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4+1
5 year combined bachelor + master option
#7
undergraduate program in the nation
#5
graduate program in the nation
8
top 10 ranked undergraduate specialties
$62+
million research expenditures
20+
research centers and partnerships
100+
engineering societies and student orgs
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News Notes
- 3/10/2026
CS professor Saugata Ghose was inducted into the ISCA Hall of Fame for reaching the eight-paper threshold.
The International Symposium on Computer Architecture noted these papers: Improving memory scheduling via processor-side load criticality information (2013), FLIN: Enabling Fairness and Enhancing Performance in Modern NVMe Solid State Drives (2018), CROW: a low-cost substrate for improving DRAM performance, energy efficiency, and reliability (2019), CoNDA: efficient cache coherence support for near-data accelerators (2019), The Virtual Block Interface: A Flexible Alternative to the Conventional Virtual Memory Framework (2020), CODIC: A Low-Cost Substrate for Enabling Custom In-DRAM Functionalities and Optimizations (2021), SeGraM: a universal hardware accelerator for genomic sequence-to-graph and sequence-to-sequence mapping (2022), and ANVIL: An In-Storage Accelerator for Name-Value Data Stores (2025).
- 3/10/2026
CS Assistant Professor Han Zhao has been awarded the 2026 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. The Grainger College of Engineering Faculty Awards recognize a select group of faculty innovators for their achievements.
- 3/10/2026
CS faculty members—Max Fowler, Colleen Lewis, Abdussalam Alawini, Indranil Gupta, Geoffrey Herman and Lawrence Angrave—were recognized Thursday, Feb. 5, at the Student Success Symposium as an Equity Champion Instructor or Illini Success Career Influencer, HM. The symposium brings together the campus community to highlight outstanding efforts in student success and provide a space for community building among student success advocates.
- 3/10/2026
Upcoming Events
Final Defense of Denizhan Kara
- March 11, 2026
- Wednesday
IN-PERSON: CS CARES OFFICE HOUR - Mattox Beckman
- March 11, 2026
- Wednesday
- March 12, 2026
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- March 12, 2026
- Thursday
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- March 13, 2026
- Friday
Final Defense of Denizhan Kara
- March 11, 2026
- Wednesday
Final Defense of Zhenhailong Wang
- March 16, 2026
- Monday
Siebel School Peer Mentoring Center
- March 11, 2026
- Wednesday
Siebel School Peer Mentoring Center
- March 12, 2026
- Thursday
- March 14, 2026
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- April 1, 2026
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- April 1, 2026
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- April 8, 2026
- Wednesday
IN-PERSON: CS CARES OFFICE HOUR - Mattox Beckman
- March 11, 2026
- Wednesday
ONLINE: CS CARES OFFICE HOUR - Sharifa Sultana
- March 11, 2026
- Wednesday
ONLINE: CS CARES OFFICE HOUR - Yael Gertner
- March 12, 2026
- Thursday
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