Illinois CS  PhD alumnus Motahhare Eslami (advisor Karrie Karahalios) is a recipient of a 2025 Google Academic Research Award. Now at Carnegie Mellon University, Eslami, is a co-awardee for "Bias Awareness and Mitigation in Breast Cancer Risk Prediction for Marginalized Groups through Participatory AI' under the category of Society-Centered AI.

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