Doctoral Thesis Oral Defense - Mingxun Zhou April 29, 2025 Practical Private Information Retrieval and Searching with Sublinear Cost
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. 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. More
Student Bug Bounty Discovery Supports picoCTF’s Cybersecurity Education Efforts with $462,000 Gift 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. More
