IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

09/18/2026

Visit Luddy during IU Bloomington's Senior Week! 📆

Session dates/times: Monday–Friday, 2:30–3:30 p.m.
Location: Luddy Hall, Luddy Community Center

Discover what makes the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering a leader in technology and innovation.

Explore our cutting-edge majors, high-demand career pathways, and the support that helps students succeed. Hear from current Luddy students, get your questions answered, and experience our state-of-the-art Luddy Hall on a guided tour.

Unlock your next chapter at IU Bloomington Senior Week! 🔓🏫

During Discover IU: Senior Week, prospective students can explore our schools, resources, and all the student experiences IUB has to offer. Join in a day-long series of sessions, tours, and open houses offered ONLY to high school seniors gearing up for college.

🔗Register today: https://hey.iu.edu/usZyg

09/18/2026

Connections: made. ✔️

Yesterday at the Luddy Fall Career Fair, students had the chance to connect with employers, learn about possible career pathways, and explore available internships and full-time opportunities across industries.

⭐ A special shoutout to our Gold Sponsor, Elevance Health, for supporting our students and helping make this year's career fair possible!

09/14/2026

Luddy Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering Adrian Ildefonso received two awards at the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference for research advancing the reliability of microelectronics and photonic devices in space.

Ildefonso and his co-authors earned the Outstanding Data Workshop Presentation Award for CHALICE, a free online tool that helps researchers use laser-based testing to determine how microelectronics may respond to space radiation.

He also co-authored an Outstanding Student Paper examining how radiation affects silicon photonic devices — work that supports his research at Luddy’s HERMES Lab to make testing more accessible and better understand how emerging electronics perform in harsh environments.

09/09/2026

Luddy students are putting AI to work on real community challenges, building literacy games for first graders at Bloomington’s Childs Elementary School as part of INFO-I 400: Vibe and AI Programming. Led by Michal Gordon, senior lecturer of informatics, the course gives students hands-on experience using emerging AI tools to move from a real problem to an idea, a working product, and feedback from real users.

Working in teams, Luddy students used AI-assisted programming to design and build interactive literacy games that help first graders practice early reading skills. They then put their prototypes directly in front of Childs students and teachers, observed how the children played, gathered feedback on usability and engagement, and used those insights to improve their designs.

09/08/2026

The Luddy School and IU Athletics teamed up to create a life-size 3D-printed replica of Indiana Football’s national championship trophy, giving Hoosier fans a chance to get up close with a piece of IU history. 🏆

Led by Nicole Miller, director of Luddy’s 3D Fabrication and Design Inquiry Labs, and lead fabricator Kellen Moran, the project used high-resolution 3D scanning, sophisticated software, and 300 hours of printing to recreate the 36.5-inch trophy.

Made from lightweight polylactic acid plastic, the replica weighs about five pounds (compared to 50 pounds for the original) and will allow fans to hold it and take photos and videos at the Indiana Football AAA Championship Tailgate during home games this fall.

09/05/2026

Ready for the first game of the season. 💪 🤍❤️

09/04/2026

Luddy Informatics Ph.D. alumnus Rachith Aiyappa has received the Indiana University Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award for 2026, one of IU’s top honors for doctoral research.

Aiyappa’s dissertation combined network science, complex systems, computational social science, agent-based modeling, natural language processing, and AI to investigate how beliefs shape the ways people process and share information in social networks. His research offers new approaches to understanding social contagion, with applications ranging from predicting responses to new information to designing interventions against misinformation and malicious campaigns.

Aiyappa was advised by YY Ahn and worked with Luddy faculty including Fil Menczer, Alessandro Flammini, and Jisun An.

09/02/2026

Luddy’s Department of Information and Library Science faculty Devan Ray Donaldson and Yuerong Hu have each received federally funded research awards through the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, totaling more than $1.1 million.

Donaldson received an Applied Research Grant to lead a three-year project examining what library and archival professionals need to understand about AI data and the artifacts AI systems leave behind to make responsible stewardship decisions. Hu received an Early Career Research Award to study early childhood STEM books that introduce advanced topics such as AI and quantum physics to children age 6 and younger.

Their work will help libraries and archives navigate emerging technologies while developing resources that support professionals, educators, and families.

08/31/2026

Two research projects led by Luddy Ph.D. students are examining timely challenges at the intersection of technology and society: harmful video game experiences among teenagers and how misinformation language has evolved in U.S. newspapers.

Ph.D. students Bryce Greene and Brian Pleasants Harper, working with Informatics Professor Christena Nippert-Eng, co-authored “Quantifying the ‘misinformation beat’: 38 years of coverage in major U.S. daily newspapers,” published in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. The research analyzes nearly four decades of newspaper coverage to reveal how the language and focus surrounding misinformation have changed over time.

Ph.D. students Nick Abegg and Ritika Gairola, alongside Nippert-Eng and Computer Science Professor Apu Kapadia, co-authored “Normalizing Harm Through Teenagers’ Everyday Experiences with Video Games.” Accepted for the 2026 Proceedings of the ACM Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, the study explores how teenagers can come to accept manipulative game mechanics and harmful experiences as routine parts of gaming.

Together, the papers highlight Luddy student researchers’ contributions to understanding how digital technologies shape everyday experiences, and how research can inform safer technology design, governance, and policy.

08/28/2026

Congratulation Luddy Class of 2030, you just finished your first week of classes. 🎉