This summer, Randall Balestriero has joined Brown CS as assistant professor. Visitors to his personal web page may find it somewhat atypical for a young academic. The first words that greet the viewer’s eye are a research area: Practical Deep Learning Theory. Randall’s name appears lower, in a sidebar. The reasoning, he says, is less about humility than the importance of good science and his excitement for a rapidly-evolving field.
The word "hacking" recurs in conversation with Deepti Raghavan, who just finished her doctorate at Stanford University. Not "hacker", a statement of identity, but a course of action, a challenging and rewarding process of analysis and refinement. This fall, Deepti joins Brown CS as assistant professor. She’s one of the four latest hires in the multi-year CS With Impact campaign, our largest expansion to date.
On May 11, Brown CS faculty member Ritambhara Singh gave a keynote address at the 1st International Caparica Conference on Prescriptomics and Precision Medicine, a biomedical conference on safety for precision medicine, which in its first iteration, focused on how researchers can develop models that leverage the properties of different biological or clinical data types that should be integrated to make accurate diagnostic predictions. Prescriptomics is an emerging field focusing on the complex interplay within genetics and their impact on the effectiveness, safety, and response to precision medicine.
Akshay Narayan is skeptical of absolutes. A postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute, his work focuses on ways to make specialization for network environments accessible, and this fall, he joins Brown CS as assistant professor. He’s one of the four latest hires in the multi-year CS With Impact campaign, our largest expansion to date.
Brown CS is happy to announce that effective as of July 1, 2024, faculty member Ellie Pavlick has received a distinguished named chair. Formerly the Manning Assistant Professor of Computer Science, she’s now the Briger Family Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science.
The International Automated Negotiation Agents Competition (ANAC) is now in its 15th iteration of bringing together researchers from the negotiation community and spawning novel research in the field of autonomous agent design. Most recently, it was held at the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Auckland, New Zealand, in May of 2024, where Brown CS students Arnie He and Akash Singirikonda secured second place in the competition’s Supply Chain Management League with faculty member Amy Greenwald as their coach.
It’s never too late to make a change — just ask Michael Abela. The Brown alum graduated in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. In the final semester of his senior year, just months before Commencement, Abela enrolled in a climate solutions course taught by Associate Provost for Sustainability Stephen Porder. To say it was influential is an understatement.
Guided by Brown faculty and staff, Rhode Island high schoolers are completing internships on campus to develop skills and discover career paths in a wide range of subject areas.
Brown University’s Eli Upfal, Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Computer Science, turned seventy in 2024. To celebrate the occasion, four of his former PhD students invited his many collaborators and colleagues over the years to FestivEli, a series of talks and informal chats about the topics most dear to Eli, and where his contributions have been long-lasting and often trendsetting.
Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) is pleased to announce that pending the anticipated approval of Brown’s Corporation, faculty members Malte Schwarzkopf and Ritambhara Singh (also of Brown’s Data Science Institute and Center for Computational Molecular Biology) will receive named professorships. Effective July 1, 2024, Malte will be the Eliot Horowitz ‘03 Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Ritambhara will be the John E. Savage Assistant Professor in Computer Science.
