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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

Elizabeth Gerber Inducted into ACM SIGCHI Academy

The 10 members of the SIGCHI Academy Class of 2025 are honored for remarkable contributions to the field of human-computer interaction.
Mar 5, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News

What AI Means for the Future of Work

On February 18, the Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design hosted a thought leader panel to discuss the National Academies of Sciences’s "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work" report.
Mar 4, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News

Researchers Say Quantum Compiler Boosts Speed and Reliability for Chiplet-Based Modular Systems

Quantum Insider wrote about a team with Professor Nikos Hardavellas that developed a quantum compiler, SEQC, that improves the reliability and speed of modular quantum computing systems by leveraging a chiplet-based approach.
Mar 4, 2025|from Quantum Insider

Society of Women Engineers Hosts 2025 Career Day for Girls

The 54th annual event, hosted by the Northwestern undergraduate student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, welcomed Chicago-area middle school and high school students for labs tours and hands-on engineering activities.
Feb 27, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News

Navigating the Geopolitical Stakes of Artificial Intelligence

On January 16, leading strategists, researchers, and policymakers discussed how AI technologies influence global power dynamics, national security, economic development, and the frameworks for governance and cooperation between nations.
Feb 26, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News

Mangan, Seitz, Wang Named Sloan Research Fellows

The honor for Professors Niall Mangan, Linsey Seitz, and Xiao Wang highlights the creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments of early-career researchers.
Feb 18, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News

Tips for Increasing Your Privacy from Security Experts

V.S. Subrahmanian and Xiao Wang discuss the encrypted messaging technology that apps use to safeguard communication and offer valuable tips for maximizing user privacy.
Feb 14, 2025|from Northwestern Engineering News

Nivedita Arora Named an ‘Emerging Rockstar’ by “IEEE Pervasive Computing” Magazine

The magazine segment highlights rising stars in fields including mobile systems, ubiquitous computing, and the Internet of Things.
Feb 5, 2025|from IEEE Pervasive Computing
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