Members of the Brown CS faculty have made historic contributions to global cybersecurity and nuclear non-proliferation, launched a world-class virtual reality environment, played a major role in the expansion of K-12 computer science education, and received honors from sources as diverse as Wired UK and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
These are just a handful of stories from recent years (visit Brown CS News and Brown CS Blog for others). Click any link below to read the full article.
2024
Ellie Pavlick Receives Brown’s Early Career Research Achievement Award
Ritambhara Singh Receives Brown University's Dean's Award For Excellence In Teaching
Anna Lysyanskaya Has Been Recognized As An Identity 25 Digital Identity Pioneer
Anna Lysyanskaya Receives The Levchin Prize For Real-World Cryptography
Tim Nelson, Daniel Ritchie, And James Tompkin Receive Promotions
Robert Y. Lewis Co-Founds A New Formalized Mathematics Journal
Michael Littman’s New Series Of Educational Videos Explores Weird, Wondrous CS
John Hughes Ranks In The Top 0.21% Of Stack Exchange’s Math Users
The Brown Daily Herald Meets CSCI 0150's New AI-Powered Chatbot Teaching Assistant
2023
Vasileios Kemerlis Receives The 2023 ACM CCS Top Reviewer Award
Michael Littman's New Book Recommends That We "Code To Joy" In A New Age Of Programming
Michael Littman Receives The AAAI/EAAI Patrick Henry Winston Outstanding Educator Award
John Savage Co-Authors A New Book: "Security In The Cyber Age"
DIMACS Workshop Bridges LLMs And Game Theory
15 Of 88 Picks For Volume Two Of SIGGRAPH's "Seminal Graphics Papers" Have A Brown CS Connection
Ntousakis, Kemerlis, Vasilakis, And Collaborators Win The ACM ASIACCS ‘23 Distinguished Paper Award
Malte Schwarzkopf Receives A Hazeltine Citation For Excellence In Teaching, Guidance, And Support
Eli Upfal And Collaborators Receive A 2023 RECOMB Test Of Time Award
Brown Professor To Receive IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award
Andy van Dam Will Speak At The 50th SIGGRAPH Conference
Malte Schwarzkopf Receives A 2023 EuroSys Test Of Time Award
Kathi Fisler And Shriram Krishnamurthi Receive SIGPLAN’s Distinguished Educator Award
Philip Klein And Brown CS Alums Receive The 2023 STOC Test Of Time Award
Anna Lysyanskaya Receives A Named Chair
Brown CS Will Host HotOS 2023, Bringing The World’s Top Systems Researchers To Campus
Barbara Meier Has Been Promoted To Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Ugur Cetintemel Receives Brown University's President's Award For Excellence In Faculty Governance
Chen Sun Receives A Salomon Award For Learning From Astronaut Spacewalk Videos
Brown CS Alum Ani Kristo And Collaborators Are 2022 Sort Benchmark Winners
Kathi Fisler Talks Socially Responsible Computing At The Inaugural Embedded Ethics Conference
Suresh Venkatasubramanian Tells Congress That AI Guardrails Are Needed
60 Minutes Asks Ellie Pavlick About ChatGPT And Large Language Model Bias
Seny Kamara And Charalampos Papamanthou Win The 2022 CCS Test-Of-Time Award
Maurice Herlihy Becomes An Inaugural CNRS Fellow-Ambassadeur
Laidlaw, van Dam, And Two Brown CS Alums Win An IEEE CG&A Test Of Time Paper Award
2022
Sherief Reda Has Been Named An IEEE Fellow
Sorin Istrail Wins A 2021 ESA Test-Of-Time Award
Andy van Dam's CSCI 0150 Gets 2 Million TikTok Views, Reports The Brown Daily Herald
The Brown Daily Herald Asks Venkatasubramanian About Working On An AI Bill Of Rights
Brown Computer Scientist Aims To Protect People In An Age Of Artificial Intelligence
Theophilus A. Benson Wins A 2022 ACM SIGCOMM Test Of Time Award
