IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

10/26/2026

10/23/2026

Luddy intelligent systems engineering undergraduate Edred Azziz helped develop an AI system that won first place in an international computer vision challenge co-organized by Google DeepMind. Days after learning of the win, he was in Sweden presenting the team’s work at the European Conference on Computer Vision. 🇸🇪

Azziz created the Audio-Visual Reasoning Agent (AVRA) alongside computer science Ph.D. student Tony Ha and David Crandall, Luddy professor and chair of the computer science department. AVRA draws on sounds, objects and text from across hour-long videos to find the moments relevant to complex questions—work that earned the team first place in the challenge’s Kilometer Audio track.

With Ha’s collaboration and mentorship and Crandall’s guidance, Azziz had the opportunity to develop his ideas, contribute to cutting edge research and share the results with researchers from around the world.

10/22/2026

Reminder: Tomorrow at noon, join us for the David Kaser Endowed Lecture featuring Dr. Safiya Noble, acclaimed author of Algorithms of Oppression. In “AI and Our Future,” she'll be exploring how AI and search engine algorithms can reinforce discrimination—and what that means for our future.
🗓️ Friday, October 23, 2026, at 12 p.m.
📍 Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union
📩 Register: go.iu.edu/3NAMwf

Join us for the David Kaser Endowed Lecture Series featuring Dr. Safiya Noble, acclaimed author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.

In her talk “AI and Our Future: How Artificial Intelligence and Search Engine Algorithms Reinforce Oppression,” Dr. Noble will explore the social implications of AI, search technologies, and algorithmic discrimination.

🗓️ Friday, October 23, 2026 at 12 p.m.
📍 Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union
📩 Register to attend: go.iu.edu/3NAMwf

A reception with light refreshments will be held from 11–11:45 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.

10/16/2026

Printed by John Dunlap, the official printer to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, the Dunlap Broadside is the first printing of the Declaration of Independence.

The IU Lilly Library is home to one of just 26 surviving copies. 📜

As America marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration’s signing, the Lilly Library is commemorating the occasion with The Declaration of Independence: The Motives, The Moment. Curated by Erika Dowell, Executive Associate Director of the Lilly Library, Curator of Modern Manuscripts, and adjunct faculty member here in the Luddy School’s Department of Information and Library Science, the exhibition brings the revolutionary era to life through books, letters, newspapers, and other materials from the library’s collections. 🇺🇸

It will be on display through the rest of the semester, free to visit, until December 12.

10/15/2026

John Walsh, Luddy Professor of Information and Library Science, and Michigan State University professor Julian Chambliss are leading a two-year project titled, “Panels, Pages, and Protocols” that will lay the groundwork for authoritative, open-access digital editions of historically significant early American comics. This work will be supported by a $65,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 📖

Working with collections at The Lilly Library, Indiana University and Michigan State University Libraries, the team will develop editorial and encoding guidelines and create a prototype that brings together high-resolution page images, transcriptions, annotations, and other scholarly resources.

The project arrives at a pivotal moment as more early American comics enter the public domain, opening new possibilities for research, teaching, and public access to works that helped shape American visual culture.

10/09/2026

We're two weeks away from this year's David Kaser Endowed Lecture Series hosted by the Luddy Department of Information and Library Science! Dr. Safiya Noble, author of the best-selling book, "Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism," will be joining us this year's lecture on Friday, October 23 at noon in the IMU Whittenberger Auditorium.

Register to attend: https://events.iu.edu/bloomington/event/2410837-david-kaser-endowed-lecture-series-presents-dr-safiy

10/07/2026

Luddy faculty are bringing expertise in human-robot interaction, privacy, ethics, cognition and social dynamics to the new $30 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center for Human and Robot Co-Adaptation.

Led at Indiana University Bloomington by Informatics Professor Selma Šabanović, the Luddy team will study how people and robots learn from and adapt to one another over time, and how communities can help shape the role robots play in everyday life. Šabanović will also serve as the Center’s Director for Participatory Community Engagement.

Joining her are Luddy faculty Goren Gordon, Apu Kapadia, Mary Jean Amon and Christena Nippert-Eng, along with Robert Goldstone from IU’s Cognitive Science Program and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Their work spans human-robot interaction, privacy and ethics, social dynamics, cognition, collective behavior and critical studies of technology.

Luddy faculty will also take on national leadership roles within the Center: Kapadia will serve as co-director of its ethics board, while Gordon will serve on its strategic growth council.

Together, the team will help advance a vision of robotics in which technological innovation goes hand in hand with understanding people, communities and the social consequences of technology — helping ensure that the future of robotics is shaped with the people who will live and work alongside it.

10/06/2026

Luddy Assistant Professor of Computer Science Hanqing Guo is a principal investigator on two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants focused on preparing students to address emerging security and privacy challenges created by AI.

One project will develop a scenario-based educational platform where students can explore realistic attacks and defenses involving AI agents, including how these systems can be manipulated, detected and secured.

The second project will give undergraduate students hands-on research experience in AI security and privacy, including studying attacks against AI models, detecting image and audio deepfakes, and investigating jailbreaking attacks against large language models.

Together, the projects aim to bring emerging AI security research into the classroom while strengthening connections between research, education and workforce preparation.

10/02/2026

Luddy Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering Weihua Guan received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 Award for research aimed at developing a faster, more informative way to diagnose bloodstream infections.

Guan is developing MegaPixel, a new diagnostic platform that uses DNA analysis, imaging and AI to identify bacterial species. The technology separates bacterial DNA across approximately 1.2 million tiny reaction chambers, allowing researchers to analyze individual DNA melting patterns rather than a complex mixture.

Machine-learning models will then analyze hundreds of thousands of these patterns to identify which bacteria are present, detect multiple species and estimate how much DNA from each organism is present — research that could contribute to faster approaches for diagnosing bloodstream infections and sepsis.

10/02/2026

You've heard of flying saucers, but what about flying teakettles? In Wednesday's workshop at IU's new KIX Lab, participants brought personal keepsakes to be digitized and added to an interactive installation. Digital art faculty Megan Young and the IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering 's Nicole Miller led the session. (Pictured: digital art faculty Huner Emin confronts a flying teakettle in a virtual immersive landscape created at the KIXLab. Photo by Chris Kowalczyk.) More information at https://eskenazi.indiana.edu/events/special-events/archive/2026-2027/2026-09-30-3d-scanning-workshop.html

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