Latest News School of Computer Science Launches CMU TechBridge Coding Bootcamp by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, June 25, 2024 The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University has launched the CMU TechBridge Coding Bootcamp to provide access to computer science education and career opportunities for high school (or equivalent) graduates. Read More ACM Honors Blelloch's Work in Algorithm Engineering by Marylee Williams | Friday, June 21, 2024 Guy Blelloch, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is part of a team that received this year's Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, which honors accomplishments that have significantly impacted the practice of computing. Also recognized were Blelloch's former advisee, Laxman Dhulipala, who earned his Ph.D. in CMU's Computer Science Department (CSD) and is now an assistant professor at the University of Maryland; and Julian Shun, who also earned his Ph.D. in CSD, now an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The ACM cited the trio for their contributions to algorithm engineering, which revolutionized large-scale graph processing on shared-memory machines. Read More CMU Class Builds Satellite Bound for Earth's Orbit by Marylee Williams | Tuesday, June 18, 2024 All this excitement erupted during demonstration day for CMU's Spacecraft Design-Build-Fly Lab course, which brings together students from the College of Engineering, Mellon College of Science and the School of Computer Science for two semesters to design and build a small satellite that will launch into space next year. Zac Manchester, an assistant professor in the Robotics Institute (RI), and Brandon Lucia, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), led the class. Read More Kolter Named Head of Carnegie Mellon University Machine Learning Department AI Scientist Ready To Guide School of Computer Science Through Research Revolution by Marylee Williams | Monday, June 10, 2024 Generative and transformative tools will power the future of computing, and machine learning technologies underpin all the learning, evaluation and improvement of these systems. Research moves quickly from the lab to the real world, where it could transform fields ranging from biology to business. Zico Kolter is ready to lead that transformation as the new director of Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department (MLD). Read More Obituary: C. Gordon Bell Built the Foundation for Modern Computing by Matthew Wein | Wednesday, May 29, 2024 C. Gordon Bell, a visionary designer of computer systems and former professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University whose work helped shrink computers from room-filling mainframes to more compact, affordable and practical machines, died May 17 at his home in Coronado, California. He was 89. Read More CMU Researchers To Tackle Carbon Use, Sustainability Through NSF Expeditions in Computing Awards by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, May 23, 2024 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute to two multi-institution research initiatives aimed at reducing the use of carbon and creating sustainable computing. Yuvraj Agarwal will serve as the lead principal investigator from CMU and will be joined by Zico Kolter on the project team. Agarwal and Kolter bring a host of expertise to the project, in topics including sensing, systems, security and privacy, artificial intelligence, using data to incentivize decision making, and understanding how computing interacts with smart buildings and efficient infrastructure. Read More SCS Doctoral Student Receives Hertz Fellowship by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, May 22, 2024 Zoë Marschner was one of 18 students selected for the 2024 Hertz Fellowships. This fellowship, awarded by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, is one of the most prestigious in the country. It provides five years of funding for students in applied science, engineering, and mathematics. Marschner, who is advised by associate professor Keenan Crane, works on geometry processing, a subfield of computer graphics focused on how to digitally represent and work with geometric data. Read More SCS Alum Wins Top SIGecom Dissertation Award by Marylee Williams | Tuesday, May 21, 2024 Gabriele Farina, who earned his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department in 2023, has won the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (ACM SIGecom) Dissertation Award, which recognizes the previous year's best dissertation in economics and computation. Read More CSD Faculty Earns Google Research Scholar Award by Adam Kohlhaas | Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Aditi Raghunathan, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, received the award to support the project "Robust Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models." She is one of six researchers in the School of Computer Science to receive a 2024 Google Research Scholar Award. Her research will develop principled methods that appropriately constrain the fine-tuning process to maximally preserve pretrained knowledge and improve downstream robustness. Read More SCS Ph.D. Student Earns Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, May 14, 2024 Kaiyang Zhao, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD), was selected for the North American Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. Zhao's project, "Learned Virtual Memory for Heterogeneous Architectures," aims to radically rethink virtual memory using lightweight machine learning models to solve challenges in data centers and at the edge. Read More SCS Faculty Receive Endowed Professorships by Marylee Williams | Thursday, May 9, 2024 CSD faculty members Chris Donahue and Guy Blelloch are among four School of Computer Science professors who recently received endowed faculty chairs to recognize and support their work and research. Donahue received the Dannenberg Career Development Professorship. Blelloch was one of two recipients of the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professorships of Computer Science. Read More CSD Researchers Earn Community Award for Cache-Efficiency Research Rashmi Vinayak, Juncheng Yang Among Paper's Authors by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department won the Community Award at the 2024 USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) for work on a new cache-eviction algorithm. The Community Award is given to the best paper where the code, dataset or a combination of both are made publicly available. Read