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The Computer Science Department Announces Garrod as Next Director of the Computer Science Undergraduate Program
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 Computer Science Department Interim Head, Jignesh Patel, has announced that Charlie Garrod, Associate Teaching Professor in the Computer Science Department and Software and Societal Systems Department, is the next Director of the Computer Science Undergraduate Program. Read More
Sandholm Earns Alfred Kordelin Prize for AI Research With Global Impact
Monday, November 24, 2025 Tuomas Sandholm, the Angel Jordan University Professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, has been awarded the Alfred Kordelin Prize, one of Finland's most prestigious honors recognizing outstanding contributions to science, the arts and public education. The 50,000-euro award, presented annually by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation, honors individuals whose work advances Finnish society through innovation, diversity and international reach. Read More
The Perfect Shot
Monday, November 17, 2025 In a breakthrough that could transform photography, microscopy, and even smartphone cameras, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new kind of lens that can bring an entire scene into sharp focus at once—no matter how far away or close different parts of the scene are. The team, consisting of Yingsi Qin, an electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student, Aswin Sankaranarayanan, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Matthew O’Toole, associate professor of computer science and robotics, presented their findings at the 2025 International Conference on Computer Vision and received a Best Paper Honorable Mention recognition.
CSD Alumnus Receives ACM SIGOPS Dissertation Award
Monday, November 3, 2025 Juncheng Yang, a recent Computer Science Department Ph.D. graduate, received the 2025 ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award, which recognizes the contributions and impact a doctoral thesis has on software systems research. Yang's dissertation, "Designing Efficient and Scalable Key-Value Cache Management Systems," uncovered insights into caching, leading to three advancements in this area. Read More
Tactile Tool Simplifies Neural Networks for Kids
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 How do you teach a sixth grader what a neural network is? A team at Carnegie Mellon University believes the answer might be soft, squishy, and lit with LEDs. “Everyone, even middle schoolers, needs to know a little about these building blocks of artificial intelligence, just like it’s important to know the basics of how electricity works or what a molecule is,” said Computer Science Department Research Professor and IDeATe instructor Dave Touretzky.
CMU, Accenture Advance AI in Workforce Training
The Carnegie Mellon Accenture Center of Excellence for AI Will Address Demand for Technology Skills Development
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 The Carnegie Mellon Accenture Center of Excellence for AI (ACE-AI) will explore the potential of AI to enhance the training process, create modular content personalized for each learner, and capture and analyze learning data for improved outcomes. ACE-AI aims to take personalized training experiences to new heights by building AI agents that serve as tutors, coaches and career counselors, while extracting insights to optimize training methods and identify at-risk learners for timely interventions. Read More
Fredrikson Receives Test of Time Award
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Carnegie Mellon University's Matt Fredrikson has received the 2025 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Test-of-Time Award, honoring research with enduring impact in computer and communications security. Read More
10 CMU Students Selected for Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Ten Carnegie Mellon doctoral students from across CMU's School of Computer Science and College of Engineering who are pursuing artificial intelligence research will receive support from Amazon through the company's new AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program. Their research tackles the foundational challenges, theoretical underpinnings, and deep technological systems critical to AI innovation. Read More
Peacocks Eating Ice Cream: CMU Philosophers Teaching AI to Ask 'Why?'
Thursday, October 2, 2025 As computer vision and generative technologies become more widely available, it’s increasingly important to teach AI models how to build and break down images accurately. This skill helps models combine concepts they haven’t seen together before, a skill humans use naturally but AI still finds challenging.
