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Diwen Xue receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

The award recognizes Diwen’s outstanding research accomplishments and will support his continued work on internet security and measurement.

Jingying Wang receives Rackham Barbour Scholarship

Awarded to women of high academic achievement from Asian countries, the Barbour Scholarship will support Jingying’s research on AI systems for medical education.

University of Michigan hosts NLP @ Michigan Day

The event drew over 100 researchers to Ann Arbor to discuss the latest research in natural language processing.

2025 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The EECS Department has honored four faculty for their sustained excellence in instruction and curricular development, distinguished participation in service activities, or for their significant achievements in scholarly research.

CSE researchers present four papers at HPCA 2025

CSE authors presented new research on topics related to computer architecture, from in-cache computing optimization to oblivious memory performance improvement.

How AI tools can help us understand human behavior

Natural language processing tools can help social scientists process larger and longer-term text datasets to keep up with fast-paced digital communication.

U-M Precision Health becoming AI & Digital Health Innovation

Expansion will create unified network to accelerate healthcare-focused AI solutions across U-M

A bold experiment: Accelerating scientific progress with AI

CSE researchers have developed the first-ever AI framework targeting experimentation, making the research process less time- and cost-intensive.

U-M alum Andrew Barto wins Turing Award

Barto is the 5th U-M alum to receive this honor, considered the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” in recognition of his contributions to reinforcement learning, a fundamental area of artificial intelligence.

Countering a flaw in anti-censorship tools to improve global internet freedom

A time-based fingerprint can expose obfuscation proxies, prompting the need for new techniques to protect information access

U-M, OpenAI launch partnership to expand AI research

U-M has established a partnership with OpenAI that will bring additional artificial intelligence resources, research funding, and computing power to campus.

Shaping the future of AI: A Q&A with Rada Mihalcea

The director of the AI Lab at the University of Michigan discusses the lab’s rich history and its ambitious future.

Nishil Talati named IEEE Computer Society Top Early Career Professional

This honor recognizes his exceptional achievements in computer architecture, compilers, and systems software.

Grad student Rishika Varma Kalidindi receives Moeller Award

The award recognizes Rishika’s exceptional scholarly achievement and will support her ongoing master’s studies in CSE.

Six papers by CSE researchers at SIGCSE TS 2025

CSE authors are presenting new research on topics related to computer science education, from personalized learning tools to effective teaching strategies.

PhD student Jaylin Herskovitz receives Susan Lipschutz Award

The award recognizes her outstanding achievements and will support her continued PhD studies in CSE.

Digital-learning platform improves reading growth by 9 percentile points, bridging learning gaps

Implementing a conventional reading curriculum as digital, map-like lessons with voice recording features made it engaging for students of all reading levels.

Thatchaphol Saranurak named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

The fellowship recognizes early-career researchers who have shown exceptional creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

Ke Wu receives Stellar Academic Research Grant

The award will support her development of collusion-resistant transaction fee mechanisms for blockchain networks.

Bridging gaps in rural health care with AI-powered mobile clinics

General practitioners with AI help could make diagnoses, run and interpret tests, and perform procedures like specialists.

Out of the woods: Reshaping collaborative programming with Grove

Recent research by Cyrus Omar introduces a new paradigm for more efficient collaborative coding.

Dhruv Jain and Devin McCaslin receive William Demant Foundation grant for AI-driven dizziness diagnosis

The grant will support their pioneering research to improve diagnostics and management of dizziness, a symptom associated with hearing loss, using AI technology.

New course helps transfer students acclimate to Michigan, build connections

The Transfer Student Studio Course addresses both the tech and the touch of succeeding at CSE.

Master’s student Dhanush Kumar Mallu receives Dow Sustainability Fellowship

The fellowship will support his efforts in AI-driven environmental sustainability initiatives.

Krisztián Flautner named U-M Innovation Champion

He will serve as a resource for other researchers, connecting them with businesses and entrepreneurial opportunities to amplify the impact of their work.

Peter Honeyman honored with Edward Law Emeritus Outstanding Service Award

The award recognizes Honeyman’s continued contributions to teaching, mentorship, and research.

Emily Mower Provost receives Trudy Huebner Service Excellence Award

The award recognizes her transformative leadership and commitment to fostering a supportive graduate student community.

Mosharaf Chowdhury receives David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award

He was honored for his groundbreaking research on AI infrastructure and energy-efficient AI systems.

Cyrus Omar receives 1938E Award

He has been recognized for innovative teaching, mentorship, and dedication to undergraduate research.

Austin Yarger receives Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Award for Excellence in Teaching

The award recognizes his exceptional contributions to game design education and his dedication to student success.

Boosting AI model size and training speed with lightwave-connected chips

AI growth is capped by data transfer rates between computing chips, but transferring data with light could remove the ceiling.

Danai Koutra receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

PECASE is the U.S. government’s highest honor for early-career scientists and engineers.

Rada Mihalcea and Zhijing Jin win two Best Paper Awards at NeurIPS 2024

They and their coauthors were recognized for their papers on multilingual alignment and gender bias in LLMs.

Six CS students named CRA outstanding undergraduate researchers

They were recognized by the CRA for their research achievements and potential.

Sixteen papers by CSE researchers at SODA 2025

CSE authors are presenting new research on topics in the area of discrete algorithms ranging from graph theory and optimization to computational geometry and data structures.

Six CSE staff recognized by College of Engineering for their outstanding contributions

Diane Crang, Amanda Feaganes, Li Harper, Yili Lin, Chris Puzzuoli, and Josh Zucal have been recognized by the College of Engineering for consistently demonstrating the College’s mission, vision, and values in their work.

Theory on the rise

The Theory Lab at Michigan is quickly emerging as a national powerhouse in theoretical computer science.

Yaxuan (Kaylee) Li receives Qualcomm PhD Fellowship

The award will support her research on AI-driven intelligent sensing technologies.

An architecture for universal pathogen detection

CSE researchers are working to develop more accurate and efficient genome sequencing technology for pathogen detection and more.

Yaxuan (Kaylee) Li receives Rackham International Student Fellowship

The award recognizes her strong academic performance and will support her continued research on advanced AI-driven sensing technologies.

Inderjeet Nair receives Rackham International Student Fellowship

The fellowship was awarded based on his outstanding academic record and will support his continued research on advanced applications of large language models.