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The Siebel School of Computing and Data Science is shaping the future of technology,
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5 year combined bachelor + master option

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public undergraduate program

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overall undergraduate program

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world-class faculty

30+
undergraduate degrees

9
graduate degrees

#1
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$60
million research expenditures

20+
research centers and partnerships

11
research areas

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engineering societies and student orgs

14K+
alumni worldwide

2988
graduate students fall '25 class

3624
undergraduates fall '25 class

7
top 10 ranked undergraduate specialties


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News Notes

  • 10/23/2026

    Siebel School is bringing significant NLP and AI expertise to the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Over 30 graduate students and 30 faculty are a part of the accepted 30 main conference papers, 25-plus COLM 2026 papers, and 20-plus findings papers. EMNLP is an international academic conference on natural language processing and AI, hosted by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) SIGDAT, a special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to natural language processing.

  • 10/22/2026

    Billy Moses, CS assistant professor, and his visiting student, Semih Burak, Ph.D. RWTH Aachen University, won the 2026 Johannes Doerfert Best Paper Award, to be presented at the 22nd International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP). Moses, Burak, and their team won for their paper, "Expressing OpenMP Threading Concepts in the SPMD IR for Hybrid Static Analysis." IWOMP is an annual workshop that promotes and advances all aspects of parallel programming with OpenMP. 

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Upcoming Events

Oct
26

Final Defense of Sara Aghajanzadeh

  • October 26, 2026
  • Monday, 9:30 AM
  • SC 3102
Oct
26

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hour: Steve Herzog

  • October 26, 2026
  • Monday, 3:00 PM
  • 1238 Siebel Center
Oct
26

Peer Mentoring Center

  • October 26, 2026
  • Monday, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Siebel 1214

All Events

Nov
2

AI Builder Meet-Up

  • November 2, 2026
  • Monday, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • 2406 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Nov
6

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • November 6, 2026
  • Friday, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Nov
13

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • November 13, 2026
  • Friday, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

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Oct
27

IQUIST Seminar: Hannah Manetsch, Senior AMO Physicist, Oratomic

  • October 27, 2026
  • Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Oct
28

Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Shion Goha

  • October 28, 2026
  • Wednesday, 3:30 PM
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83315724616?pwd=pLkFHzfD4RhiYCLIlCod1Sz7uz0Kan.1
Oct
29

IMMERSE Seminar - Deana McDonagh

  • October 29, 2026
  • Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

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Oct
26

Final Defense of Sara Aghajanzadeh

  • October 26, 2026
  • Monday, 9:30 AM
  • SC 3102
Oct
27

Let’s Chat about iCAN (online): Soha Huq (iCAN and MCS alum)

  • October 27, 2026
  • Tuesday, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Oct
30

Director of Graduate Studies Office Hours

  • October 30, 2026
  • Friday, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

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Oct
26

Peer Mentoring Center

  • October 26, 2026
  • Monday, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Siebel 1214
Oct
27

Peer Mentoring Center

  • October 27, 2026
  • Tuesday, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Siebel 1214
Oct
28

Peer Mentoring Center

  • October 28, 2026
  • Wednesday, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Siebel 1214

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Oct
27

Zip Lobby Day

  • October 27, 2026
  • Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium
Nov
3

Salesforce Tech Talk

  • November 3, 2026
  • Tuesday, 6:00 PM
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

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Oct
26

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hour: Steve Herzog

  • October 26, 2026
  • Monday, 3:00 PM
  • 1238 Siebel Center
Oct
27

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hour: Max Fowler

  • October 27, 2026
  • Tuesday, 3:00 PM
  • 2328 Siebel Center
Oct
29

ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hour: Yael Gertner

  • October 29, 2026
  • Thursday, 12:00 PM

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