Latest News 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 Jain Earns National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Aayush Jain, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The awards are the foundation's most prestigious for young faculty researchers. Jain will use the $600,000 award to study new and underexplored mathematical sources of hardness for cryptography as well as support graduate research in this area. Read More Joshi Among Ten Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Finalists Through 3MT, Doctoral Students Share Accessible Research Sarah Bender by Sarah Bender | Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Carnegie Mellon University’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) pits doctoral students against the clock and each other to explain complex research and captivate their audience in just three minutes. Ten finalists will compete in the 2025 3MT Championship at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11, in the Cohon University Center’s McConomy Auditorium. A livestream will also be available. Read More Using Computer Science To Save the Bees Researchers Use Sensors, Forecasting Models To Track Honeybee Health Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) and the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) have created a system to help beekeepers monitor and analyze the health of their beehives and take corrective actions to prevent colony collapse — when a majority of the worker bees abandon the colony and its queen. Read More Balzer Earns NSF CAREER Award Monday, February 24, 2025 Stephanie Balzer, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The awards are the foundation's most prestigious for young faculty researchers. Read More Faculty Members Named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Two faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2025. Zhihao Jia and Deepak Pathak are 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 Kolter Joins New $10M AI Safety Science Initiative Seeks To Ensure Reliable, Robust AI Systems Friday, February 14, 2025 Zico Kolter will tackle critical artificial intelligence safety issues as part of the new AI Safety Science program established by former Google chief Eric Schmidt. Kolter's work has long focused on the safety and robustness of AI systems. Read More Satyanarayanan Elected to National Academy of Engineering Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Mahadev Satyanarayanan, the Jaime Carbonell University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Satya is viewed as "the father of edge computing" for his seminal 2009 paper "The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing" and decades of pioneering contributions to the field. His research has focused on the challenges of performance, scalability, availability and trust in information systems that reach from the cloud to the mobile edge of the internet. Read More Faculty Participate in Global AI Conferences in Conjunction With Paris AI Action Summit Tuesday, February 11, 2025 Faculty from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science recently traveled to Paris to participate in international gatherings of experts addressing the future of artificial intelligence. Read More CyLab faculty, students to present at NDSS Symposium 2025 Michael Cunningham by Michael Cunningham | Thursday, January 30, 2025 Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 32nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium. Held at Wyndham San Diego Bayside from February 24th through the 28th, the event fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. Read More Balcan Named AAAI Fellow Wednesday, January 29, 2025 The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has named Nina Balcan, the Cadence Design Systems Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, a fellow for her significant contributions to the foundations of machine learning and its applications to multiagent systems and modern algorithm design. Read More Faculty Earn CyLab Seed Funding Monday, January 27, 2025 This year, CyLabOpens in new window has awarded more than $400K in seed funding to 16 CMU students, faculty, and staff members from five departments at the university. The funding was awarded on the projects’ intellectual merit, originality, potential impact, and fit towards the Security and Privacy Institute’s priorities. Read More Tim Dettmers & Aviral Kumar Named AI2050 Early Career Fellows Thursday, January 23, 2025 Aviral Kumar and Tim Dettmers are two of 25 scholars receiving support for a two-year research project. The two CSD professors were named AI2050 Early Career Fellows. Schmidt Sciences, a nonprofit organization aimed at accelerating scientific knowledge, presents the award to researchers who want to address global challenges in AI and help society realize the field's potential benefits. Read More Pangea Tool Expands LLMs Global Reach Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Artificial intelligence and large language models (LLM) increasingly complete or supplement everyday tasks, from using search engines to creating art. However, these tools and their datasets rely mostly on English and Western-centric languages, limiting access for people who speak any of the thousands of other languages used worldwide. Read More Student Bug Bounty Discovery Supports picoCTF’s Cybersecurity Education Efforts with $462,000 Gift Michael Cunningham by Michael Cunningham | Tuesday, January 7, 2025 Seunghyun Lee, a first-year Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department , was recently conducting some routine research on Google Chrome’s source code. Through his fuzzing research, Lee discovered a faulty implementation in Google Chrome's WebAssembly type system. Subtle design issues in the WebAssembly code, including optimizing compilers, facilitated a series of bugs that led to fragile sites that could easily be exploited. Read More Innovative CMU Secure Blockchain Initiative Research, in Collaboration with Anaxi Labs, Focuses on Improving the Efficiency of Cryptographic Proof Systems Michael Cunningham by Michael Cunningham | Tuesday, December 10, 2024 A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers featuring Riad Wahby , assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kunming Jiang , Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, and Fraser Brown, assistant professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department, is overcoming the tradeoff between approaches that optimize for the CPU emulator, which is generally easier to program, versus the direct translation approach, which is potentially much less expensive in