IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Seven Luddy students recently returned from the Ghana Tech Trip, a three week service-learning experience led by IU staff and faculty. Luddy partnered with Young At Heart Ghana, an organization that improves digital education access to rural and disadvantaged communities throughout the country, giving Luddy students the opportunity to help local students work with technology in the classroom. 🇬🇭

Learn more about the Tech Trip: go.iu.edu/8pTn

Professor of Informatics Filippo Radicchi is the new associate editor for Physical Review E, the flagship journal for Complex Networks and Systems research. Radicchi said one of his goals is to help the journal keep growing beyond its traditional topics of statistical physics toward more application and data-driven research. 🔗 Read more: go.iu.edu/8pSX

Two Luddy-sponsored robotics teams made it to the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) World Championships in Houston, Texas, drawing more than 20,000 pre-college science, technology, engineering and math-minded students from around the world to compete. Both teams, I.C.E. Robotics and the Quadrangles, were one of 12 teams hailing from Indiana at the world championships.

Read more: go.iu.edu/8pRO

Yesterday, the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center hosted The Global Macroscopes: 20th Exhibit Debut at University Collections at McCalla, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit.

Over the years, Places & Spaces has appeared at some of the world’s most renowned institutes of knowledge and learning, like the National Academy of Sciences, Stanford University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, University College Dublin, and many more.

🔗 Learn more about the exhibit's mission and history: cns.iu.edu/exhibit.html

Luddy graduate students and faculty recently attended the prestigious ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii, presenting more than 10 research papers and organizing multiple workshops during the event. CHI, considered the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction, allows researchers and practitioners from around the world to discuss the latest in interactive technology.

Read more: go.iu.edu/8pNQ

Join the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center this Thursday for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit, which aims to demonstrate the power of maps to navigate and make sense of physical places and abstract topic spaces.

📅 Thursday, June 6
⏰ 4 to 6 p.m.
📍 McCalla School

Read more about this exhibit: go.iu.edu/8pN2

Luddy Assistant Professor of Computer Science Luyi Xing has won the 2023-24 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, the most prestigious campus-level honor available specifically to pre-tenure faculty. The award is designed to identify the most promising untenured, tenure-track faculty and assist them in the development of their scientific, scholarly, or artistic activities.

Read more: go.iu.edu/8pMa

The enrollment deadline for the Fall 2024 semester is quickly approaching this Saturday! Be sure to submit your intent to enroll form to Indiana University no later than June 1. We look forward to meeting the incoming Luddy Class of 2028! 🎉

Tell us you’re #IUBound You belong at Indiana University Bloomington. Reserve your space in the new class of Hoosiers.

Elise Suarez, a Master of Library Science student in the Luddy School, collected and digitized 25 legends specific to IU Bloomington for Luddy associate professor John Walsh’s Digital Libraries course this semester.

See her website: elisesuarez.github.io/folklore-papers

Do you know the lore of the 'IU Birdman'? Thanks to IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering graduate student Elise Suarez, his and other Bloomington campus folklore tales are being digitized. https://bit.ly/451TNcW

Luddy Hall recently hosted the first portion of the IU Founders & Funders Network Venture Summit, "AI @ IU"—featuring a poster session, IU-affiliated early-stage AI startup demonstrations, various speakers, and a fireside chat hosted by Luddy School Dean Joanna Millunchick with professors David Crandall and Selma Sabanovic.

Learn more about Luddy's role during the Summit: go.iu.edu/8pIs

There's still time to add your name to the May Challenge for HCI/d and Computer Science programs! Help us cross the finish line and support upcoming program initiatives by contributing to the Challenge:

▪️ Support HCI/d at Luddy: bit.ly/44xy4cN
▪️ Support Computer Science at Luddy: bit.ly/3JVmWgj

Throughout the month of May, the Luddy School will be raising funds for the HCI/d and Computer Science programs. Contributing to the funds directly support the innovative development of these departments and can make a significant impact on our students. Consider adding your name to the campaign today!

▪️ Support HCI/d at Luddy: bit.ly/44xy4cN
▪️ Support Computer Science at Luddy: bit.ly/3JVmWgj

Luddy Director of Curriculum and Instruction Akesha Horton was recently honored during the Faculty and Staff Mentor Awards Recognition Celebration, which recognizes faculty and staff who mentor, motivate, encourage, and advocate for women across Indiana University.

🔗 Read more: go.iu.edu/8pGc

Students at the Luddy School are improving society through innovative engineering projects, which were featured during this year's school-wide Poster Symposium.

One team of students displayed their VispalExo Exoskeleton Arm brace, an Electromyography-controlled exoskeletal arm brace that enables a person who is paralyzed to move a braced arm. Their project was one of six hour-long Capstone Design final presentations as part of the symposium, with project foci ranging from solar eclipse photography missions, interactive musical experiences, autonomous vehicle designs and more.

The Symposium highlighted Luddy's commitment to hands-on, project-based learning, shaping the future of society-centered engineering and technology.

Read more: go.iu.edu/8pFn

Cutting-edge vision research presented during the NeurIPS Conference by Luddy professors Justin Wood and Samantha Wood and Ph.D. student Lalit Pandey compares newborn visual systems to that of vision transformers. The research provided the first evidence, Samantha Wood said, that transformers are no more data hungry than newborn brains.

