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SoIC professor’s AI paper appears in The Lancet Digital Health

Artificial intelligence can determine the race of patients from their medical images. In a paper to be published in The Lancet Digital Health, SoIC’s director of health informatics, Saptarshi Purkayastha, Ph.D., and other researchers explore methods that deep learning models may be using to identify race. The concern: categorizations based on race could lead to inequality in providing health care.

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Nicholas Dibley and Sahar Abdullah receive IUPUI Top 100 honors for 2022

Nicholas Dibley and Sahar Abdullah (pictured above, left to right), both juniors in the Biomedical Informatics program at the School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) were recently recognized as two of IUPUI’s Top 100 undergraduate students for 2022. Each year, the IUPUI Office of Alumni Relations honors 100 outstanding undergraduate students who demonstrate excellence in […]

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Janga named as standing member of NIH’s Molecular NeuroGenetics Study Section

The National Institutes of Health has selected Associate Professor Sarath Chandra Janga, Ph.D., in the Department of Biohealth Informatics, Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) at IUPUI, to serve a four-year term as a standing member of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Molecular NeuroGenetics (MNG) Study Section. The National Institutes of Health […]

Dean’s Corner-Winter 2021 Newsletter

Greetings, alumni and friends. As usual, another academic year has passed all too quickly and is coming to a close. Despite the pandemic, we returned with full energy, excitement, and enthusiasm and have made some important and exciting additions to our degree and certificate offerings this past year. These include a new Bachelor of Arts in […]

Alumni Spotlight: Adam Anderson

Adam Anderson (BS, Media Arts and Sciences, 2021), despite having just completed his time at SOIC in December, has already entered the IT workforce as the Ecommerce Coordinator at Noblesville-based phone accessories company Scooch. But even prior to earning his degree, Adam was already having a positive impact on local Indiana-businesses, having helped Fishers-based company […]

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iDEW named 2022 Youth Bridge Builder Award winner by Techpoint Foundation for Youth

We are pleased and honored to announce our Informatics Diversity-Enhanced Workforce program has been named the 2022 Youth Bridge Builder Award winner by TechPoint Foundation for Youth. This important endeavor to bring high caliber IT education to underserved students would not have been possible without the support of our generous community partners and the dedication […]

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School partnership with Hope Training Academy studies tech training in a virtual world

When Zebulun Wood, lecturer and director of the Media Arts and Science (MAS) undergraduate program at the IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI, is not teaching in the classroom, he’s educating in and about the virtual space. Virtual reality, that is. Wood and Angela Murillo, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Library […]

Learn more about SoIC’s newest staff members

The IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI is pleased to announce the recent hiring of several new staff members, including:   A.J. (Arthur) Booker Undergraduate Recruiter Booker works with outreach and helping prospective students to navigate the process of enrolling at SoIC. He has a passion for working with underrepresented and first-generation students. […]

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Instructor’s AI work recognized in Horizon Report

Informatics faculty member Fawzi Ben Messaoud, Ph.D., is using AI to teach AI—and his efforts are being recognized on an international scale. Ben Messaoud is a lecturer in Informatics and AI for the IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI. His FazBoard project has been selected for inclusion in the 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report, […]

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Sports Analytics student scores big with Pacer’s Sports Marketing Workshop

(photo courtesy of Kshaunish Kapoor) Applied Data Science-Sports Analytics student Kshaunish Kapoor recently met participants from Indiana and elsewhere for the Marcus Graham Project’s Sports Marketing Workshop with the Pacers Sports & Entertainment (PSE) group at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse, home of the Indiana Pacers and Fever teams. The Marcus Graham Project (MGP) connects people from diverse […]

SoIC Awards honor exceptional staff, instructors

The IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI recognizes exceptional contributions by its community of staff and instructors each year through the SoIC Awards. We profile the 2021 recipients.

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Animation students continue effort to address ocean pollution with “Sea Creatures Congress”

In fall 2020, members of the NEWM-N441 3D Team Production class taught by Media Arts and Science (MAS) faculty Albert William and Zebulun Wood built a 3-minute animation of a sea turtle, Mr. Bubbles, based on Herminia Din’s book, “Our Plastic Ocean, Our Clean Ocean.” Din is an artist/author at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, currently living in Taipei, […]

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Grant allows SoIC faculty to explore use of open data

IUPUI faculty Andrea Copeland and Ayoung Yoon received a $349,084 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to develop public library services relevant to open data.

