Aldo Aguilar is developing a haptic app to enable blind and visually impaired users of audio recording workstations to feel the output of visual displays.

Fardeem Munir, Roxanna Wilcox (’22), and Cindy Hu, students in Northwestern Engineering’s Design, Technology, and Research (DTR) program, earned top awards in the Undergraduate Category at the ACM CHI 2022 Student Research Competition.

Amil Dravid collaborates with Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos and faculty at CalTech and UC Berkley in the area of machine learning and computer vision. He completed an internship at Microsoft Research this summer.

Amy Guo, directed Wildhacks 2022 and is planning Wildhacks 2023. She also worked in former Professor Josiah Hester’s Ka Moamoa – Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing Lab.

Larina Chen and Jiayan Luo led the Northwestern CS Career Development Program, fostering mentorship relationships among the 170 participants.

Liam O’Carroll co-authored a paper with PhD student Vaidehi Srinivas and Professor Aravindan Vijayaraghavan on understanding a popular non-convex optimization heuristic called the Burer-Monteiro method that was accepted to NeurIPS 2022.

Peter Zhong submitted a paper to the ACM SIGPLAN POPL symposium this summer and started a new research project to design (and prove correct) a programming language for writing down processors that comes with automatic pipelining.

Capitalizing on the rapid growth of computer science, Northwestern CS teaching faculty are reimagining curricula while strengthening the department’s inclusive community.

The transdisciplinary and multi-institution Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning (IDEAL) received a five-year, $10 million NSF TRIPODS Phase II award to continue advancing the theoretical foundations of data science. Site director Professor Aravindan Vijayaraghavan will lead the Northwestern arm of the Phase II institute.

Northwestern CS partnered with the DuPage County NAACP Education Committee and the Center for Success to host a week-long summer camp in July organized by Professor Michael Horn and Macey Goldstein (’22).

To shed light on perceptions of AI as a tool and collaborator in the artistic process, or perhaps even as a competitor to human artists, the Northwestern University Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design hosted a virtual panel moderated by Professor Bryan Pardo to discuss the implications of AI for artistic creation.

Northwestern CS+Law activities and partnerships have greatly expanded since the 2019 launch of the Northwestern University Law and Technology Initiative — a partnership between Northwestern Engineering and Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law spearheaded by Professor Daniel W. Linna Jr.

Professor Jason Hartline and several of his current and former PhD students presented multiple papers at the Twenty-Third Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Economics and Computation.

Andrew Crotty joined as an assistant professor of computer science; Sam Kriegman joined as assistant professor of computer science with a joint appointment in chemical and biological engineering and in mechanical engineering; and Miklos Z. Racz will start in January 2023 as an assistant professor of computer science with a joint appointment in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Andrew Fano joined as clinical professor of computer science and codirector of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and McCormick School of Engineering MBAi program; Joseph Hummel joined as a full professor of instruction; and Zach Wood-Doughty was promoted from McCormick Teaching Fellow to an assistant professor of instruction.