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Northwestern CS Welcomes New Faculty Members
Beginning this fall, four new tenure-track, clinical, and visiting faculty will join the department.Jul 21, 2025
Strong Northwestern Presence at EC’25
Northwestern Engineering faculty and students participated in the annual forum for advances in theory, empirics, and applications at the interface of economics and computation.Jul 17, 2025
Adobe Research Visits Northwestern
Three leaders from Adobe Research met with Northwestern students and faculty members to discuss potential research collaborations and engagement.Jul 8, 2025
Edith Elkind Joins Computing Community Consortium Council
Northwestern Engineering's Edith Elkind joins the council of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) this month.Jul 2, 2025|from Computing Community Consortium
Northwestern Scientists Launch Projects Using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
McCormick Professors Emma Alexander, Han Liu, Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, and Aggelos Katsaggelos will work on projects that include developing new AI tools and studying the universe’s deepest secrets.Jun 25, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Justice at Stake as Generative AI Enters the Courtroom
AFP News spoke with Professor Dan Linna Jr. about the prevalence of the new technology in the legal world.Jun 18, 2025|from AFP News (via Barron's)
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