Recent News
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Department Awards - April 2026
This month’s highlights celebrate faculty and student excellence, featuring an induction into the AIMBE College of Fellows for ethical AI research and multiple awards for undergraduate engineering and math presentations.

2026 Graduate Research Day Highlights
UR Graduate Research Day 2026 – Posters and Accolades

Student founded AI company featured on local news
Two University of Rochester students create an AI company as unemployment rate for recent college grads hits 5.6 percent.

Is AI the next Mozart—or just a mashup machine?
Music is a deeply human art form. What happens when AI enters the orchestra pit or the recording studio?

Your social media feed is built to agree with you. What if it didn’t?
A new study points to algorithm design as a potential way to reduce echo chambers—and polarization—online.

Yuhao Zhu authors new book on visual computing
Congratulations to Associate Professor Yuhao Zhu from the Department of Computer Science, who is the author of a new a book published with Springer Nature called Visual Computing For Architects: Imaging, Rendering, and Human Vision.