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October 2026

  1. NSF BRIDGE Holds Conference on Cyberinfrastructure for Collaborative Data Science and AI
  2. Michael Shindler Honored at 2026 Celebration of Teaching
  3. Alex Berg Wins Koenderink Prize
  4. 8th Annual Industry Showcase Illuminates Career Opportunities
  5. Conference Works to Improve Computer Science Transfer Pathways
  6. Pierre Baldi to Receive 2027 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award
  7. Franz and Taylor Elected to Inaugural Class of ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy

September 2026

  1. Alumni Spotlight: Kenneth Rhee ’20
  2. UC Irvine Researchers Develop Open-source, 3D-printed Robotic Hand with Human-like Dexterity
  3. Roy Fox Receives NSF CAREER Award
  4. Raising Kids in a Digital World with Less Fear, More Strategy

August 2026

  1. New Data Infrastructure Award Helps Scientific Communities Build Domain-specific Platforms for Collaborative Data Science and AI
  2. ICS Summer Academy Continues to Expand with New Courses on Intelligent Robotics and Game Design
  3. In Memoriam: Julian Feldman, Founding Faculty Member of UC Irvine ICS

July 2026

  1. Sharad Mehrotra Receives IEEE TCDE Impact and IFIP WG 11.3 Awards
  2. Marios Papaefthymiou Reappointed as Dean of ICS

June 2026

  1. Sven Koenig Receives ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
  2. Habiba Farrukh Earns NSF CAREER Award
  3. Staff Profile: Hans Wunsch on 30 Years at ICS
  4. Commencement 2026 Celebrates Community and Courage to Face the Unknown
  5. Senior Spotlight: Harsh Rathore’s Secret Identity – Peter the Anteater
  6. 2026 UC Irvine ICS Project Expo Breaks Records
  7. UC Irvine Provides the Right Recipe for Success – Lucas (Kaixiang) Zhuang
  8. Senior Spotlight: Arnav Nigam’s ICS Journey From Outsider to Insider
  9. Senior Spotlight: Lizbeth Ramírez Creates Healthy Communities by Using Data for Good

May 2026

  1. Five ICS Students Receive OC ACM Awards
  2. Inaugural UC Irvine Research Forum Series Focuses on Developer Experience
  3. Students Showcase Innovation at 2026 Beall Butterworth Competition
  4. Six Alumni Inducted into 2026 Hall of Fame
  5. Six ICS Students Compete in Capstone Competitions with Games Developed to Help Children Sleep
  6. Senior Spotlight: Chidera Okoroama Creates Resilience and Community Out of Challenges
  7. Sergio Gago-Masague and Nalini Venkatasubramanian Awarded $537,000 NSF REU Site Grant for AIoT-Sys
  8. Student Profile: Bruna Oewel Fashions Future Mental Health Technology
  9. Student Teams Win 2026 Information Technology Competition
  10. Katie Salen Tekinbaş Awarded Public Voices Fellowship

April 2026

  1. An Award-Winning Educational Tool for Diagnosing Hypertension
  2. Volodymyr Minin Elected Fellow of American Statistical Association
  3. Three Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
  4. Event Prediction Research Wins AI and Statistics (AISTATS) Conference Honor
  5. Alumni Spotlight: David Hilbert – Philosophical Computer Scientist
  6. In Memoriam: Milena Mihail
  7. Rei Shindo Wins First Place at CCSC for App to Help Transfer Students
  8. Victoria Marie Soroten Awarded SMART Scholarship
  9. Paul Dourish Elected Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow

March 2026

  1. From Project Expo to CTO: Alumnus Christopher Tapia Kicked His Career Into High Gear
  2. ICS Alumna Eunkyung Jo Honored by ACM SIGCHI
  3. In Memoriam: David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet’

