Ganesha Upadhyaya, a graduate student in the Dept. of Computer Science and a member of the Laboratory for Software Design successfully defended his PhD thesis today. His thesis title was ``Collective Program Analysis.’’ More details about his thesis are available here.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized Dr. Hridesh Rajan as one of 43 distinguished member for 2017.

The 2017 Midwest Big Data Summer School held from July 10-14, 2017 in Ames, Iowa on Iowa State University campus was another successful edition.

Dr. Zhen Yu has joined the Laboratory for Software Design as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Yu who prefers to go by Zhen obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology where he was supervised by Prof. Xiaohong Su. Prior to joining the Laboratory for Software Design, Dr. Yu conducted research at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan.

Just received words from the Iowa State University Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost that the Data Science Minor and Data Science Certificate are approved.

Early registration is now open for the 2017 Midwest Big Data Summer School to be held from July 10-14, 2017 in Ames, Iowa on Iowa State University campus. More details, including the link to register, can be found here.

Prof. Hridesh Rajan, professor in the Department of Computer Science, was named Kingland Professor of Data Analytics.

Nitin Tiwari, a graduate student in the computer science and a member of the Laboratory for Software Design successfully defended his Masters thesis today. His thesis title was ``The design and implementation of Candoia: A platform for building and sharing mining software repositories tools as apps.’’ More details about his thesis are available here.

A paper on the Candoia Platform and Ecosystem has been accepted at the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2017), a conference co-located with ICSE 2017 at Buenos Aires, Argentina, 20-21 May, 2017. Main goal of the platform is to bridge the gap between research and practice thereby easing the process of transitioning software engineering research results to industry.

The Laboratory for Software Design in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University is seeking a graduate student to work on the Panini project. The Panini project is developing programming languages and tools for improving modular reasoning about concurrent programs. For more details about the project please refer to http://paninij.org. The initial position is for one year with the possibility of extensions up to three years. A qualified candidate is: (1) enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or a closely related field, and (2) outstanding ability to carry out research. Candidates who are applying to the Ph.D. program will also be considered.