Latest News School of Computer Science Part of Four New NSF AI Institutes CMU Contributing to Innovations in Caregiving, Agriculture, Wireless Networks by | Thursday, July 29, 2021 Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute fundamental and cutting-edge research to a government-led push to bring about life-changing advances through artificial intelligence. The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a $220 million investment in 11 new Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. School of Computer Science (SCS) researchers will participate in four of the new institutes. Read More Former SCS Dean Randal Bryant Recognized for Contributions to Computer-Aided Verification by | Thursday, July 29, 2021 Randal Bryant, the Founders University Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, and a former dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, recently received an award from the International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) for his pioneering contributions to the foundations of the theory and practice of satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). Read More Balcan Named Simons Investigator by | Thursday, July 22, 2021 The Simons Foundation recently appointed Maria Florina “Nina” Balcan, the Cadence Design Systems professor in computer science, a Simons Investigator in theoretical computer science. Read More Ghosh Named DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow by | Monday, July 19, 2021 The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Souradip Ghosh, an incoming Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, as one of its Computational Science Graduate Fellows (CSGF). The fellowship funds full tuition, provides a yearly stipend and professional development allowance, and offers access to DOE national laboratories and supercomputers. The DOE selected 32 students for its 2021-22 CSGF program. Read More New Faculty, Ph.D. Alumni Honored for Dissertations by | Friday, July 16, 2021 An incoming School of Computer Science faculty member and a former Ph.D. student recently received honors for their dissertations. Read More Veloso Ranked Among Most Highly Influential Women in Engineering by | Wednesday, July 14, 2021 Manuela Veloso, a renowned artificial intelligence researcher, computer scientist and roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University, is among the most influential women in engineering, according to a new list compiled by Academic Influence. Read More Fang, Sandholm honored for significant contributions to AI by | Friday, July 2, 2021 Fei Fang and Tuomas Sandholm, both faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, were recently recognized by the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) for significant research in AI. Fang received the 2021 Computers and Thought Award and Sandholm the 2021 John McCarthy Award. They are among the many CMU faculty members investigating AI and expanding its applications and ensuring its ethical, unbiased and transparent use. Read More SCS Faculty, Ph.D. Student Named to Innovators Under 35 List by | Wednesday, June 30, 2021 Virginia Smith, an assistant professor in the Machine Learning Department, and Priya Donti, a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy departments, have been named to MIT Technology Review's prestigious annual list of Innovators Under 35. The list recognizes exceptionally talented technologists whose work has great potential to transform the world. Read More Computer History Museum Honored Raj Reddy Pioneer in Robotics, AI, Speech Recognition Inducted as Fellow by | Monday, June 21, 2021 The Computer History Museum (CHM) celebrated a pioneer in robotics, artificial intelligence, and speech recognition as it inducted Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University's Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, as a fellow on Thursday, June 24. The honor recognizes extraordinary individuals for a lifetime of achievement in computing and technology. Read More Three SCS Faculty Members Receive Amazon Research Awards by | Friday, June 4, 2021 Amazon selected five Carnegie Mellon University faculty members to receive funding in its latest round of Amazon Research Awards. Of the five selected, three are School of Computer Science faculty members: Katerina Fragkiadaki, Ruben Martins and Heather Miller. David Danks and Sivaraman Balakrishnan from the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences also received fellowships. Read More Two Alumni With SCS Ties Earn Fulbrights by | Thursday, June 3, 2021 Two alumni with ties to the School of Computer Science were among the eight from Carnegie Mellon University recently awarded grants through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Read More Amazon Names Five Graduate Research Fellows as Part of New SCS Collaboration by | Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Five Carnegie Mellon University students with ties to the School of Computer Science were selected for the inaugural Amazon Graduate Research Fellows Program. Amazon and CMU established the program to further the company's commitment to supporting promising researchers across academia. In recent years, the company has collaborated with several major universities to help amplify the work being done by master's and Ph.D. students. The five fellows are Nil-Jana Akpinar, Natalia Lombardi de Oliveria, Divyansh Kaushik, Emre Yolcu and Minji Yoon. Read More Nina Balcan Honored With Cadence Design Systems Professorship by | Thursday, May 20, 2021 Maria Florina "Nina" Balcan recently received the inaugural