News from the Kahlert School of Computing
School of Computing Alum Reflects on Time at University and Pixar in His Book “Managing the Unmanageable”
From the Cradle of Computer Graphics at the University of Utah to Pixar Animation Studios, my 50+ year professional career has been a parabola of many groundbreaking projects, as well as startup companies—some that have become household names, including Brøderbund Software, Gracenote/SONY, and…
RSVP to the Grad Program Open House: Why PhD
Ever wondered what it's really like to be a graduate student—or why anyone would take the plunge to do a PhD? Join us for the Kahlert School of Computing’s Graduate Program Open House! We’ll cover the "whys" of grad school with real insights from alumni, current students, and faculty to help you…
Kahlert Researchers Join ARPA-H Project to Develop Fully Automated Surgical Robot
Kahlert Researchers Join ARPA-H Project to Develop Fully Automated Surgical Robot
Organick 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024 The Robert H. and Katharine B. Garff Building Auditorium; University of Utah 1731 East Campus Center Drive, SLC, Utah 84112 5:45pm: Refreshments 6:00pm: Lecture Alexei A. EfrosUC Berkeley professor, University of Utah alumnus We Are (Still!) Not Giving Data Enough…
Kahlert School of Computing Faculty Pavel Panchekha and Ganesh Gopalakrishnan Receive NSF Grant Valued at Over $1M
Assistant Professor Pavel Panchekha and Professor Ganesh Gopalakrishnan have received a multi-institutional Community Infrastructure for Research in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CIRC) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a research project expected to improve…
Register for UCBPC’s Broadening Participation in Computing panel on August 30
Join the Utah Center for Broadening Participation in Computing on August 30 at 4 p.m. in Warnock Engineering Building (WEB) room 1230. Dr. Marina Kogan, Dr. Lekha Patel, and Dr. Luis Garcia will be discussing experience in CS from a less-represented perspective, advice for CS students coming from…
Fall Semester 2024
Welcome back, students! We're looking forward to a new year of innovation and discovery with you all. Have a great first week of the semester 📚🎓💡
The U Collaborates with Tulane on up to $23 Million Cancer Moonshot Project to Build Advanced Tumor Imaging System
The U Collaborates with Tulane on up to $23 Million Cancer Moonshot Project to Build Advanced Tumor Imaging System
New Approach to Teaching User Experience Design Skills Wins Award
A team of researchers at the Kahlert School of Computing has won a best paper honorable mention award for their paper describing a new approach to teaching students about design empathy in the classroom. The award-winning paper will be presented at the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2024…
Remembering Steven G. Parker
Remembering Steven G. Parker
The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible
TIME: The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible
Kahlert School of Computing Faculty and Students to Present at CHI 2024 in Honolulu
The Kahlert School of Computing is gearing up for the CHI 2024 conference on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi from May 11-16th. Regarded as the premier global event for Human-Computer Interaction, the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems unites industry and academic experts to…
New National AI Initiative Selects Kahlert’s Vivek Srikumar Among First Awardees
News: New National AI Initiative Selects Kahlert’s Vivek Srikumar Among First Awardees
Recruiter Networking Opportunity April 11
Visit the Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building (SFEBB) on Thursday, April 11, from 10 AM to 2 PM, to network with three companies seeking tech, analytics, and CS talent for full-time roles and summer internships. WebBank Recruiting for full-time positions Join the Chief Technology Officer…
Google Scholarship Applications for 2024-25 School Year Now Open
Applications are now open for incoming and current undergraduate students for Google's student scholarships. Recipients of the following scholarships will receive $10,000 toward their academic goals within the computer science field. Google Lime Scholarship: In partnership with Lime Connect, a…
Blair Sullivan Honored by Georgia Tech
Celebrating Georgia Tech Women: Pathway of Progress is the new name of the forthcoming, permanent tribute to the impact of women from Georgia Tech, now under construction near the John Lewis Student Center and Stamps Commons. Set to open in Fall 2024, the physical installation and accompanying…
Goldman Sachs Day: Careers in FinTech Snack & Learn
Interested in a career in FinTech? Join engineering staff from Goldman Sachs for a “Snack & Learn” on Tuesday, March 26, as part of Goldman Sachs Day. Don’t miss this chance to meet working professionals and ask any burning questions about what a role in the tech space looks like at a leading…
Apply For SEEDS 2024
We would like to introduce SEEDS, A 10 weeklong, summer mobile app development challenge, where you will work in a team with 3 other girls of your age. We use the Design Thinking framework along with live iOS and Android coaching sessions to help you create socially useful apps from your own ideas.…
Grad Visit Weekend
Sign up for volunteer opportunities to get involved in the Grad Visit Weekend here!