A Physics-CS Collaboration: Detecting Satellite RFI
Michael Littman Wins The IJCAI John McCarthy Award
Carsten Eickhoff Is Elected Treasurer Of ACM's Special Group On Information Retrieval
Four Brown CS Professors Receive Named Chairs
Kamara, Moataz, and MongoDB's "Queryable Encryption" Will Let Data Stay Protected During Search
Kuang-Chen Lu, Ben Greenman, And Shriram Krishnamurthi Win The <Programming> Editors' Choice Award
Srinath Sridhar Wins An NSF CAREER Award For Robotic Perception Of Human Physical Skills
Kathi Fisler Joins The CACM Editorial Board
George Konidaris Has Been Promoted To Associate Professor With Tenure
Theophilus A. Benson Has Been Promoted To Associate Professor With Tenure
Serdar Kadioglu Gives A Featured Talk On Multi-Objective Optimization At NVIDIA GTC
Kaiyu Zheng, George Konidaris, And Stefanie Tellex Of Brown CS Win The IROS RoboCup Best Paper Award
Kathi Fisler Has Been Named An ACM Distinguished Member
R. Iris Bahar Has Been Elevated To A Fellow Of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2021
Brown CS Students, Alums, And Faculty Win Two CSCW Honors
Andy van Dam Has Been Honored As A Computing History Museum Fellow
Michael Littman And Collaborators Win IJCAI's Classic AIJ Paper Award
A Brown CS Team Takes Third Place At The Thirteenth AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition
Wrenn, Nelson, And Krishnamurthi Win The <Programming> Editors' Choice Award
Ernesto Zaldivar Was Named One Of USC's Best Election Cybersecurity Presenters
R. Iris Bahar Gives A Keynote At ASAP 2021
Eli Upfal And Collaborators Win A Prestigious Award Named For His Late Predecessor
George Konidaris Wins Brown's Romer Prize For Undergraduate Advising And Mentoring
Eli Upfal And Collaborators Receive ACM's Paris Kanellakis Theory And Practice Award
Kamara, Moataz, Park, And Qin Explore Possibilities For An Ultra-Secure Gun Registry
DARPA Names Theophilus A. Benson To Its Information Science And Technology (ISAT) Study Group
Sorin Istrail Has Been Named An International Society For Computational Biology Fellow
Malte Schwarzkopf Wins An NSF CAREER Award For Privacy-Compliant Web Services By Construction
Tim Nelson Has Been Appointed As Lecturer Of Computer Science
George Konidaris And Collaborators Win The IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Award
2020
Amy Greenwald Gives A Keynote At IntelliSys 2020
Stefanie Tellex Brings A Drone-Based Robotics Class To Local High Schools
Seny Kamara Keynotes CRYPTO 2020 With "Crypto For The People"
Vasileios Kemerlis Wins A Greek Diaspora Fellowship For Internet Of Things Software Hardening
Kathi Fisler Will Discuss COVID K-12 Learning Loss At The Futures Forum On Learning
Brown CS Alums And Adjunct Faculty Win The Longuet-Higgins Prize And The PAMI Young Researcher Award
Brown CS Students, Faculty, And Alums Publish Seven Papers At SIGMOD 2020
Brown CS Faculty And Alums Win Facebook Privacy Research Awards
Cetintemel, Istrail, Singh, And Collaborators Receive COVID-19 Research Seed Fund Grants
Malte Schwarzkopf Wins A Salomon Award For GDPR-Compliant System Design
Michael Littman Receives Brown's Distinguished Research Achievement Award
Amy Greenwald Moderates an AAAI Panel on Advancing AI By Playing Games
Jeff Huang Has Been Promoted To Assistant Professor With Tenure
New Research May Help Bring About Significant Blockchain Speedups
Areyan And Greenwald Take Second Place In The International Automated Negotiation Agents Competition
Michael Littman Has Been Named An AAAS Leshner Fellow