Cadence Design Systems Chair in Computer Science for the impact her work has had in her departments and across Carnegie Mellon University. Read More SCS Alum Wins Top SIGMOD Dissertation Award by | Tuesday, May 18, 2021 Huanchen Zhang, who earned his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science in 2020, has won the 2021 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award, which recognizes the previous year's best dissertation in the database field. Read More CMU Research Forms Basis for Automatic Database Tuning Service SCS Alums, Faculty Found OtterTune by | Wednesday, May 12, 2021 A School of Computer Science grad student's dissertation has been transformed into a service aimed at improving the databases that power popular websites. OtterTune, a play on the once ubiquitous Auto-Tune, uses machine learning to automatically optimize databases, improving performance and efficiency and potentially saving companies time and money. Users could see faster loading times and improved services with a database humming along in the background. Read More Research by CMU, Twitter Could Improve Cache Efficiency by 60% Team Wins Top Paper Award at USENIX NSDI Conference by | Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Research from Carnegie Mellon University may soon help Twitter run faster and more efficiently. Juncheng Yang, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, and Rashmi Vinayak, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, worked with Yao Yue from Twitter to develop Segcache to make better use of DRAM cache. Read More Three SCS Faculty Selected for Provost's Inclusive Teaching Fellowships by | Friday, May 7, 2021 Three School of Computer Science faculty members will participate in the 2021-2022 Provost's Inclusive Teaching Fellowship program in the university's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation. The program works with a small cohort of faculty to integrate inclusive teaching practices in their classes. The fellows work closely with the Eberly Center to redesign their courses. Read More SCS Doctoral Students Selected for Facebook Fellowships by | Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Two Ph.D. candidates in the School of Computer Science received Facebook Fellowships to support their ongoing research. Now in its 10th year, the fellowship program supports research on important computer science and engineering topics, such as computer vision, programming languages, computational social science and more. Read More Prithvi Okade Awarded Krulcik Scholarship by | Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Prithvi Okade is a pretty familiar face around the School of Computer Science. Some know her as the head teaching assistant for 15-112, Fundamentals of Programming. Some recognize her from the SCS tours they took as prospective students. And to some she was the orientation counselor who helped them get acclimated in their first semesters on campus. Read More SCS Grad, Nurse Team Up To Fix Broken Primary Care System by | Monday, May 3, 2021 Neil Batlivala has blended his expertise in computer science with his interest in medicine to help design a platform that allows doctors to concentrate on their patients. Batlivala, who earned his bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in computational biology in 2014, collaborated with nurse Cassie Choi to found Pair Team, a health-tech startup that frees doctors to focus on patient conversations. Read More CMU Students Among Top Computer Programmers in North American Collegiate Competition by | Friday, April 30, 2021 Three Carnegie Mellon University students will compete against some of the best computer programmers in North America this summer as part of the International Collegiate Programming Competition. Read More Duolingo Named to Time Magazine's List of 100 Most Influential Companies by | Thursday, April 29, 2021 Duolingo's little green owl found itself among prestigious company this week when Time Magazine named the Carnegie Mellon University spinoff and Pittsburgh startup to its list of the 100 most influential companies for 2021. Read More Misha Ivkov Earns Stehlik Scholarship by | Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Misha Ivkov's hands shook during his first college computer science exam. Carnegie Mellon University was a bit overwhelming, much different from high school. But Ivkov got through that first exam — after that, everything was fine, he said — and the soon-to-graduate computer science major went from fearing college during his first weeks to relishing his classes and helping other students find the same experience. "I really enjoyed taking all these classes, so I wanted to be sure other students did too," Ivkov said. "I wanted students to succeed." Read More SCS Remembers Adobe Founder and Ph.D. Alum Charles Geschke by | Tuesday, April 27, 2021 A creator of software that revolutionized the way people collaborate, Charles M. Geschke left his mark on Carnegie Mellon University long after earning his degree. "Chuck" Geschke, who received a Ph.D. in computer science from CMU in 1973 and continued to give back to the university throughout his life, died Friday, April 16, at 81. Read More Algorithm Uses Online Ads To Identify Human Traffickers by | Thursday, April 22, 2021 Ads peddling the victims of human trafficking hide among millions of escort listings online. While identifying similar ads could be the key to taking down a human trafficking organization, the sheer volume of listings — with new ones added each day — makes the task a daunting one for law enforcement. 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School of Computer Science Part of Four New NSF AI Institutes CMU Contributing to Innovations in Caregiving, Agriculture, Wireless Networks by | Thursday, July 29, 2021 Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute fundamental and cutting-edge research to a government-led push to bring about life-changing advances through artificial intelligence. The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a $220 million investment in 11 new Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. School of Computer Science (SCS) researchers will participate in four of the new institutes. Read More
