SCS Faculty Earn Amazon Research Awards

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.

 Faculty members receiving awards include:

• Rohan Padhye, an assistant professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department, for his project, "Automated Synthesis and Evaluation of Property-Based Tests."
• Yonatan Bisk, an assistant professor in the Language Technologies Institute, for his project, "Useful, Safe and Robust Multiturn Interactions With LLMs."
• Todd Mowry, a professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD), for his project, "Efficient LLM Serving on Trainium via Kernel Generation."
• Aayush Jain, an assistant professor in CSD, for his project, "Large Scale Multiparty Silent Preprocessing for MPC From LPN."
• Dimitrios Skarlatos, an assistant professor in CSD, for his project, "Scale-Out FHE LLMs on GPUs."

Amazon Research Award recipients have access to more than 700 Amazon public datasets and can use AWS services and tools. They also consult with an Amazon research contact and can participate in Amazon events and training sessions.

Learn more about the Amazon Research Awards on the Amazon Science website.