"Attending Brown was an extraordinary and transformative experience for many reasons: the close-knit community of graduate students both within the Computer Science Department and across the University that led to the strongest friendships I ever made, the approachable faculty who, despite being well-renowned scholars still appreciated good teaching, the generous mentorship by professors like my advisor Jeff Huang, the remarkable undergraduate students I had the opportunity to teach and work with, and the department and university resources that provided a comfortable living in beautiful Providence and connections with industry and academia."

– Alexandra Papoutsaki, Associate Professor in Computer Science, Pomona College

 

"What makes computer science exciting is that it is such a young, vibrant field. My time at Brown spanned the spectrum from foundational computer science and discrete mathematics with computer science greats like Paris Kanellakis and Jeff Vitter to hard core database performance testing with the likes of Stan Zdonik. The breadth, depth and the easy camaraderie of the computer science department made my stay at Brown for a PhD both a joy and an intellectually rewarding experience. I am also incredibly proud that both my sons also did computer science at Brown and have gone on to become amazing software engineers and entrepreneurs."

– Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, former SVP of Ads and Commerce at Google

 

"The solid theoretical foundation that Brown CS gave me during my graduate study immensely boosted my research career in cybersecurity and AI trustworthiness. My professors trained me to examine complex matters from a broad and abstract perspective that helps simplify problems and prioritize my efforts. This training enables me to tackle extremely messy computing problems with great clarity."

– Danfeng (Daphne) Yao, Professor of Computer Science, Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. '56 Faculty Fellow, and CACI Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech

 

"In my experience the Brown CS department makes it very easy to talk to a professor and join their research groups for projects – I was very surprised how much of like a family feeling our department has when I first came here. This was completely different from my undergrad experience in Switzerland where it was very formal (e.g. calling professors 'Professor XYZ', very little interaction with professors and other college employees outside of just seeing them lecture classes). Whereas here you have a chat with everyone at the coffee machine." 

– Emanuel Zgraggen, Co-founder and CEO at Einblick