Brown CS News

New work (Cope and Drag, also known as CnD) from Brown PLT is a novel lightweight diagramming language. It’s just earned recognition at ECOOP 2025, receiving both a Distinguished Paper and a Distinguished Artifact Award.

Ritambhara aims to develop new computational methods that can combine multiple types of health information to better predict diseases and design effective treatments tailored to each individual, and she’s just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to help pursue them.

The fellowship supports early-career computing researchers who bring interdisciplinary expertise from the social sciences to infuse ethical and societal perspectives into Trustworthy AI development, and Diana Freed is one of the inaugural recipients.

This year, research from Brown Visual Computing (BVC) student Yiqing Liang and her collaborators at NVIDIA was recognized as a best paper award candidate with oral presentation.      

This year’s recipient of CRA's Anita Borg Early Career Award is Adriana Schulz of the University of Washington, who joins Brown CS as Associate Professor this fall. Adriana has been recognized for her outstanding research in computer graphics and her commitment to broadening participation in computing. 

Brown CS is happy to announce that effective July 1, 2025, John E. Savage Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Ritambhara Singh, also a member of the Center for Computational and Molecular Biology, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Brown CS is happy to announce that effective July 1, 2025, Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor of Computer Science Malte Schwarzkopf has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Brown CS is happy to announce that pending the approval of Brown’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2025, faculty member Stefanie Tellex has been appointed to the rank of Full Professor.

Brown CS is happy to announce that effective as of July 1, 2025, faculty members Stephen Bach and Srinath Sridhar have received named chairs. Steve is now the Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Srinath is the John E. Savage Assistant Professor in Computer Science.

Brown CS faculty members Stephen Bach, Ugur Çetintemel, and Ellie Pavlick, along with their collaborators from other campus units, have just received Seed Awards from Brown's Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), and a new project by Brown CS faculty member Nikos Vasilakis has received Honorable Mention for Brown’s Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award.