A Symposium for Computation and Data Intensive Research

CoDEx

Thank You for Attending!

Thanks to everyone who made CoDEx 2026 a success! We are already looking forward to next year. In the meantime, please visit the Research Computing and Data Services website to learn about the services, support, and learning resources we provide for the Northwestern research community.

Highlights of CoDEx 2026

CoDEx brings together researchers from across disciplines to share practical approaches, learn from one another, and strengthen how computation and data support research at Northwestern.”

Jackie Milhans
Director of Research Computing and Data
Northwestern Information Technology

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.