Theophilus Benson Wins The Eurosys Best Student Paper Award
Ellie Pavlick's Work With Language Acquisition And Information Retrieval Wins A Record-Setting Grant
2019
Seny Kamara Provides Data Security Testimony To Congress
Krishnamurthi And Multiple Alums Win An OOPSLA Most Influential Paper Award For Flapjax
David Laidlaw Has Been Named To The IEEE Visualization Academy
Amy Greenwald Gives A Keynote At UEMCON
Shriram Krishnamurthi Gives An Invited Talk At PWLConf (Recording Available)
Paul Valiant Wins A Theory Of Cryptography Conference Test Of Time Award
Markatou And Tamassia Win The ISC Best Paper Award
Andy van Dam's ACM Hypertext Keynote Will Reflect On A Half-Century Of Hypertext
Sohini Ramachandran Receives A Presidential Early Career Award For Scientists And Engineers
Huang Wins An Army Research Office Young Investigator Award For Predicting Emotion From Social Media
Shriram Krishnamurthi Gives A Plenary Talk At FCRC 2019 (Recording Available)
Kamara And Moataz Work With MongoDB To Analyze Its End-To-End Encryption
Eickhoff, Ritchie, Tellex, And Tompkin Win OVPR Seed Awards
Iris Bahar Wins The Marie R. Pistilli Women In Electronic Design Award
George Konidaris Wins An NSF CAREER Award For Autonomous Robotic Learning
IGT Celebrates Don Stanford As He Makes A Major Career Transition
2018
Kathi Fisler's OOPSLA Keynote Defends "Little Code"
Novotny And Collaborators Win The VIS Best Poster Award For Visualizing Dinosaur Tracks
Steven Reiss Wins The VISSOFT 2018 Most Influential Paper Award
Michael Littman Receives Brown's Presidential Faculty Award
Tim Kraska Wins The VLDB Early Career Research Contribution Award
Felzenszwalb Wins The Longuet-Higgins Prize For Fundamental Contributions To Computer Vision
Tom Doeppner Wins A Hazeltine Citation For Excellence In Teaching, Guidance, And Support
Michael Littman And Paul Valiant Win Excellence In Teaching Awards
Theophilus Benson Wins An NSF CAREER Award For Bug Tolerant Networking
Stefanie Tellex Wins An Early Career Research Achievement Award
Shriram Krishnamurthi Gives A Keynote At École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne
Shriram Krishnamurthi Will Give A Keynote Lecture At Programming 2018
Theophilus Benson And George Konidaris Earn Salomon Awards
Theophilus Benson's Work Wins An Applied Networking Research Prize
Lack Of Diverse Speakers At RSA 2018 Provokes The Creation Of A New Conference
Amy Greenwald And Seny Kamara Receive Promotions
Krishnamurthi's Article On Programming Languages Is The Communications Of The ACM Cover Story
Seny Kamara Co-Authors An NAS Report On Encryption
Brown CS Hits Maximum Attendance In Herlihy's New Blockchains Course
Shriram Krishnamurthi Will Co-Lead The Communications Of The ACM Research Highlights Editorial Board
Vasileios Kemerlis Wins A $3.2M Grant For OS Kernel Protection
Seny Kamara Advises On Privacy-Protecting Technical Solutions In Forthcoming Legislation
2017
Upfal, Binnig, Kraska, Van Dam Win A $3.1M DARPA Grant To Build New Data Exploration Software
Stefanie Tellex Wins A CAREER Award For Robots That Help People
Tim Kraska Is The Winner Of The University-Wide Early Career Research Achievement Award
Maurice Herlihy Is The Winner Of The University-Wide Research Innovation Award
Brown CS Announces Major Achievements In Data Science
Rodrigo Fonseca And Collaborators Win An NSDI Test Of Time Award
Bootstrap Brings The Next Generation The Data Science They'll Need
Caroline Klivans Disproves A 35-Year-Old Conjecture
Shriram Krishnamurthi Will Receive An Honorary Doctorate From Università Della Svizzera Italiana
