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Xinyu Lian wins Microsoft Fellowship

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Siebel School News
March 24, 2026

Jiawei Han and ChengXiang Zhai: building AI memory, Microsoft PlugMem paper

Microsoft Research Blog

Siebel School In the Media
March 11, 2026

Illinois joins forces with leading universities to launch innovation hub in San Francisco

Technology Entrepreneur Center

Siebel School News
March 11, 2026

Sheldon Jacobson answers: is there a mathematical method to March Madness?

Illinois News Bureau

Siebel School News
March 11, 2026

The Mathematics of Impossible Fairness: the Illinois Breakthroughs that Defined the Boundaries

Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering

Siebel School News
March 10, 2026

How artificial intelligence is changing the way doctors predict skin cancer

The Grainger College of Engineering

Siebel School News
March 10, 2026

The opposite of Cheating Podcast (Season 2) Episode 48: Craig Zilles

The Opposite of Cheating (Podcast)

Siebel School In the Media
March 10, 2026

Craig Zilles on making exams with more learning and less stress using computer-based testing facilities (CS50 Tech Talk video)

CS50 Tech Talk (video)

Siebel School In the Media
March 10, 2026

Stojkovic receives Siebel School's David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis award

The Grainger College of Engineering

Siebel School News
March 10, 2026

News Notes

- 3/23/2026
  The 13^th annual HackIllinois took place on February 27-March 1, 2026 at the Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science. The 36-hour-long event, open to college students from around the world, challenges attendees to build a software project while learning development skills from industry-led workshops and expert mentors and promised more than $17,000 in prizes. In all, 838 students attended—645 Illinois students, 60 students from other parts of the state, 114 from other states, and 15 international visitors, representing 31 states and 15 countries. The weekend concluded with 270 projects submitted. To view the wide range of projects, visit the HackIllinois Devpost.
- 3/10/2026
  CS professor Saugata Ghose was inducted into the ISCA Hall of Fame for reaching the eight-paper threshold.
  
  The International Symposium on Computer Architecture noted these papers: Improving memory scheduling via processor-side load criticality information (2013), FLIN: Enabling Fairness and Enhancing Performance in Modern NVMe Solid State Drives (2018), CROW: a low-cost substrate for improving DRAM performance, energy efficiency, and reliability (2019), CoNDA: efficient cache coherence support for near-data accelerators (2019), The Virtual Block Interface: A Flexible Alternative to the Conventional Virtual Memory Framework (2020), CODIC: A Low-Cost Substrate for Enabling Custom In-DRAM Functionalities and Optimizations (2021), SeGraM: a universal hardware accelerator for genomic sequence-to-graph and sequence-to-sequence mapping (2022), and ANVIL: An In-Storage Accelerator for Name-Value Data Stores (2025).
- 3/10/2026
  CS Assistant Professor Han Zhao has been awarded the 2026 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. The Grainger College of Engineering Faculty Awards recognize a select group of faculty innovators for their achievements.