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Break Through Tech Sprinterns

17 companies tap more than 100 UIC students to tackle tech challenges

Jacqueline Carey | Posted on May 10, 2022

Natalie Parde

Using natural language processing to improve mental health support

Andrea Poet | Posted on May 04, 2022

students assemble Rube Goldberg machine in CS 111

CS111 students create an elaborate chain of micro-motion projects

Andrea Poet | Posted on May 03, 2022

Danielle Cartagenes

Danielle Cartagenes finds a perfect fit in the Computer Science and Linguistics program

Andrea Poet | Posted on May 02, 2022

Piotr Gmytrasiewicz

Modeling deception in AI

Andrea Poet | Posted on March 29, 2022

Mark Grechanik

Mark Grechanik receives nearly $1 million from NSF for securing assistive apps, and app testing

Andrea Poet | Posted on March 22, 2022

book, by Barbara Di Eugenio

Faculty book shows possibilities of using AI in CS education

Andrea Poet | Posted on March 11, 2022

top 2% CS researchers-Elsevier

CS researchers among top 2% in their fields for career, single-year impact

Posted on February 08, 2022

Prasad Sistla

Aravinda Prasad Sistla named ACM Fellow

Andrea Poet | Posted on January 20, 2022

Mary Ashley Tenedor, center

Biomedical engineering student Mary Ashely Tenedor finds a minor in data science a perfect fit

Andrea Poet | Posted on January 19, 2022

students at the data science workshop

Workshop allows students to explore data science

Andrea Poet | Posted on January 06, 2022

backwoods baja

UIC wins tug of war at Backwoods Baja competition

David Staudacher | Posted on November 01, 2021

Joshua Evan Campbell

UIC CHANCE students named ComEd Scholars

Carlos Sadovi | Posted on October 25, 2021

early childhood

Natalie Parde receives grant to improve early childhood interventions

Andrea Poet | Posted on October 20, 2021

UIC engineering students create resource for the undocumented community

Andrea Poet | Posted on October 18, 2021

Ian Kash

New cloud market design will better align supply, demand

Andrea Poet | Posted on September 01, 2021

Liz Marai

Liz Marai wins Test of Time award

Andrea Poet | Posted on August 30, 2021

Nikita Soni

CS department adds a new human-computer interaction researcher

David Brazy | Posted on August 27, 2021

Elena Zheleva

CAREER grant opens path for causal inference in AI

David Brazy | Posted on August 23, 2021

Meet the new computer science faculty

Posted on August 16, 2021

From sitting in classroom to leading it

by David Brazy | Posted on August 16, 2021

Chris Fulton

Industry, classroom experience inform Lecturer Chris Fulton’s teaching style

by Andrea Poet | Posted on August 16, 2021

Kristel Clayville

From learning about the past to enabling the future

by David Brazy | Posted on August 16, 2021

Shweta Yadav

Natural language processing expert joins department

by David Brazy | Posted on August 16, 2021

Grace Pnacek

New CS and linguistics major: a perfect fit

by Andrea Poet | Posted on August 05, 2021

divers underwater

Computer science, environmental health experts at UIC team up to protect US Navy divers with AI

Posted on July 29, 2021

Ashma Pandya

The remarkable versatility of computer science

by Andrea Poet | Posted on July 19, 2021

groundbreaking

UIC breaks ground on new Computer Design Research and Learning Center

Posted on July 16, 2021

students enjoy the immersive Hummingbird experience

"Hummingbird" immersive virtual reality play workshop held at EVL

Posted on June 29, 2021

representation of a knowledge graph

Course on knowledge graphs link students from across majors

by Andrea Poet | Posted on June 16, 2021

Afifa Nadeem in front of a mural in Pilsen by the artist Pablo Serrano

Designing a network (and networking)

by Andrea Poet | Posted on June 16, 2021

Jonathan Vega

Data visualizations unite water and air

by Andrea Poet | Posted on June 02, 2021

feathers floating in the air

Can’t meet your friends to play your favorite game?

by Andrea Poet | Posted on May 26, 2021

Maximizing cancer survival, minimizing treatment side effects with AI

Posted on May 25, 2021

Pooja Vemu

From student to software engineer

by Andrea Poet | Posted on May 06, 2021

Gina Gerace

A girl who codes heads out into the working world

by Andrea Poet | Posted on May 06, 2021

Wei Tang

Wei Tang using computer vision to improve cell phone photos taken in low-light conditions

