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Siebel School Stories: How Illinois Helped Niraj Pant Find His Path to Entrepreneurship

Siebel School News
October 16, 2026

CS alum Arnav Mishra speaks to a packed house at Founders Week

Landuyt Center for Entrepreneurship

Siebel School News
October 14, 2026

Charting the future of tech in Chicago: The Chicago Capstone Experience

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Siebel School News
October 8, 2026

Kaiyu Guan wins Macarthur Fellowship

Chicago Sun-Times

Siebel School In the Media
October 7, 2026

Talia Ringer says AI company leaders capitalize on fear for regulations lobbying

Truthout

Siebel School In the Media
October 7, 2026

Chancellor Isbell discusses Illinois' role in state AI Cabinet

WGN Radio

Siebel School In the Media
October 5, 2026

Siebel School faculty weigh in on AI's dark outlook

The News-Gazette($)

Siebel School In the Media
October 5, 2026

Siebel School announces Fall 2026 faculty and staff promotions

Siebel School News
October 1, 2026

CS Professor Sarita Adve Honored with ACM SIGARCH Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award

Siebel School News
September 30, 2026

News Notes

10/8/2026
CS professor Derek Hoiem, will be the opening keynote speaker at the Illinois Higher Education Equity Symposium on October 8-9. Hoeim's talk, "The Role of Higher Education in AI's Future," focuses on the potential for AI to transform society and what higher education should do about it. He will present AI as a communication technology, as a knowledge work automation technology and emphasize the need for collective action to shape AI's impact, stressing that higher education institutions should lead with outward-facing coordination and inward-facing transformation. Hoeim's examples will include the AI Coordination Hub, DPI, and the Illinois AI Framework.
10/5/2026
Siebel School alum Xudong Sun (CS Ph.D. '25) received the SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention at the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) 2026. Sun, University of Toronto assistant professor, was advised by CS associate professor Tianyin Xu. The committee noted that Sun's dissertation, "stands out for connecting foundational reasoning about liveness and correctness to executable systems and substantial real-world bug discovery. Its combination of conceptual clarity, technical depth and practical impact strongly reflects the spirit of the Dennis M. Ritchie Award."