WTC 3×3 at University of Utah
The 3×3 is a unique networking event where attendees have more personal interactions and mentorship from workforce leaders in STEM fields.
Adobe Internship Talk
Archana Choudhary - Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe | "Decoding the CS Internship Experience: Unveiling Diverse Roles for Computer Science Students"
How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah
IEEE SpectrumHow the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah
How do you envision the future advancement of AI?
University of Utah MagazineHow do you envision the future advancement of AI?
Computer Science Greats
University of Utah MagazineComputer Science Greats
UCIC Ambassador Ashley Lujan Wins Women Tech Council Student Pathway Award
Congratulations to our very own UCIC Ambassador, Ashley Lujan, for winning the Women Tech Council Student Pathway Award!
2023 Organick Lecture Series
Elizabeth ChurchillSenior Director of UX at Google The past, present, and future of Human Computer InteractionAbstract: Since computers were first developed, scholars have been working on how to make them more usable and more useful. The early days of human computer interaction (HCI) as a field of…
Utah Data Science Day 2024
Friday January 12, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm | Union Ballroom | Host or share something during the afternoon research expo!
1st Mountain West Undergraduate Research Showcase in Computing
We invite all undergraduate students in the Mountain West region pursuing research in computing to the first Mountain West Undergraduate Research Showcase on:2–5pm, Friday, November 17thWEB 2250, University of Utah
Amazon awards $50K to Prof. Anton Burtsev to Develop Atmosphere, a Secure and Reliable Operating System
Kahlert School of Computing Assistant Professor Anton Burtsev is a recipient of the 2023 Amazon Research Award for his research aimed at developing a new operating system, Atmosphere, that utilizes advances in programming languages and formal verification for constructing a formally verified…
Kahlert School of Computing’s Prashant Pandey Earns Early Career Award for High Performance Computing
Supercomputers, massive machines can compute nearly-incomprehensible amounts of data in a blink of an eye, can anticipate complex weather patterns, simulate entire ecosystems, or explore how galaxies are created. And although these feats are far beyond what human minds alone could calculate, for…
Researchers Demonstrate the First Autonomous Medical Robot That Steers Needles In Vivo
To safely operate, an autonomous vehicle needs to be able to recognize and avoid obstacles in real time. Even a momentary lapse could lead to disastrous consequences, especially if the vehicle is a medical needle, less than a millimeter wide, navigating through the cluttered tissue of a…
Adobe Co-Founder and Kahlert School of Computing Alum John Warnock Passes Away
John Warnock, U alum (Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering ’69,) and computer scientist pioneer, died on Saturday, August 19. He co-founded Adobe in 1982 with the late Dr. Charles Geschke, and together, built Adobe from a small start-up into one of the largest, most recognized…
U of U SIGGRAPH Reception
Current and former faculty and alumni from the Kahlert School of Computing gathered for a special U of U reception at the SIGGRAPH…
William B. Thompson (1948-2023)
William B. Thompson passed away peacefully in his home in Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 26, 2023. We remember Bill for his…
New ‘Open Testing and Integration Center’ Designation Expands POWDER’s Reach
As the power and ubiquity of mobile devices increases, so does the strain they put on wireless networks. The continuous rollout of new wireless deployments, such as the current “5G” standard, is necessary to keep up with this demand. However, upgrading these standards is a massive undertaking,…
Kessler Inducted into HEVGA Fellows
Bob Kessler, Ph.D., EAE's co-founder and founding director, will be posthumously inducted as a HEVGA Fellow during a ceremony to be held at the Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco, CA, the week of March 20th, 2023. Kessler was a towering figure in the history of EAE, serving to co-found…
Manish Parashar Receives Achievement Award in High Performance Distributed Computing
Congratulations to Manish Parashar for receiving the 2023 Achievement Award in High Performance Distributed Computing for pioneering strategic and technical contributions, and international leadership in high performance parallel and distributed computing, computational science, and…
Prof. Patil Selected as Faculty Co-Director of the University of Utah’s DATASET Initiative
