2019-2020 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS

WHO WHAT WHERE WE ARE WE’RE DOING WE’RE GOING

5 Letter from the Dean 17 R esponding to the 39 2020-21 Preview 6 CDM Programs COVID-19 Pandemic 7 By the Numbers 20 Supporting the Mission 10 School of Cinematic Arts 21 Global Learning 12 School of Computing 23 Engaging and Educating 14 School of Design Youth 24 Visiting Speakers 26 Faculty Grants 28 Faculty Publications 32 F aculty Screenings and Film Recognition 35 Faculty Exhibitions 36 Student and Alumni Recognition 37 CDM in the News LETTER WHO FROM THE DEAN

As I write this letter wrapping up the 2019-20 academic year, we remain in a global pandemic that has profoundly altered our lives. While many things have changed, some stayed the same: our CDM community worked hard, showed up for one another, and continued WE to advance their respective fields.

A year that began like many others changed swiftly on March 11th when the University announced that spring classes would run remotely. By March 28th, the first day of spring quarter, we had moved 500 CDM courses online thanks to the diligent work of our faculty, staff, and instructional designers. ARE But CDM’s work went beyond the (virtual) classroom. We mobilized our makerspaces to assist in the production of personal protective equipment for Illinois healthcare workers, participated in COVID-19 research initiatives, and were inspired by the innovative ways our student groups learned to network. You can read more about our

The College of Computing and Digital Media is dedicated to providing students an response to the COVID-19 pandemic on pgs. 17-19. innovative edge in today’s computing, design and cinema fields. We are a diverse Throughout the year, our students were nationally recognized for group of notable and award-winning faculty, students, and programs, with specialized areas of expertise that are nationally and internationally recognized. Our curriculum their skills and creative work while our faculty were published dozens is reflective and responsive to the latest industry trends, technologies, and ideas of times and screened their films at prestigious film festivals. across the computing and digital media spectrum. Our programs provide real-world We added a new undergraduate Industrial Design program, opened experience and global perspectives through national and international opportunities, a second makerspace on the Lincoln Park Campus, and created enabling students and faculty to keep pace with leaders in their field. Chicago is our new opportunities for Chicago youth. engine for creation where students can leverage the resources of the city and our broad alumni network to launch careers that have impact and influence. Whether it’s I am pleased to share with you the College of Computing and computing, design or cinema, we believe in the power of innovation and know it is at Digital Media’s (CDM) 2019-20 annual report, highlighting our the heart of our students’ success. collective accomplishments.

David Miller, Dean CDM BY THE NUMBERS PROGRAMS 2019-20

UNDERGRADUATE PHD 130 214 45 13 Animation BA/BFA Computer and Information Sciences full time adjuncts administrative and technical Computer Science BS Human Centered Design Computing BA faculty student services staff staff Cyber-Physical Systems BS Cybersecurity BS CERTIFICATES Data Science BS Analytics Film and Television BA/BFA Governance, Risk Management, Game Design BS and Compliance Game Programming BS Project Management 14 Graphic Design BFA new Industrial Design BFA** Offered through Institute for Professional full time Information Systems BS Development (IPD) Information Technology BS faculty Math and Computer Science BS Advanced Data Science with Python** Network Engineering and Security BS Advanced Python* User Experience Design BS Advanced SQL Sean Bush, Instructor in Michaël Cadilhac, Michael DeAnda, Caleb Foss, Professional Artificial Intelligence for Enterprise* the School of Computing Assistant Professor in Professional Lecturer in Lecturer in the School of Automated Software Testing* the School of Computing the School of Design Design GRADUATE Big Data and NoSQL Big Data Using Spark Animation MA/MFA Cloud Computing Technologies Computational Finance MS Cybersecurity Risk Management Computer Science Technology JD/MS Data Analytics with Excel Computer Science MS Data Analytics with Excel and Tableau* Creative Producing MFA Data Science for Business Cybersecurity MS Data Science: Programming Data Science MS with Python Digital Communication DevOps and Media Arts MA Fundamentals of R Documentary MFA Fundamentals of Statistics and Christina Harrington, Zhen Huang, Assistant Wael Kessentini, Lawrence Kim, Assistant Jessica King, Instructor Experience Design MA Machine Learning Using R* Assistant Professor in Professor in the School Assistant Professor in Professor in the School in the School of Film and Television the School of Design of Computing the School of Computing of Cinematic Arts Cinematic Arts MS/MFA Incident Response and Digital Game Design MFA Forensics Game Programming MS Introduction to SQL Health Informatics MS iOS Developer Human-Computer Interaction MS Machine Learning and Deep Learning* Information Systems MS Modern .NET Web Development IT Project Management MS SQL Server Business Intelligence Network Engineering and Security MS SQL Server Database Administration Product Innovation and Computing MS Web Development with JavaScript Screenwriting MFA and HTML5 Software Engineering MS * New in 2019-20 * * New in 2020-21 Thiru Ramaraj, Assistant Laura Rossi Garcia, Fatou Samba, Roselyne Tchoua, Ilyas Ustun, Professional Professor in the School Professional Lecturer in Professional Lecturer in Assistant Professor in Lecturer in the School of of Computing the School of Design the School of Cinematic the School of Computing Computing Arts

6 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 7 ENROLLMENTS

Total Fall Enrollment

Academic Total Fall 9,918 9,854 10,000 9,394 9,414 9,433 Undergraduate Year Enrollment

8,000 2019-20 13,472

6,000 2018-19 13,333

4,000 3,632 3,650 3,472 3,415 3,618 2017-18 12,905 Graduate

2,000 2016-17 13,064

0 2015-16 13,026 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20

Total Head Count

BY THE NUMBERS Undergraduate Graduate 2015-16 2698 2686 2019-20 CONTINUED ↑29% ↑10.6% 2016-17 2895 2674 undergraduate total head count

2017-18 3106 2597

2018-19 3310 2547

2019-20 3487 2467 NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN 2019-20

0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 3,487 + 2,467 = 5,954 undergraduate students graduate students total students RETENTION AND OUTCOMES

Retention and Graduation Rates NEW UNDERGRADUATE DEMOGRAPHICS 100

Freshman Transfer % of Total 85% First-Year Retention 929 75 Women 263 76 36% total new students 67% Five-Year Graduation Career Success Rate 50 55% Four-Year Graduation Men 434 156 64%

Students of Color 310 114 46% 25 90% 91% undergraduate graduate Out-of-state Students 276 48 35% 0 employed, continuing education, or 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 pursuing other goals/not seeking

SCHOLARSHIP AND ASSISTANTSHIP FUNDING 610 + 574 = 1184 $2,111,841 undergraduate graduate diplomas awarded *includes CDM scholarships, tuition waiver dollars, and stipends in 2019-20

8 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 9 SCHOOL OF HOMINIDAE

Hominidae, a CG-animated virtual reality film written and produced by assistant CINEMATIC ARTS professor Brian Andrews, is a collaborative effort between film and animation students as part of our Project Bluelight initiative. It follows the life of an arachnid PROGRAM RECOGNITION hominid as she struggles to raise her young in a hostile environment. ■ The Hollywood Reporter ranked DePaul among its top 25 film schools. The film was selected for a pitch and demonstration at the XR Development Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival, which highlights 21 of the best XR projects, ■ Variety included us on their “Top Film Schools” list including virtual reality, augmented reality and mix reality. for the fourth consecutive year.

■ Animation Career Review ranked our animation Hominidae was also an official selection of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, program #22 nationally (#2 in the Midwest). premiering January 24 as part of the New Frontier Exhibitions category. ■ DePaul is #12 on No Film School’s list of “The 20 Best Film Schools in the USA.” The film included a voice cast from The Theatre School, and was recorded in the School of Music.

FACULTY RECOGNITION: Learn more at https://hominidanimation.net. ■ Dean David Miller; full time faculty James Choi, Anuradha Rana, and Steven Jones; alumni/adjuncts Angie Gaffney NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR and Alex Thompson; and adjunct Anthony Kaufman were all included in Newcity’s “Film 50: Chicago’s Screen Gems.”