More Blelloch Named University Professor by Christa Cardone | Thursday, May 2, 2024 Guy Blelloch has been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon University. University Professors are distinguished by international recognition and for their contributions to education, arts and research. They have made exceptional achievements beyond their department and college and embody the highest standards of the university. Read More Searching for the Limits of Local Error Correction The Key to Better Algorithms Is Making the Math Work by Charlotte Hu | Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Information can be finicky, especially if it has to travel. Whether you're making a phone call over a wireless network, playing music from a CD, or saving a document to a hard drive, when you transform or transmit information from one location to another, it has to go through many channels. Peter Manohar, a Ph.D. student in CMU's Computer Science Department, worked with former assistant professor Pravesh Kothari to develop ways to improve error-correction algorithms by breaking apart the math behind them. Read More Lenore Blum Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences by Aaron Aupperlee | Friday, April 26, 2024 Lenore Blum, a foundational researcher in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and a tireless advocate for women in math and science, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Blum, who retired from CMU in 2019, was a professor in the Computer Science Department, the founding director of Project Olympus, and co-director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Read More SCS Student Awarded Goldwater Scholarship by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Claire Jin wants to improve how generative artificial intelligence is incorporated into robotics. The third-year student in the School of Computer Science was selected as one of CMU's three 2024 Goldwater Scholars, one of the most prestigious STEM scholarships for undergraduates. This award comes from the federally endowed Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Read More CMU Researchers Help Expand Music Generation With Adobe by Marylee Williams | Thursday, April 11, 2024 Shih-Lun Wu is an avid classical piano and viola player, but he learned viola because all the violin seats in his school orchestra had been taken. Now a student in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Wu uses generative AI and machine learning to make music creation more accessible and engaging for people of all abilities. Read More Behring Foundation Gift Supports International Undergrads in Tech by Kayla Papakie and Krista Burns | Thursday, April 11, 2024 The Behring Foundation, a Brazilian-based family organization focused on empowering talented youth and promoting social development, has established a scholarship to support students from Brazil pursuing tech-related undergraduate degrees at Carnegie Mellon University. The foundation's gift is the first of its kind at CMU, helping to fill a financial aid gap for international undergraduates who may not have as much access to funding opportunities as domestic students. Read More Four SCS Faculty Named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, February 20, 2024 Four faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science will receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2024. Nathan Beckmann, Aaditya Ramdas, Justine Sherry and Virginia Smith were among the 126 early career researchers announced as fellows. More than a thousand researchers are nominated each year, and winners receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship that can be used to advance their research. Read More Kanade Receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Computer Vision Legacy by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, February 14, 2024 Carnegie Mellon University's Takeo Kanade received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his decades of pioneering scientific achievements in computer vision and robotic perception. Kanade, a Founders University Professor in the School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department, devised the foundational algorithms that underlie computer vision. Read More Four SCS Faculty Named 2023 ACM Fellows by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, January 24, 2024 School of Computer Science faculty members Maria Florina Balcan, Roger B. Dannenberg, Ken Koedinger and Elaine Shi have been recognized as 2023 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The distinction, reserved for the top 1% of the association's membership, honors recipients' outstanding work in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Read More Miller Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, January 11, 2024 Bailey Miller, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, has been selected for a NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. "Our fellowship recipients are among the most talented graduate students in the world," said NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally. "They're working on some of the most important problems in computer science, and we're delighted to support their research." Read More Researchers Design Simple, High-Performing Cache Eviction Algorithm by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, December 5, 2023 Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD) have designed a method to more efficiently and effectively kick unnecessary items out of the cache, improving the performance of software, servers and websites that rely on cached items. Read More Wilson Earns 2023 Krulcik Scholarship by Kayla Papakie | Thursday, November 30, 2023 School of Computer Science senior Rachel Wilson's favorite thing about Carnegie Mellon University is being immersed in a community of people who are incredibly passionate about their work. She'd even argue she's learned as much outside the classroom as she has inside. Read More Yang, Thontakudi Earn 2023 Stehlik Scholarship by Susie Cribbs | Friday, November 17, 2023 School of Computer Science senior Helena Yang and recent graduate Anjali Thontakudi (SCS 2023) don't think they've met, but they have lots in common. Both women served as teaching assistants (TAs) for 15-112: Introduction to Computer Programming. They both experienced an education interrupted by a global pandemic and rose to the resulting challenges. Both have an artistic side they indulged at Carnegie Mellon University, even taking similar-but-different classes in storytelling. 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School of Computer Science Launches CMU TechBridge Coding Bootcamp by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, June 25, 2024 The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University has launched the CMU TechBridge Coding Bootcamp to provide access to computer science education and career opportunities for high school (or equivalent) graduates. Read More