Associate Prof. Sameer Patil from the Kahlert School of Computing has been selected as a faculty co-director of the Data Science & Ethics of Technology (DATASET) Initiative at the University of Utah to serve alongside co-director Prof. Manish Parashar. Prof. Patil replaces past co-director…
Kahlert School Research on Visualizations for Metabolic Networks Published in Nature Cell Biology and Science
In September 2019, Jordan Berg, then a PhD student in the lab of Professor Jared Rutter in the Biochemistry Department, contacted Professor Bei Wang Phillips in the Kahlert School of Computing and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute regarding how best to design a tool for the analysis…
Award-winning Research from the Kahlert School Examines Student Understanding of Code Quality
Kahlert School of Computing Ph.D. student Sara Nurollahian and Assistant Prof. Eliane Wiese have received the best paper award for the Software Engineering Education and Training Track at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023) for their paper titled Improving Assessment…
A New Technique by Kahlert School Researchers Paves the Way for Enhancing Training Efficiency for Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Kahlert School of Computing researchers Ramansh Sharma, an incoming PhD student, and Dr. Varun Shankar, an Assistant Professor, have developed a novel method that expedites the training of a specific type of artificial intelligence (AI) system known as Physics-Informed Neural Networks…
U’s Air Quality Network Receives Award
University of Utah air quality researchers along with the Salt Lake County Health Department have received a Smart Cities North America Award for its Air Quality and You project, a network of air quality sensors deployed throughout the county that monitor air pollution in real time.
Kahlert School of Computing Faculty and Students Heading to Hamburg for CHI 2023
The Kahlert School of Computing is heading to Hamburg, Germany for the CHI 2023 conference, which will be held from April 23rd - April 28th. Considered to be the leading global conference on Human-Computer Interaction, the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems brings…
Giving Day
Giving Day, March 28-29
Kahlert School Ph.D. Student Noelle Brown Presents Work on Ethics & Technology at the Embedded Ethics conference
Noelle Brown
How can we teach computer science students about the ethical implications of technology? PhD student Noelle Brown is synthesizing the…
National Science Foundation Selects the Kahlert School to Serve as the Site for Engaging Undergraduates in Research on Trust and Reproducibility of Intelligent Computation
The National Science Foundation has awarded a prestigious new research experience for undergraduates (REU) site to the Kahlert School of Computing entitled Trust and Reproducibility of Intelligent Computation (TREU). Led by Principal Investigator Prof. Ganesh Gopalakrishnan and Co-Principal…
50th Anniversary of Computing at the University of Utah and IEEE Milestone Event
50th Anniversary of Computing at the University of Utah and IEEE Milestone Event (March 23-24, 2023). This once-in-a-lifetime two-day event, which is open to the public, will be held in the ballroom of the University of Utah’s Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House, 155 S. Central Campus Drive, in…
50th Anniversary Celebration and IEEE Milestone
Celebrate our 50th anniversary and IEEE Milestone, March 23-24
Prof. Jason Wiese Receives Google Award for Inclusion Research
Kahlert School of Computing Assistant Professor Jason Wiese is a…
Award-Winning Tentacle Robots Help Create Less Invasive Surgeries
Assistant professor Alan Kuntz and recent PhD graduate Michael Bentley from the University of Utah Kahlert School of Computing and Robotics…
Prof. Kogan Receives Grant from Meta to Investigate Meme-based Campaigns to Counter Online Propaganda
Kahlert School of Computing Assistant Professor Marina Kogan has received a grant of US $99,562 through Foundational…
Mu Zhang Receives $65K Grant from Cisco to Enhance the Security of Smart Contracts
Mu Zhang, an assistant professor at the Kahlert School of Computing, and his research team have received a grant of US $65,421 from…
Senior Capstone Demo Day
The University of Utah’s Kahlert School of Computing recently showcased Senior Capstone Projects. Each project demonstrated the keen abilities of the seniors in computer science, and the wide range of skills they possess to solve a myriad of problems. Demo Day 2023
Data Science Day 2023