Tellex, Rosen, And Whitney Use Social Feedback To Help Robots Fetch Objects Intelligently
Peter Wegner Receives A Recognition Award For His Work With The Faculty Bulletin
Celebrating 25 Years Of Michael Littman's Contribution To The First Email Attachment
Theophilus Benson Joins Brown CS As Assistant Professor
Tim Kraska Receives A Sloan Research Fellowship
Brown CS Faculty Earn Sloan Fellowships Four Years In A Row, For A Total Of Eight
Jeff Huang Finds Out How Gamers Get Good
Daniel Ritchie Joins Brown CS As Assistant Professor
Ian Gonsher, Jeff Huang, And Stefanie Tellex Win OVPR Seed Awards
Eli Upfal Receives The President's Award For Excellence In Faculty Governance
Pedro Felzenszwalb And Alum David Blei Talk About AI With The ACM
Michael Littman Chats With Neil deGrasse Tyson About AI And Society
Krishnamurthi And Quay-de la Vallee Look At App Store Insecurity In Fast Company
Stefanie Tellex And Baxter Provide Local Kids With A Glimpse Of The Future Of Robotics
Sherief Reda Has Been Named One Of 11 RI Innovators
2016
Maurice Herlihy And Eli Upfal Are Appointed To Named Chairs
Where Meter Meets Mainframe: An Early Experiment Teaching Poetry With Computers
Paul Valiant Wins A Hazeltine Citation For Excellence In Teaching, Guidance, And Support
Bootstrap Plays A Key Role In CS4RI Expansion Of CS Education In Rhode Island
Seny Kamara Joins Brown CS As Associate Professor
Stefanie Tellex Receives A Sloan Fellowship
BDH Praises Bootstrap's Contribution To Improving CS's Accessibility And Diversity
Bootstrap Plays A Role In White House CS Education Initiative
Stefanie Tellex Named One Of Wired UK's Women Who Changed Science In 2015
2015
Stefanie Tellex And John Oberlin's Award-Winning Video Earns Brown CS A New Baxter Robot
Anna Lysyanskaya Reelected An International Association For Cryptologic Research Director
Kraska, Binnig, Cetintemel, And Upfal Contribute To Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
Touch Art Gallery (TAG) Expands Worldwide With A Nobel Museum/Nobel Media Collaboration
Stefanie Tellex Wins A DARPA Young Faculty Award For Research In Human-Robot Communication
Mace, Roelke, And Fonseca Win A Best Paper Award At SOSP 2015
Maurice Herlihy Joins Dijkstra, Needham, And Others In The SIGOPS Hall Of Fame
Stan Zdonik And Co-Authors Win VLDB's 10-Year Best Paper Award
Crotty, Galakatos, Zgraggen, Binnig, And Kraska Win Best Demo At VLDB 2015
Tim Kraska, Andy van Dam, And Carsten Binnig Win A Google Faculty Research Award
Breaking Assumptions: Vasileios Kemerlis Joins Brown CS As Assistant Professor
Michael Littman Named To DARPA ISAT Study Group
"Dazzling": The Boston Globe Attends The Yurt's Launch And Inaugural Symposium
Tim Kraska Wins NSF CAREER And AFOSR Young Investigator Awards
Brown CS Uses Minecraft To Unboggle The Robot Mind
Michael Littman Wins IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award
Philip Klein Wins Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
Visualization And Creativity In Immersive 3D Environments -- From Cave To YURT: May 20-21, 2015
John Savage Appointed To Rhode Island's First Cybersecurity Commission
Maurice Herlihy Inducted Into American Academy Of Arts And Sciences
Jeff Huang Wins NSF CRII Grant And Salomon Award
Rodrigo Fonseca Wins NSF CAREER Award
Ugur Cetintemel Wins IEEE Data Engineering (ICDE) 2015 Influential Paper Award
Maurice Herlihy To Join Concurrency Experts At LASER Summer School On Software Engineering
Michael Littman Refutes "Doomsday" AI Fears In Live Science
Eugene Charniak Wins 2015 AAAI Classic Paper Award
