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Computers are changing everything. Northwestern CS aims to lead that change.
Evanston, IL
Joined October 2019
Since joining Northwestern in 1998, Prof. Kris Hammond has dedicated his career to studying and developing #AI tools. He approaches artificial intelligence with cautious optimism that it can be our partner—not replacement—in a new information age.
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@NorthwesternEng @northwesterncs "I desperately want intelligent systems. But taking away our ability to reason and think—that’s horrible for humanity.” 🌊 Read more in Northwestern Magazine:
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Kris Hammond helps us navigate the new world of human-AI interaction.
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Seeking nominations for outstanding final-year PhD students & postdocs to present at the 2025 Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop (Dec 8–9, @NorthwesternCS & TTIC), exploring broad themes in theoretical #CS. Details: https://t.co/ZHloSzIySM
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World Model Reasoning for VLM Agents (NeurIPS 2025, Score 5544) We release VAGEN to teach VLMs to build internal world models via visual state reasoning: - StateEstimation: what is the current state? - TransitionModeling: what is next? MDP → POMDP shift to handle the partial
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Northwestern Engineering's Uri Wilensky, a preeminent scholar in computer modeling and simulations, has been awarded the 2025 Yidan Prize for Education Research. The Yidan Prize is the world’s largest prize in education. Congrats, Uri! https://t.co/gtBMWwX4vk
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📣 We are absolutely thrilled to announce the tenure and promotions of Christos Dimoulas, Miklos Racz, and Xiao Wang to associate professor, effective September 1! 🎉 Congratulations! https://t.co/6alfNsMhcs
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📢 Huge congratulations to Professor @ManlingLi_ 🎉 She received a 2025 Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention for her thesis, titled "Event-Centric Multimodal Knowledge Acquisition." Read more:
📚 Manling Li: Event-Centric Multimodal Knowledge Acquisition Li’s dissertation offers a comprehensive framework for multimodal event extraction and reasoning, advancing important tasks such as video question answering and future event prediction
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Excited that @RuohanZhang76 is joining NU @northwesterncs ! If you are thinking about pursuing a PhD, definitely reach out to him! During my wonderful year at @StanfordAILab @StanfordSVL, when I was completely new to robotics, he was the nicest person who was incredibly patient
📢 Beginning this fall, four new tenure-track, clinical, and visiting faculty members will join our department! 📢 We are thrilled to welcome Shaddin Dughmi, Sidhanth Mohanty, Lydia Tse, and Ruohan Zhang! Meet the newest members of our team:
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📢 Beginning this fall, four new tenure-track, clinical, and visiting faculty members will join our department! 📢 We are thrilled to welcome Shaddin Dughmi, Sidhanth Mohanty, Lydia Tse, and Ruohan Zhang! Meet the newest members of our team:
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Beginning this fall, four new tenure-track, clinical, and visiting faculty will join the department.
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"Our presence at ACM EC 2025 highlights the amazing strength of Northwestern in the CS+Economics space and is also a model for what CS+X interdisciplinarity can be when executed masterfully and strategically,” says Professor Samir Khuller. https://t.co/5ichpcChqQ
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Northwestern Engineering faculty and students participated in the annual forum for advances in theory, empirics, and applications at the interface of economics and computation.
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"My goal is to give people more tools to experience meaningful learning, and to show that learning can take new forms," says Professor Marcelo Worsley in a recent interview with Annie Brookman-Byrne of @BOLD_insights.
“I connect learning experiences to students’ interests and identities.” Marcelo Worsley tells Annie Brookman-Byrne about developing technological tools for learning and assessment in sports. #EdChat
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We welcomed three leaders from @AdobeResearch to @NorthwesternU's Evanston campus on June 10 and 11 to discuss potential research collaborations and engagement with faculty and students.
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Three leaders from Adobe Research met with Northwestern students and faculty members to discuss potential research collaborations and engagement.
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In the Foundations of Security and Data Privacy courses, Professor Sruti Bhagavatula emphasizes the need for “security by design,” incorporating security and privacy best practices throughout the design and development lifecycle.
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In the Foundations of Security and Data Privacy courses, Professor Sruti Bhagavatula emphasizes the need for “security by design,” incorporating security and privacy best practices throughout the...
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Nathan Pruyne ('25) graduates with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, a second major in music technology, and a minor in sound design. He will start a PhD in CS in the Generative Creativity Lab @CarnegieMellon. Congratulations, Nathan! #NU2025
https://t.co/UqrsOYHqTW
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Pruyne will start a PhD in computer science next fall in the Generative Creativity Lab at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Ethan Pineda graduates with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a minor in Latina and Latino studies from Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He will join Salesforce as a software engineer. Congratulations, Ethan! #NU2025
https://t.co/fH05zyyIS6
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Northwestern has launched an institutional network dedicated to the integration of data science and AI across all aspects of research and education. McCormick's V.S. Subrahmanian will serve as a founding co-director. https://t.co/6uf4d3m4Gw
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Bennett Lindberg ('25) graduates with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. He will join Motorola Solutions as a software engineer in the Secure Products Group. Congratulations, Bennett! #NU2025
https://t.co/fX9QXMcvJb
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Rachel Yao ('25) graduates with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a minor in machine learning and data science. Congratulations, Rachel! #NU2025
https://t.co/tVet9YsJzg
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Natalie Hill ('25) graduates this month with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a minor in machine learning and data science. She will join @MongoDB in New York City as a software engineer this fall. Congratulations, Natalie! #NU2025
https://t.co/ik7ItCP5Ed
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Marko Veljanovski ('25) graduates with a bachelor’s degree in CS and a double major in mathematics. He will begin a PhD in CS at the University of Michigan this fall. Congratulations, Marko! #NU2025
https://t.co/aL6gN92FqO
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