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PhD Student Spotlight: Mara Ulloa
After graduation, Ulloa plans to pursue post-doctoral positions that allow her to continue conducting interdisciplinary research in human-computer interaction and user-centered technologies.Oct 21, 2024
New App Performs Real-Time, Full-Body Motion Capture with a Mobile Device
MobilePoser makes motion capture more accessible by using sensors your devices already have.Oct 15, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
PhD Student Spotlight: Melissa Chen
Through her interdisciplinary work with the Delta Lab, human-computer interaction, and learning sciences communities at Northwestern, Chen is building the skill set she needs to be a thoughtful and effective researcher.Oct 14, 2024
Fall Tech Career Fair Welcomes More than 40 Companies
More than one thousand undergraduate and graduate students in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, data science, machine learning, and related disciplines met with recruiters from more than 40 companies at the 2024 Fall Tech Career Fair.Oct 11, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
PhD Application Feedback Program Aims to Increase Diversity in CS Graduate Programs
Professor Fabian Bustamante launched the feedback program in 2020 to provide guidance to prospective PhD students applying to any computer science program in the country.Oct 10, 2024
PhD Student Spotlight: Tommy McMichen
McMichen is pursuing a PhD in computer science with the ultimate goal of becoming a systems research professor.Oct 9, 2024
Alum Spotlight: Hyeok Kim (PhD ’24)
Now a postdoc at the University of Washington, Kim aims to adapt complicated computing technologies for creators, developers, and designers with varying levels of expertise.Oct 8, 2024
Karan Ahuja Named to MIT Technology Review “Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific”
Professor Karan Ahuja was named to the MIT Technology Review “Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific” list in the “Computer and Electronics Hardware” category.Oct 8, 2024
Understanding Computing Students’ Self-Assessments
Professor Eleanor O'Rourke and PhD students Melissa Chen and Yinmiao Li won a Best Paper Award at ICER 2024 for their study on underlying criteria for the self-assessments of programming students.Oct 8, 2024
Lessons from the PhD Journey of Professor Nivedita Arora
Professor Nivedita Arora shared lessons learned from her six-year journey earning a PhD in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.Sep 24, 2024|from ACM-W Connections Newsletter
MS Student Spotlight: Malvika Khanna
Khanna’s curiosity and opportunity to pursue topics in-depth led her to specialize in machine learning and artificial intelligence.Sep 23, 2024
Northwestern to Lead $20 Million National AI Research Institute in Astronomy
With Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos as co-principal investigator, the SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution.Sep 18, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Monisola Jayeoba Wins AAUW International Fellowship
Technology and Social Behavior PhD student Monisola Jayeoba is advancing knowledge in the field of digital health behavior change and cancer care.Sep 12, 2024
hls4ml Summer School Offers Students Training in Edge-AI Hardware Accelerators
Professor Seda Ogrenci organized a hands-on summer school for students to explore her team’s open-source tool for designing machine learning inference in hardware using high level synthesis language.Sep 5, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern Computer Science Launches AI Minor and Major Concentrations
Effective fall 2024, the undergraduate CS major will offer eight optional degree concentrations and non-CS majors across Northwestern can pursue a new minor in artificial intelligence.Sep 5, 2024