Former SCS Dean Randal Bryant Recognized for Contributions to Computer-Aided Verification by | Thursday, July 29, 2021 Randal Bryant, the Founders University Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, and a former dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, recently received an award from the International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) for his pioneering contributions to the foundations of the theory and practice of satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). Read More
Balcan Named Simons Investigator by | Thursday, July 22, 2021 The Simons Foundation recently appointed Maria Florina “Nina” Balcan, the Cadence Design Systems professor in computer science, a Simons Investigator in theoretical computer science. Read More
Ghosh Named DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow by | Monday, July 19, 2021 The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Souradip Ghosh, an incoming Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, as one of its Computational Science Graduate Fellows (CSGF). The fellowship funds full tuition, provides a yearly stipend and professional development allowance, and offers access to DOE national laboratories and supercomputers. The DOE selected 32 students for its 2021-22 CSGF program. Read More
New Faculty, Ph.D. Alumni Honored for Dissertations by | Friday, July 16, 2021 An incoming School of Computer Science faculty member and a former Ph.D. student recently received honors for their dissertations. Read More
Veloso Ranked Among Most Highly Influential Women in Engineering by | Wednesday, July 14, 2021 Manuela Veloso, a renowned artificial intelligence researcher, computer scientist and roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University, is among the most influential women in engineering, according to a new list compiled by Academic Influence. Read More
Fang, Sandholm honored for significant contributions to AI by | Friday, July 2, 2021 Fei Fang and Tuomas Sandholm, both faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, were recently recognized by the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) for significant research in AI. Fang received the 2021 Computers and Thought Award and Sandholm the 2021 John McCarthy Award. They are among the many CMU faculty members investigating AI and expanding its applications and ensuring its ethical, unbiased and transparent use. Read More
SCS Faculty, Ph.D. Student Named to Innovators Under 35 List by | Wednesday, June 30, 2021 Virginia Smith, an assistant professor in the Machine Learning Department, and Priya Donti, a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy departments, have been named to MIT Technology Review's prestigious annual list of Innovators Under 35. The list recognizes exceptionally talented technologists whose work has great potential to transform the world. Read More
Computer History Museum Honored Raj Reddy Pioneer in Robotics, AI, Speech Recognition Inducted as Fellow by | Monday, June 21, 2021 The Computer History Museum (CHM) celebrated a pioneer in robotics, artificial intelligence, and speech recognition as it inducted Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University's Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, as a fellow on Thursday, June 24. The honor recognizes extraordinary individuals for a lifetime of achievement in computing and technology. Read More
Three SCS Faculty Members Receive Amazon Research Awards by | Friday, June 4, 2021 Amazon selected five Carnegie Mellon University faculty members to receive funding in its latest round of Amazon Research Awards. Of the five selected, three are School of Computer Science faculty members: Katerina Fragkiadaki, Ruben Martins and Heather Miller. David Danks and Sivaraman Balakrishnan from the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences also received fellowships. Read More
Two Alumni With SCS Ties Earn Fulbrights by | Thursday, June 3, 2021 Two alumni with ties to the School of Computer Science were among the eight from Carnegie Mellon University recently awarded grants through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Read More
Amazon Names Five Graduate Research Fellows as Part of New SCS Collaboration by | Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Five Carnegie Mellon University students with ties to the School of Computer Science were selected for the inaugural Amazon Graduate Research Fellows Program. Amazon and CMU established the program to further the company's commitment to supporting promising researchers across academia. In recent years, the company has collaborated with several major universities to help amplify the work being done by master's and Ph.D. students. The five fellows are Nil-Jana Akpinar, Natalia Lombardi de Oliveria, Divyansh Kaushik, Emre Yolcu and Minji Yoon. Read More
