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Vandenberg and Mott Receive NSF Award to Advance Collaborative Programming for Elementary Students

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Jan 26, 2026

Four from Computer Science Named Goodnight Early Career Innovators

Congratulations to NC State CS Assistant Professors Xiaorui Liu, Yuan Liu, Yuchen Liu and Ruozhou Yu on being named 2025-26 Goodnight Early Career Innovators!
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Jan 21, 2026

Xipeng Shen Named IEEE Fellow

Shen was honored by IEEE for his outstanding contributions in the field of dynamic optimizations and compiler technologies in heterogeneous computing.
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Jan 9, 2026

Yifan Wu, NC State Research Team Wins Best Presentation Award at ACI

Congratulations to NC State ECE Ph.D. student Yifan Wu on receiving the Best Presentation Award at the 2025 Animal-Computer Interaction International Conference.
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Dec 22, 2025

Congratulations to the Fall 2025 Carla Savage Award Recipients

Congratulations to Laurie Williams, Isabella White and Carol Allen on winning the Fall 2025 Carla Savage Awards!
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Dec 19, 2025

A Look Back at 2025

From new milestones to career-defining awards, faculty, staff and students at NC State continue to lead the pack into a new year of innovation and success.
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Nov 11, 2025

Welcoming the 2025 CS Alumni Hall of Fame Inductees

On November 6, 2025, the Department of Computer Science welcomed three inspirational alumni into the CS Alumni Hall of Fame alongside two “Rising Stars”. This honor highlights those who have…
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Nov 6, 2025

Qiao Jin and Ph.D. Students Xiaoran Yang and Yang Zhan Receive Best Short Paper Honorable Mention at VL/HCC

Congratulations to #NCStateCS Assistant Professor Qiao Jin, Associate Professor Noboru Matsuda and Ph.D. students Xiaoran Yang and Yang Zhan on receiving the Best Short Paper Honorable Mention award at the VL/HCC conference.
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Nov 3, 2025

Tiffany Barnes, NC State Research Group Receive Two NSF Awards for AI Education

Congratulations to #NCStateCS's Tiffany Barnes and Xiaoyi Tian on receiving two NSF awards for advancing AI in education.
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Oct 23, 2025

Sivana Hamer Receives Google PhD Fellowship

Hamer is the first NC State University student to receive a Google PhD fellowship.
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Oct 22, 2025

Vandenberg and Mott Receive NSF Award to Advance Collaborative Programming for Elementary Students

Instilling collaborative skills in elementary students sets them up for success across the tech world, including emerging fields such as artificial intelligence. Vandenberg and Mott are looking to foster those skills by investigating how different models of collaboration can improve learning and interest in computer science among elementary students.