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Sam Kriegman Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
By generalizing the optimization techniques of artificial neural networks to the design of robots, Kriegman and his team aim to evolve novel robots with important new capabilities that are difficult or impossible to design by hand.Jun 18, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Learning to Protect User Data
In the Foundations of Security and Data Privacy courses, Professor Sruti Bhagavatula emphasizes the need for “security by design,” incorporating security and privacy best practices throughout the design and development lifecycle.Jun 17, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Ameet Mallik Shares Lessons That Shaped His Innovation
During his June 16 speech at the 2025 PhD Hooding and Master’s Recognition Ceremony, Mallik credited lifelong learning, purpose, relationships, and balance as keys to his success.Jun 17, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Matthew Skaruppa Highlights Fear, Compulsion, and Love in Graduation Speech
Skaruppa, the CFO of Duolingo, and Dean Christopher Schuh spoke at the 2025 Undergraduate Convocation on June 16.Jun 17, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
CS Senior Spotlight: Nathan Pruyne
Pruyne will start a PhD in computer science next fall in the Generative Creativity Lab at Carnegie Mellon University.Jun 13, 2025
CS Senior Spotlight: Ethan Pineda
This fall, Pineda will join Salesforce as a full-time software engineer.Jun 12, 2025
CS Senior Spotlight: Bennett Lindberg
After graduation, Lindberg will join Motorola Solutions as a software engineer in the Secure Products Group.Jun 12, 2025
Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence to Empower University-Wide Use of Data Science and AI
The initiative led in part by founding co-director V.S. Subrahmanian will support faculty and students using and benefiting from AI tools in their work.Jun 11, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
CS Senior Spotlight: Rachel Yao
After graduation, Yao plans to join Amazon as a full-time software developer in Seattle.Jun 11, 2025
CS Senior Spotlight: Natalie Hill
Hill will join MongoDB in New York City as a software engineer this fall.Jun 10, 2025
CS Senior Spotlight: Marko Veljanovski
Continuing his passion for research, Veljanovski will begin a PhD in computer science at the University of Michigan this fall.Jun 9, 2025
Northwestern IT Inducts Professor Yiji Zhang to Canvas Hall of Fame
Zhang won the award for “Most Innovative Course Site” for Fundamentals of Computer Programming II.Jun 4, 2025
Experimenting with AI-Assisted Coding
In the Applied AI for Software Development course launched by Hamilton Murrah (MBAi ’25), fourth-year and master’s degree students are drawing on their foundational programming knowledge to experiment with GenAI tools.Jun 4, 2025
2025 Outstanding CS Seniors
Northwestern Computer Science recognizes graduating computer science students for their impactful contributions.May 27, 2025
Northwestern CS Announces Spring 2025 Outstanding Teaching Assistant and Peer Mentors
The quarterly department awards recognize exceptional service to the CS community.May 27, 2025