Computer and Information Science

Jun Li, an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and director of the UO Center for Cyber Security and Privacy, was awarded a $507,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research examining online social network (OSN) fraud and attacks. The collaborative project includes researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of North Carolina... Read more

"The UO Mock Trial team recently wrapped up its most successful season to date, placing 10th in its division and 19th overall out of 48 teams at the National Championship Tournament of the American Mock Trial Association.

The tournament, held April 15-17 in South Carolina, was the team’s first time at nationals.

More than 600 collegiate mock trial teams started the competitive... Read more

CIS first-year PhD student Shreeya Khadka was awarded the A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Award in April 2016. This award was set up to honor the memory of A. Richard Newton, a pioneer in electronic design automation and integrated circuit design.

The fellowship encourages and supports students at the beginning of their research career in Electronic Design Automation and Embedded... Read more

CIS first-year PhD student Brian Gravelle was awarded the A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Award in April 2016. This award was set up to honor the memory of A. Richard Newton, a pioneer in electronic design automation and integrated circuit design.

The fellowship encourages and supports students at the beginning of their research career in Electronic Design Automation and Embedded... Read more

Ph.D. student Paul Downen has been awarded a UO College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship, which will fully fund his tuition for the 2016-2017 academic year. The award is highly competitive and recognizes Downen's significant and original contribution to his discipline.

Downen's research expands a relatively new "proofs as programs" approach in which programming and... Read more

The 20th Annual Eugene Luks Programming Contest took place this year on Saturday, April 30 in Deschutes 100. The CIS Department holds this contest every year as an opportunity for current undergraduate and graduate students to have fun while challenging their programming skills.

During the three hour contest, student teams competed against each other with the goal of programming correct... Read more

Former UO doctoral student, Yolanda Reimer (Ph.D. 2001), won a prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award for 2006. This five-year, $500,000 award will fund her work as Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Montana. The project, "From Pen and Paper to Computer: An Emerging Notetaking Paradigm for Students" investigates how the process of note taking is... Read more

UO undergraduate Zoe Olson blazed a new trail recently when she became the first UO student to take part in Harvard’s annual Women Engineers’ Code Conference, where she also was the only woman from the Pac-12.

For Olson, a computer science major and member of the Women in Computer Science Club, representing the UO at the conference validated an increasingly inclusive... Read more

UO employees will take on the annual Governor’s State Employees Food Drive challenge starting Feb. 1, and they’re hoping that creativity and determination will help them meet their goal of 100,000 pounds of donated food.

According to Karen Scheeland, alumni program manager and former director of the food drive at the UO, the university has donated more than 800,000 pounds of food in the... Read more

As part of the Governor’s State Employee’s Food Drive this year, the CIS department hosted the 2016 CIS Sweet and Savory Bake-Off Competition as a fundraiser to benefit Food For Lane County (FFLC). FFLC is a division of the Oregon Food Bank Network that strives to alleviate hunger by creating access to food in the Lane County area.

The event was held on Friday, Feb 19, and brought... Read more