CS professor Sharifa Sultana, CS Ph.D. student A.T.M Mizanur Rahman and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed received an Honorable Mention Award for Data Repair at ACM CHI 2026. The work stood out for its originality, rigor, and potential impact on the field of human-computer interaction. The contribution of the work is in showing that current AI systems embed global assumptions that do not align with local needs.

CS professor Sharifa Sultana's co-authored paper “Shotitwo First!’’: Unraveling Global South Women’s Challenges in Public Transport to Inform Autonomous Vehicle Design" received the Honorable Mention award at ACM DIS 2024.

Illinois CS Interactive Computing faculty and students, attended the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) Oct. 14-18. Two papers from the CS IC group won the Best Paper awards