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Whether it’s maximizing the untapped potential of data, or making technology more accessible, our students are improving how people and businesses interact. Through its deep industry ties, the School of Informatics and Computing connects students with businesses big and small to get things done.

Find out more about how our results-focused degree programs can equip you with the real-world skills businesses in every sector need to succeed.

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Fall Capstone 2022 offered something for everyone

(Above photo: student Sarah Bush) What do Whittle Sweets, Conscious Diapers, and the Boone County Democratic Party, have in common? All of these and more were featured the Luddy Indianapolis fall 2022 Capstone senior showcase and N420 projects. And the subject matter and media applications were as varied as the industry sponsors the students partnered […]

Alumnus Boris Golubov works at this desk computer

Informatics alumnus credits success to taking risks, community, and networking

IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI alumnus Boris Golubov says one thing that really drew him in was the connection between people and technology. He majored In Informatics and graduated in 2012, going to work for Eli Lilly and Co. shortly thereafter. “Informatics sits between those two groups and really bring them together […]

Poster from Toyota Mobility Foundation workshop showing sketeches of ideas for autonomous vehicles

HCI students participate in Toyota Mobility Foundation design thinking workshop

Students and faculty from four IUPUI schools recently joined Indianapolis community members in a Toyota Mobility Foundation design thinking workshop to identify solutions to mobility challenges that occur during contactless delivery by autonomous vehicles. Human-Computer Interaction graduate student Aditi Aniruddha Shukla was one of the participants representing the School of Informatics and Computing. Read full story

Members of HCI master's program at Endress Hauser

Graduate students innovate solutions for Endress+Hauser industrial customers

Recently, Endress+Hauser in Greenwood, Indiana invited human-computer interaction (HCI) students from the IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI Professor of Practice Lou Lenzi’s H-567 Internet-of-Things Interface Design and Business Innovation class to engage with several of their customers to review their current water monitoring/sensoring processes and propose design changes to improve their operations. […]

ADS alumna Swarnamouli Mujamdar

From automotives to investments: an Applied Data Science alumna’s career journey

Swarnamouli Majumdar has followed a somewhat unique career trajectory that has taken her from the midwest to the northeast United States and from automobile engines to autonomous vehicles to the stock exchange, demonstrating the flexibility and range of applied data science careers across industry verticals. “I have been working in the IT industry across consulting, […]

Alumnus Bunmi Akintomide

Informatics grad finds path to success in IT at Salesforce, Indianapolis

Bunmi Akintomide (BS, Informatics, 2013; MS, Human-Centered Computing, 2015) is a Systems Specialist Manager at Salesforce, where he manages the marketing team within their Business Technology space. During his time at SoIC, he served as a student mentor for the Informatics Diversity-Enhanced Workforce (iDEW) program. Bunmi was kind enough to share his remembrances of his […]

MAS grad student Xiaochen Yu outside on campus

MAS graduate student creates seamless online experiences for Walmart shoppers

In the summer of 2019, media arts and science grad student Xiaochen Yu interned at Walmart Design as a UX designer, working with a cross-functional team to re-envision creation of a seamless user experience for the Search and Browse space on Walmart apps. As a junior designer, Yu collaborated with domain experts in design, research, and analysis to iteratively finalize design decisions.

Students and Starbucks representatives working on IoT project

That’s smart coffee: Informatics students implement IoT design for Starbucks

Jiahui “Miro” Wang and her team spent months in their warroom and on the road researching and designing an Internet of Things dashboard system for Starbucks to help them track preventative maintenance on their water filtration equipment across their 8K+ U.S. stores. “With those valuable experiences…I believe I can launch a successful product designer career in the IoT industry,” Wang said.

Kyle Harris works on website for client, ClusterTruck.

Kyle Harris analyzes numbers for ClusterTruck

Kyle Harris, a duel degree student majoring in Informatics, analyzed the numbers at his data science internship with ClusterTruck online restaurant using customer data, kitchen data, location data, food order data, and cooktime data. Harris analyzed promotion codes and presented to the ClusterTruck marketing team. He currently is employed as a Data Analytics Associate at CliftonLarsonAllen.

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HCI graduate interns develop their passion for solving real-world problems

In 2018, Kara Bougher was studying to be a user experience (UX) designer, possibly in an education-related role or company. She worked at GEICO’s Washington, DC corporate headquarters on their Digital Experience Team as a UX/UI design/research intern. Her goal was to learn how a design team functions in industry: “I learned a lot about giving and receiving feedback effectively and was able to learn some new tools and software.”