Brown CS News

At Brown University's nurturing ground for young entrepreneurs, Brown CS student Aric Zhuang and Brown student Caitlin Pintavorn placed second and took home a $15,000 prize for their new start-up, CASTYR, at the annual Brown Venture Prize.The Brown Venture Prize  is an initiative from the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship designed to empower …

by Jessica DaiI caught the CS bug much like many others at Brown: through the games and brightly-colored pixels of the 15-16 sequence. I was enthralled by knowing there was a direct link between lines of code I had typed and the animations on my screen, but still, I had …

Learnable.ai, co-founded by Brown CS alum Guan "Royal" Wang, is a human-centered artificial intelligence (AI) company. Originating from the Harvard Innovation Lab, it provides fully-automated grading AI for K-12 subjects, application programming interfaces for optical character recognition, AI-driven financial products, and other personalized services. Last month, it was named a Technology Pioneer by the …

Professor Sohini Ramachandran of Brown University's Center for Computational Molecular Biology  and Brown CS has just been awarded the Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Physical Sciences.Each year the Dean of the Faculty gives out five different awards to recognize continued excellence in teaching. The Philip …

Milda Zizyte has just joined Brown CS as our newest lecturer. She’s the latest hire in the multi-year CS With Impact campaign, the most significant expansion in Brown CS history. Asked about her heroes in life, she says, “It’s kind of a cliché but also not – I’m inspired by …

by Kevin Stacey (Senior Writer, Physical Sciences) The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is one of the most prestigious awards in theoretical computing — and it’s named for a renowned Brown University professor who was killed in a tragic airplane …

Thanks to an exploreCSR award from Google, Professors Amy Greenwald, Jeff Huang, Daniel Ritchie (lead organizer of the project), and James Tompkin of Brown CS have spent the past semester deploying a program for college students from HUGs in CS that exposed them to socially-responsible ways that AI can be used to realize creative visions. Working virtually, students from around the country became …

This week, Professor Eli Upfal of Brown CS and his collaborators received one of theoretical computer science's  highest honors, an award that also pays tribute to Eli's predecessor at Brown University. Together with Yossi Azar (Tel Aviv University), Andrei Broder (Google Research), Anna Karlin (University of Washington), and Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University), Upfal has won the Association …