This past year the School of Cinematic Arts was faced ■ Meghann Artes’s film Oh Baby! received the Silver Award for with unprecedented challenges that no one anticipated Animation at the 2019 University Film & Video Association when classes began in September. These challenges did conference. not deter our faculty and staff’s dedication to providing the ■ Saint Frances, the SXSW winner directed by alumnus/ best education possible for our students. Our students' and faculty Alex Thompson and produced by faculty James alumni’s ability to create meaningful work speaks to their Choi and Raphael Nash, was picked up by Oscilloscope for talents as filmmakers. As we look back on our distribution. Additionally, Filmmaker Magazine selected accomplishments, we also look toward the future and Thompson as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent remain committed to our ongoing mission of training the Film for 2019.” next generation of visual storytellers. ■ Adjunct Erin Rodman’s script “Say Something Nice” Gary Novak was selected for the 2019 Black List. [email protected] ■ “Tenure,” written by Ron Eltanal and co-created with Alireza Khatami, was selected for the IFP Episodic Lab.

■ Documentary faculty Dana Kupper received a DePaul Women of Spirit and Action Award.

PARTNERSHIPS AND EVENTS The Chicago Onscreen film festival in Humboldt Park included a curated showcase of films by DePaul animation students and a fireside chat with the filmmakers.

10 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 11 SCHOOL OF INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT LAB CDM’s Innovation Development Lab (ID Lab) has enjoyed explosive growth since its start in 2016. Directed by associate professor Olayele Adelakun and staffed by several students, the lab “partners and collaborates with clients to provide excellent service turning innovative ideas into functional and testable prototypes.” Those clients include Bosch, Allstate COMPUTING Insurance, Kimberly-Clark, Abbott Laboratories and CDW.

FACULTY RECOGNITION In October, the ID Lab hosted its fourth annual Optimizing Digital Innovation (ODI) conference. Each year, nearly 200 industry ■ Amber Settle was announced a 2019 Distinguished professionals from a number of Fortune 500 Companies come together to discuss new ways that their organizations can Member by ACM. The ACM Distinguished Member program approach innovation. The 2019 theme was “Innovation in a Dynamic Environment.” Also in 2019, the ID Lab partnered with recognizes up to 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership ServiceNow to host a one-week ITSM workshop and hackathon where about 30 students took part in the App Development based on professional experience as well as significant Fundamentals class and 2-day hackathon. achievements in the computing field. On March 6th, shortly before the University began remote operations due to the pandemic, the ID Lab celebrated the grand ■ The Fulbright Commission sponsored Rosalee Wolfe’s opening of its new office space on the ninth floor of the CDM Building. We were honored to have visitors from 30+ companies participation in the Women in Tech Summit, held in Warsaw, including Bosch, Baxter, Abbott Labs, Legal and General, and Discover. Though the team was not able to use their physical space Poland November 13-14. While there, Dr. Wolfe presented for the rest of the academic year due to COVID-19 restrictions, they remained committed to working safely and remotely through “Bridging the gap between hearing and Deaf communities: Zoom on several projects with companies throughout Chicago, and planning the 2020 ODI conference. The ASL Avatar Project at DePaul University” in the workshop Seminar for Computer Science Researchers. Learn more at https://depaulidlab.com. ■ Sharief Oteafy has been elected secretary of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on IoT, Ad hoc and Sensor Networks. Oteafy was also elevated NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR to a Senior Member of IEEE.

What a year it has been. Perhaps both the longest and shortest I can ever remember. When we got word that we PARTNERSHIPS AND EVENTS were going to have to transition from in-class learning to ■ DemonHacks, our annual student hackathon hosted by online learning in the week of spring break for the Spring student organization Computer Science Society, took place quarter, none of us could believe it. Hundreds of years of on October 18-19. Over 170 students from 18 colleges and academic tradition turned on its head in a week. Worse, universities gathered to build a software or hardware despite our years of doing on-line learning, we weren’t going project in under 24 hours. Sponsors included JPMorgan to be able to use the classroom technology, and we were Chase, Brooksource, Aquatic, ThoughtWorks, and more. going to need to do it from our homes. Everybody was doing ■ UPE hosted their third annual Women in Technology it, however, so we dug in. There were some set-backs, but Event. About 100 attendees were able to meet and hear in large part, the School of Computing came out well, and from keynote speaker Betty Shanahan and panelists from the faculty learned a lot. We each tried different things and Google, Sprout Social, Senior Lifestyle, and ZS Associates. talked together about what worked and what didn’t, and it’s entirely likely that much of what we learned teaching during ■ Google engineers came to the Loop campus on March 5-6 Covid will remain with us. In fact, it felt much like education to host workshops and review resumes. as normal: for professors, lecturing, guiding discussion, assigning and grading project and learning about our students. For students: putting up with the remarkable whims of faculty. We’re still working our way through, but I am so thankful to have the most amazing students and colleagues that I can possibly imagine.

Jacob Furst [email protected]

12 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 13 SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE DESIGN AND THE CITY OF CHICAGO

Students in Collaboration Studio, a graduate course in the Experience Design program, worked with the City of Chicago’s DESIGN Design department on the redesign of the city’s website, chicago.gov. Students were tasked with reviewing the site and offering recommendations for making the user experience and site architecture more efficient. PROGRAM RECOGNITION ■ GDUSA recognized us as a Top Graphic Design School Jason Kunesh (CDM ’06), the city’s director of design, reached out to associate professor Sheena Erete, one of the course’s of 2020. instructors. Erete then facilitated the project with students who divided into teams to focus on different project goals, streamlining pathways for users coming to the website to pay fines, seek employment and request services. Teams did ■ Animation Career Review ranked our game design usability testing, which included collecting feedback from students across the university who were asked to perform tasks program #10 nationally (#1 in the Midwest). on the website. They studied how other governments had improved content and information architecture after website ■ The Princeton Review included both our undergraduate redesigns and used search keywords provided by Kunesh to gauge search engine optimization. (#45) and graduate (#21) game programs on their 2020 Top Schools to Study Game Design lists. Besides compiling all their data-driven findings in a massive implementation guide, they designed additional assets that plugged holes in the new design system created by Kunesh and other project partners.

CURRICULUM UPDATE ■ A new BFA in Industrial Design was approved to begin in Fall 2020.

NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR FACULTY RECOGNITION

■ Assistant Professor Christina Harrington was announced In an academic year like no other, students and faculty in an Encore Public Voices Fellow for The OpEd project. School of Design made the shift to remote teaching and learning amid a global pandemic and a national moment ■ Heather Quinn’s work Transparency: Past/Present/Future, of racial reckoning. As designers of objects, technologies, an experimental publication of interactive design fiction systems, and experiences which shape society, we recognize and speculative design, won a Society of Typographic Arts the immense responsibility we have to work towards equity Award (STA100). and justice. We are re-thinking curriculum, building new ■ Jessica Westbrook was accepted into the 2020 Critical partnerships, and organizing events and initiatives to develop Code Studies Working Group. CCSWG is the major think students to have the skills, mindsets, ethics, and experiences tank for Critical Code Studies, a hub of dialogue and they need to make a positive impact in the world today and in collaborative inquiry that generates major thrust their future careers. in the reading of code.

■ Adjunct David Sieren was included in Newcity’s Denise Nacu “Design 50 Who Shapes Chicago 2020.” [email protected]

PARTNERSHIPS AND EVENTS ■ LINK Unlimited Scholars partnered with IDEO to present a 4-day design camp for high school students, which was held in the IRL and facilitated in part by alumna Ovetta Sampson.

14 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 15 WHAT WE’RE DOING

RESPONDING TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Following the closure of the University in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges were tasked with moving all of their courses to a remote format for the spring quarter. Less than two weeks later, CDM moved about 500 courses online. This could not have been done without our faculty, staff, and instructional design team, who worked diligently to move us online—and so quickly.

In addition to delivering high-quality courses online, CDM responded to the pandemic by rallying to create PPE for healthcare workers, collaborating with the City of Chicago on COVID-19 data, through funded research, and more.

CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 17 RESPONDING TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONTINUED

CONTRIBUTING TO THE UNDERSTANDING DEPAUL/CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OF COVID-19: RESEARCH INITIATIVE COVID-19 DATA COLLABORATION In response to the global pandemic, DePaul called on its Thousands of people are being tested for COVID19 each scientific community to address challenges in several areas. day, but collecting complete demographic information, Proposals from two CDM faculty, Bamshad Mobasher and Enid including race and ethnicity, has proven difficult. Data science Montague, were among the six projects approved by the new researchers at DePaul are collaborating with the Chicago “Contributing to the Understanding of COVID-19” initiative. Department of Public Health to fill in this missing information. Professor Daniela Stan Raicu and her research team at Associate professor in the School of Computing (SoC) Enid CDM’s Center for Data Science, including graduate students Montague, PhD candidate Ashley Loomis, and graduate student Hao Wu and Ian Wang and faculty member Ilyas Ustun, Amal Almansour’s research project explores inclusive human used an algorithm to analyze U.S. census data and available centered automation of health systems to improve patient demographic information. The team also developed a mobile access and safety, as well as to reduce physician burnout. application that allows city officials to easily and securely “The pandemic motivated me to pursue this work sooner input the data with missing values. The project narrowed the rather than later because we need design guidelines to reduce “unknown” race data gap in COVID-19 tests from 47% to 11%. the burden on exhausted workers, while simultaneously increasing quality for marginalized patients,” Montague notes. COVID-WON’T-STOP-US SoC Professor Mobasher’s project aims to develop automatic CDM’s Research and Scholarship Committee hosted a remote methods for misinformation detection on social media in a COVID-Won’t-Stop-Us research and collaboration festival crisis context. His team will use natural language processing on June 5th to share computing and digital media-related and other machine learning methods to extract salient features research and scholarship faculty have been working on. The from social media posts related to COVID-19 and perform a event included poster presentations and Q&A sessions. There detailed analysis. They will then train and evaluate machine were approximately 30 faculty from six schools in attendance. learning models that classify posts containing misinformation to ultimately provide tools necessary to effectively counteract the impact of misinformation in this crisis. CDM STUDENTS GO REMOTE Spring Quarter 2020 was unlike any other. Under difficult circumstances, CDM students rose to the challenge of learning, serving, and thriving remotely. We documented some of their stories and activities in short videos. Watch SUPPLYING PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT them at tinyurl.com/cdmdepaulathome. FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS At the start of the pandemic, healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients were facing a critical shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). DePaul mobilized its Idea Realization Lab (IRL) makerspace network to contribute to PPE efforts. CDM and College of Science and Health (CSH) faculty and staff moved 3D printers, sewing machines, and other equipment from the labs into the homes of students and faculty. Using medically approved design plans, they 3D-printed face shields and plastic covers for N95 face masks from their home. It was “a great opportunity for us to put the skills we learned in DePaul’s makerspaces to good use,” said Michael Koenig, a CDM student who helped produce the face masks at home.

Despite their efforts, it became obvious fairly quickly that the production was not meeting the demand. So, makerspace director and CDM instructor Jay Margalus grew the efforts into the IL PPE Network with the help of friends in the maker community, including teachers and librarians. Industry partners like Bosch and Coca-Cola donated labor and supplies. And, several generous donors contributed to the efforts, with over $100,000 made in donations through Inspire DePaul, the University’s fundraising site.

