Last semester, Brown CS PhD alum Olya Ohrimenko (now a professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne) received the 2025 Award for Outstanding Research Contribution from the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE). CORE will co-host ACSW 2025 (Australian Computer Science Week) with the Australian Council of Deans of Information and Communications Technology (ACDICT) in early February, where Olya and other CORE winners will receive their awards formally in Brisbane and give keynote talks.
The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) is an annual event focused on research into new techniques for data management. Last month, CIDR 2025 presented two Test of Time awards for papers published in conference years 2003, 2025, and 2007 that had great impact over the last 20 years. One of them (“The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine”) was the work of two Brown CS faculty members and six alums.
CAREER Awards are given in support of outstanding junior faculty teacher-scholars who excel at research, education, and integration of the two within the context of an organizational mission.
Over the weekend of October 5, three Brown CS undergraduates, Noah Kim, Sean Kim, and Eric Yoon, won first place in the Healthcare Track at Yale University’s annual hackathon, dubbed YHack, with their personal project fueled by artificial intelligence.
Second year PhD student Rui-Jie Yew was recently recognized as a runner-up for Best Student Paper at the Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) Conference in San Jose at the end of October.
Brown CS PhD student Tongyu Zhou was recently selected for the annual Rising Stars workshop, a program hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that recognizes underrepresented PhD students and postdocs, especially those who could potentially become faculty members in the coming years.
Brown CS faculty member Ernesto Zaldivar was recently selected to join the Army Cyber Institute (ACI) at West Point as a Cyber Law, Policy, and Strategy Non-Resident Fellow. The ACI bridges the public and private sectors to explore challenges through multiple disciplines, engaging military, government, academic, and industrial cyber communities through partnerships to enable effective Army operations throughout cyberspace. Some topics that the ACI researches include cyberspace operations, electromagnetic warfare, and cyber law and policy.
In a testament to Brown’s tradition of leadership in computer security for 2.5 decades, members of the Brown CS community co-authored 14 of the conference’s accepted papers, served as 7 members of its Program Committee, and were recognized as one of its Distinguished Reviewers.
Ellie and her collaborators are conducting new research to enable us to understand and control so-called “black box” AI by creating tools that inspect, diagnose, and manipulate high-level algorithms.
Brown University Programming Languages Team (Brown PLT) has had three papers accepted at OOPSLA 2024, one of the most prominent international conferences on programming languages and software engineering. Two of them will receive Distinguished Paper Awards.