new research that is supported by Anaxi Labs. Read More Accessing Recipe Information Without Looking SCS Researchers Gain Cooking Insights From People With Low Vision Thursday, December 5, 2024 "Cook until golden brown" is a recipe instruction virtually every home cook encounters. It's simple enough for sighted people to follow but for people with limited vision, it's just one of many obstacles that can make following a recipe frustrating. Franklin Mingzhe Li, a PhD student in HCII, and Ashley Wang, a master's graduate of the Computer Science Department who is now a software engineer with Meta, are lead authors of "A Recipe for Success? Exploring Strategies for Improving Non-Visual Access to Cooking Instructions", which was presented at the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024). Read More Enabling Developers to Write Provably Correct Software Krista Burns by Krista Burns | Monday, November 18, 2024 Computer code is the foundation of technology today. As software becomes an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, we need ways to ensure that critical software systems remain free of certain classes of defects and vulnerabilities. CSD professors Bryan Parno, Marijn Heule and Ruben Martins along with Jeremy Avigad, a professor in the philosophy department, are focusing on just that. Read More Watermarked LLMs Offer Benefits, but Leading Strategies Come With Tradeoffs Thursday, November 14, 2024 A new study from Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science researchers looks at the tradeoffs of some of the most popular techniques used to watermark content generated by LLMs and offers strategies to mitigate against their shortcomings. Read More Two SCS Professors Receive Samsung Researcher of the Year Awards Monday, November 11, 2024 Carnegie Mellon University faculty members Aviral Kumar and Jun-Yan Zhu have been named 2024 Samsung AI Researchers of the Year. The award, which includes $30,000 in prize money, recognizes promising researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. Read More SCS Professor Recognized as Distinguished Alumnus Monday, November 4, 2024 Nihar Shah, an associate professor in the School of Computer Science's Computer Science and Machine Learning Departments, received an inaugural alumni award from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The IISc, a premier research university in Bengaluru, recognizes notable alumni who have made significant contributions in their fields of study, society and more. Read More SCS Faculty Receive Google Academic Research Awards Wednesday, October 30, 2024 Nine School of Computer Science faculty members recently received Google Academic Research Awards, which aim to fund and actively collaborate with researchers to generate meaningful work with real-world applications. Award amounts vary but can provide up to $100,000 for their duration. Read More CSD, Texas A&M Researchers Protect AI of the Future Thursday, October 17, 2024 Trust is vital to the widespread acceptance of AI across industries, but one barrier to increasing that trust is that the algorithms powering AI are vulnerable to attacks. And people know it. David Woodruff, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, and Samson Zhou, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, hope to change that. 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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
Jain Earns National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Aayush Jain, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The awards are the foundation's most prestigious for young faculty researchers. Jain will use the $600,000 award to study new and underexplored mathematical sources of hardness for cryptography as well as support graduate research in this area. Read More
Joshi Among Ten Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Finalists Through 3MT, Doctoral Students Share Accessible Research Sarah Bender by Sarah Bender | Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Carnegie Mellon University’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) pits doctoral students against the clock and each other to explain complex research and captivate their audience in just three minutes. Ten finalists will compete in the 2025 3MT Championship at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11, in the Cohon University Center’s McConomy Auditorium. A livestream will also be available. Read More
Using Computer Science To Save the Bees Researchers Use Sensors, Forecasting Models To Track Honeybee Health Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) and the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) have created a system to help beekeepers monitor and analyze the health of their beehives and take corrective actions to prevent colony collapse — when a majority of the worker bees abandon the colony and its queen. Read More
Balzer Earns NSF CAREER Award Monday, February 24, 2025 Stephanie Balzer, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The awards are the foundation's most prestigious for young faculty researchers. Read More
Faculty Members Named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Two faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2025. Zhihao Jia and Deepak Pathak are 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
Kolter Joins New $10M AI Safety Science Initiative Seeks To Ensure Reliable, Robust AI Systems Friday, February 14, 2025 Zico Kolter will tackle critical artificial intelligence safety issues as part of the new AI Safety Science program established by former Google chief Eric Schmidt. Kolter's work has long focused on the safety and robustness of AI systems. Read More
Satyanarayanan Elected to National Academy of Engineering Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Mahadev Satyanarayanan, the Jaime Carbonell University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Satya is viewed as "the father of edge computing" for his seminal 2009 paper "The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing" and decades of pioneering contributions to the field. His research has focused on the challenges of performance, scalability, availability and trust in information systems that reach from the cloud to the mobile edge of the internet. Read More
Faculty Participate in Global AI Conferences in Conjunction With Paris AI Action Summit Tuesday, February 11, 2025 Faculty from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science recently traveled to Paris to participate in international gatherings of experts addressing the future of artificial intelligence. Read More
