Latest News Meredith Meyer Grelli Appointed New Director of Project Olympus by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, August 21, 2024 Meredith Meyer Grelli will be the new director of Project Olympus, which provides support and resources to faculty, students, alumni and staff aspiring to transform their research and ideas into startups. Read More CSD Faculty win two “Test of Time” awards at USENIX 2024 by Michael Cunningham | Tuesday, August 20, 2024 Matt Fredrikson, associate professor in the Computer Science Department and Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D), and Bryan Parno, professor in the Computer Science Department and Kavčić-Moura professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, were honored with prestigious “Test of Time” awards during the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium. Read More Prudentia Project Explores How Internet Applications Share the Same Connection by Michael Cunningham | Friday, August 16, 2024 A new study from researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD) and CyLab Security and Privacy Institute aims to find out. The Prudentia project explores how popular internet services — from Netflix to Google Drive — perform when sharing the same internet connection. Read More CMU Hacking Team Wins DEF CON Capture-the-Flag Title Third Win in a Row, Eighth Overall Makes Plaid Parliament of Pwning Winningest Team in Competition History by Michael Cunningham | Monday, August 12, 2024 The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its third consecutive title, earning its eighth victory in the past 12 years. Read More Carnegie Mellon's Kolter Joins OpenAI's Board of Directors, Safety and Security Committee by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, August 8, 2024 Kolter will also join the board's Safety and Security Committee. The committee is responsible for making recommendations on critical safety and security decisions for all OpenAI projects. Read More Revisiting Fundamental Equations in Computer Graphics SCS Research Shines at SIGGRAPH 2024 by Charlotte Hu | Wednesday, August 7, 2024 The use of computer graphics has expanded beyond making realistic movie and video game effects to fields like architecture and robotics. As the field evolves, researchers continue to reformulate the basic components powering computer graphics in hopes of creating versions that are more efficient, expressive and in tune with the broader needs of science and engineering. Read More Watch Out IKEA: CMU Researchers Eye Knitted Furniture Robotics Institute Introduces Solid Knitting as New Fabrication Technique by Byron Spice | Tuesday, July 30, 2024 The CMU team presented its solid knitting research and the prototype machine at SIGGRAPH 2024, the annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, where it won an honorable mention in the Best Paper competition. SIGGRAPH posted a blog entry about the project. Read More CSD Graduate Katherine Kosaian Receives 2024 Bill McCune PhD Award Breakthrough in the testing of cyber-physical systems by Jenn Landefeld, Isabel Häuser | Thursday, July 11, 2024 Katherine Kosaian, formerly Cordwell, who received her doctoral degree from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Bill McCune PhD Award. Her dissertation, Formally Verifying Algorithms for Real Quantifier Elimination, was chosen for its strong theoretical and practical contributions to formally verified quantifier elimination for the first-order logic of real arithmetic. Read More School of Computer Science Launches CMU TechBridge Coding Bootcamp by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, June 25, 2024 The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University has launched the CMU TechBridge Coding Bootcamp to provide access to computer science education and career opportunities for high school (or equivalent) graduates. Read More ACM Honors Blelloch's Work in Algorithm Engineering by Marylee Williams | Friday, June 21, 2024 Guy Blelloch, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is part of a team that received this year's Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, which honors accomplishments that have significantly impacted the practice of computing. Also recognized were Blelloch's former advisee, Laxman Dhulipala, who earned his Ph.D. in CMU's Computer Science Department (CSD) and is now an assistant professor at the University of Maryland; and Julian Shun, who also earned his Ph.D. in CSD, now an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The ACM cited the trio for their contributions to algorithm engineering, which revolutionized large-scale graph processing on shared-memory machines. Read More CMU Class Builds Satellite Bound for Earth's Orbit by Marylee Williams | Tuesday, June 18, 2024 All this excitement erupted during demonstration day for CMU's Spacecraft Design-Build-Fly Lab course, which brings together students from the College of Engineering, Mellon College of Science and the School of Computer Science for two semesters to design and build a small satellite that will launch into space next year. Zac Manchester, an assistant professor in the Robotics Institute (RI), and Brandon Lucia, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), led the class. Read More Kolter Named Head of Carnegie Mellon University Machine Learning Department AI Scientist Ready To Guide School of Computer Science Through Research Revolution by Marylee Williams | Monday, June 10, 2024 Generative and transformative tools will power the future of computing, and machine learning technologies underpin all the learning, evaluation and improvement of these systems. Research moves quickly from the lab to the real world, where it could transform fields ranging from biology to business. Zico Kolter is ready to lead that transformation as the new director of Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department (MLD). Read More Obituary: C. Gordon Bell Built the Foundation for Modern Computing by Matthew Wein | Wednesday, May 29, 2024 C. Gordon Bell, a visionary designer of computer systems and former professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University whose work helped shrink computers from room-filling mainframes to more compact, affordable and practical machines, died May 17 at his home in Coronado, California. He was 