Twenty-five Luddy School faculty rated among the world’s top 2 percent scientists in their fields for 2024 in the prestigious Stanford/Elsevier rankings. The school’s success was highlighted by Professor of Informatics Santo Fortunato, who was the Luddy School’s highest rated scientist, coming in at 1,543 of more than 400,000 ranked scientists. Information and Library Science had three faculty: Noriko Hara, Blaise Cronin, and Susan Herring. The Informatics Department alone had 11 faculty make the rankings. The Computer Science and Intelligent Systems Engineering Departments each had four.
Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Computer Science Lantao Liu and his Indiana University Luddy Autonomous Racing Team debuted its AI driven, 1,400-pound Indy Lights race car to speeds up to 130 mph during the Sept. 6 Indy Autonomous Challenge.
Professor and Chair of Informatics Johan Bollen is part of a research team that received a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Working with Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, associate professor and associate chair in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the research will investigate the relationship between the language that youth and young adults use on social media and their mental health.
The dissertation of Alexander Fuerst, who recently earned a Luddy School Intelligent Systems Engineering Ph.D., placed second in the prestigious SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award competition. The award recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis.
The Data Science in-person Master’s program was ranked No. 6 nationally for best in-person Master’s program and No. 22 for most affordable according to Fortune Magazines rankings for 2025.
Professors Esfandiar Haghverdi, Computer Science, and Louie Zhu, Informatics, have published a user-friendly mathematics textbook, Mathematical Foundations of Information Sciences, that provides clear explanations, foundational tools and problem-solving skills that will help learners well into their future careers. This book differs from other math textbooks by focusing on essential areas to prepare students to handle mathematically sophisticated structures now and in the future.
The Luddy School 21-member team earned first and second place finishes against six other college teams at the 2024 Defend the Republic Drone Competition.