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Bill Gropp, CS professor and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, was invited to present a keynote speech at the 35th ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC). Gropp's talk was on "Misconceptions in Parallel Computing." HPDC is the premier annual conference for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. Gropp's groundbreaking and extensive career was recently celebrated at Siebel School. 

Shuang Zhao, CS associate professor, and his teams received the Best Paper Award Honorable Mentions at the prestigious SIGGRAPH 2026 Technical Papers Awards. "Sample Matching for Joint Extinction Gradient Estimation in Differentiable Volume Rendering" and "Gradient Domain Reconstruction for Monte Carlo PDE Solvers," were both selected from more than 1,120 submissions, a record in the program's 53-year history. ACM SIGGRAPH's program is the leading forum for presenting high-quality, scholarly research in computer graphics and interactive techniques.