89. Read More CMU Researchers To Tackle Carbon Use, Sustainability Through NSF Expeditions in Computing Awards by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, May 23, 2024 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute to two multi-institution research initiatives aimed at reducing the use of carbon and creating sustainable computing. Yuvraj Agarwal will serve as the lead principal investigator from CMU and will be joined by Zico Kolter on the project team. Agarwal and Kolter bring a host of expertise to the project, in topics including sensing, systems, security and privacy, artificial intelligence, using data to incentivize decision making, and understanding how computing interacts with smart buildings and efficient infrastructure. Read More SCS Doctoral Student Receives Hertz Fellowship by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, May 22, 2024 Zoë Marschner was one of 18 students selected for the 2024 Hertz Fellowships. This fellowship, awarded by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, is one of the most prestigious in the country. It provides five years of funding for students in applied science, engineering, and mathematics. Marschner, who is advised by associate professor Keenan Crane, works on geometry processing, a subfield of computer graphics focused on how to digitally represent and work with geometric data. Read More SCS Alum Wins Top SIGecom Dissertation Award by Marylee Williams | Tuesday, May 21, 2024 Gabriele Farina, who earned his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department in 2023, has won the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (ACM SIGecom) Dissertation Award, which recognizes the previous year's best dissertation in economics and computation. Read More CSD Faculty Earns Google Research Scholar Award by Adam Kohlhaas | Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Aditi Raghunathan, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, received the award to support the project "Robust Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models." She is one of six researchers in the School of Computer Science to receive a 2024 Google Research Scholar Award. Her research will develop principled methods that appropriately constrain the fine-tuning process to maximally preserve pretrained knowledge and improve downstream robustness. Read More SCS Ph.D. Student Earns Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, May 14, 2024 Kaiyang Zhao, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD), was selected for the North American Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. Zhao's project, "Learned Virtual Memory for Heterogeneous Architectures," aims to radically rethink virtual memory using lightweight machine learning models to solve challenges in data centers and at the edge. Read More SCS Faculty Receive Endowed Professorships by Marylee Williams | Thursday, May 9, 2024 CSD faculty members Chris Donahue and Guy Blelloch are among four School of Computer Science professors who recently received endowed faculty chairs to recognize and support their work and research. Donahue received the Dannenberg Career Development Professorship. Blelloch was one of two recipients of the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professorships of Computer Science. Read More CSD Researchers Earn Community Award for Cache-Efficiency Research Rashmi Vinayak, Juncheng Yang Among Paper's Authors by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department won the Community Award at the 2024 USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) for work on a new cache-eviction algorithm. The Community Award is given to the best paper where the code, dataset or a combination of both are made publicly available. Read More Blelloch Named University Professor by Christa Cardone | Thursday, May 2, 2024 Guy Blelloch has been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon University. University Professors are distinguished by international recognition and for their contributions to education, arts and research. They have made exceptional achievements beyond their department and college and embody the highest standards of the university. Read More Searching for the Limits of Local Error Correction The Key to Better Algorithms Is Making the Math Work by Charlotte Hu | Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Information can be finicky, especially if it has to travel. Whether you're making a phone call over a wireless network, playing music from a CD, or saving a document to a hard drive, when you transform or transmit information from one location to another, it has to go through many channels. Peter Manohar, a Ph.D. student in CMU's Computer Science Department, worked with former assistant professor Pravesh Kothari to develop ways to improve error-correction algorithms by breaking apart the math behind them. Read More Lenore Blum Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences by Aaron Aupperlee | Friday, April 26, 2024 Lenore Blum, a foundational researcher in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and a tireless advocate for women in math and science, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Blum, who retired from CMU in 2019, was a professor in the Computer Science Department, the founding director of Project Olympus, and co-director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Read More SCS Student Awarded Goldwater Scholarship by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Claire Jin wants to improve how generative artificial intelligence is incorporated into robotics. The third-year student in the School of Computer Science was selected as one of CMU's three 2024 Goldwater Scholars, one of the most prestigious STEM scholarships for undergraduates. This award comes from the federally endowed Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Read More CMU Researchers Help Expand Music Generation With Adobe by Marylee Williams | Thursday, April 11, 2024 Shih-Lun Wu is an avid classical piano and viola player, but he learned viola because all the violin seats in his school orchestra had been taken. Now a student in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Wu uses generative AI and machine learning to make music creation more accessible and engaging for people of all abilities. 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Meredith Meyer Grelli Appointed New Director of Project Olympus by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, August 21, 2024 Meredith Meyer Grelli will be the new director of Project Olympus, which provides support and resources to faculty, students, alumni and staff aspiring to transform their research and ideas into startups. Read More
