Brown CS News

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.

As a PhD candidate in Malte Schwarzkopf's Efficient and Trustworthy Operating Systems (ETOS) group, Dak Albab has made a significant impact through his profound dedication to going above and beyond for his students.

Brown CS has just announced that it's recognizing twenty-four graduating seniors for their academic accomplishments as well as their service to the department this year.

Brown University’s Dean of the Faculty gives out five different awards annually to recognize excellence in teaching, and this year, Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor of Computer Science Malte Schwarzkopf has received the Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Physical Sciences.  

After forty-five years at Brown, Kathy Kirman Billings, Project and Financial Manager for Brown CS Technical Staff (tstaff), is retiring. Above everything else, she describes the Department as a tight-knit community: “People care about each other and look out for each other. I’ve gotten to know so many students over the years, and I’m still friends with some of them.”

Skylar, a member of the Class of 2026, has earned one of the nation's leading undergraduate scholarships for her achievements in mathematics, engineering and the natural sciences.

Less than a year after receiving the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography and being named an Identity 25 Digital Pioneer, Brown CS faculty member Anna Lysyanskaya has received another high honor in the field of cryptography. 

Brown CS doctoral student Rahul Sajnani has just been honored with the Best Student Paper Award for his research (“GeoDiffuser: Geometry-Based Image Editing with Diffusion Models”) at the 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).

Joseph was recognized as a leader in his field whose significant contributions meet or exceed the criteria of existing VGTC awards by being inducted into the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy at the annual IEEE VR conference.

Last month, SIGPLAN chose the 2023 work by forthcoming Brown CS faculty member Will Crichton, doctoral student Gavin Gray (formerly at ETH Zürich), and faculty member Shriram Krishnamurthi as one of four Research Highlights papers from the 2021-2023 period.