Brown CS News

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.

ACM SIGGRAPH has recently named four people to the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy, and one of them is Brown CS faculty member John Hughes, recognized for his outstanding contributions and sustained leadership to computer graphics education and research.

“I don’t think retirement means much to Stan,” says Nesime Tatbul. Currently a Senior Staff Research Scientist for Intel Labs and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she’s one of his former PhD students. After more than four decades as a Brown CS faculty member, Stan Zdonik is retiring at the end of this semester.

Tom was the fifth hire in the Department’s history and has served in multiple leadership roles, including Vice-Chair, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Director of the Master’s program. He’ll retire at the end of the semester after almost five decades in the classroom.

A new AI model created by researchers at Brown can generate motion in all kinds of robots and animated figures — humanoids, quadrupeds and more — from simple text commands.

With Someone, Please Knock, says the digital sign outside CIT 403, but not for much longer. Brown CS faculty member Steven P. Reiss, one of the Department’s seven co-founders, will be retiring at the end of the semester after almost five decades in the classroom.