicaHullman, @mjskay, and @AlexKale17 for winning Best Paper at IEEE InfoVis this year for “Visual Reasoning Strategies for Effect Size Judgments and Decisions."
- .@JessicaHullman — who received a 2019 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship — studies uncertainty in data visualizations, and how people can better interact with data. Read about Hullman: bit.ly/3d1Vk8d #WomensHistoryMonth2021
- Jennie Rogers and Xiao Wang received a $1.2M NSF SaTC grant along with Duke’s Kartik Nayak and Ashwin Machanavajjhala to fund research for Quicksilver: A Write-oriented, Private, Outsourced DB Management System.
- Congratulations to Professors Sam Kriegman and Ryan Truby on winning a 2022 Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience Seed Grant for their project titled "Sustainable Design and Fabrication of Intelligent Robots." @CesrNu @Kriegmerica @rltruby bit.ly/3lcGC67
- We are excited to start the 2022-23 academic year with our newest faculty: Andrew Crotty, Andrew Fano (@fanoan), Joseph Hummel (@joehummel), Sam Kriegman (@Kriegmerica), Miklos Racz, and Zach Wood-Doughty (@zachwooddoughty)! bit.ly/3TDMJgL bit.ly/3TtJzMi