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Students’ video earns prime online placement

Students studying video and sound at the IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI work on real-world assignments. For one team, that’s led to their video being featured on an organization’s website, as a marketing and information tool. Students Sophia Jaegly, Phillip Rowan, and Boda Zhang were working as a team in adjunct lecturer John Scofield’s Intermediate Digital Video class, NEWM-N […]

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Undergrad’s internship is satisfying blend of performing arts and media arts

(photo courtesy of Amy Pauszek) When Peter Fulton was in high school he attended an IUPUI summer workshop for 3D modeling and fell in love with it. Then in 2018 and 2019, Fulton—now a junior in the Media Arts and Science program at the School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI—was a finalist in the […]

Lauren Harris (left) and Raneem Hijazi are the 2021 recipients of the Wilma Moore Scholarship.

2021 Wilma Moore scholars continue an information legacy

Lauren Harris (left) and Raneem Hijazi, the 2021 recipients of the Wilma Moore Scholarship, exemplify the versatility of an MLIS degree. The scholarship celebrates and encourages increasing diversity in library science. From cultural preservation to electronic records management, the recipients have discovered how earning a master’s degree in library and information science from the IU […]

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Fall 2021 Capstone adds new dimension to Senior Showcase

The School of Informatics and Computing’s Capstone Senior Showcase on December 10, 2021 felt and looked a little different than in years past but 57 students were on hand for this unique bi-annual event celebrating the culmination of hard work, perseverance, innovation, and creativity. Undergraduate and graduate students from nearly every major presented throughout the […]

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Senior Sheila Hendricks takes the human side of HIM into the boxing ring

(photo courtesy of Sheila Hendricks) When Health Information Management (HIM) student Sheila Hendricks entered the School of Informatics and Computing degree program in 2015, she was looking for a career segue that would allow her to eventually work from home.  She was employed full-time in the orthodontics field after prior employment in radiology and insurance […]

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State jobs initiative adds 3 IUPUI certificate programs

(Original release by Kirk Johannesen, IU Newsroom, published December 17, 2021) Three certificate programs offered by the IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI are now part of the state’s jobs initiative to help people gain and improve skills that are needed in the workforce. The certifications added to the Next Level Jobs initiative […]

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Students complete Design Sprint sponsored by School of Informatics and Computing

Nearly 40 students combined their expertise to arrive at solutions to the 2021 Design Sprint challenge. Using design thinking principles and practices, teams were asked to conceptualize the 21st neighborhood from identifying characteristics of success to addressing the difficult problems that some face. The overarching question was how any contributing factors—such as tangible, physical elements, […]

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Students in Artificial Intelligence course can earn a certification from Cocohub.ai

Thanks to a new partnership between Cocohub.ai and the School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI, students in the Artificial Intelligence Bachelor of Arts program will receive a Conversational Bot Developer certification from Cocohub on completion of the new I220 Bots Development course. According to the company, “Cocohub.ai is a no code, frictionless bot-building platform, […]

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Informatics student Keegan Briskey part of winning Tech SOS Challenge team

The pandemic changed summer internship and job plans for many college students, among them Keegan Briskey, a junior majoring in informatics at the IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI. The Techpoint S.O.S. (Summer Opportunity for Students) Challenge  was created to support over 500 students across Indiana in summer 2020 and was continued this […]

Award honors cyberinfrastructure work  of team including SoIC professor   

Angela Murillo, assistant professor of library, information and data science at the IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI, is part of CI Compass, which this year received an $8 million National Science Foundation grant for 2021 to 2026, as well as the HPCwire Readers’ Choice award for Best HPC Collaboration across Academia, Government, and Industry at the 2021 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC21). She serves as co-principal investigator for the entire grant, and PI for its IU portion. CI Compass is a broad-based team of cyberinfrastructure collaborators that helps major NSF facilities to improve the way they store and maintain large collections of valuable research data, by analyzing the cyberinfrastructure and data life cycle, evaluating data storage options, and designing future-focused data management solutions.

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LIS alumna Nichelle Hayes named 2021 Mover and Shaker by Library Journal

Each year the Library Journal honors a small, select number of library leaders as Movers and Shakers; this year that elite group includes Nichelle M. Hayes, MPA, MLS, ’14. Hayes is currently the founding leader of the Center for Black Literature and Culture (CBLC) at the Indianapolis Public Library and a graduate of the IU […]

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High school teams make connections at Mobile App UX Competition

Seven Indiana area high school teams participated in the Mobile App UX Competition sponsored by the Department of Human-Centered Computing and held at the School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI on November 6, 2021. The theme this year was exploring how an app could help reconnect people after the pandemic or preserve the positive […]