Read more: go.iu.edu/8pEX

Applications are still open for the Summer 2024 Women's Cybersecurity Immersion Camp! Join us June 24-28 for a week-long interactive virtual camp designed for women who are interested in exploring the field of cybersecurity. Students entering grades 9-12 are eligible to apply.

Precollege Summer Programs: Student Life: Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering: Indiana University Bloomington Explore technology and everything you can do with it in our summer programs.

Luddy School faculty and students, led by professor of Informatics and associate dean for faculty affairs Selma Sabanovic, attended the 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction this semester in Boulder, Colorado, presenting four papers as oral presentations and four short papers as posters at the event.

Read more about the conference: go.iu.edu/8pCT

Sending thanks to everyone in the Luddy community who attended last Friday's Luddy School Graduation Ceremony and Reception to celebrate the class of 2024! Photos from the event are available online now for download.

📸 View the gallery:

Graduation - Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering This is the photo library for the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (Bloomington).

Throughout the month of May, the Luddy School will be raising funds for the HCI/d and Computer Science programs. Contributing to the funds directly support the innovative development of these departments and can make a significant impact on our students. Consider adding your name to the campaign today!

▪️ Support HCI/d at Luddy: bit.ly/44xy4cN
▪️ Support Computer Science at Luddy: bit.ly/3JVmWgj

Luddy Associate Professor of Informatics Mary L Gray was recently featured on an episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, discussing how AI is used to evaluate pay for workers in delivery service apps.

Mary’s research examines how technology access, material conditions, and everyday uses of technologies affects people’s lives, discussing the danger of tying product quality to the amount of pay allotted to workers through service platforms.

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A message of gratitude can go a long way. 💌 As the year comes to a close, we invite students to consider dropping a note to a faculty member whose dedication, insight, and mentorship made a significant impact on you this year.

Thank a professor here: citl.indiana.edu/programs/thank-a-prof

Congratulations to the Luddy Class of 2024! 🎓🎉 You’ve worked hard, achieved an incredible milestone, and now you begin your next journey shaping tomorrow. 💫 Go Hoosiers!

This morning, the Luddy School held its annual Graduation Ceremony at the IU Auditorium to recognize the tremendous achievements of our graduating class of 2024. 🎉

Attended by approximately 1,250 undergraduates and graduates and their 2,000 guests, the Luddy School awarded degrees in computer science, informatics, data science, cybersecurity & global policy, intelligent systems engineering, human-computer interaction, information science, library science, bioinformatics, and secure computing.

Special thanks to our Alumni Speaker Thomas Luddy, Undergraduate Speaker Agness Lungu, and Graduate Speaker Pallabi Bhowmick.

Congratulations to the IU Luddy Class of 2024! 🎓

Informatics students at Luddy recently had the opportunity to showcase their work at the annual Informatics Capstone Fair on April 18. Each undergraduate project was the result of a two-semester capstone class prompting informatics students to solve a problem for a local individual or organization, or find a broader solution for an issue involving the world at large.

Read more about the event: go.iu.edu/8o2q

Future Hoosiers: if you’re interested in living at the Luddy LLC this fall, today is the LAST DAY to submit your housing application before the priority deadline. You may not receive full consideration to join the LLC if you submit your application after 5/1.

Living Learning Center: Admissions: Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering: Indiana University Bloomington Learn about the Luddy Living Learning Center, a residential community just for first-year techies.

Our graduating Intelligent Systems Engineering cohort swore into the Order of the Engineer last Friday in recognition of their transition from students to professionals. Worn on the fifth finger of the working hand, the Engineer’s Ring is stainless steel and represents an engineer who has accepted the Obligation of an Engineer in a Ring Ceremony.

Congratulations to our ISE seniors! 🎓

That's a wrap on our Luddy-wide Poster Symposium! 📈 Thanks to all Luddy students who presented their research and to our IU community members who stopped by to learn more about the incredible work our undergraduates are doing.

The Luddy School’s Colin LeFevre has received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship for his proposed Ph.D. research that focuses on technology and mental health. 🔗 go.iu.edu/85U9

Of the 2,037 researchers recognized by the NSF this year, just 19 hailed from the Human-Computer Interaction field, 6 of whom are from IU.

The Intelligent Systems Engineering (ISE) program within the Luddy School creates new frontiers in areas such as cyber-physical systems, computer engineering, intelligent systems, environmental engineering, bioengineering, neuroengineering, and more.

Learn more about the ISE department in our recent Newsweek feature. ⤵

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is TODAY! 🤍❤️ Help the Luddy School reach its fundraising goal by end of the day today and support students on the Luddy Bloomington campus.

🎈 Consider contributing to the cause: bit.ly/4cXlw27

All gifts up to $2,000 will be matched if made in honor of IU Day.

Daniel Loveless, associate professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering at the Luddy School, will receive a $185,000 grant from NASA to study ice clouds as a part of NASA’s Polarized Submillimeter Ice-Cloud Radiometer (POLSIR) project.

🔗 Read more: go.iu.edu/7hFB