Brown CS News

Last month, Brown CS faculty member Michael Littman, Brown University’s Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, received one of his profession’s highest honors by being elected an Academy member. 

At this year’s Boston event, Sorin will be joining two of the field's other thought leaders for a keynote panel in memory of genomics pioneer Craig Venter, his colleague and friend.

Each year, Brown CS invites one of the field's most prominent scientists to address wide-ranging topics in honor of Paris. Last month, Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering Leonidas (Leo) J. Guibas of Stanford University delivered the twenty-fifth annual Paris C. Kanellakis Memorial Lecture: “The Space Between The Images – Visual Learning From Relations”.

Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, Stephen Bach has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

The award recognizes strong achievement from undergraduate researchers and provides $13,350 to enable them to continue their work over the summer.

Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown University’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, George Konidaris has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor.

For Erin, the complexity of the immune system is less a mystery than a puzzle waiting to be understood. Everest is driven by a simple question: How can machines better support people in high-pressure environments?

At one of the world's leading cryptography conferences, Anna laid out the field's history, starting with Diffie and Hellman’s breakthrough paper in 1976 that eventually paved the way to secure online communications.

Her work explores how AI systems can reason directly in dynamic 3D environments rather than only through text, including methods that extend 4D capture with generative models.

The award will allow Chen to create a scientific framework that allows machines to learn directly from passive observations and active interactions with the physical environment.