18 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 19 SUPPORTING GLOBAL THE MISSION ENGAGEMENT

MERRY CHRISTMAS ways of storytelling. Big Shoulders prestigious animation festival in North centers and other sites to foster FROM DEPAUL is co-sponsored by the Division of America. Students attend screenings, meaningful experiences and gather School of Cinematic Arts faculty Mission and Ministry. industry events, panels and talks, research for their personal projects. Meghann Artes and Devin Bell and and meet with animators, critics, and approximately 30 of their animation CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY directors from around the world. ■ Film in Paris: Students in this students created the stop-motion We continued our youth programs program study at the Alliance film Merry Christmas from DePaul. with the Chicago Housing Authority, ■ Documentary Filmmaking in India: Française and the CEA Paris Center, The film, part of our Project Bluelight giving youth in public housing the This “Beyond Bollywood” program improving their French and also program, was created over the span of chance to learn skills in documentary is offered every other December experiencing the rich culture of life in 3 quarters. Merry Christmas from DePaul filmmaking, screenwriting, and intersession. In the fall, students take Paris. They intern at the world-renown was created in collaboration with the photography from our faculty FILM 390/490 to learn documentary Champs-Élysées Film Festival or a Division of Mission and Ministry. (see more on p. 23). Scandinavia techniques and prepare themselves French film production company. for the intensive cultural immersion The film students also attend the Merry Christmas from DePaul. photo: Jeff Carrion The film was part of a Christmas SCHOOL OF DESIGN TALKS and hands-on workshop. For 3 weeks, world-famous Cannes Film Festival. window display on DePaul’s Loop Our School of Design Talks series, STUDY ABROAD 2019-20 students collaborate with an NGO Campus, a new annual tradition now in its fourth year, invites leading ■ Design, Landscape, and Society under the guidance of filmmakers GLOBAL LEARNING reminiscent of the fabled Christmas designers to campus to speak and run in Scandinavia: Offered for the first located in the heart of Bollywood, and EXPERIENCE windows that once lined State Street. workshops, and prepares students to time in December 2019, this program create an original visual media project Global Learning Experience (GLE) Production design faculty and students imagine, develop, and deploy cutting- offers new perspectives on designers’ while exploring the Taj Mahal, palaces is a collaborative online learning utilized state-of-the-art technology to edge visual and interactive designs relationships to society and the and forts of Jaipur, and the abandoned experience in which students gain build an imaginative, 3-D experience that positively impact individuals and natural world. Through visits to design city of Fatehpur Sikri. international experience from their rooted in the message and vision communities using emerging social studios, design centers, museums, classroom in Chicago by interacting “Christmas at DePaul”—designed to practices and technologies. This year’s and galleries in Norway, Sweden, and SCHEDULED FOR with other students across the globe. touch our humanity, evoke a sense theme was “worldbuilding” (see more Denmark, students examine unique 2020-21 OR 2021-22 This year spring, CDM participated of communal joy, celebrate DePaul’s on p. 24). relationships among Scandinavian ■ Austria and Switzerland: Critical in two GLE programs: Introduction Catholic identity, and share the magic society, landscape, and culture with Foundations in Modern Design: During to Robotics, led by Isuru Godage, and “Seeds of the Mission.” Animator Zoe Pham. of Christmas. SEEDS OF THE MISSION a focus on how they have affected the this two-week trip to Vienna, Zurich Scoring for Film and Video, led by Zoe Pham (BFA Animation ‘20) is development of modern design and Basel, students will visit graphic Rob Steel. MAGIC WHEELCHAIR the animator behind “Seeds of the in Scandinavia. design companies, branding studios, A group of School of Design students Mission,” a poetic and symbolic type foundries, print shops, museums, In Introduction to Robotics, students and alums led by LeAnne Wagner animation commissioned by DePaul’s ■ Atlantis Dual-Degree Program: architectural sites, cultural sites, and from Chicago and Sao Paulo created an adaptive Halloween costume Division of Mission & Ministry. The Since 2007, the full-year Atlantis historical sites. The objective for this collaborated over synchronous for 8-year old Jojo, in partnership with animation depicts the heart and hope program has allowed CDM juniors program is for students to develop zoom meetings culminating in a Magic Wheelchair. of our Vincentian mission to educate, to take business courses in École de a more complete understanding of competition—a robot sumo math to care, to serve, and to advocate for Commerce Européenne in Lyon, France modernism and how it has impacted where each robot had to find the BIG SHOULDERS INTERNATIONAL the human dignity of all. Watch the and Linköping University in Sweden. visual culture and design. opponent robot in a ring and attempt STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL video at tinyurl.com/dpuseeds. The student is awarded a standard to push it out. As part of Scoring for The School of Cinematic Arts held 3-year European bachelor’s degree ■ Computer Games and Animation Film and Video students from DePaul their third annual Big Shoulders PROVIDING PPE before returning to the U.S., and then, in Japan: Students in this two-week and the Royal Melbourne Institute of International Student Film Festival on At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, after completing their senior year at study abroad program, offered every Technology (RMIT) completed city February 7-8. On the first day there health care workers treating patients CDM, a second bachelor’s degree other December intersession, visit photo romans of Chicago and was a screening of The Tomorrow Man across the nation faced a critical from DePaul. game and animation companies in Melbourne. The collaboration involved followed by a conversation with shortage of personal protection Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nagoya to learn about teams of students from each school writer/director Noble Jones at the equipment (PPE). DePaul faculty and ■ Ottawa International Film the processes of crafting culturally completing various elements of the CDM Theater, and on the second day, students answered the call by using Festival: This annual program allows significant Japanese entertainment. film; DePaul students scored the official selections from students medically-approved design plans and undergraduate and graduate animation Students examine how Japanese photo romans and the RMIT students across the globe were screened at 3D printers to manufacture much- students to travel to Ottawa, Canada games/animation/motion graphics completed the sound design and The Davis Theater. The festival’s needed supplies for hospitals in Illinois, and attend the Ottawa International have influenced Japanese culture and final mix. mission is to promote diversity and including face shields and plastic Film Festival, the largest and most will visit museums, galleries, cultural Magic Wheelchair inclusion by showcasing the work of covers for N95 face masks emerging young voices and unique (see more on pgs.17-18). 20 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 21 took at least one AP Computer Science GAME, CINEMA, AND ANIMATION to co-design technological tools and course, a threefold increase since 2017. SUMMER ACADEMY social practices to create an equitable The project supports the development Our twelfth annual Game, Cinema, out-of-school learning ecosystem. They of a cadre of CPS computer science and Animation Summer Academy took are documenting the process, analyzing high school teacher through workshops place in July. During this program, the impact of the initiative, and and coaching. An additional 80 teachers high school students interested in creating a framework that supports were trained this year. film/TV, screenwriting, animation, or data-informed and community driven gaming learn from our accomplished conversations among program CHICAGO FIRST ROBOTICS faculty. For the first time, this program providers about their local learning Our Idea Realization Lab hosted took place entirely online with a infrastructure and how to transform it the FIRST Robotics FTC kickoff in restructured curriculum to adapt to to be more equitable. September, welcoming over 80 high live online participation for the five school students. tracks: film and TV production, game VIRTUAL CYBERSECURITY development, hand-drawn character WORKSHOP CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY animation, 3D modeling and animation, In May, Associate Dean Lucia Dettori Since 2016, we have partnered with and screenwriting. and Cybersecurity faculty Filipo the Chicago Housing Authority to Sharevski, along with Lindblom High offer youth in public housing valuable MY CHI. MY FUTURE. School teacher Jesus Duran, ran a skills in film and media through six- In partnership with the Chicago Mayor’s virtual Cybersecurity workshop and week summer intensives. This year’s Office for My CHI. My Future, a city- competition for CPS students and programs ran in a remote-hybrid wide initiative aimed at connecting teachers. Fifteen high school students model. Students were able to hear youth across Chicago to meaningful and five teachers participated in from industry professionals in Zoom out-of-school experiences, community- event that included an introduction to meetings, learn from our faculty and based participatory design experts at cybersecurity, a talk from a current graduate student mentors, and go on CDM, including School of Design faculty cybersecurity student, a presentation safe and socially-distanced outings Sheena Erete and undergraduate on our degrees and a Capture the to hone their skills. This was the fifth and graduate student researchers, Flag cybersecurity challenge for the year for the documentary filmmaking are engaging with Chicago residents students. Digital Divas program—which introduces teen girls to basic theory, aesthetic, and technical skills required to create a documentary—and the third year for Movie & TV Scripts—a program in that provides students the skills ENGAGING AND to write screenplays designed for television and streaming platforms. EDUCATING YOUTH Due to constraints running the game design program during the pandemic, a photography program was offered in THE CHICAGO ALLIANCE FOR EQUITY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE its place. The Chicago Alliance for Equity in Computer Science (CAFÉCS) is a researcher-practitioner partnership between DePaul, DIGITAL DIVAS Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Loyola University, University of Illinois at Chicago, and The Learning Partnership that supports In January, as part of the NSF-funded the Computer Science for All Initiative (CS4All) at CPS. The goal of CS4All is to ensure that all CPS high school students take Digital Youth Divas project (CDM at least one relevant and compelling CS course, and that middle and elementary school children are exposed to computational faculty Sheena Erete and Denise Nacu thinking integrated in other disciplines. in collaboration with Northwestern), about 40-50 Black and Brown fourth The Principal Investigator (PI) for the project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is CDM Associate Dean and fifth grade girls and their families Lucia Dettori. Dr. Dettori is also the PI on two related NSF projects to integrate computational thinking in math and science high toured CDM and worked on STEAM school courses, and to develop a hybrid online version of the CS course to support credit recovery. NSF has awarded Dr. Dettori projects in the Idea Realization Lab. over $2 million between the three grants.

In June 2020 the first cohort of approximately 15,500 high school students graduated having fulfilled the requirement of taking at least a year of computer science. In addition, over 2000 students, 60% of whom from traditionally underrepresented groups, Chicago Housing Authority Youth Program