ACM Honors Blelloch's Work in Algorithm Engineering by Marylee Williams | Friday, June 21, 2024 Guy Blelloch, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is part of a team that received this year's Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, which honors accomplishments that have significantly impacted the practice of computing. Also recognized were Blelloch's former advisee, Laxman Dhulipala, who earned his Ph.D. in CMU's Computer Science Department (CSD) and is now an assistant professor at the University of Maryland; and Julian Shun, who also earned his Ph.D. in CSD, now an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The ACM cited the trio for their contributions to algorithm engineering, which revolutionized large-scale graph processing on shared-memory machines. Read More
CMU Class Builds Satellite Bound for Earth's Orbit by Marylee Williams | Tuesday, June 18, 2024 All this excitement erupted during demonstration day for CMU's Spacecraft Design-Build-Fly Lab course, which brings together students from the College of Engineering, Mellon College of Science and the School of Computer Science for two semesters to design and build a small satellite that will launch into space next year. Zac Manchester, an assistant professor in the Robotics Institute (RI), and Brandon Lucia, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), led the class. Read More
Kolter Named Head of Carnegie Mellon University Machine Learning Department AI Scientist Ready To Guide School of Computer Science Through Research Revolution by Marylee Williams | Monday, June 10, 2024 Generative and transformative tools will power the future of computing, and machine learning technologies underpin all the learning, evaluation and improvement of these systems. Research moves quickly from the lab to the real world, where it could transform fields ranging from biology to business. Zico Kolter is ready to lead that transformation as the new director of Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department (MLD). Read More
Obituary: C. Gordon Bell Built the Foundation for Modern Computing by Matthew Wein | Wednesday, May 29, 2024 C. Gordon Bell, a visionary designer of computer systems and former professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University whose work helped shrink computers from room-filling mainframes to more compact, affordable and practical machines, died May 17 at his home in Coronado, California. He was 89. Read More
CMU Researchers To Tackle Carbon Use, Sustainability Through NSF Expeditions in Computing Awards by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, May 23, 2024 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute to two multi-institution research initiatives aimed at reducing the use of carbon and creating sustainable computing. Yuvraj Agarwal will serve as the lead principal investigator from CMU and will be joined by Zico Kolter on the project team. Agarwal and Kolter bring a host of expertise to the project, in topics including sensing, systems, security and privacy, artificial intelligence, using data to incentivize decision making, and understanding how computing interacts with smart buildings and efficient infrastructure. Read More
SCS Doctoral Student Receives Hertz Fellowship by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, May 22, 2024 Zoë Marschner was one of 18 students selected for the 2024 Hertz Fellowships. This fellowship, awarded by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, is one of the most prestigious in the country. It provides five years of funding for students in applied science, engineering, and mathematics. Marschner, who is advised by associate professor Keenan Crane, works on geometry processing, a subfield of computer graphics focused on how to digitally represent and work with geometric data. Read More
SCS Alum Wins Top SIGecom Dissertation Award by Marylee Williams | Tuesday, May 21, 2024 Gabriele Farina, who earned his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department in 2023, has won the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (ACM SIGecom) Dissertation Award, which recognizes the previous year's best dissertation in economics and computation. Read More
CSD Faculty Earns Google Research Scholar Award by Adam Kohlhaas | Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Aditi Raghunathan, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, received the award to support the project "Robust Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models." She is one of six researchers in the School of Computer Science to receive a 2024 Google Research Scholar Award. Her research will develop principled methods that appropriately constrain the fine-tuning process to maximally preserve pretrained knowledge and improve downstream robustness. Read More
SCS Ph.D. Student Earns Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, May 14, 2024 Kaiyang Zhao, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD), was selected for the North American Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. Zhao's project, "Learned Virtual Memory for Heterogeneous Architectures," aims to radically rethink virtual memory using lightweight machine learning models to solve challenges in data centers and at the edge. Read More
SCS Faculty Receive Endowed Professorships by Marylee Williams | Thursday, May 9, 2024 CSD faculty members Chris Donahue and Guy Blelloch are among four School of Computer Science professors who recently received endowed faculty chairs to recognize and support their work and research. Donahue received the Dannenberg Career Development Professorship. Blelloch was one of two recipients of the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professorships of Computer Science. Read More
CSD Researchers Earn Community Award for Cache-Efficiency Research Rashmi Vinayak, Juncheng Yang Among Paper's Authors by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department won the Community Award at the 2024 USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) for work on a new cache-eviction algorithm. The Community Award is given to the best paper where the code, dataset or a combination of both are made publicly available. Read More
