A Symposium for Computation and Data Intensive Research

CoDEx

The call for participation is now open!

We invite Northwestern researchers, including faculty, students, postdocs, and staff, to participate in the event. There is something for everyone, including parallel sessions to present research findings and methods, a visualization challenge, and poster presentations. Learn how to participate.

CoDEx 2026

April 21 | Evanston, IL

The Computation and Data Exchange (CoDEx) symposium showcases innovative approaches to research computing and data using technology. This campus-wide event provides opportunities for University faculty, researchers, postdocs, and students to make connections, begin collaborations, and discuss successful practices and challenges in research computation and data science.

Celebrating Northwestern Research

Research Talks

Join us for a day of presentations by Northwestern faculty, graduate students, and staff about data and computationally intensive research happening across the University. Learn how research groups from different disciplines are tackling hard challenges by working with large data sets, simulating complex systems, accelerating discovery, leveraging AI technologies, extracting knowledge from unstructured sources, and more!

Learn About Research Talks

Student Competitions

Visualization Challenge

The CoDEx Visualization Challenge is an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students to showcase their data visualizations to the broader Northwestern community.

Learn About the Challenge

Poster Session

The Poster Competition allows graduate and undergraduate students to present their research to Northwestern faculty, postdocs, and students. All areas of research are welcome.

Learn More about the Competition

Meet the Research Computing and Data Services Team

The Northwestern IT Research Computing and Data Services team works across the University to support the computational and technology needs of our researcher community through consultation, training, grant writing assistance, visualization services, and more. Meet the team.