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Emerging Coders is Building a Peer Community
Launched in 2022, Emerging Coders is dedicated to supporting undergraduate students in tech-related fields who identify as first-generation and/or lower-income.Dec 18, 2024
Competitive Programming Team Advances to 2025 ICPC North America Championship
The “MREEOWWW” team won seventh place in the Mid-Central Regional International Collegiate Programming Contest held in November.Dec 17, 2024
Microcontroller System Design Students Demo Final Projects
Students expressed creativity and ingenuity in the design of practical, microcontroller-based embedded systems for their final course projects.Dec 17, 2024
Northwestern CS Celebrates Graduation of 68 Master’s Degree Students
Northwestern Engineering conferred graduate degrees at the PhD Hooding and Master's Recognition Ceremony on December 14.Dec 17, 2024
Sanjay Sood Shares Leadership Lessons and Life Insights with Graduates
Sood spoke at the December 14 PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony, recalling the lessons he’s learned during his career.Dec 16, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Strong Northwestern Presence at the 2024 NeurIPS Conference
Northwestern Engineering faculty, students, postdocs, and alumni are participating in the annual forum for advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science.Dec 9, 2024
Examining Algorithmic Fairness and Accountability
During a workshop held at Northwestern University on November 18-19, IDEAL and the EnCORE Institute explored key socio-technical topics, including accountability and fairness in resource allocation, clustering and ranking, and prediction.Dec 3, 2024
Improving Acoustic and Bone Conduction Speech Enhancement
Professor Stephen Xia and his team developed an audio super-resolution model that enhances speech signals using neural networks.Dec 2, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Sanjay Sood to Speak at PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony
Sood, senior vice president and chief technology officer at CDW, will speak to graduates and their families during a ceremony on December 14 at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.Nov 25, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
AI Is Fast. AI Is Smart. But Is It Safe?
Computer science expert Kristian Hammond discusses Northwestern’s Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence and its efforts in making AI more responsible.Nov 22, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Reducing Burnout Among Anti-Violence Workers
Using community-based participatory research methods, technology and social behavior PhD student Connie Chau is building a just-in-time adaptive intervention tool to reduce burnout among frontline workers supporting survivors of gender-based violence.Nov 21, 2024
Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence Honored with 2024 Chicago Innovation Award
Northwestern's Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence was named one of 22 top innovators in the Chicago region this year at the Chicago Innovation Awards ceremony, held November 14 at the UIC Forum.Nov 15, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Showcase Features Undergraduate Student Summer Research Projects
Five students in Northwestern CS presented their summer research projects during the Undergraduate Research Showcase event on October 17.Nov 15, 2024
Northwestern Security and AI Lab Releases New Terrorism Early Warning System Forecasts
NSAIL director V.S. Subrahmanian unveiled new reports generated by the Northwestern Terror Early Warning System, a machine-learning platform that models terrorist behavior to forecast future attacks.Nov 12, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
PhD Student Payal Mohapatra Selected for EECS Rising Stars Workshop
Payal Mohapatra, a PhD candidate in computer engineering, was one of 70 invited participants in the intensive workshop designed for graduate students and postdocs of historically marginalized or underrepresented genders.Nov 11, 2024