Blelloch Named University Professor by Christa Cardone | Thursday, May 2, 2024 Guy Blelloch has been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon University. University Professors are distinguished by international recognition and for their contributions to education, arts and research. They have made exceptional achievements beyond their department and college and embody the highest standards of the university. Read More
Searching for the Limits of Local Error Correction The Key to Better Algorithms Is Making the Math Work by Charlotte Hu | Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Information can be finicky, especially if it has to travel. Whether you're making a phone call over a wireless network, playing music from a CD, or saving a document to a hard drive, when you transform or transmit information from one location to another, it has to go through many channels. Peter Manohar, a Ph.D. student in CMU's Computer Science Department, worked with former assistant professor Pravesh Kothari to develop ways to improve error-correction algorithms by breaking apart the math behind them. Read More
Lenore Blum Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences by Aaron Aupperlee | Friday, April 26, 2024 Lenore Blum, a foundational researcher in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and a tireless advocate for women in math and science, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Blum, who retired from CMU in 2019, was a professor in the Computer Science Department, the founding director of Project Olympus, and co-director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Read More
SCS Student Awarded Goldwater Scholarship by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Claire Jin wants to improve how generative artificial intelligence is incorporated into robotics. The third-year student in the School of Computer Science was selected as one of CMU's three 2024 Goldwater Scholars, one of the most prestigious STEM scholarships for undergraduates. This award comes from the federally endowed Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Read More
CMU Researchers Help Expand Music Generation With Adobe by Marylee Williams | Thursday, April 11, 2024 Shih-Lun Wu is an avid classical piano and viola player, but he learned viola because all the violin seats in his school orchestra had been taken. Now a student in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Wu uses generative AI and machine learning to make music creation more accessible and engaging for people of all abilities. Read More
Behring Foundation Gift Supports International Undergrads in Tech by Kayla Papakie and Krista Burns | Thursday, April 11, 2024 The Behring Foundation, a Brazilian-based family organization focused on empowering talented youth and promoting social development, has established a scholarship to support students from Brazil pursuing tech-related undergraduate degrees at Carnegie Mellon University. The foundation's gift is the first of its kind at CMU, helping to fill a financial aid gap for international undergraduates who may not have as much access to funding opportunities as domestic students. Read More
Four SCS Faculty Named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, February 20, 2024 Four faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science will receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2024. Nathan Beckmann, Aaditya Ramdas, Justine Sherry and Virginia Smith were among the 126 early career researchers announced as fellows. More than a thousand researchers are nominated each year, and winners receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship that can be used to advance their research. Read More
Kanade Receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Computer Vision Legacy by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, February 14, 2024 Carnegie Mellon University's Takeo Kanade received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his decades of pioneering scientific achievements in computer vision and robotic perception. Kanade, a Founders University Professor in the School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department, devised the foundational algorithms that underlie computer vision. Read More
Four SCS Faculty Named 2023 ACM Fellows by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, January 24, 2024 School of Computer Science faculty members Maria Florina Balcan, Roger B. Dannenberg, Ken Koedinger and Elaine Shi have been recognized as 2023 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The distinction, reserved for the top 1% of the association's membership, honors recipients' outstanding work in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Read More
Miller Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, January 11, 2024 Bailey Miller, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, has been selected for a NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. "Our fellowship recipients are among the most talented graduate students in the world," said NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally. "They're working on some of the most important problems in computer science, and we're delighted to support their research." Read More
Researchers Design Simple, High-Performing Cache Eviction Algorithm by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, December 5, 2023 Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD) have designed a method to more efficiently and effectively kick unnecessary items out of the cache, improving the performance of software, servers and websites that rely on cached items. Read More
Wilson Earns 2023 Krulcik Scholarship by Kayla Papakie | Thursday, November 30, 2023 School of Computer Science senior Rachel Wilson's favorite thing about Carnegie Mellon University is being immersed in a community of people who are incredibly passionate about their work. She'd even argue she's learned as much outside the classroom as she has inside. Read More
Yang, Thontakudi Earn 2023 Stehlik Scholarship by Susie Cribbs | Friday, November 17, 2023 School of Computer Science senior Helena Yang and recent graduate Anjali Thontakudi (SCS 2023) don't think they've met, but they have lots in common. Both women served as teaching assistants (TAs) for 15-112: Introduction to Computer Programming. They both experienced an education interrupted by a global pandemic and rose to the resulting challenges. Both have an artistic side they indulged at Carnegie Mellon University, even taking similar-but-different classes in storytelling. Read More
