Computer and Information Science

Prof. Daniel Lowd received an award to research how text can be modified to trick automated classifiers for abuse detection, sentiment analysis, and other tasks. In the "Reverse Engineering Adversarially Created Text (REACT)" project, funded by the DARPA Artificial Intelligence Explorations (AIE) program, the... Read more

Professor Zena Ariola receives a grant from Sandia National Labs to conduct software verification in the Coq Proof Assistant. 

Verification of software is used to eliminate bugs, discover code's properties (e.g. performance bounds), and ease the refactoring thereof.... Read more

Prof. Boyana Norris leads a new collaboration with researchers from the University of Missouri S&T and the University of North Texas on a project titled “Cyberinfrastructure for Accelerating Innovation in Network Dynamics,” or CANDY. The project is funded through a four-year, $2.5 million grant from the ... Read more

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 COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the critical role and societal importance of networks. In light of the growing importance of the today's networks, Assistant Professor Ram Durairajan is awarded 3 grants totalling $2.4 million to improve the robustness of networks by making them smarter and safer.

Grant 1: CC*... 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