Nina Balcan Honored With Cadence Design Systems Professorship by | Thursday, May 20, 2021 Maria Florina "Nina" Balcan recently received the inaugural Cadence Design Systems Chair in Computer Science for the impact her work has had in her departments and across Carnegie Mellon University. Read More
SCS Alum Wins Top SIGMOD Dissertation Award by | Tuesday, May 18, 2021 Huanchen Zhang, who earned his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science in 2020, has won the 2021 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award, which recognizes the previous year's best dissertation in the database field. Read More
CMU Research Forms Basis for Automatic Database Tuning Service SCS Alums, Faculty Found OtterTune by | Wednesday, May 12, 2021 A School of Computer Science grad student's dissertation has been transformed into a service aimed at improving the databases that power popular websites. OtterTune, a play on the once ubiquitous Auto-Tune, uses machine learning to automatically optimize databases, improving performance and efficiency and potentially saving companies time and money. Users could see faster loading times and improved services with a database humming along in the background. Read More
Research by CMU, Twitter Could Improve Cache Efficiency by 60% Team Wins Top Paper Award at USENIX NSDI Conference by | Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Research from Carnegie Mellon University may soon help Twitter run faster and more efficiently. Juncheng Yang, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, and Rashmi Vinayak, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, worked with Yao Yue from Twitter to develop Segcache to make better use of DRAM cache. Read More
Three SCS Faculty Selected for Provost's Inclusive Teaching Fellowships by | Friday, May 7, 2021 Three School of Computer Science faculty members will participate in the 2021-2022 Provost's Inclusive Teaching Fellowship program in the university's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation. The program works with a small cohort of faculty to integrate inclusive teaching practices in their classes. The fellows work closely with the Eberly Center to redesign their courses. Read More
SCS Doctoral Students Selected for Facebook Fellowships by | Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Two Ph.D. candidates in the School of Computer Science received Facebook Fellowships to support their ongoing research. Now in its 10th year, the fellowship program supports research on important computer science and engineering topics, such as computer vision, programming languages, computational social science and more. Read More
Prithvi Okade Awarded Krulcik Scholarship by | Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Prithvi Okade is a pretty familiar face around the School of Computer Science. Some know her as the head teaching assistant for 15-112, Fundamentals of Programming. Some recognize her from the SCS tours they took as prospective students. And to some she was the orientation counselor who helped them get acclimated in their first semesters on campus. Read More
SCS Grad, Nurse Team Up To Fix Broken Primary Care System by | Monday, May 3, 2021 Neil Batlivala has blended his expertise in computer science with his interest in medicine to help design a platform that allows doctors to concentrate on their patients. Batlivala, who earned his bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in computational biology in 2014, collaborated with nurse Cassie Choi to found Pair Team, a health-tech startup that frees doctors to focus on patient conversations. Read More
CMU Students Among Top Computer Programmers in North American Collegiate Competition by | Friday, April 30, 2021 Three Carnegie Mellon University students will compete against some of the best computer programmers in North America this summer as part of the International Collegiate Programming Competition. Read More
Duolingo Named to Time Magazine's List of 100 Most Influential Companies by | Thursday, April 29, 2021 Duolingo's little green owl found itself among prestigious company this week when Time Magazine named the Carnegie Mellon University spinoff and Pittsburgh startup to its list of the 100 most influential companies for 2021. Read More
Misha Ivkov Earns Stehlik Scholarship by | Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Misha Ivkov's hands shook during his first college computer science exam. Carnegie Mellon University was a bit overwhelming, much different from high school. But Ivkov got through that first exam — after that, everything was fine, he said — and the soon-to-graduate computer science major went from fearing college during his first weeks to relishing his classes and helping other students find the same experience. "I really enjoyed taking all these classes, so I wanted to be sure other students did too," Ivkov said. "I wanted students to succeed." Read More
SCS Remembers Adobe Founder and Ph.D. Alum Charles Geschke by | Tuesday, April 27, 2021 A creator of software that revolutionized the way people collaborate, Charles M. Geschke left his mark on Carnegie Mellon University long after earning his degree. "Chuck" Geschke, who received a Ph.D. in computer science from CMU in 1973 and continued to give back to the university throughout his life, died Friday, April 16, at 81. Read More
Algorithm Uses Online Ads To Identify Human Traffickers by | Thursday, April 22, 2021 Ads peddling the victims of human trafficking hide among millions of escort listings online. While identifying similar ads could be the key to taking down a human trafficking organization, the sheer volume of listings — with new ones added each day — makes the task a daunting one for law enforcement. Read More
