Computer and Information Science

Join Computer Science students, faculty, and staff to launch the 2021-2022 academic year and find out essential information about your major.

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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

Dr. Brittany Erickson is an assistant professor in the CIS department. She came to the University of Oregon in 2018 after spending 4 years at Portland State University.  Her areas of expertise are in scientific computing and numerical methods for partial differential equations, applied to problems in geophysics.  She is co-leader of the... Read more