February 2026

  1. UC Irvine Researchers Expose Critical Security Vulnerability in Autonomous Drones
  2. Thomas Zimmermann Recognized with Two SIGSOFT Awards
  3. Anteater Love Story: Change of Major, Change of Heart
  4. Q&A with WICS Co-Presidents Mae King and Mikayla McGrath
  5. Inaugural AI in Science Symposium Features Global Thought Leaders

January 2026

  1. ICS Students Win Global CPTC Cybersecurity Championship
  2. AI at ICS: Making a Splash

December 2025

  1. Gene Tsudik Receives 2025 Humboldt Research Award
  2. National Academy of Inventors Names Marios Papaefthymiou as Fellow
  3. How Art Is Driving Waymo’s Feel-Good Branding
  4. MedTech Innovation Hackathon 2025 Creates Collaboration and Innovation
  5. Students Find Support and Inspiration at Fall Conferences

November 2025

  1. New Report Shows How Community Arts Programs Shape Young Lives for the Long Term
  2. From Harassment to Healing
  3. Vijay Vazirani to Be Honored with 2025 FOCS Test of Time Award
  4. After Service, New Purpose: UC’s Student Veterans Find Their Next Mission: Amanda Lassiter
  5. Ioannis Panageas Receives $400K Grant from Algorithmic Foundations for Multi-agent Learning
  6. Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi Receives NSF CAREER Award
  7. Padhraic Smyth Receives $900K NSF Grant for Improving Human-AI Decision-Making

October 2025

  1. Seventh Annual ICS Industry Showcase Forges Career Connections
  2. Sohyeon Park Receives 2025 Google PhD Fellowship
  3. UC Irvine Data Science Students Partner with CHOC Research, Now Part of Rady Children’s Health, to Develop Personalized Pediatric Dehydration Management Solutions

September 2025

  1. National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Champions Tour DC
  2. Blending Psychiatry and Computer Science to Improve Mental Health
  3. Aaron Trammell Named Higher Education Video Game Association Fellow
  4. ICS Summer Academy 2025 Inspires Bright Young Minds

August 2025

  1. ICS Celebrates and Mourns Two of Its Staunchest Champions
  2. This Extremely Cute Bean Wants to Help You Stop Doomscrolling
  3. Fifth Annual UC Irvine ICS Project Expo Continues to Grow ‘Bigger and Better’

July 2025

  1. Second Annual Accessing STEM in Higher Education Event Helps Prepare Blind and Low Vision Students for College STEM
  2. UC Irvine Probe into State Data Brokers Raises Legal and Privacy Concerns
  3. Associate Professor of Informatics Recognized with NSF CAREER Award
  4. Inaugural Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair Padhraic Smyth Speaks on AI Past, Present and Future
  5. Little Videos Are Cooking Our Brains

June 2025

  1. 2024-2025 Digital Accessibility Fellows Champion Access and Inclusion at UC Irvine
  2. Graduate Student Spotlight: Liz Ankrah Wires Research Across Borders
  3. An AI That’s a Better Friend—And Maybe a Lifeline for Humanity

May 2025

  1. Inaugural Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence
  2. Codazen Provides AI-Driven Color-Generation Design Platform for UC Irvine Capstone Project
  3. Engineering and Information and Computer Sciences Schools Induct Six Alumni into 2025 Hall of Fame
  4. UC Irvine team wins National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
  5. Senior Spotlight: Ella Chung Makes the Leap from Cells to Bytes
  6. 2025 Aspirations in Computing Event Honors Local Student Innovation and Success
  7. Perseverance and Community Are Keys to Success For Punit Shah
  8. Educating Through Innovation: ID TECH’s Capstone Journey with Students at UCI
  9. ICS Professor Among Three UC Irvine Researchers Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

