PhD Program
Flexible program that welcomes students with a broad range of research interests within informatics.
MS Program
Program is a non-research, course-based informatics program for students who wish to enhance their careers.
Certificate Program
The program provides students with the same core curriculum as the MS and PhD degrees.
News
Demiray, Nguyen, Norris, and Zeinali recognized
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Informatics graduate students are publicly recognized for their research, including winning prestigious awards and fellowships.
HawCHI Lab Awarded Best Paper Award & Social Impact Honorable Mention at IDC '24
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Professor Juan Pablo Hourcade and co-authors/student advisees Flannery Currin - who recently defended her doctoral thesis, Summer Schmuecker (Informatics U2G MS - Spring '24) and Delaney Norris (Informatics U2G MS) recently published “Understanding Adult Stakeholder Perspectives on the Ethics of Extended Reality Technologies with a Focus on Young Children and Children in Rural Areas”.
This paper was awarded the Best Full Paper Award and Social Impact Honorable Mention at IDC '24 - the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.
Informatics students featured in 2023 Dare to Discover campaign
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Han Bao, Bekir Demiray, and Rachel Shrode featured for their outstanding research.
Hourcade appointed ACM Distinguished Speaker
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Director of Graduate Studies for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics is honored.
Events
CS | ECE Seminar – The Future of Multi-Robot Coordination: from Large-Scale Optimization to Robot Art
Thursday, May 15, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
SpeakerEric EwingAbstractRecent advances in multi-robot systems have created opportunities for widespread deployment in applications ranging from warehouse automation to search and rescue. However, coordinating large groups of robots remains challenging, both in terms of computational efficiency and accessibility to non-expert users. This talk explores novel approaches to multi-robot coordination through the lens of Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF). We first examine data-driven techniques for...
5th Annual BioBlitz at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory
Saturday, July 12, 2025 9:00am to 11:00am
What types of plants, animals, and fungal life might you find at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory? Let's find out!
Join researchers in collecting, observing, and recording biodiversity at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory in our 5th Annual BioBlitz. Your findings will inform a major research project and will contribute to the fifth data point in a multi-year documentation of how diversity changes at this site over time. Collections will be housed with the UI Museum of Natural History...