CSD Faculty win two “Test of Time” awards at USENIX 2024 by Michael Cunningham | Tuesday, August 20, 2024 Matt Fredrikson, associate professor in the Computer Science Department and Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D), and Bryan Parno, professor in the Computer Science Department and Kavčić-Moura professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, were honored with prestigious “Test of Time” awards during the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium. Read More
Prudentia Project Explores How Internet Applications Share the Same Connection by Michael Cunningham | Friday, August 16, 2024 A new study from researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD) and CyLab Security and Privacy Institute aims to find out. The Prudentia project explores how popular internet services — from Netflix to Google Drive — perform when sharing the same internet connection. Read More
CMU Hacking Team Wins DEF CON Capture-the-Flag Title Third Win in a Row, Eighth Overall Makes Plaid Parliament of Pwning Winningest Team in Competition History by Michael Cunningham | Monday, August 12, 2024 The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its third consecutive title, earning its eighth victory in the past 12 years. Read More
Carnegie Mellon's Kolter Joins OpenAI's Board of Directors, Safety and Security Committee by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, August 8, 2024 Kolter will also join the board's Safety and Security Committee. The committee is responsible for making recommendations on critical safety and security decisions for all OpenAI projects. Read More
Revisiting Fundamental Equations in Computer Graphics SCS Research Shines at SIGGRAPH 2024 by Charlotte Hu | Wednesday, August 7, 2024 The use of computer graphics has expanded beyond making realistic movie and video game effects to fields like architecture and robotics. As the field evolves, researchers continue to reformulate the basic components powering computer graphics in hopes of creating versions that are more efficient, expressive and in tune with the broader needs of science and engineering. Read More
Watch Out IKEA: CMU Researchers Eye Knitted Furniture Robotics Institute Introduces Solid Knitting as New Fabrication Technique by Byron Spice | Tuesday, July 30, 2024 The CMU team presented its solid knitting research and the prototype machine at SIGGRAPH 2024, the annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, where it won an honorable mention in the Best Paper competition. SIGGRAPH posted a blog entry about the project. Read More
CSD Graduate Katherine Kosaian Receives 2024 Bill McCune PhD Award Breakthrough in the testing of cyber-physical systems by Jenn Landefeld, Isabel Häuser | Thursday, July 11, 2024 Katherine Kosaian, formerly Cordwell, who received her doctoral degree from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Bill McCune PhD Award. Her dissertation, Formally Verifying Algorithms for Real Quantifier Elimination, was chosen for its strong theoretical and practical contributions to formally verified quantifier elimination for the first-order logic of real arithmetic. Read More
School of Computer Science Launches CMU TechBridge Coding Bootcamp by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, June 25, 2024 The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University has launched the CMU TechBridge Coding Bootcamp to provide access to computer science education and career opportunities for high school (or equivalent) graduates. Read More
ACM Honors Blelloch's Work in Algorithm Engineering by Marylee Williams | Friday, June 21, 2024 Guy Blelloch, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is part of a team that received this year's Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, which honors accomplishments that have significantly impacted the practice of computing. Also recognized were Blelloch's former advisee, Laxman Dhulipala, who earned his Ph.D. in CMU's Computer Science Department (CSD) and is now an assistant professor at the University of Maryland; and Julian Shun, who also earned his Ph.D. in CSD, now an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The ACM cited the trio for their contributions to algorithm engineering, which revolutionized large-scale graph processing on shared-memory machines. Read More
CMU Class Builds Satellite Bound for Earth's Orbit by Marylee Williams | Tuesday, June 18, 2024 All this excitement erupted during demonstration day for CMU's Spacecraft Design-Build-Fly Lab course, which brings together students from the College of Engineering, Mellon College of Science and the School of Computer Science for two semesters to design and build a small satellite that will launch into space next year. Zac Manchester, an assistant professor in the Robotics Institute (RI), and Brandon Lucia, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), led the class. Read More
Kolter Named Head of Carnegie Mellon University Machine Learning Department AI Scientist Ready To Guide School of Computer Science Through Research Revolution by Marylee Williams | Monday, June 10, 2024 Generative and transformative tools will power the future of computing, and machine learning technologies underpin all the learning, evaluation and improvement of these systems. Research moves quickly from the lab to the real world, where it could transform fields ranging from biology to business. Zico Kolter is ready to lead that transformation as the new director of Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department (MLD). Read More
Obituary: C. Gordon Bell Built the Foundation for Modern Computing by Matthew Wein | Wednesday, May 29, 2024 C. Gordon Bell, a visionary designer of computer systems and former professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University whose work helped shrink computers from room-filling mainframes to more compact, affordable and practical machines, died May 17 at his home in Coronado, California. He was 89. Read More