April 2025

  1. Driven by Impact: Ken Anderson Views Academia as a Path to Service
  2. Senior Spotlight: Anthony Cusimano Parses a Path Through Data
  3. Adolescents want privacy, not just accuracy, from health AI tools
  4. Senior Spotlight: Tim Kashani Levels Up in GDIM Program
  5. Music as medicine
  6. A Smartwatch App for Monitoring Intoxication
  7. How ‘cozy gaming’ is taking mindfulness mainstream
  8. Tech Entrepreneur TJ Thinakaran Prioritizes Principles & People

March 2025

  1. Two ICS Professors Among Five UC Irvine Researchers Named AAAS Fellows
  2. Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Marks Milestones for the Connected Learning Lab
  3. Nalini Venkatasubramanian Named an IEEE Fellow
  4. Fulbright Visiting Scholars: Fostering Global Research Collaborations
  5. Debra Richardson Defies Gender Stereotypes and Diversifies Computing
  6. Donation from SAP Establishes New UC Irvine Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence
  7. Ky-Vinh Mai: Beyond the Data
  8. A Guide to Navigating AI as a Family
  9. Uplifting Women in Tech
  10. UC Irvine Study Shines Headlights on Consumer Driverless Vehicle Safety Deficiencies

February 2025

  1. Preventing Bad Experiences with Digital Goods
  2. Paul Dourish Receives SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
  3. Workshop Brings Together SoCal Leaders in Causal Reasoning
  4. Mohan Yang Receives CRA Honorable Mention for Outstanding Undergraduate Research
  5. Advancing Innovative Solutions in Pediatric Health
  6. André and Markelle Rösti: Match Made in… ICS!
  7. 11 Teams Recognized at IrvineHacks 2025
  8. A New Framework for Improved Video Streaming
  9. reCAPTCHA: 819 Million Hours of Wasted Human Time and Billions of Dollars in Google Profits
  10. Improvisational Jazz and How It Can Ease Pain
  11. Black History Month: Pioneers in Science and Technology
  12. AI for Personalized Brand Engagement
  13. Sound Ethics and UC Irvine Partner to Shape the Future of Ethical AI in the Music Industry
  14. Andy Gu Explores Cybersecurity in Healthcare at Secure the Future Competition

January 2025

  1. Black in Tech: Building Community in ICS
  2. Kylie Peppler Explores Educational Uses of Generative AI as FATE Fellow
  3. UC Irvine’s Codesafe Platform Wins $50,000 in Global EdTech Competition
  4. Novel Approach to AI Improves Sustainability and Data Protection
  5. Generative AI for Cell Biology: Stephan Mandt joins CZI Residency Program
  6. UC Irvine Study Finds Mismatch between Human Perception and Reliability of AI-Assisted Language Tools
  7. Grand Opening of the Outreach, Access & Inclusion Student Hub
  8. Anteaters Celebrate at December Commencement
  9. 14 Simple Changes for Healthier Tech Habits in 2025
  10. ICS Researchers Win Best Paper Award for Survivable System Design

December 2024

  1. Stacy Branham Helps Lead $5.6M Project to Expand AccessComputing
  2. Live, Laugh, Zot App Takes First Place at WebJam 2024
  3. New Course Stems from Back-to-Back Appearances at ICPC World Finals
  4. Graduate Student Spotlight: Peyton Politewicz Empowers Communities with Data
  5. Code for Care: MedTech Innovation Hackathon
  6. On His Game

November 2024

  1. Early Assurance for Early Arrivals
  2. Graduate Student Spotlight: Celebrating International Education Week with Maryam Hassani
  3. ICS Industry Showcase Drives Innovation
  4. Lidia Flores Awarded 2024 Google Fellowship
  5. Graduate Student Spotlight: Minal Walvekar Blends Math and Pharmacy in MDS Program
  6. ICS Honors Our Veterans
  7. QT STEM: Promoting LGBTQ+ Visibility & Acceptance in STEM
  8. UCI Celebration of Teaching: ICS Honorees
  9. Kevin Thompson’s Fascination with AI Leads to Innovative Tech Exec Career

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