22 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 23 VISITING SPEAKER SERIES Research Colloquium Guests Dr. Ivo Jimenez, Research Scientist, Dr. Alexander Rasin, Associate https://colloquium.cdm.depaul.edu University of California at Santa Cruz | Professor, DePaul University | CDM hosts three guest speaker series: Visiting Artists Series, School of Design Talks, and Reproducible Distributed Systems Abstracting Database Memory to Benchmarking With Container-native Describe Runtime Operations Research Colloquium. We bring innovative practitioners, breakthrough researchers, and industry Dr. Oshani Seneviratne, Director of Health Data Research, Institute for Workflows Dr. Iyad Kanj, Professor, DePaul professionals to campus for presentations, panels, workshops, and discussions. The events Data Exploration and Applications University | Clustering Incomplete Data are open to the public and allow both students and visitors the opportunity to have direct and (IDEA), Rensselaer Polytechnic Brandon Meng and Jiahao Deng, PhD Candidates, DePaul University | Dr. Jianer Chen, Professor, Texas A&M meaningful contact with leaders in their field. Institute | Smart Contracts Augmented with Learning and Semantics Path Planning for Continuum Arms University | The Arts of Satisfiability: Algorithms and Complexity Although the pandemic forced us to cancel some events, we still had an amazing roster of guests Dr. Filipo Sharevski, Assistant Dr. Filipo Sharevski, Assistant throughout the year, including Oscar-nominated screenwriters, the design director for a popular Professor, DePaul University | Social Professor, DePaul University | Yifan Zhu, Graduate Student, Engineering Beyond Phishing: Ambient Meet Malexa, Alexa’s Malicious Twin: University of Illinois at Urbana- political campaign, and scientists from Argonne National Lab, to name just a few. Tactical Deception (ADT) Ambient Tactical Deception Attacks on Champaign | Data-driven Simulation of Intelligent Voice Assistants Deformable Contacts Dr. Myunghee Kim, Assistant Professo, University of Illinois at Dr. Scott Dawson, Assistant Professor, Dr. Chaitanya Kaligotla, Computational Chicago | Human-Robert Team: Illinois Institute of Technology | Social Scientist, Argonne National Lab Visiting Artists Series Guests School of Design Talks Guests Computational and Experimental Accurate and efficient methods for | Model Exploration of an Information- http://cdm.depaul.edu/vas Christian Hill, director, and Jennifer http://cdm.depaul.edu/designtalks Approach to Design Assistive Methods reduced-complexity modeling in fluid based Healthcare Intervention using Washington, producer Using Wearable Devices mechanics Parallelization and Active Learning COURIER 12 SCREENWRITING A screening of God Said Give ‘Em Drum Antionette Carroll, Founder/ CONFERENCE Machines followed by an on-stage President/CEO, Creative Reaction Lab Dr. Bridget Tenner, Professor, DePaul Dr. Olayele Adelakun, Associate Dr. Ioan Raicu, Associate Professor, ■ “Sharknados, Zombies & Doomsday” conversation Talk: The Future of Design Leadership University | Combinatorics of Patterns Professor, DePaul University | Illinois Institute of Technology | with David Michael Latt, Co-Founder Workshop: Equity by Design: Tactical Approach to Global Virtual Systems Research on the Mystic of The Asylum Trey Edward Shults, Director, and Dismantling Power Constructs for Dr. Zhi Zhang, Assistant Professor, Software Teams Challenges Programmable Testbed Starr Kelvin Harrison Jr., Actor Inclusive Co-Creation Rochester Institute of Technology | ■ “Webseries and Intersectional Advance screening of Waves followed Human-Machine Interaction for Mental Dr. Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Oakland Yuta Nakamura, PhD Candidate, Television” with Stephanie Jeter, by an on-stage conversation Cennydd Bowles, Designer and Healthcare University | Going Big: A Large-Scale DePaul University | Efficiently Head of Production at OTV Futurist Study on What Big Data Developers Ask distributing containerized applications Donna Lee, Story Artist at Walt Disney Talk: Building Better Worlds Dr. Baudouin Saintyves, Artist in ■ “Breaking Down the Current State Animation Studios Residence, High Concept Laboratories Dr. Umer Huzaifa, Visiting Assistant Dr. Xingfu Wu, Staff Scientist, Argonne of Comedy” with Trevor Albert, An Inside Look at Frozen 2 Scott Starrett, Co-Founder and Design NFP and Research Staff Scientist, Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of National Lab | Performance, Energy, Producer of Groundhog Day; Michael Director, Tandem University of Chicago | Shapes of Technology | Walk this Way: Robots and Scalability Analysis and Improvement McCarthy, Second City/SNL; and Big Shoulders International Film Talk: Branding for AOC: The Emerging Emergence: Experimental Physics and Walking with Styles of Parallel Cancer Deep Learning Fawzia Mirza, Co-Writer/Producer Festival Importance of Technology & Design in New Media Art CANDLE Benchmarks of Signature Move Screening of The Tomorrow Man Democracy Dr. Nezih Altay, Professor, DePaul followed by an on-stage conversation ■ “Breaking Into the Writers Room” Workshop: Activate Your Cause: Action Dr. Erica Jung, Assistant Professor, University | Digitization in Humanitarian Dr. Matthew Walter, Assistant with Michael Gemballa, Writer for with writer-director Noble Jones Building Kit University of Illinois at Chicago | Supply Chains: A Rough Review of Professor, Toyota Technological SWAT and Theresa Huang, Writer High-speed neural imaging with a Research Needs Institute at Chicago | Natural Language for SEAL Team Stewart Lyons, Producer Lesley-Ann Noel, Professor and genetically encoded voltage sensor and Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration An on-stage conversation with Associate Director at the Taylor all-optical neuroprosthesis using the Adel Yazdanmehr, Assistant Professor, ■ “From Spec Script to Oscars” co-executive producer of Breaking Bad Center for Social Innovation, Tulane voltage sensor in zebrafish Baruch College-City University of New Dr. Michaël Cadilhac, Assistant with David Rabinowitz and and Better Call Saul University York | Can Peers Reduce Employees’ Professor, DePaul University | Charlie Wachtel, Screenwriters Panel: Design Thinking and Speculative Dr. Yayue Pan, University of Illinois Violation of Information Security Policies? Automatic parallelization of simple of BlacKkKlansmen Kelsey Mann, Pixar Animation Studios Futures (with students/faculty from at Chicago | Multi-functional Additive models of computation An Inside Look at Onward with the DePaul and the Illinois IIT Institute of Manufacturing of Smart Materials and Dr. Hamed Qahri Saremi, Assistant VERITÉ DOCUMENTARY Head of Story Design) Devices Professor, DePaul University | Yiyang Wang, PhD Candidate, DePaul CONFERENCE Workshop: Empathetically Designing Factors Affecting the Adoption of an University | Deep Learning for ■ Screening of One Child Nation Kirill Mikhanovsky, Director, and Alice Difficult Conversations: Using Design- Dr. Moustafa Youssef, Professor, Electronic Word of Mouth Message: Explainable Computer-Aided Diagnosis followed by a conversation with Austen, Co-Writer/Producer Thinking and Empathy to Talk about Alexandria University and Founder/ A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation director Nanfu Wang Screening of Give Me Liberty followed by Equity Director, Wireless Research Center of Modeling Study an on-stage conversation ■ Masterclass with director Excellence | Sensor-less Sensing: The Nanfu Wang Future of Ubiquitous Context-Awareness Jennifer Reeder, Director Screening of Knives and Skin followed by an on-stage conversation 24 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 25 INTERNAL GRANT FUNDING Designing the Next Generation of Personalized Recommenders DePaul University Research Council 8% 2% Design and Culture in Japan PI: Bamshad Mobasher FACULTY PRIVATE FOUNDATION/ DePaul University Quality of Instruction Council LOCAL/OTHER Power of the Few: Analyzing the Impact of Influential Users PI: Shiro Akiyoshi DePaul University Academic Initiative Grant GRANT 10% Hominidae Virtual Reality Film PI: Bamshad Mobasher INTERNAL DePaul University Research Council Using Machine Learning to Battle the Infodemic of 80% PI: Brian Andrews FUNDING FEDERAL Misinformation in the Age of COVID-19 $1.8M Short Film Finishing Funds and Festival Fee Support DePaul University Academic Growth Innovation Fund GRANT TOTAL DePaul University Research Council PI: Bamshad Mobasher PI: Shayna Connelly Inclusive Human Centered Automation of Health Systems Recognition of External Funding To Improve Patient Access, Patient Safety And Reduce DePaul University Research Council Physician Burnout PI: Lucia Dettori DePaul University Academic Growth Innovation Fund PI: Enid Montague Recognition of External Funding DePaul University Research Council Using Participatory Design to Identify Sociotechnical, PI: Sheena Erete Cognitive and Design Needs for Cannabis Medicine Sequence Resources for Cotton, A Model System for DePaul University Research Council EXTERNAL GRANT FUNDING Big Shoulders International Student Film Festival Allopolyploid Crops PI: Enid Montague, Co-PIs: Olayele Adelakun, Douglas Chatbot II: AWS Database DePaul University Research Council National Science Foundation Bruce, Elissa Foster Legal and General Investment Management PI: Michael Flores PI: Olayele Adelakun PI: Thiruvarangan Ramaraj Promoting Children as Critical Users and Creators of The Killing of David (docuseries) Technologies: Adapting and Expanding Pilot Work My Baxter Portal DB-Toolkit: Tools for Database Analysis and Intrusion Detection DePaul University Research Council DePaul University Research Council Baxter Healthcare Corporation National Science Foundation PI: Michael Flores PI: Cynthia Putnam PI: Olayele Adelakun PI: Alexander Rasin, Senior Personnel: Karen Heart Synthesize and Validate Locomotion Gaits for Soft Robots Language of Opportunity Proof of Concept for Lifestyle Application Next Generation Fine-Grain Access Control Over Database DePaul University Academic Initiative Grant DePaul University Academic Initiative Grant Kimberly Clark Corporation Queries PI: Isuru Godage PI: Anuradha Rana PI: Olayele Adelakun National Institute for Standards and Tech PI: Alexander Rasin Reducing Foreign Language Anxiety Using an Pegged: A Short Film DeSports E-Learning System Security Assessment of Zebra RFID Products DePaul University Research Council CME Group Foundation DePaul University Research Council Zebra Technologies Corporation PI: Brad Riddell PI: Lucia Dettori, Co-PIs: Betty Shanahan, Christopher Keys PI: Peter Hastings PI: Filipo Sharevski Seeing the Phylogenetic Forest AND the Trees Cultivating a Smart Equity-Driven Policymaking The Pool MEDIX: Medical Informatics Experiences in Undergraduate DePaul University Research Council Infrastructure to Improve Youth Learning Opportunities DePaul University Research Council Research PI: John Rogers National Science Foundation PI: Anna Hozian PI: Sheena Erete National Science Foundation Investigating Debugging by Novice Programmers PI: Daniela Stan Raicu, Co-PI: Jacob Furst Clustering Incomplete Data DePaul University Research Council Next Level Photography DePaul University Research Council MEDIX: Participant Support PI: Amber Settle Chicago Housing Authority PI: Iyad Kanj PI: Michael Flores National Science Foundation Election Interference Beyond Social Media Trolling PI: Daniela Stan Raicu, Co-PI: Jacob Furst Painting 3D Objects with Continuum Arms DePaul University Research Council EarthCube Data Capabilities: Collaborative Research: DePaul University Academic Initiative Grant MEDIX: Principal Investigators Workshop 2020 PI: Filipo Sharevski Integration of Reproducibility into Community PI: Iyad Kanj CyberInfrastructure National Science Foundation ENFOLD National Science Foundation PI: Daniela Stan Raicu, Co-PI: Jacob Furst Adding New Features to Existing Software Programs DePaul University Research Council PI: Tanu Malik DePaul University Research Council MEDIX: REU Site PI Meeting PI: Steve Socki PI: Wael Kessentini Collaborative Research: ABI Innovation: Biofilm Resource National Science Foundation Collaboration with Sign Language Research Centers in the E.U. National Science Foundation PI: Daniela Stan Raicu, Co-PI: Jacob Furst Recognition of External Funding DePaul University Research Council PI: Thiruvarangan Ramaraj DePaul University Research Council PI: Rosalee Wolfe PI: Tanu Malik Collaborative Research: Innovation: Pioneering New Scouting Trip for Critical Foundations in Modern Design Approaches to Explore Pangenomic Space at Scale Design, Landscape, and Society DePaul University Quality of Instruction Council National Science Foundation DePaul University Quality of Instruction Council PI: Lee Zelenak PI: Thiruvarangan Ramaraj PI: Nathan Matteson

