Computer and Information Science

On Tuesday, September 28, Computer Science students, faculty, and staff gathered outside Deschutes Hall to launch the 2021-2022 academic year.  Computer Science Department Head Prof. Reza Rejaie welcomed students to the new year, followed by greetings from CIS faculty and staff, Tykeson Hall advisors, the CIS Science Librarian, and CIS student group leaders.  The conversation continued during... Read more

The annual CIS/MACS Welcome and Orientation event  for new and returning majors will be held this year on Tuesday, September 28, from noon to 1 pm (returning majors: please note new day and time).

The program will be a bit different this year; we want everyone to be safe and comfortable, so we’ve decided to go with an outdoor ice cream social.  You can find us at the... Read more

CIS alumnus Dr. Sudhanshu Sane and researchers from CIS research group on Computing and Data Understanding at eXtreme Scale (CDUX)  have received two Best Paper Awards for his dissertation research on Lagrangian flow. The awards came from two different conferences, both held on the week of... Read more

Celebrating Student Success 2020 - 2021
The CIS Department celebrates all Computer Science majors and minors! Read more

Prof Thien Nguyen receives a Grant from the Army Research Office to investigate Text Structures for Information Extraction in Natural Language Processing. Events (protests, disease outbreaks, natural disasters) are prevalent in natural language texts from different languages and domains (news, books, social media, scientific papers). Extracting... Read more

In early 2021, a team of UO CIS students came together to develop a Python library to support machine learning and data science, and wrote a paper describing the library and its scientific value. Read more

Congratulations, 2021 Computer Science and MACS Graduates!  Although there will not be any in-person CIS departmental ceremony this year, there are several options for our students to participate!  

Campus Wide Event

The Main Virtual Commencement Ceremony for the entire campus takes place on Saturday, June 12, 2021, 9:00–10:00 a.m. via live webcast on the... Read more

Assistant Professor Lei Jiao has won the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAREER award is the NSF's most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the... Read more

Researchers from UO CIS, including third-year Ph.D. student Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh and Prof. Thien Huu Nguyen from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group, have recently won a Best Paper Award at the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational... Read more

Amir Veyseh, a third-year Ph.D. student at the CIS department of the University of Oregon, won the competitive Adobe Research Fellowship. Only 10 awardees were selected world-wide for 2021.

Amir is a PhD student in the CIS department under the supervision of Prof. Thien Huu... Read more