CyLab faculty, students to present at NDSS Symposium 2025 Michael Cunningham by Michael Cunningham | Thursday, January 30, 2025 Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 32nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium. Held at Wyndham San Diego Bayside from February 24th through the 28th, the event fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. Read More
Balcan Named AAAI Fellow Wednesday, January 29, 2025 The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has named Nina Balcan, the Cadence Design Systems Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, a fellow for her significant contributions to the foundations of machine learning and its applications to multiagent systems and modern algorithm design. Read More
Faculty Earn CyLab Seed Funding Monday, January 27, 2025 This year, CyLabOpens in new window has awarded more than $400K in seed funding to 16 CMU students, faculty, and staff members from five departments at the university. The funding was awarded on the projects’ intellectual merit, originality, potential impact, and fit towards the Security and Privacy Institute’s priorities. Read More
Tim Dettmers & Aviral Kumar Named AI2050 Early Career Fellows Thursday, January 23, 2025 Aviral Kumar and Tim Dettmers are two of 25 scholars receiving support for a two-year research project. The two CSD professors were named AI2050 Early Career Fellows. Schmidt Sciences, a nonprofit organization aimed at accelerating scientific knowledge, presents the award to researchers who want to address global challenges in AI and help society realize the field's potential benefits. Read More
Pangea Tool Expands LLMs Global Reach Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Artificial intelligence and large language models (LLM) increasingly complete or supplement everyday tasks, from using search engines to creating art. However, these tools and their datasets rely mostly on English and Western-centric languages, limiting access for people who speak any of the thousands of other languages used worldwide. Read More
Student Bug Bounty Discovery Supports picoCTF’s Cybersecurity Education Efforts with $462,000 Gift Michael Cunningham by Michael Cunningham | Tuesday, January 7, 2025 Seunghyun Lee, a first-year Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department , was recently conducting some routine research on Google Chrome’s source code. Through his fuzzing research, Lee discovered a faulty implementation in Google Chrome's WebAssembly type system. Subtle design issues in the WebAssembly code, including optimizing compilers, facilitated a series of bugs that led to fragile sites that could easily be exploited. Read More
Innovative CMU Secure Blockchain Initiative Research, in Collaboration with Anaxi Labs, Focuses on Improving the Efficiency of Cryptographic Proof Systems Michael Cunningham by Michael Cunningham | Tuesday, December 10, 2024 A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers featuring Riad Wahby , assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kunming Jiang , Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, and Fraser Brown, assistant professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department, is overcoming the tradeoff between approaches that optimize for the CPU emulator, which is generally easier to program, versus the direct translation approach, which is potentially much less expensive in new research that is supported by Anaxi Labs. Read More
Accessing Recipe Information Without Looking SCS Researchers Gain Cooking Insights From People With Low Vision Thursday, December 5, 2024 "Cook until golden brown" is a recipe instruction virtually every home cook encounters. It's simple enough for sighted people to follow but for people with limited vision, it's just one of many obstacles that can make following a recipe frustrating. Franklin Mingzhe Li, a PhD student in HCII, and Ashley Wang, a master's graduate of the Computer Science Department who is now a software engineer with Meta, are lead authors of "A Recipe for Success? Exploring Strategies for Improving Non-Visual Access to Cooking Instructions", which was presented at the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024). Read More
Enabling Developers to Write Provably Correct Software Krista Burns by Krista Burns | Monday, November 18, 2024 Computer code is the foundation of technology today. As software becomes an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, we need ways to ensure that critical software systems remain free of certain classes of defects and vulnerabilities. CSD professors Bryan Parno, Marijn Heule and Ruben Martins along with Jeremy Avigad, a professor in the philosophy department, are focusing on just that. Read More
Watermarked LLMs Offer Benefits, but Leading Strategies Come With Tradeoffs Thursday, November 14, 2024 A new study from Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science researchers looks at the tradeoffs of some of the most popular techniques used to watermark content generated by LLMs and offers strategies to mitigate against their shortcomings. Read More
Two SCS Professors Receive Samsung Researcher of the Year Awards Monday, November 11, 2024 Carnegie Mellon University faculty members Aviral Kumar and Jun-Yan Zhu have been named 2024 Samsung AI Researchers of the Year. The award, which includes $30,000 in prize money, recognizes promising researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. Read More
SCS Professor Recognized as Distinguished Alumnus Monday, November 4, 2024 Nihar Shah, an associate professor in the School of Computer Science's Computer Science and Machine Learning Departments, received an inaugural alumni award from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The IISc, a premier research university in Bengaluru, recognizes notable alumni who have made significant contributions in their fields of study, society and more. Read More
SCS Faculty Receive Google Academic Research Awards Wednesday, October 30, 2024 Nine School of Computer Science faculty members recently received Google Academic Research Awards, which aim to fund and actively collaborate with researchers to generate meaningful work with real-world applications. Award amounts vary but can provide up to $100,000 for their duration. Read More
CSD, Texas A&M Researchers Protect AI of the Future Thursday, October 17, 2024 Trust is vital to the widespread acceptance of AI across industries, but one barrier to increasing that trust is that the algorithms powering AI are vulnerable to attacks. And people know it. David Woodruff, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, and Samson Zhou, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, hope to change that. Read More
