Brown CS News

New work (Cope and Drag, also known as CnD) from Brown PLT is a novel lightweight diagramming language. It’s just earned recognition at ECOOP 2025, receiving both a Distinguished Paper and a Distinguished Artifact Award.

Ritambhara aims to develop new computational methods that can combine multiple types of health information to better predict diseases and design effective treatments tailored to each individual, and she’s just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to help pursue them.

Brown CS alum James Hendler has recently been honored with the 2025 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Feigenbaum Prize for his groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence. The award recognizes Jim’s sustained and seminal contributions to experimental AI, especially related to AI planning systems, knowledge representation, and the Semantic Web, fields that have helped lay the foundation for modern AI applications. Jim completed his PhD at Brown under the late Eugene Charniak, whose mentorship, he says, played a formative role in his career.

The fellowship supports early-career computing researchers who bring interdisciplinary expertise from the social sciences to infuse ethical and societal perspectives into Trustworthy AI development, and Diana Freed is one of the inaugural recipients.

This year, research from Brown Visual Computing (BVC) student Yiqing Liang and her collaborators at NVIDIA was recognized as a best paper award candidate with oral presentation.      

Brown CS faculty member Serena Booth has been named a 2025 Azrieli Global Scholar for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), an honor that recognizes outstanding early-career researchers from around the world. This award will support Serena’s work in human-AI interaction and AI policy​, connecting her with a global network of scientists as she develops new approaches for AI systems that better align with human values. As part of this recognition, Serena will receive $100,000 CAD in unrestricted research support to advance her work.

This year’s recipient of CRA's Anita Borg Early Career Award is Adriana Schulz of the University of Washington, who joins Brown CS as Associate Professor this fall. Adriana has been recognized for her outstanding research in computer graphics and her commitment to broadening participation in computing. 

Brown CS is happy to announce that effective July 1, 2025, John E. Savage Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Ritambhara Singh, also a member of the Center for Computational and Molecular Biology, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Brown CS is happy to announce that effective July 1, 2025, Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor of Computer Science Malte Schwarzkopf has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Brown CS is happy to announce that pending the approval of Brown’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2025, faculty member Stefanie Tellex has been appointed to the rank of Full Professor.