CMU Researchers To Tackle Carbon Use, Sustainability Through NSF Expeditions in Computing Awards by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, May 23, 2024 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute to two multi-institution research initiatives aimed at reducing the use of carbon and creating sustainable computing. Yuvraj Agarwal will serve as the lead principal investigator from CMU and will be joined by Zico Kolter on the project team. Agarwal and Kolter bring a host of expertise to the project, in topics including sensing, systems, security and privacy, artificial intelligence, using data to incentivize decision making, and understanding how computing interacts with smart buildings and efficient infrastructure. Read More
SCS Doctoral Student Receives Hertz Fellowship by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, May 22, 2024 Zoë Marschner was one of 18 students selected for the 2024 Hertz Fellowships. This fellowship, awarded by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, is one of the most prestigious in the country. It provides five years of funding for students in applied science, engineering, and mathematics. Marschner, who is advised by associate professor Keenan Crane, works on geometry processing, a subfield of computer graphics focused on how to digitally represent and work with geometric data. Read More
SCS Alum Wins Top SIGecom Dissertation Award by Marylee Williams | Tuesday, May 21, 2024 Gabriele Farina, who earned his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department in 2023, has won the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (ACM SIGecom) Dissertation Award, which recognizes the previous year's best dissertation in economics and computation. Read More
CSD Faculty Earns Google Research Scholar Award by Adam Kohlhaas | Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Aditi Raghunathan, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, received the award to support the project "Robust Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models." She is one of six researchers in the School of Computer Science to receive a 2024 Google Research Scholar Award. Her research will develop principled methods that appropriately constrain the fine-tuning process to maximally preserve pretrained knowledge and improve downstream robustness. Read More
SCS Ph.D. Student Earns Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, May 14, 2024 Kaiyang Zhao, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD), was selected for the North American Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. Zhao's project, "Learned Virtual Memory for Heterogeneous Architectures," aims to radically rethink virtual memory using lightweight machine learning models to solve challenges in data centers and at the edge. Read More
SCS Faculty Receive Endowed Professorships by Marylee Williams | Thursday, May 9, 2024 CSD faculty members Chris Donahue and Guy Blelloch are among four School of Computer Science professors who recently received endowed faculty chairs to recognize and support their work and research. Donahue received the Dannenberg Career Development Professorship. Blelloch was one of two recipients of the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professorships of Computer Science. Read More
CSD Researchers Earn Community Award for Cache-Efficiency Research Rashmi Vinayak, Juncheng Yang Among Paper's Authors by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department won the Community Award at the 2024 USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) for work on a new cache-eviction algorithm. The Community Award is given to the best paper where the code, dataset or a combination of both are made publicly available. Read More
Blelloch Named University Professor by Christa Cardone | Thursday, May 2, 2024 Guy Blelloch has been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon University. University Professors are distinguished by international recognition and for their contributions to education, arts and research. They have made exceptional achievements beyond their department and college and embody the highest standards of the university. Read More
Searching for the Limits of Local Error Correction The Key to Better Algorithms Is Making the Math Work by Charlotte Hu | Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Information can be finicky, especially if it has to travel. Whether you're making a phone call over a wireless network, playing music from a CD, or saving a document to a hard drive, when you transform or transmit information from one location to another, it has to go through many channels. Peter Manohar, a Ph.D. student in CMU's Computer Science Department, worked with former assistant professor Pravesh Kothari to develop ways to improve error-correction algorithms by breaking apart the math behind them. Read More
Lenore Blum Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences by Aaron Aupperlee | Friday, April 26, 2024 Lenore Blum, a foundational researcher in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and a tireless advocate for women in math and science, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Blum, who retired from CMU in 2019, was a professor in the Computer Science Department, the founding director of Project Olympus, and co-director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Read More
SCS Student Awarded Goldwater Scholarship by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Claire Jin wants to improve how generative artificial intelligence is incorporated into robotics. The third-year student in the School of Computer Science was selected as one of CMU's three 2024 Goldwater Scholars, one of the most prestigious STEM scholarships for undergraduates. This award comes from the federally endowed Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Read More
CMU Researchers Help Expand Music Generation With Adobe by Marylee Williams | Thursday, April 11, 2024 Shih-Lun Wu is an avid classical piano and viola player, but he learned viola because all the violin seats in his school orchestra had been taken. Now a student in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Wu uses generative AI and machine learning to make music creation more accessible and engaging for people of all abilities. Read More