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Abdollahpouri, H., Mansoury, M., Bui, Q.N., Leo, E., & Adelakun, O. Dehpanah, A., Ghori, M. F., Gemmell, Eiben, E., Godage, I. S., Kanj, I., & Fincher, S., Jeuring, J., Miller, Ghori, M. F., Dehpanah, A., Gemmell, Mobasher, B., & Burke, R. (2020). (2019). Achieving Strategic Innovation J., & Mobasher, B. (2020). The Xia, G. (2020). On the Problem of C.S., Donaldson, P., du Boulay, B., J. F., Qahri-Saremi, H., & Mobasher, Investigating Potential Factors through Information Technology Evaluation of Rating Systems in Online Covering a 3-D Terrain. In Proceedings Hauswirth, M., Hellas, A., Hermans, B. (2019). Does the User Have A Theory Associated with Gender Discrimination Outsourcing: A Configurational Free-for-All Games. 16th International of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference F., Lewis, C., Mühling, A., Pearce, J.L., of the Recommender? A Pilot Study. In in Collaborative Recommender Approach. In Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Data Science. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 10361- & Petersen, A. (2020). Capturing and Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Systems. In Proceedings of the 32nd Americas Conference on Information 10368. Characterising Notional Machines. Decision Making for Recommender International FLAIRS Conference. Systems (AMCIS), Cancun, Mexico, 13. Dennis, M., Perković, L., & Turkoğlu, In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Systems (IntRS’19), 1–9. D. (2020). The Stretch Factor of Elliott C., Putnam C., Zelinsky D., Conference on Innovation and Technology Abooleet, S. S. H., & Fang, X. (2020). Bui, Q. N., Leo, E., & Adelakun, O. Hexagon-Delaunay Triangulations. Spinner D., Vipparti S., & Parelkar in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE Gonthina, P., Wooten, M.B., Godage, A Unified Transaction Cost Model for (2019). Exploring complexity and In Proceedings of the 2020 Symposium A. (2020). Using the Z-bellSM Test to ‘20), 502–503. I.S., & Walker, I.D. (2020). Mechanics Adoption of Payment Technologies. In contradiction in information technology on Computational Geometry, Leibniz Remediate Spatial Deficiencies in Non- for Tendon Actuated Multisection AMCIS 2020. Association for Information outsourcing: A set-theoretical International Proceedings in Image-Forming Retinal Processing. Fodeh, S., Li, T., Menczynski, K., Continuum Arms. IEEE International Systems. approach. The Journal of Strategic Informatics (LIPIcs), 164(34):1-16. In: Arai K., Kapoor S. (eds) Advances in Burgette, T., Harris, A., Ilita, G., Rao, S., Conference on Robotics and Information Systems, 28(3), 101573. Computer Vision. CVC 2019. Advances in Gemmell, J., & Stan Raicu, D. (2019). Automation (ICRA), 3896-3902. Adelakun, O. A. (2019). Exploring Deshpande, P., Rasin, A., Cao, F., Intelligent Systems and Computing, 943. Using Machine Learning Algorithms to complexity and contradiction in Cadilhac, M. 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Mazowiecki, F., Paperman, Joint Conference on Knowledge Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference S., & Szeider, S. (2020). On the 12th International Conference on Software Development Using – Agile C., Pilipczuk, M., & Sénizergues, Discovery, Knowledge Engineering on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Parameterized Complexity of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology vs. Waterfall. In the Proceedings of G. (2020). On Polynomial Recursive and Knowledge Management (IC3K). Personalization. Clustering Incomplete Data into (BICOB). 19th Global Information Technology Sequences. ICALP 2020, 117:1-117:17. 1, 372-383 Subspaces of Small Rank. In Management Association (GITMA) World Fang, X. (2019). HCI in Games. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Gutstein, D., Montague, E., Furst, J., Conference 2020, Virtual Conference, Chuah, J., Deeds, M., Malik, T., Choi, Deshpande, P., Rasin, A., Tchoua, R., Heidelberg: Springer. Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Stan Raicu, D. (2019). 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Hastings, P. M. (2019). Identifying Mansoury, M., Abdollahpouri, H., Nakayama, M. (2019). A-Click-Away Qahri-Saremi, H., & Montazemi, A. R. Sonboli, N., Eskandanian, F., Burke, Valdez, R. S., Holden, R. J., Madathil, Foreign Language Anxiety When Using Pechenizkiy, M., Mobasher, B., Hypothesis on Ethnic Restaurant (2019). Factors Affecting the Adoption of R., Liu, W., & Mobasher, B. (2020). K., Benda, N., Holden, R. J., Montague, an E-Learning System. In Proceedings & Burke, R. (2020). FairMatch: A Review Viewing. International Research an Electronic Word of Mouth Message: Opportunistic Multi-aspect Fairness E., & Werner, N. (2019). An Exploration of the Multi Conference on Computer Graph-based Approach for Improving Symposium on Engineering and A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Management through Personalized Re-ranking. of Patient Ergonomics in Historically Science and Information Systems, 2019 Aggregate Diversity in Recommender Technology. Information Systems, 36(3), 969–1001. Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference Marginalized Communities. In (pp. 131–140). IADIS Press. Systems. Proceedings of the 28th ACM on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Proceedings of the Human Factors and Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, Nakayama, M. (2019). Same sushi, Qiu, B., Furst, J., Rasin, A., Tchoua, Personalization. Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Ismael, D. & Hastings, P. (2020). and Personalization. different impressions: a cross-cultural R., & Stan Raicu, D. (2020). Learning 63(1), 914-918. A Sensor-Lite Anxiety Detector analysis of Yelp reviews, Information Latent Spiculated Features for Lung Tchoua, R., Hong, Z., Ajith, A., Chard, for Foreign Language Learning. In McCarthy, D., Curtis, L., Courtney, Technology & Tourism, 21(2). Nodule Characterization. 2020 42nd K., Audus, D., Ward, L., Patel, S., De Yildiz, H. & Ustun, I. (2019). 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30 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 31 Catatonic Ephemeral Orphanage Gardening at Night Brian Zahm (Writer/Director/ Lisa Barcy (Director) Shayna Connelly (Director) Cinematographer/Editor) – Semi-Finalist (2020), New York – Official Selection (2019), Autobahn Tour – Best Self-Funded Film (2020), Cine Pobre Animation Film Awards by STUFF MX Film Festival – Official Selection (2020), Montreal – Official Selection (2020), Athens International Animated Film Festival Hallowstide International Film + Video Festival Steve Socki (Director) – Official Selection (2020), Boston Este Es Tu Cuba – Best Animation (2020), BridgeFest Underground Film Festival Dan Klein (Writer) – Best Experimental Film (2020), Stop – Official Selection (2020), Chattanooga – HBO Ibero-American Short Film Award Motion Film Festival Film Festival (2019), Miami International Film Festival – Official Selection (2020), Experimental – Best Drama (2019), College Television Film Festival counter//balance Awards – Official Selection (2020), FlickFair Anuradha Rana (Director), B Rich – Audience Award (2019), Newport Film – Official Selection (2020), Retro Avant (Producer/Cinematographer) Festival Garde Film Festival – Best Documentary Short (2020), – BAFTA Shortlist (2019), British Academy OZ Indie Film Festival of Film and Television Arts Hominidae – Short Documentary (2020), New Delhi – Official Selection (2020), Cleveland Brian Andrews (Writer/Director/ Film Festival International Film Festival Producer), Brian Ferguson (Animation Supervisor), Robert Steel (Composer) Different This Year Every Ghost Has Its Orchestra – Finalist (2020), Kaleidoscope XR Meghann Artes (Director), Anna Shayna Connelly (Director) Showcase, South by Southwest Hozian (Writer), Eric Liberacki – Official Selection (2019), International – Official Selection (2020), Sundance Film FACULTY (Director of Photography) Free Thought Film Festival Festival – Best Short Film (2019), Focus – Official Selection (2019), Changing – Official Selection (2020), Cleveland International Film Festival Face International Film Festival International Film Festival A SELECTION OF THE FILM SCREENINGS – Best Micro-Short (2019), Red Dirt (Sydney, Australia) – Official Selection (2020), Virtual Reality & RECOGNITION AND Film Festival Arts Festival in Hamburg (VRHAM) SCREENINGS FACULTY FILMS F*ck Yes – Official Selection (2020), Taipei Film AND RECOGNITION RECEIVED IN 2019-20 Distant Learners Jessica King (Writer) Festival Brad Riddell (Co-Writer/Director/ – Official Selection (2019), SECS Fest Inferno 147 Pianos Banana Season Brothers from the Suburbs Producer) – Official Selection (2020), Sicily Web Fest F*cked Up Point Blank Wendy Roderweiss (Director) Dolores Wilbur (Director/Producer) James Choi (Producer), Raphael Nash Patrick Wimp (Writer/Director), – Official Selection (2020), Baltimore Shayna Connelly (Director) – Official Selection (2019), SeriesFest – Official Selection (2019), Film Fest Tucson (Producer) John Psathas (Writing Consultant/ New Media Web Festival – Official Selection (2020), Darkroom – Official Selection (2019), Windy City Assistant Director) Underground Film Festival Jessica Anchor Baby (script) International Film Festival – Jury and Audience Awards: Best Digital Engage Earth – Official Selection (2020), Melbourne Amy Lockhart (Director) Anna Hozian (Writer) Series (2019), Austin Film Festival James Choi (Director/Editor/ Underground Film Festival – Official Selection (2020), Graffix Festival – Competitor (2020), The Pitch at Industry Bananas Girl – Best Web Original (2019), HBO/BET – Official Selection (2019), Antimatter Producer), Brian Andrews (Visual Days, Chicago International Film Festival Shayna Connelly (Director), Savvas Urbanworld Festival – Honorable Mention (2019), LA Effects Artist) The Kaleidoscope Guy at the Market – “At the Table” Series (2020), SAG/AFTRA Paritsis (Colorist) – Best Direction: Digital Short Series (2019), Underground Film Forum – Semi-Finalist (2020), Buenos Aires Michael Flores (Editor) and IFP – Semi-Finalist Best Documentary SeriesFest Season 5 International Film Festival – Best Artistic Production (2019), Docutah (2020), Splice Film Festival – Official Selection (2019), Atlanta – Semi-Finalist (2020), Dumbo Film Festival FÔRET International Film Festival Artist Statement – Official Selection (2019), Brooklyn Film Festival – Official Selection (2020), Museum of Lisa Barcy (Director) – Best Documentary Short (2019), Undo Shayna Connelly (Director) Film Festival – Official Selection (2020), Midwest Modern Art in Sao Paolo – Official Selection (2020), Manchester Divergent Film Awards – Official Selection (2019), Best of – Official Selection (2019), Kansas City Film Festival – Official Selection (2020), Beloit Experimental Film Festival – Best Short Documentary (2020), Blow-up Chicago Underground Film Festival Film Festival – Official Selection (2020), New York City International Art House Film Festival Burnt International Film Festival – Nominee: Best Documentary (2019), Independent Film Festival – Best Short Documentary (2020), Flathead Devin Bell (Writer/Director/Producer) – Official Selection (2020), Ethnografilms Pennsylvania Indie Shorts Bernadette – Official Selection (2020), Black Maria Lake International Cinemafest – Official Selection (2019), Thessaloniki – Official Selection (2019), San Diego John Psathas (Producer/Writer), Film Festival – Best Short Documentary (2020), Florence Animation Festival Underground Film Festival Patrick Wimp (Producer/Writer/ – Official Selection (2020), Chicago Film Awards – Official Selection (2019), Gimli Director of Photography) Underground Film Festival Film Festival – Opening Night Feature Film (2019), Tallahassee Film Festival – Official Selection (2019), Maryland International Film Festival

