Brown CS News

This year’s lecture was delivered by Claire Mathieu, a former Brown CS faculty member who currently serves as research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Computer Science at Université Paris-Cité (France).

In a testament to Brown Visual Computing’s almost sixty-year tradition of research excellence and leadership, members of the Brown CS community co-authored five of the conference’s accepted papers.

The USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) presented its Best Paper Award this year to a Brown CS team led by doctoral student Evangelos Lamprou and collaborators Lukas Lazarek, a postdoctoral researcher, and faculty member Nikos Vasilakis. Other collaborators include Ethan Williams and Zhuoxuan Zhang of Brown CS, Georgios Kaoukis of the National Technical University of Athens, Michael Greenberg of the Stevens Institute of Technology, and Konstantinos Kallas of UCLA. 

Brown CS is again partnering with Google Research to offer exploreCSR: Socially-Responsible Artificial Intelligence, a semester-long immersive research experience program for undergraduate students.

Brown CS is glad to announce that applications are open for the Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, which provides $13,350 annually to support an undergraduate engaged in an intensive faculty-student summer research partnership with the Department of Computer Science. 

Brown CS PhD student Tassallah Amina Abdullahi has received the Best Social Impact Paper award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), one of the premier international conferences in natural language processing. Her paper, "AfriMed-QA: A Pan-African, Multi-Specialty, Medical Question-Answering Benchmark Dataset", was co-written with several colleagues from institutions such as Georgia Tech, Ohio State University, Masakhane, Kenyatta University, McGill University, and Google Research.

Currently a Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Claire's lecture ("Stable matchings in theory and practice: the example of French college admissions") will be the latest in a series honoring an esteemed member of the Brown CS faculty who retired a decade ago.

The program, first of its kind worldwide, aims to enable these young scientists to conduct high-quality, policy-informed AI research, to empower them to advocate for new AI policies or changes to existing policy, and to build a pipeline of qualified technologists to fill emerging needs in government.

“We don’t have a robust theory of humans,” Will Crichton says. But he’s working on it. Formerly a Brown CS postdoctoral researcher advised by Shriram Krishnamurthi, he returns to the Department this fall as assistant professor. He’s one of two recent hires in the multi-year CS With Impact campaign, our largest expansion to date.