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 22, 2021

Enhancing privacy-preserving computation with advanced cryptography

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 13, 2021

Abolfazl Asudeh

2021 off to a busy start for Assistant Professor Abolfazl Asudeh

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 06, 2021

CS Advisor Bryant Hill

CS majors benefit from academic advising team

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 05, 2021

rendering of new CS building

New building for computer science department coming to East Campus

Posted on March 02, 2021

Patrick Asztabski

Patrick Asztabski finds a home in the new data science major

Posted on March 02, 2021

Kaylynn Arrington

Meet Kaylynn Arrington, a student in UIC's new data science major

Posted on March 02, 2021

Instructor Jackie Moore with her class

For great tech, start with people

by Andrea Poet | Posted on January 20, 2021

Cecilia Avila

Cecilia Avila, UIC CS ’20, wins GET Chicago Fellowship

by Andrea Poet | Posted on January 14, 2021

Kits sent to students in the Wearables and Nearables Technology Laboratory class

Wearable technology course expands to meet demand

by Carlos Sadovi | Posted on January 12, 2021

Jovad Uribe

Meet Jovad Uribe of UIC’s new data science program

by Andrea Poet | Posted on January 11, 2021

Siham Hussein

Siham Hussein juggles work, volunteerism with graduation

by Andrea Poet | Posted on December 18, 2020

graph measuring anxiety levels of tweets near college campuses relating to Covid 19

Cruz, Wang use big data to track the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on college towns

by Andrea Poet | Posted on December 09, 2020

Peter Nelson

University Scholar Peter Nelson

by UIC News contributor | Posted on November 17, 2020

Maxine Brown

Maxine Brown, director of UIC’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory retires after 34 years

Posted on November 11, 2020

Amita Shetty

Break Through Tech Chicago announces strategic expert as new director

Posted on October 08, 2020

Image from scholar research project

Early Research Scholars Program provides apprenticeship to CS, ECE undergrads

By Andrea Poet | Posted on September 30, 2020

CS department welcomes three new faculty members

by Andrea Poet | Posted on August 27, 2020

Mitchell Theys

Mitchell Theys receives UIC’s highest teaching honor

by Andrea Poet | Posted on August 12, 2020

Chris Kanich

Computer science instructor credits course success to online learning

by Carlos Sadovi | Posted on July 06, 2020

EVL SAGE2

Data visualization gets artificial intelligence boost with $5 million NSF grant

Posted on July 01, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus

How do values influence stay-at-home attitudes during the COVID-19 health crisis?

by Andrea Poet | Posted on June 23, 2020

Venkat Venkatakrishnan

A secure, privacy-preserving contact tracing method

by Andrea Poet | Posted on June 23, 2020

graphic representation of a network

Break Through Tech’s CS 100 focuses on networking in final week of class

by Andrea Poet | Posted on June 17, 2020

A hacked webpage

Students in Break Through Tech’s CS 100 course learn about thwarting cyber attackers

by Andrea Poet | Posted on June 09, 2020

composing music on a computer

Making music from numbers: lessons in Break Through Tech's CS 100 summer course

by Andrea Poet | Posted on June 02, 2020

Venkat Venkatakrishnan

UIC researchers zero in on critical information to combat cyberattacks

by Andrea Poet | Posted on June 01, 2020

Brent Stephens

Brent Stephens receives NSF CAREER award

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 30, 2020

Elena Zheleva

CS Assistant Professor Zheleva works to infuse causal inference into machine-learning algorithm design

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 29, 2020

Chen readies robots at Jones Prep

UIC CS students help Chicago Public School students explore computer science

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 10, 2020

rendering of the new CS building

Board grants key approvals for UIC’s new health care, engineering buildings

by Jacqueline Carey | Posted on March 17, 2020

Fall 2019 Women in Computer Science workshop at the College of Engineering organized by Shanon Reckinger, clinical assistant professor of computer science

