Claudia Grisales will give a talk for the Center for Global Studies on her research
Aligning the Stars: an Ethnography of Digital Networks and Campesino Struggles in the Colombian Amazon Thursday, September 4th, 2025 at 12:00pm Coble Hall, Room 306 For more information and zoom link, please check Center of Global Studies News here. Claudia Grisales will present her dissertation research that explores the role of digital technologies in struggles […]
Informatics Program Instructors ranked as Excellent by Students Spring 2025
Instructors are ranked as excellent each semester, based on student ratings of instruction obtained from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) administered by Measurement and Evaluation, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning. Two of the informatics instructors – Elizabeth Matresse (English PhD student) and Joshua Muzei (Informatics PhD student) – are ranked excellent […]
Bridging History and Technology: Students Recreate University of Illinois’ Historical Mathematical Models Using 3D printing
Faculty Mentors: Karen Mortensen (Director of the Illinois Mathematics Lab), Sarah Park (Head of the Mathematics Library) Project Leader: Xinran Yu (Ph.D. candidate in the Dept of Mathematics) IML Scholars: Joules Apura, Dashiell Cloud, Dylan Jenks, Wentao Qi, Jadzia Taborski Michael Dalton: Manager, CU Community Fab Lab Kyungwon Koh: Director, CU Community Fab Lab The […]
Game Portfolio Tips and Live Reviews for Artists and Engineers: a stu/dio dual workshop
Game Portfolio Tips and Live Reviews for Artists and Engineers: a stu/dio dual workshop Led by the stu/dio’s Programming Lead & Art Lead Wednesday, April 23, 3:30 – 5 pm iSchool at 614 E Daniel St 5043 (5th floor multipurpose room) Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring why a strong portfolio is essential for […]
Informatics Minor Students Participate in Undergraduate Research Week
Zifan Zhao at URW 2025 The 2025 Undergraduate Research Week, highlighting outstanding undergraduate research and creative scholarship at the University of Illinois, will take place from April 20 to 26. The Informatics minors participating in URW and their projects are: Autonomous Chemoenzymatic Robots with Large Language Models Preeti Kamma, Senior, Bioengineering, ENG Generating National Impact […]
Informatics PhD student Olivia Wang wins grand prize at Research Live!
Informatics PhD student Olivia Wang won the Grand Prize at the 2025 Research Live! competition. Congratulations Olive! Check out more info from the news from Graduate College and the news from ISchool.
First Year Informatics PhD Students Present on AI and Gamification within Heritage Education
“From Past to Present: A Study of AI-driven Gamification in Heritage Education,” co-authored by first year Informatics PhD students Sepehr Vaez Afshar and Sarvin Eshaghi alongside Professors Mahyar Hadighi from Texas Tech University and Guzden Varinlioglu from the University of Liverpool, explores the transformative potential of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and gamification within heritage education. […]
Mark Moran Defends Dissertation
Doctoral Candidate Mark Moran successfully defended his dissertation, “STAKEHOLDER REPRESENTATION IN THE CEO’S LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS” on December 8th and will graduate May 2024. Program Area: Cognitive Science and Language Processing Research: My research is focused on using a range of text-mining techniques to study the content of the Chief Executive’s Annual Letter for large, […]
Thierry Guigma Defends Dissertation
Doctoral Candidate Thierry Guigma successfully defended his dissertation, “PLACE OF TWITTER AND GOOGLE SEARCH DATA IN DISEASE OUTBREAK MONITORING AND FORECASTING: CASE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC” on November 15th and will graduate May 2024. Program Area: Health and Medical Informatics Research: My focus is the strengthening of health information systems by the integration of Big […]
Sam Walkow Defends Dissertation
Doctoral Candidate Sam Walkow successfully defended her dissertation, “USING DATA STORIES TO UNDERSTAND SPACIAL MENTAL MODELS OF DATA IN NATURAL SCIENCE DOMAINS: CHARACTERIZING TECHNICAL AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE” on December 12th and will graduate May 2024. Program Area: Design, Technology and Society & Data Analytics and Information Visualization Research: I am a PhD student, and part of […]