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Imagination Meets Automation With BrickGPT
Thursday, July 24, 2025 Fusing artificial intelligence and imagination, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a tool that uses text prompts to help people — and even robots — bring ideas to life with Lego bricks. Read More
Mr. Stehlik’s Opus Reflections on a 40 Year Teaching Life
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 In one of the most celebrated computer science schools in the world, one of the most beloved figures is a man who collects fountain pens and books. His first fountain pen, he points out, was filled with green ink — not red. It’s a metaphor for how Mark Stehlik approaches his craft: finding ways to say go when everyone else is saying stop.
At the Forefront of Energy and AI
SCS Faculty Are Tackling Some of Society's Toughest Challenges While Pioneering Solutions for Tomorrow
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 CMU thrives at the intersection of AI, innovation and energy, and world-class researchers in the School of Computer Science are tackling some of society's toughest challenges while pioneering new solutions for tomorrow. Read More
SCS Project Aims To Create Energy-Efficient Data Centers
Monday, July 14, 2025According to projections, data centers around the world could double their electricity consumption by 2030. Driven by AI, data centers could claim 945 terawatt hours of energy in the next five years, a figure that’s greater than the current electricity consumption of Japan. With support from The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation’s seed grant program, Dimitrios Skarlatos will develop a proof-of-concept for a virtualization layer capable of performing fine-grained, efficient power management of GPUs.
Skarlatos Receives 2025 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award
Thursday, July 10, 2025 Dimitrios Skarlatos, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, earned the 2025 IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Young Computer Architect Award for his "contributions to virtual memory management and computer security." Read More
How Carnegie Mellon University's CS Academy is Preparing Kids for the Future
Friday, June 27, 2025 Carnegie Mellon CS Academy hit 500,000 students enrolled and it all started in local schools. Learn more about how Carnegie Mellon University's computer science academy is preparing kids for the future.
SCS Faculty Earn Amazon Research Awards
Friday, June 13, 2025 Five faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have received Amazon Research Awards to support work in areas such as artificial intelligence, cryptography and automated reasoning. The awards recognize innovative academic work with the potential for broad societal and scientific impact, and provide recipients with unrestricted funding, Amazon Web Services (AWS) promotional credits, and access to Amazon’s cloud computing tools and public datasets. Read More
TEEL Lab Programs Awardable Through Department of Defense Marketplace
Thursday, June 12, 2025 The TEEL Lab's AI Technicians and AI User workforce training programs have received awardable status in the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, the premier offering of Tradewinds, the DoD's suite of tools and services designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of AI, machine learning, data and analytics capabilities. The two programs can be offered across the entire DoD. Read More
Alum Wins SIGGRAPH Dissertation Award
Adam Kohlhaasby Adam Kohlhaas | Friday, June 6, 2025
Rohan Sawhney, an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, has received the 2025 SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for research that redefines how computers simulate and process geometric data. His dissertation introduces a novel framework that moves beyond traditional finite element methods by applying grid-free Monte Carlo techniques to solve fundamental partial differential equations. Read More
Stellar Code Helps Ye Land Internship
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 Runqiu Ye, a rising junior in computer science, spent the summer of 2024 writing code for an astrophysics simulation that tracks the mass, radius, temperature and orbits of millions of binary stars, including any interactions that happen between each partner star. Assistant Physics Professor Katie Breivik said that Ye’s ability to learn a new programming language and produce results quickly likely helped him stand out for the internship.
