Iowa State University Department of Computer Science

Congratulations to all of our Computer Science graduates!

Congratulations to everyone who received awards or was recognized for their accomplishments at last week's Department Awards Banquet. We enjoyed getting to see everyone and celebrate their successes.

Welcome back! We’re so excited to kick off another amazing semester with you. Whether you're returning or just starting your journey, you've got this — and we’ve got your back.

Congratulations to Dr. Mengdi Huai for her well-deserved NSF CAREER Award. She is the 9th member of our faculty to receive this award. Read the article on her outstanding research:

Mengdi Huai Receives NSF CAREER Award Assistant Professor Dr. Mengdi Huai received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the highest honor awarded to junior faculty. Dr. Huai’s proposal “CAREER: Enabling Reliable Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making with Unreliable Data” works with conformal inference, a statistical distributio...

Join us in welcoming our new Department Chair, Dr. Chunsheng "Sam" Xin. Previously, he was a professor in the ECE Department at Old Dominion University. His research interests include cybersecurity, AI, and wireless technologies. He is an IEEE Fellow and received the IEEE Big Data Security Leadership Award. Welcome!

https://www.cs.iastate.edu/news/2025/dr-chunsheng-xin-appointed-department-chair