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Student Success

Loyola University Chicago Excels in VIVID Competition

Loyola University Chicago proudly had two teams compete in the VIVID competition, held from March 11 to March 14. The event brought together talented participants from various institutions to show their skills in a challenging and creative environment. Teams * Team 1, known as "7968," includes five exceptional students:

Faculty Success

Dr. Chan-Tin Inspires Audience as Vision Voice Speaker at CISO Chicago Think Tank

Dr. Chan-Tin, the Director of Loyola's Center for Cybersecurity, took the stage as a distinguished Vision Voice speaker at the CISO Chicago Think Tank.

Faculty Success

Dr. George K. Thiruvathukal was featured in the College of Arts and Sciences Spotlight

Dr. George K. Thiruvathukal was featured in the College of Arts and Sciences Spotlight

Student Success

Loyola Students Participated in the Cyber Defense Competition

Loyola University Chicago participated in the IL/WI/MO Qualifier of the Midwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) on February 17.

Dr. Yas Silva's Groundbreaking Contribution to Cyberbullying Prevention Shines in College of Arts and Sciences Spotlight

CS Faculty, Dr. Yas Silva, was featured in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) spotlight for their outstanding work combating CyberBullying. Yas Silva, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) at Loyola University Chicago (LUC) was the primary investigator

Featured

Applications are now open for the CyberRamblers scholarships

Applications are now open for the CyberRamblers scholarships. Please visit our website at https://cyberramblers.cs.luc.edu to apply! The deadline is Friday, March 22, 2024, for the Fall 2024 cohort.   The scholarship is open to all US-citizen undergraduate students in all majors who will be juniors in Fall

Grants Featured

NSF Awards Loyola University Chicago $3.8 Million Grant to Launch the CyberRamblers Bolster National Security Program

NSF Awards Loyola University Chicago $3.8 Million Grant to Launch the CyberRamblers Bolster National Security Program

Presentations

You're Invited to the CS Seminar Series! Join us this Friday, December 1st.

Join us this Friday, December 1st.

Jobs Featured

Join Our Dynamic Team: Adjunct Faculty Positions in Computer Science Available at Loyola University Chicago

Exciting Opportunities to Teach and Engage with Intermediate to Advanced Computer Science Courses

Jobs Featured

New Positions: Computer Science, Assistant Professor (Algorithms, Languages, Formal Methods, Computation, and Software Engineering), Tenure-Track

Please consider applying to join our department.

Presentations

You're Invited to the CS Seminar Series! Join us this Friday, November 10th.

You're Invited to the CS Seminar Series! Join us this Friday, November 10th.

Grants Featured

NSF Awards Grant to LUC for Innovative Cybersecurity and Privacy Training Project

NSF Awards Grant to LUC for Innovative Cybersecurity and Privacy Training Project

Presentations

You're Invited to the CS Seminar Series! Join us this Friday, October 27.

On Friday (October 27), the Computer Science Department hosts another event of the Fall CS Seminar Series. This event featured a talk by Dr. George K. Thiruvathukal and Mr. Isaac Ahlgren (Loyola University Chicago).

Presentations

You're Invited to the CS Seminar Series! Join us this Friday, October 13th.

You're Invited to the CS Seminar Series! Join us this Friday, October 13th.

Faculty Success Featured

Welcoming Dr. TaiNing Wang: A New Addition to the Department of Computer Science

Accomplished Researcher and Dedicated Educator Joins the Faculty

Student Success

Department of Energy CyberForce Competition - Loyola ranks in top 30

A group of students, coached by Dr. Chan-Tin, participated in the Department of Energy CyberForce Competition on November 4 - November 5, 2022.

Faculty Success

Google Research Award to Support the BullyBlocker Project

The research proposal "Toward Safer Online Experiences for LGBTQ+ Communities" submitted by Yas Silva in collaboration with Deborah Hall from Arizona State University, was selected to receive a Google research grant.

Presentations

You're Invited to the CS Seminar Series! Join us this Friday, November 4th.

This Friday, November 4, the Computer Science Department will be continuing with our CS Seminar Series featuring various exciting speakers covering topics related to the field

Student Success

SPARK 2022 Research Symposium

In October 2022, Julie Kim and Amita Nair presented their research "Evaluating Online Encryption Using Traffic Analysis" at the SPARK Research Symposium.

Student Success

Loyola @ Tapia 2022

Loyola University Chicago was at Tapia 2022! Kenneth Hernandez, BS Cybersecurity '23, and Muhammad Khan, BS Cybersecurity and Software Engineering '25, attended the Richard Tapia 2022 conference in Washington DC.

Presentations

You're Invited! CS Seminar Fall Series- October 21st

Next Friday, October 21, the Computer Science Department will be continuing with our CS Seminar Series featuring various exciting speakers covering topics related to the field.

Student Success

Loyola Students at Grace Hopper Celebration 2022

Loyola University Chicago was at the Grace Hopper Celebration 2022 in Orlando Florida. Rachel Gordon, MS Data Science, and Anne Wagner, MS Computer Science '22 and BS Computer Science '21, attended the celebration from September 21 to September 23.

Student Success

Five Loyola Students Selected for 2022 Cybersecurity Experiential Scholars Program

Loyola University Chicago today announced it has received a grant for $25,000 from the Motorola Solutions Foundation, the charitable arm of Motorola Solutions, to support the Cybersecurity Experiential Scholars Program within the College of Arts and Sciences.

Presentations

You're Invited! CS Seminar Fall Series- October 7th

Next Friday, October 7th, the Computer Science Department will be continuing with our CS Seminar Series and featuring various exciting speakers covering topics related to the field (see below for next Friday’s speaker bios and talk abstracts).

Presentations Featured

CS Seminar Fall Series Kick-Off

The Department of Computer Science hosted the first seminar event featuring Dr. Yanjun Gao (Department of Medicine at University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Dr. Neil Klingensmith (Department of Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago).