Malte Schwarzkopf Receives Brown’s Philip J. Bray Award For Excellence In Teaching In The Physical Sciences
- Posted by Jesse Polhemus
- on May 1, 2025
Brown University’s Dean of the Faculty gives out five different awards annually to recognize excellence in teaching, and this year, Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor of Computer Science Malte Schwarzkopf has received the Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Physical Sciences.
“This is wonderful – and unexpected – news,” says Malte, “and I'm of course delighted to receive this recognition. Teaching students at Brown makes the process of sharing and developing knowledge together a fun and fulfilling experience. It's a privilege to be part of an institution that cares so much about the quality of its teaching.”
Malte’s interests include computer systems, especially distributed systems, operating systems, and privacy-preserving systems. Other recognition for his teaching includes Brown’s Barrett Hazeltine Citation for Excellence in Teaching, Guidance, and Support in 2023 and Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship in 2022. Malte’s also the recipient of an Amazon Research Award (2024), a EuroSys Test-of-Time Award (2023), a Google Research Scholar award (2021), and an NSF CAREER Award (2021) for work on privacy-compliance by construction in web applications. His teaching includes CSCI 0300 Fundamentals of Computer Systems, CSCI 2390 Privacy-Conscious Computer Systems, and – from Fall 2026 – CSCI 1670/1690: Operating Systems.
Malte joins seven prior Brown CS recipients of a Bray Award, with Shriram Krishnamurthi as the most recent (2024). A list of earlier recipients is available here.
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