32 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 33 FACULTY FILM SCREENINGS AND RECOGNITION CONTINUED

Language of Opportunity Pondlife Stage Four Anuradha Rana (Director), B Rich Amy Lockhart (Director) Wendy Roderweiss (Director) (Producer/Cinematographer) – Official Selection (2019), Malt Adult #13 – Official Selection (2020), Women in – Awardee (2020), Tribeca Film Institute – Official Selection (2019), Columbus Comedy Film Festival Network College of Art and Design – Official Selection (2019), Windy City – Official Selection (2019), Skylab International Film Festival Lipstick – Official Selection (2019), Weird Things – Official Selection (2019), Elgin Fringe Brian Zahm (Writer/Director), Brian Gallery Film Festival Andrews (Visual Effects Artist) – Best Gore and Horror Film (2019), Erotic Quiver Stan Bizarre Art Film Festival Shayna Connelly (Director), Brian Brian Zahm (Cinematographer/ Andrews (Visual Effects Supervisor) Colorist) Make it a Great Day – Best Director of a Short Film (2019), – Best Experimental Film (2020), ReelHE Southampton International Film Festival: Josh Jones (Director/Producer) Art Film Festival Quiver – Official Selection/10-Year Retrospective – Official Selection (2020), Athens – Nighttime Thrills Award (2019), Chicago for Best Animated Short (2020), Albany International Film + Video Festival Southland International Film Festival Film Festival – Official Selection (2020), Big Sky – Nominee: Best Short Film (2019), Reels of Documetary Festival the Dead – Official Selection (2020), London Film Marquee – Official Selection by Invitation (2020), Festival Brian Zahm (Writer/Director/ Phillip K. Dick Festival – Official Selection (2020), Queens World Cinematographer/Editor) Film Festival – Official Selection (2020), Sound of Silence Saint Frances Film Festival Best of 15 Years Alex Thompson (Director), James Choi Sun King (Producer), Raphael Nash (Producer) James Choi (Executive Producer) Motherland – Official Selection (2019), Traverse City – Official Selection (2020), Beloit Memento Mori, Roadside Edition. Lisa Barcy. Collage in relief, with Fatou Samba (Writer) Film Festival International Film Festival sewing patterns and found images, on Masonite. 18 x 24 in. – Second Rounder: Drama Teleplay Plot – Official Selection (2019), Calgary (2019), Austin Film Festival International Film Festival Those Shoes – Official Selection (2019), Nashville Amy Lockhart (Director) Oh Baby! International Film Festival – Official Selection (2019), Giraf Festival Meghann Artes (Director/Animator), – Official Selection (2019), Tessalonika FACULTY Rob Steel (Composer), Brian Andrews International Film Festival (Visual Effects Supervisor), Chris – Official Selection (2019), American Film Kalis (Title Sequence Designer) Festival (Poland) EXHIBITIONS – Best Experimental Film (2020), – Official Selection (2019), Cork Film USA Film Festival Festival (Ireland) – Best Film (2020), Freedom Shorts Akiyoshi, Shiro. Nuclear Club #2. Foss, Caleb. Exquisite Control. Quinn, Heather. The Fictional Nations – Best Feel Good Film Award (2019), Sparrow Duet Itoya, Fukuoka, Japan. (2019) Laboratory, Spokane WA. (2019) of Fohn, Delta and Afterlife. Typeforce Grenada Afterglow Film Festival Steve Socki (Director) 11, Chicago, IL. (2020). – Official Selection (2020), LA Shorts – Best Animation (2020), BridgeFest Barcy, Lisa. Memento Mori, Roadside Lockhart, Amy. The Collegeist. Film Festival Edition. Women Made Gallery, Collage in Motion and Cut Up or Shut Roberts, Scott D. Chicago Art Book – Official Selection (2020), Festival du Chicago, IL. (2019) Up, Albuquerque, NM. (2020) Fair, Chicago IL. (2019). Nouveau Cinema