Human-AI Collaboration Can Unlock New Frontiers in Creativity
Tools Developed by SCS Researchers Show Benefits for Inventors, Designers, Songwriters
Thursday, May 29, 2025 Content churned out by generative AI models is surprisingly competent, if not always particularly exciting. But research at Carnegie Mellon University suggests that when AI serves as a partner to human designers, artists and songwriters, the results could exceed what the machine or person do separately. AI tools can help humans get out of creative ruts and explore a broader range of ideas, while humans can provide judgment — call it taste — about what people will like or if the output conveys the right message or feeling. Read More
Carnegie Mellon, Mid-Atlantic Hub Host First NSF I-Corps Cohort for AI, Robotics
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 The cohort was the first NSF I-Corps program in the country to focus specifically on AI and robotics and reflects the expertise of CMU and its Mid-Atlantic I-Corps Hub partner institutions in commercializing research in these fields. The cohort sessions happened virtually throughout April. Twenty-five teams of faculty, students and alumni from CMU, the University of Maryland, Penn State University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania and more learned how to navigate the commercialization process. Read More
CSD Ph.D. Student Named DOE Computational Science Fellow
Adam Kohlhaasby Adam Kohlhaas | Friday, May 16, 2025
Stephen Huan, a doctoral student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, is one of 30 students nationwide selected for the Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship for the 2025–26 academic year. The felløwship supports researchers applying high-performance computing to problems in science and engineering. His work centers on machine learning, statistics and applied mathematics, with a focus on efficient algorithms for generative modeling, sampling and statistical inference. Read More
CMU Scores Fourth Straight Victory at MITRE eCTF Cybersecurity Competition
Thursday, May 15, 2025 A team of 15 students from Carnegie Mellon University have won the 2025 Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) security competition, securing CMU’s fourth straight win. The Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP) team is made up of students from the CMU Robotics Institute (RI), Information Networking Institute (INI), Electrical and Computer Engineering department (ECE) and Computer Science department (CSD).
Carnegie Mellon University re-designated as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. programs have received the CAE-R designation, which distinguishes the top programs that help build a highly skilled and educated cybersecurity workforce. These designations allow faculty and students to apply for national grants to support critical security research, in addition to participating in the CAE community.
Skarlatos Receives Scott Institute 2025 Seed Funding for AI Data Center Energy Demand Research
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Dimitrios Skarlatos, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has been awarded one of seven 2025 Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation seed grants. Skarlatos will use support from the Scott Institute award to tackle the growing energy demand of AI data centers — a theme that also took center stage during Energy Week 2025. Read More
Working With AI
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Explore Relationships With Artificial Intelligence Tools
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) are investigating how AI systems can improve the way researchers and developers enhance people's understanding and confidence in these systems. Read More
CSD Faculty Among CHI 2025 Accepted Papers and Best Paper Award Winners
12 Award-Winning Papers with CMU Contributions at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Thursday, April 24, 2025 This year, authors from CMU contributed to more than 50 accepted papers, including 12 award-winning papers to CHI 2025, which received more than 5,000 completed paper submissions. Best Paper was awarded to the top 1% and Honorable Mentions to the top 5% of papers. CSD faculty Vincent Conitzer and David Touretzky were among the authors whose papers were accepted and Chris Donahue, assistant professor in CSD, and collaborators received a Best Paper award at CHI 2025.
New Fund Honors Life of Bryan Kisiel
Thursday, April 24, 2025 Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) has established the Bryan Kisiel Altruism Award in AI to support SCS students and remember the life of Bryan Kisiel, who earned his bachelor's degree in computer science and worked in SCS for well over a decade. Read More
Copilot Arena Helps Rank Real-World LLM Coding Abilities
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 With so many AI coding assistants out there, it can be hard to keep track of ones that perform well on real-world tasks. To help analyze which leading or emerging code-writing large language models (LLMs) the developer community prefers, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed Copilot Arena, a platform that crowdsources user ratings of LLM-written code. Read More
Two SCS Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Friday, April 18, 2025 Sheng Shu, a junior majoring in computer science and also studying chemistry in the Mellon College of Science, and Hyojae Park, a sophomore computer science major, are two of Carnegie Mellon University's three Goldwater Scholarship recipients this year. Read More
CMU Study Shows Large Language Models Have Distinctive Styles
LLMs Can Be Distinguished by Word Choice, Level of Detail and More
Thursday, April 10, 2025 It's not unusual for people to have distinctive speech or writing styles. They can favor certain words and phrases or structure a sentence or a story uniquely. It turns out that text-generating AI models have similar idiosyncrasies. In a recent study, Carnegie Mellon University researchers found they could use characteristic word choices to determine which large language model (LLM) generated a particular bit of text with 97% accuracy. Read More
Zhang, Zhou Earn MongoDB Fellowships
Thursday, March 27, 2025 William Zhang and Renfei Zhou, both Ph.D. students in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, have been selected as 2025 MongoDB Ph.D. Fellows. The highly competitive fellowship program supports graduate students who demonstrate exceptional talent and a deep commitment to advancing database research. Read More
From Exploration to Innovation: The Impact of SURF Grants
Friday, March 21, 2025 Undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon University can join this pursuit through the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). A SURF grant enables young researchers to collaborate with esteemed faculty, build professional networks and receive financial support to focus solely on their project, paving the way for future career or academic opportunities.