CSD Alum Receives AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award
Friday, September 26, 2025 Gabriele Farina has received the 2023 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Game-Theoretic Decision Making in Imperfect-Information Games: Learning Dynamics, Equilibrium Computation and Complexity". Farina developed theoretical and algorithmic foundations for strategic decision-making in negotiations and in imperfect-information, extensive-form games such as poker. Read More
AI Tool Uses Health Records To Predict Cancer Risk
Thursday, September 25, 2025 A tool developed at Carnegie Mellon University could make it easier to identify patients at risk for cancer, bolstering early detection — a crucial step for improving treatment outcomes. The SCS research team included Gary Gao, a master's student in the Computer Science Department; Liwen Sun, an LTI master's student; and Hao-Ren Yao, an LTI research scientist. Read More
Ashman Mehra Named 2025 Quad Fellow
Thursday, September 18, 2025 Ashman Mehra, a master's student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, has been selected as a 2025 Quad Fellow, one of 37 students worldwide to earn the distinction. Read More
Amazon To Support CMU CS Academy
Online CS Curricula Reaches More Than 2,000 Schools Globally
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 CMU CS Academy, a free, online computer science curricula designed by faculty in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science for high school and middle school classrooms, reaches students in more than 2,000 schools in 66 countries. The program recently celebrated enrolling its 500,000th student. Amazon has supported CMU CS Academy since the program started in 2018, and this recent collaboration renews and continues that support. Read More
Ware Receives 2025 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award
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Ranysha (Ray) Ware, who earned her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD) in 2024 and is a first-year assistant professor at Swarthmore College, received the 2025 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award at the ACM SIGCOMM conference in Coimbra, Portugal. The award is the highest honor given to a dissertation in the field of computer networking worldwide. Ware’s dissertation focused on how fairly internet services share bandwidth. Read More
Sailboat Racing Tactics Serve as Game Theory for Sandholm
Monday, September 15, 2025 Before joining Carnegie Mellon, CSD professor Tuomas Sandholm was a champion windsurfer, winning the Finnish championship, finishing fifth in European Championships, and achieving 12th in the World Championships. Now, his nautical pastime of choice includes sailing in races an hour north of campus.
Leading the Future of Physical AI at CMU
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 Ahead of the AI Horizons Summit, Martial Hebert, dean of the School of Computer Science and a speaker at the conference, shared his perspective on physical AI — what it is, why it matters now and how it’s set to transform industries and create new opportunities.
Season Two of 'Does Compute' Now Available
SCS Podcast Brings Research Stories From the Lab to Listeners
Monday, September 8, 2025 Season two of the SCS podcast "Does Compute" launches today and features ten episodes that bring technology Read More
Qualcomm Appoints Kolter to Board of Directors
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Qualcomm Incorporated has announced the appointment of Jeremy (Zico) Kolter to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Dr. Kolter will serve on the Governance Committee.
Faculty and Students Present at USENIX Security Symposium
Wednesday, August 13, 2025Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium held in Seattle on August 13-15. The event brings together experts from around the world, who will highlight the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.
CMU Hacking Team Wins 9th DEF CON Capture-the-Flag Title
Monday, August 11, 2025 The winningest team in DEF CON’sOpens in new window Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon UniversityOpens in new window’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its fourth consecutive title, earning its ninth victory in the past 13 years.
SCS Alumna Among CMU Fulbright Recipients
Thursday, August 7, 2025 Rachel Wilson, who earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science with a minor in Hispanic studies, applied for a Fulbright as a way to spend more time abroad in Spanish-speaking communities to better understand their relationship with technology. She is going to Peru, where she will help teach both English and computer programming part-time in high schools.
New NSF Institute Will Help Mathematicians Harness AI, Advance Discoveries
Monday, August 4, 2025With an investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and ad
Alums Compete in World Championship With CMU Pipes and Drums
Friday, August 1, 2025 A set of bagpipe-playing twins will be among those representing Carnegie Mellon University on the international stage as its Pipes and Drums band prepares to compete for the first time in the European Pipe Band Championships in Perth, Scotland, Aug. 9, and World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Aug. 15.
Dettmers Receives Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award
Friday, August 1, 2025 Tim Dettmers, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's machine learning and computer science departments, has been named a recipient of the inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award. The award recognizes early career faculty whose work advances scalable and efficient machine learning systems. Read More