On January 13, 2023, the Utah Center for Data Science hosted at least 280 participants at Data Science Day, making this perhaps the largest data science event ever at the University of Utah. The event was a gathering of all those interested in data science around campus, including students,…
Marcin Copik, Masado Alexander Ishii, and Shelby Lockhart Named Recipients of 2022 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships
New York, NY, October 19, 2022 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the IEEE Computer Society announced today that Marcin Copik of ETH Zurich and Masado Alexander Ishii of the University of Utah are the recipients of the 2022 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships.…
School of Computing Welcomes 11 New Faculty Members
The School of Computing is delighted to announce that eleven new faculty members have joined the School at the beginning of the 2022-23 academic year. The accomplished group of renowned scholars covers a breadth of research areas across the school. “The new faculty bring research expertise that…
Vermont Researchers Use POWDER for Unique Testing
Researchers from the University of Vermont visited Utah recently to utilize the University of Utah’s POWDER wireless communications testbed for experiments involving a new tool that helps contractors detect objects underground. This new ground-penetrating radar system, being developed by University…
Developing 5G Tech for the Government
A team led by University of Utah computer science researchers is one of 16 multidisciplinary groups selected nationwide for the first phase of a new convergence research track to develop advanced 5G communications technologies for the U.S. military, federal government and infrastructure operators.…
Reaching Out to Students in Crisis
For many students, the college experience can be unbearably stressful. Academic pressure, separation from the family and a sense of vulnerability can all lead to a mental-health crisis. And for this generation of young adults, they’ve also had to contend with a stifling once-in-a-century pandemic.…
Lab Safety Day 2022
At the University of Utah’s College of Engineering, lab safety is a priority. To increase awareness of university safety policies, the college is hosting its first annual “Lab Safety Day” for faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students. This free special event will be held Friday, Sept.…
Parashar Named Presidential Professor
School of Computing professor Manish Parashar, who is the director of the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, was recently named Presidential Professor.
Van der Merwe receives U Research Award
Congratulations to University of Utah School of Computing professor Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe, who is one of six U faculty to receive this year’s Distinguished Research Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Vivek Gupta receives prestigious Bloomberg Fellowship
Vivek Gupta, a PhD student working with Vivek Srikumar was selected as a recipient of the 2021-2022 Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship. Vivek will receive financial and professional support to pursue his research interests over the course of the academic year as he work towards the completion…
SOC Student receives Women in Tech Award
Congratulations to University of Utah School of Computing student Anna Bell, who received the student 2021 Women Tech Award from the Women Tech Council (WTC).
SoC Faculty Receive DOE/ASCR X-Stack Award
University of Utah School of Computing professor Ganesh Gopalakrishnan and assistant professor Pavel Panchekha have received one of the five DOE/ASCR X-Stack awards from the U.S. Department of Energy to adapt scientific software for next-generation high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
Inclusive Computing Center
The School of Computing has officially launched the new Utah Center for Inclusive Computing (UCIC), which recognizes the importance of inclusion in engineering and computing and is designed to boost the percentage of students from groups currently underrepresented in computing.
SoC’s Ricci Tops Research Grants for 2021
University of Utah research funding continues to grow, totaling $641 million in fiscal year 2021, which ended June 30. The total is a new record high for the U, which achieved milestones of $600 million in funding last year and $500 million three years ago.
Introduction to The Data Science Club
When and why did the club start? The Data Science Center is a passion project that has been in the works for several years. Prof. Jeff Phillips and others spent months trying for a data science center to help students interested in Data Science, which was still a fringe issue at the University when…