Brown CS News

Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, Stephen Bach has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

The award recognizes strong achievement from undergraduate researchers and provides $13,350 to enable them to continue their work over the summer.

Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown University’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, George Konidaris has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor.

For Erin, the complexity of the immune system is less a mystery than a puzzle waiting to be understood. Everest is driven by a simple question: How can machines better support people in high-pressure environments?

At one of the world's leading cryptography conferences, Anna laid out the field's history, starting with Diffie and Hellman’s breakthrough paper in 1976 that eventually paved the way to secure online communications.

Her work explores how AI systems can reason directly in dynamic 3D environments rather than only through text, including methods that extend 4D capture with generative models.

The award will allow Chen to create a scientific framework that allows machines to learn directly from passive observations and active interactions with the physical environment.

This year’s event was held from April 10-11 and Brown CS student Eashan Iyer, who expects to concentrate in Mathematical Physics and Computer Science, was part of a cross-university team that placed second in the competition.

The waves are calling, the blue expanse with its endless opportunities to tinker with oil coolers and hose clamps and heat exchangers, to pull up alongside other sailors at the close of day and be social or not. John is weighing anchor: he’s retiring from Brown after 42 years of teaching, with 32 spent at Brown CS.

The AAAS has elected Brown CS PhD alum Danfeng (Daphne) Yao (now Professor of CS, Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. '56 Faculty Fellow, and CACI Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech) to the rank of Fellow.