Barcy, Lisa. Series of pieces. Quinn, Heather. Culture is their Zahm, Brian. Papi. Single Channel Starlight Gallery, Harvard, IL. (2019) Fig Leaf: The Proletarian Hacking of Video Installation, Berlin Collective High Capitalist Real Estate. Project Foss, Caleb. The Annals of Hell. Anywhere. (2019) Zakaib, Chicago, IL. (2019)

34 CDM ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 35 STUDENT AND ALUMNI CDM RECOGNITION & IN THE NEWS Highlighted news and media items featuring CDM programs, ACCOMPLISHMENTS faculty and students, July 2019-June 2020

STUDENTS ALUMNI July 5 | India West November 8 | ABC Chicago March 26 | Dice “DePaul University Indian American “DePaul Animation Students’ Stop- “E-Commerce Web Designers: Rising ■ BS Computer Science student Tyler Nass is one of Chicago ■ Last Believer, a documentary co-directed, co-produced, Computer Scientist Tanu Malik Motion Christmas Film to Play in Loop Demand During COVID-19?” Inno’s “25 under 25” most promising and accomplished shot, edited, and scored by Travis Chandler (BA ’08), Receives NSF CAREER Grant” Campus Window through Holiday Xiaowen Fang innovators in Chicago’s tech and startup scene. debuted on WTTW. Tanu Malik Season” Meghann Artes, Devin Bell, ■ Graphic design student Claire Rosas’s project “The ■ First-ever-CDM-MFA-graduate (and now adjunct) Patrick Thomas Newsome April 20 | Make Magazine Online Egg Community,” which she made as part of Wimp (’09) won the award for Best Scripted Digital Series July 16 | Chicago Reader “Chicago Shield”Jay Margalus, Illinois two SoD courses, was announced an award winner for at Austin Film Festival for Brothers from the Suburbs. “DePaul Students Show Off the Future November 14 | CNBC PPE Network Communication Arts 10th Annual Typography Competition. ■ Hayley Anderson (BA ’12) was included in Forbes’ of Video Games” Anna Anthropy, Will “How a 27-year-old Making $112,000 Claire’s work was one of 131 final selections (of over 1200 “30 under 30” class of 2020. Hayley is the chief creative Meyers, DePaul game program Outside of Chicago Spends Her Money” April 24 | Chicago SunTimes submissions) and among only 12 other student winners. officer and cofounder of soona, a fast-casual photo and Gabriela Ariza “Need a Laugh Amid Coronavirus ■ CDM’s Security Daemons team won the Midwest regionals video service that empowers customers to get professional July 18 | OZY Blues? We’ve enlisted these Chicago of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) and quality content for less than the price of stock. “How AI is Set to Make Online Shopping November 30 | Rock Paper Shotgun comics to give you one” Kevin Bozeman placed fourth nationally. Even More Tempting” Jacob Furst “Priceless Play” Cooking with Cat ■ Alumnus Will Wright’s (BFA ’19) work The Nation of Föhn: (DePaul game students) May 18 | WBEZ ■ MFA Game Design students Monica Fan and Jess Reed A Public Brand Manifesto won a Society of Typographic Arts August 6 | Chicago Reader “These DePaul Students are Tackling were accepted into the HASTAC Scholars Program. Award (STA100). “Through the Play Tangles & Plaques January 6 | US News & World Report Grief—and Graduation—With Humor ■ PhD students Redar Ismail and Badar al Lawati were ■ Alexander Koester (BFA ’19) was nominated for a Visual and a Series of Workshops, the Neo- “Digital Solutions Can Address Courtney Hull, Emma Rosenthal awarded Student Entrepreneurs of Year by the Effects Society award for his work on the commercial Futurists Demystify Memory Loss” Problems of Student Mental Health” Coleman Center. “I am Hunger in America.” Jen Ellison Enid Montague May 20 | WBEZ “A DePaul Professor Uses 3D Printers ■ Sun King, a film crewed entirely by undergraduate film and ■ Producer/director Zanah Thirus (MS ‘17) was named to television students and created as part of the SCA Indie the Reel Chicago Black List. August 22 | Comcast Newsmakers January 16 | The Hill to Make Face Shields for First Studio initiative, premiered at the Beloit Film Festival. “Increasing Access to the Film “Dangers of Artificial Intelligence in Responders” Jay Margalus ■ Dan Willis’s short film Wednesday is licensed and Industry” Liliane Calfee, DePaul/CHA Medicine” Enid Montague ■ Games developed by CDM student/alums were showcased available to watch on HBO. Program May 23 | Office of the Mayor at the 2019 Bit Bash, Chicago’s largest games festival, ■ Chaz Bottoms (BFA ’17) was on the animation team behind January 22 | ReelChicago “Mayor Lightfoot and First Lady held at the Museum of Science and Industry. The games Lil Nas X’s Panini (remix) music video, which was displayed August 26 | Block Club Chicago “Chicago-made X-Ray Spider Mutant Eshleman Launch Their Hallmark Overtime and Sashimi Slammers included as well as games during the Grammys. He also directed a new animated “Humboldt Park to Host 3-Day Film Creeps into Sundance” Brian Andrews Citywide Youth Initiative – My Chi. My created during an IGDA Retro Game Jam held at CDM. miniseries, Dear John, with John Legend. Festival as Part of Citywide Showcase” Future” DePaul/School of Design Faculty Anna Anthropy’s All My Exes are in Mechsuits was DePaul animation program January 30 | WBEZ ■ Gregory Dixon’s (MFA ’18) thesis film, Olympia, also showcased. “Folded Map Participants Challenge May 28 | Screen Magazine premiered on Aspire TV and is also available now ■ September 4 | Gamasutra Common Advice: Don’t Go to the South “Big Break for Chicago Pilot as Graphic Design students Jeremy Rieger and Claire Rosas through Amazon Prime. were included in GDUSA’s “2020 Students to Watch.” “Getting the Best from Your Audio or West Side” Christina Harrington SeriesFest Selects INFERNO” ■ Saudi Arabian filmmaker Kamel Altamimi’s (MFA ‘18) Department” Elliot Callighan Wendy Roderweiss, Project Bluelight ■ The Security Daemons also placed fourth in the Department Starting Point won first place at the Elgin Film Festival. March 18 | Morning Consult of Energy CyberForce competition at Argonne. More than October 10 | Eagle Times “Digital Access Has Now Become a June 15 | Deaf News Today 100 teams from schools across the country competed. “Danielle Cherry Directs Two Films Public Health Concern” Christina “On this Day: First Deaf Computer PhD” in her Hometown of Newport” Harrington Karen Alkoby Danielle Cherry March 24 | Scientific American November 5 | Block Club Chicago “Electronic Records Need an Ethical “Christmas Window Already Going Up Tune-Up”Enid Montague on State Street with Art from DePaul Students” Meghann Artes, animation students

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