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Raghunathan Awarded 2024 Okawa Research Grant
Thursday, October 3, 2024 Aditi Raghunathan, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, has received the 2024 Okawa Research Grant for her work in creating trustworthy large language models (LLMs). Raghunathan is one of six U.S. professors who received this grant from the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. The foundation awarded 14 total grants to professors in the U.S., South Korea and China. Read More
CSD, LTI Students Named 2025 Siebel Scholars
Friday, September 20, 2024 School of Computer Science students Sara McAllister and Aashiq Muhamed have been named 2025 Siebel Scholars. As part of the program, each of them will receive $35,000. Founded in 2000 by the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation, the Siebel Scholars program recognizes nearly 80 students each year whose work influences the technologies, policies, and economic and social decisions that shape the future. Read More
Skarlatos Receives Intel Rising Star Faculty Award for Data Center Innovations
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 Dimitrios Skarlatos, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, has received a 2024 Intel Rising Star Faculty Award. Presented annually, the $50,000 award recognizes early career faculty whose work has the potential to disrupt industries and facilitates long-term collaboration between academia and senior technical leaders at Intel. Read More
SCS Launches 'Does Compute' Podcast
Podcast Explores How Computer Science Builds Useful Stuff That Works
Thursday, September 5, 2024 Carnegie Mellon University's top-ranked School of Computer Science (SCS) created "Does Compute" to explore how computer science is building useful stuff that works. The podcast delves into the latest innovations in computer science and discusses the real-world impact of these technologies. Read More
Meredith Meyer Grelli Appointed New Director of Project Olympus
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 Meredith Meyer Grelli will be the new director of Project Olympus, which provides support and resources to faculty, students, alumni and staff aspiring to transform their research and ideas into startups. Read More
CSD Faculty win two “Test of Time” awards at USENIX 2024
Michael Cunninghamby Michael Cunningham | Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Matt Fredrikson, associate professor in the Computer Science Department and Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D), and Bryan Parno, professor in the Computer Science Department and Kavčić-Moura professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, were honored with prestigious “Test of Time” awards during the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium. Read More
Prudentia Project Explores How Internet Applications Share the Same Connection
Friday, August 16, 2024 A new study from researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD) and CyLab Security and Privacy Institute aims to find out. The Prudentia project explores how popular internet services — from Netflix to Google Drive — perform when sharing the same internet connection. Read More
CMU Hacking Team Wins DEF CON Capture-the-Flag Title
Third Win in a Row, Eighth Overall Makes Plaid Parliament of Pwning Winningest Team in Competition History
Monday, August 12, 2024 The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its third consecutive title, earning its eighth victory in the past 12 years. Read More
Carnegie Mellon's Kolter Joins OpenAI's Board of Directors, Safety and Security Committee
Thursday, August 8, 2024 Kolter will also join the board's Safety and Security Committee. The committee is responsible for making recommendations on critical safety and security decisions for all OpenAI projects. Read More
Revisiting Fundamental Equations in Computer Graphics
SCS Research Shines at SIGGRAPH 2024
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 The use of computer graphics has expanded beyond making realistic movie and video game effects to fields like architecture and robotics. As the field evolves, researchers continue to reformulate the basic components powering computer graphics in hopes of creating versions that are more efficient, expressive and in tune with the broader needs of science and engineering. Read More
Watch Out IKEA: CMU Researchers Eye Knitted Furniture
Robotics Institute Introduces Solid Knitting as New Fabrication Technique
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 The CMU team presented its solid knitting research and the prototype machine at SIGGRAPH 2024, the annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, where it won an honorable mention in the Best Paper competition. SIGGRAPH posted a blog entry about the project. Read More
CSD Graduate Katherine Kosaian Receives 2024 Bill McCune PhD Award
Breakthrough in the testing of cyber-physical systems
Jenn Landefeldby Jenn Landefeld | Thursday, July 11, 2024
Katherine Kosaian, formerly Cordwell, who received her doctoral degree from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Bill McCune PhD Award. Her dissertation, Formally Verifying Algorithms for Real Quantifier Elimination, was chosen for its strong theoretical and practical contributions to formally verified quantifier elimination for the first-order logic of real arithmetic. Read More
School of Computer Science Launches CMU TechBridge Coding Bootcamp
Tuesday, June 25, 2024The 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.
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ACM Honors Blelloch's Work in Algorithm Engineering
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
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
Monday, June 10, 2024Generative 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).
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Obituary: C. Gordon Bell Built the Foundation for Modern Computing
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
Thursday, May 23, 2024Researchers 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.
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SCS Doctoral Student Receives Hertz Fellowship
Marylee Williamsby 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.
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SCS Alum Wins Top SIGecom Dissertation Award
Marylee Williamsby 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.
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CSD Faculty Earns Google Research Scholar Award
Adam Kohlhaasby 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.
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SCS Ph.D. Student Earns Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Tuesday, May 14, 2024Kaiyang 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.
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SCS Faculty Receive Endowed Professorships
Marylee Williamsby 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.
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CSD Researchers Earn Community Award for Cache-Efficiency Research
Rashmi Vinayak, Juncheng Yang Among Paper's Authors
Marylee Williamsby 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.
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Blelloch Named University Professor
Thursday, May 2, 2024Guy 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.
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