Faculty Success

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Computer Science Faculty Receive 2026 Duminuco Award for Assessment Leadership

Prof. Moreira and Prof. Ennaoui were honored for their collaborative work in assessing and fostering the learning of Computer Science students.

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Dr. Dligach Receives NIH/NIDA Funding to Develop AI Tools for Substance Use Disorder Treatment

r. Dligach Receives NIH/NIDA Funding to Develop AI Tools for Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Presentations

Poster and Talk at CAE Symposium

Loyola University Chicago participated in the CAE Symposium (April 28–30, Pittsburgh) with both a talk and a poster. The poster by Laila Hamda, Aslihan Altindal, and Dr. Eric Chan-Tin drew strong interest, while a peer-reviewed paper by Abuhamad et al. was also presented.

General Featured

Loyola Earns National Cyber Defense Re-Designation Through 2030

Loyola University Chicago has been re-designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense through 2030, reaffirming the strength of its cybersecurity program and its continued commitment to meeting rigorous national standards.

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Loyola CS Students and Researchers Present at GCASR 2026

Students, faculty, and researchers from Loyola University Chicago’s Department of Computer Science participated in the Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR 2026)

Grants

Interdisciplinary Research Funded

Loyola University Chicago has received a $50,000 interdisciplinary research award from the Dr. Scholl Foundation to investigate "Misinformation and Scams on Social Media"

Faculty Success

Toward Experiential Training Program for AI Security and Privacy Practitioners

Mohammed Abuhamad, Mujtaba Nazari, Loretta Stalans, and Eric Chan-Tin presented their paper, “Toward Experiential Training Program for AI Security and Privacy Practitioners,” at the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) in November in Seattle.

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BullyBlocker Team Showcases Cyberbullying Research at SBP-BRiMS 2025

Loyola University Chicago’s BullyBlocker team took center stage at the 2025 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS)

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Loyola’s Dr. Dligach Co-Leads $1M AI Project to Simplify Clinical Trial Consent

Loyola’s Dr. Dligach Co-Leads $1M AI Project to Simplify Clinical Trial Consent.

Grants Featured

Loyola Awarded $30K Motorola Grant for Cybersecurity Scholars

Loyola Awarded $30K Motorola Grant for Cybersecurity Scholars

Grants Featured

1 Million in Linked NSF Grants to Support the BullyBlocker Project

The grant proposal Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Toward Well-being by Design in Social Media, led by Dr. Yas Silva, has received funding from NSF.

Faculty Success

Loyola Joins National $298K NSF Project to Expand AI Education

Loyola Joins National $298K NSF Project to Expand AI Education

Faculty Success Featured

Dr. Yas Silva Receives 2025 Sujack Award for Research Excellence

Dr. Yas Silva Receives 2025 Sujack Award for Research Excellence

Faculty Success Featured

CRA Leadership Academy

Dr. Eric Chan-Tin, Founding Director of the Loyola Center for Cybersecurity and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, was accepted to participate in the 2025 CRA Leadership Academy.

Faculty Success

Dr. Eric Chan-Tin Named 2024-2026 Engaged Scholarship Faculty Fellow

Dr. Eric Chan-Tin Named 2024-2026 Engaged Scholarship Faculty Fellow

Faculty Success

Welcoming Dr. Satyaki Sikdar to the Department of Computer Science

We are excited to welcome Dr. Satyaki Sikdar as a new faculty member in the Department of Computer Science this Fall semester (2024).

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New NSF Grant: Exploring The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in Enabling Energy-Efficient Data Center Software Infrastructure

The CS Department Chair, Dr. George K. Thiruvathukal, has received an EAGER award from the National Science Foundation’s Clean Energy Technology initiative.

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Collaborative research work on adversarial machine learning between SKKU and LUC awarded the best paper award in SVCC’24

A paper titled "Unmasking the Vulnerabilities of Deep Learning Models: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Adversarial Attacks and Defenses" has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 5th Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC) 2024.

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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.

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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

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

Accomplished Researcher and Dedicated Educator Joins the Faculty

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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.

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NSF Grant to Support BullyBlocker Project at LUC

The core objective of this interdisciplinary project is to design and develop models and apps to prevent and identify instances of cyberbullying in social networks.

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Official Designation Ceremony for the National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense

On June 8, 2022 at the NICE conference in Atlanta, Loyola University Chicago was officially recognized as having been designated as a DHS/NSA National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense.

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CS faculty member Konstantin Läufer named a Top Finalist for the 2021 Alice B. Hayes Award for Advising and Mentoring

CS faculty member Konstantin Läufer named a Top Finalist for the 2021 Alice B. Hayes Award for Advising and Mentoring.