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Computer Science Experience Labs (CSXL) serve as a collaborative co-working and computing hub, driving hands-on learning opportunities for CS majors designed to accelerate your growth based on your interests, including software engineering, user experience design, production engineering, and product management.
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Thwarting Hidden Resume Hacks Targeting AI Hiring Tools
July 22, 2026An academic-industry collaboration featuring Assistant Professor Tianlong Chen identified 1 percent of resumes in a sample of 200,000 across multiple sectors as containing concealed instructions meant to exploit AI systems. Chen and his collaborators are developing several defensive strategies to combat prompt injection in resumes.

UNC Computer Science presents 41 papers at ACL and ICML 2026
July 14, 2026UNC CS researchers presented 41 papers across two conferences in July, including 17 at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), a top national language processing conference, and 24 at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), one of the top conferences in machine learning and AI.

Why AI fiction still feels flat: New test shows characters lack mystery and complexity
July 1, 2026 | Tech XploreAs AI writing tools become more common in publishing and entertainment, Carolina researchers wanted to understand whether the characters created by these systems are as varied and nuanced as those crafted by human authors. Their findings suggest that, despite advances in technology, AI still tends to rely on familiar patterns.

UNC CS presents 24 papers at CVPR 2026
June 5, 2026UNC Computer Science personnel made a noticeable impact at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Researchers from eight different labs presented a total of 24 papers, and UNC CS faculty members helped to organize nine conference workshops and gave keynotes at five others.







