
PhD Program
Flexible program that welcomes students with a broad range of research interests within informatics.

MS Program
Program is a non-research, course-based informatics program for students who wish to enhance their careers.
Certificate Program
The program provides students with the same core curriculum as the MS and PhD degrees.
News

Demiray, Nguyen, Norris, and Zeinali recognized
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Informatics graduate students are publicly recognized for their research, including winning prestigious awards and fellowships.

HawCHI Lab Awarded Best Paper Award & Social Impact Honorable Mention at IDC '24
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Professor Juan Pablo Hourcade and co-authors/student advisees Flannery Currin - who recently defended her doctoral thesis, Summer Schmuecker (Informatics U2G MS - Spring '24) and Delaney Norris (Informatics U2G MS) recently published “Understanding Adult Stakeholder Perspectives on the Ethics of Extended Reality Technologies with a Focus on Young Children and Children in Rural Areas”.
This paper was awarded the Best Full Paper Award and Social Impact Honorable Mention at IDC '24 - the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.

Informatics students featured in 2023 Dare to Discover campaign
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Han Bao, Bekir Demiray, and Rachel Shrode featured for their outstanding research.

Hourcade appointed ACM Distinguished Speaker
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Director of Graduate Studies for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics is honored.

Health Informatics PhD student receives award
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Eric Pahl, a cofounder of OmniLife, a health technology communication and collaboration platform, recently received a $250,000 SBIR grant from the NIH.

Informatics grad student featured in 2022 Dare to Discover Campaign
Friday, January 21, 2022
Alexis Graves is recognized for her research on COVID-19.

NASA grants fellowship to grad student to track nighttime air quality
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Informatics scholar Meng Zhou received a research award to study the concentration of nighttime aerosols.

Alarm fatigue in health clinicians
Monday, August 11, 2014
Todd Papke says personalized alerts is a possible solution for alarm fatigue.

Christopher Harris
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Ph.D. candidate and his colleagues are showing that well-designed games provide a powerful incentive for people to perform mundane tasks that computers cannot.

Si-Chi Chin
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Informatics scholar focuses on Wikipedia vandalism, exhibiting a keen eye for inaccurate photographs and incorrect facts in page entries.
Events
Engineering Library Workshops: Organize your research files
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Get ahead on your research skills! These workshops are designed for graduate students and faculty but also open to undergraduates. What’s the best way to organize your research files so you, or you and your collaborators, can find what you need when you need it? What are best practices for naming files? What is a README and why is it important? Attendees will come away with practical skills and tips for organizing research data in a way that is navigable across files and folders. Come to this...

Broader Impacts Fair
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 12:00pm to 2:00pm
The Research Development Office is hosting an in-person Broader Impacts Fair on Wednesday, April 23 from noon to 2 p.m. in UCC. The goal of the fair is to provide a unique opportunity to connect researchers with campus resources and foster partnerships that are essential for developing and delivering impactful National Science Foundation (NSF) Broader Impacts activities. During the fair, six participating units will showcase their BI expertise through lightning talks. Following the lightning...