UIC aims to break through gender gap in computer science

by Jacqueline Carey | Posted on January 28, 2020

Ryan Nishimoto

Get to know Computer Science graduate student Ryan Nishimoto

by Andrea Poet | Posted on January 06, 2020

data science

NSF awards UIC $1.5M for new data science institute

by Natasha Wadlington | Posted on December 20, 2019

Tanya Berger-Wolf, Barbara Di Eugenio, and Elena Zheleva

Three CS faculty speak at AI for social good conference

Posted on December 10, 2019

J. Jesus Benitez Gorostieta and Luis Samayoa

Google’s Hispanic Leadership Summit Chicago tailor-made for some UIC computer science students

by Andrea Poet | Posted on December 03, 2019

Builtworlds team with judges

UIC engineering team wins Builtworlds Hackathon

by Andrea Poet | Posted on December 03, 2019

Shanon Reckinger

UIC Receives exploreCSR grant from Google

by Andrea Poet | Posted on October 22, 2019

Barbara Di Eugenio

Computer Science Professor Barbara Di Eugenio receives 2019-2020 UIC Award for Excellence in Teaching

by Andrea Poet | Posted on October 21, 2019

Bing Liu

Computer Science Distinguished Professor Bing Liu works to improve sentiment analysis with lifelong machine learning

by Andrea Poet | Posted on October 01, 2019

Andres Tapia

Andres Tapia receives scholarships to attend Tapia Conference, Great Minds in STEM Conference

by Andrea Poet | Posted on September 10, 2019

Mark Grechank

Associate Professor Mark Grechanik wins grant, best paper award for work on automating software integration tests

by Andrea Poet | Posted on September 09, 2019

students in an office space

Computer science students gain valuable experience with summer internships

by Andrea Poet | Posted on August 22, 2019

Shanon Reckinger and Gonzalo Bello

UIC Computer Science faculty become temporary ‘Googlers’ to help students learn needed tech industry skills

Posted on August 14, 2019

students in a classroom

Computer science department welcomes new faculty members

by Andrea Poet | Posted on August 08, 2019

Dale Reed, left, facilitates ECS training

UIC faculty member Dale Reed helps bring computer science to every Chicago Public School student

by Andrea Poet | Posted on August 01, 2019

UIC students attend Grace Hopper

Computer Science students earn research, student scholarships to attend Grace Hopper Celebration

by Andrea Poet | Posted on July 11, 2019

Bing Liu

UIC collaborates with Northrop Grumman on machine learning and AI

by Andrea Poet | Posted on May 28, 2019

Anusha Pai

CS graduate Anusha Pai represents the College of Engineering at Spring 2019 Commencement

by Andrea Poet | Posted on May 21, 2019

Minh Hoang

Computer science student takes first prize at UIC 2019 Impact and Research Day

by Andrea Poet | Posted on May 21, 2019

Meeting with future UIC students in Taiwan last summer

Computer science major heads to Taiwan to meet with future UIC students

by Andrea Poet | Posted on May 17, 2019

Kevin Bell

Inspiring grads: Discovering passion for computer science pays off

by Francisca Corona | Posted on May 01, 2019

Students Sara Amini (left) and Mohammad Taha Khan (right), with Assistant Professor Chris Kanich (center).

Computer Science Assistant Professor Chris Kanich wins Graduate Mentoring Award

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 25, 2019

Audience in Cave2 at UIC

UIC’s Electronic Visualization Lab is helping reimagine live stage performance

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 25, 2019

Dane Zieman

Senior Dane Zieman challenges fellow CS students to prepare for technical interviews

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 24, 2019

EDT's team Air robot

CS students lead EDT robot team to semifinals at engineering competition

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 24, 2019

Duckiebots AVs follow lanes

Engineering students take on autonomous vehicles in new multidisciplinary course

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 17, 2019

Chicago skyline

UIC College of Engineering researchers selected for Discovery Partners Institute seed funding

by Andrea Poet and David Staudacher | Posted on April 17, 2019

Bing Liu

UIC Computer Science professor Bing Liu’s work on fake online reviews wins Test of Time award

by Andrea Poet | Posted on April 10, 2019

Barbara DiEugenio

University Scholar Barbara Di Eugenio

Posted on April 02, 2019

UIC Students at the Tapia conference

UIC receives ongoing funding to improve diversity in computer science

by Andrea Poet | Posted on March 18, 2019

Victor Mateevitsi wearing the SpiderSense tactile jacket

UIC alumnus Victor Mateevitsi’s SpiderSense jacket included in MSI’s Wired to Wear™ exhibition

by Andrea Poet | Posted on March 14, 2019

venkat

UIC to lead $3M initiative to develop system to identify, patch software security holes

Sharon Parmet | Posted on February 07, 2019

Tanya Berger-Wolf

Tanya Berger-Wolf receives University Scholar of the Year award for 2018

by Sharon Parmet | Posted on January 29, 2019