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PhD Student Tochukwu Eze Inducted to Bouchet Honor Society
The Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and excellence in doctoral education.May 13, 2025
Training Reasoning Agents in Interactive, Complex Environments
Professor Manling Li and CS PhD student Zihan Wang led a multi-institution team in the development of an AI framework designed to train language agent systems for dynamic, goal-directed action.May 12, 2025
Strong Northwestern Presence at ACM CHI 2025
Nineteen Northwestern University faculty members and ten students and postdocs presented research at the 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international conference on human-computer interaction.May 2, 2025|from Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design
Professors Jonathan Emery and Michael Horn Honored with University Teaching Awards
The five honorees demonstrate excellence in undergraduate teaching and were selected by a committee chaired by the provost and made up of senior faculty members, University administrators and a student representative.Apr 28, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Matthew Skaruppa, Ameet Mallik to Speak at 2025 Graduation Ceremonies
On June 16, Skaruppa and Mallik will address graduates at the McCormick Undergraduate Convocation and PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony, respectively.Apr 22, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Record-Breaking WildHacks 2025 Showcases Creative Problem-Solving Skills
A record 348 students representing 57 universities completed 94 innovative software projects during the WildHacks 2025 event held April 5-6 at Northwestern.Apr 22, 2025
Northwestern CS Announces Fall 2024, Winter 2025 Outstanding Teaching Assistants and Peer Mentors
The quarterly department awards recognize exceptional service to the CS community.Apr 18, 2025
Learning the Fundamentals of Academic Research
On April 3, the cohort of Northwestern Computer Science Research Track program students presented projects they developed over fall and winter quarters.Apr 18, 2025
Edith Elkind Named Structural Democracy Faculty Fellow
Northwestern Engineering's Edith Elkind has been inducted into the inaugural cohort of Data and Democracy Lab Structural Democracy Faculty Fellows, funded by the Crankstart Foundation.Apr 16, 2025|from Data and Democracy Lab
Northwestern Engineering, Law Researchers Earn Best Paper Honors at ACM CS+Law 2025
Coauthored by JD/CS PhD student Peter Chan and Professor Xiao Wang, the paper presents a statutory-technological framework for creating cryptographically secure misconduct settlement reporting registries.Apr 15, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Building Practical Knowledge of the Data Science Lifecycle
Effective this spring, Moses Chan and Huiling Hu are the new leaders of the minor in machine learning and data science, a joint program offered by the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and the Department of Computer Science.Apr 7, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
Computer Graphics Students Demo Final Projects
Students expressed creativity and ingenuity in the design of interactive computer graphic scenes for their final projects in the winter quarter Intro to Computer Graphics course.Apr 1, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
State Legislators Look To Establish Rules for Artificial Intelligence in Elections, Education, and Health Care
Professor Kristian Hammond told the Chicago Tribune “we have to think about how to build systems that bring out the best in us by being very smart as opposed to reducing us by being very smart.”Mar 19, 2025|from Chicago Tribune
Karan Ahuja Wins ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition Award
Ahuja and the Google Android XR team were acknowledged for pioneering the interaction framework of the operating system through exemplary industry-academia collaboration.Mar 11, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News
PhD Student Rashna Kumar Wins 2025 Pulse Research Fellowship
The Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship supports researchers conducting data-driven analysis or developing tools that contribute to an open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet.Mar 10, 2025