The Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), held since 1969, is widely considered one of the two most important conferences in the field of theory of computing. This year, a 1994 paper by Brown CS faculty member Eli Upfal received the conference’s 30-year Test of Time Award. His co-authors include Yossi Azar (Professor of Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University), Andrei Z. Broder (Distinguished Scientist at Google), and Anna R. Karlin (Bill and Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle).
Brown CS Master’s student Yumeng Ma (advised by Brown CS faculty member Jeff Huang) has just received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her work in human-computer interaction, specifically at the intersection of human-AI interaction and accessibility. The award is the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, and aims to recognize and support outstanding graduate students in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Annually, the Mozilla free software community recognizes 25 people who are leading the next wave of the internet with the Rise25 Awards, which were awarded in Dublin, Ireland, on August 13. Aaron Gokaslan, who received both his undergraduate and Master’s degrees in computer science with Brown CS and is currently a PhD student at Cornell University, was nominated and chosen as a Rise25 honoree for the 2024 cohort.
This summer, Randall Balestriero has joined Brown CS as assistant professor. Visitors to his personal web page may find it somewhat atypical for a young academic. The first words that greet the viewer’s eye are a research area: Practical Deep Learning Theory. Randall’s name appears lower, in a sidebar. The reasoning, he says, is less about humility than the importance of good science and his excitement for a rapidly-evolving field.
The word "hacking" recurs in conversation with Deepti Raghavan, who just finished her doctorate at Stanford University. Not "hacker", a statement of identity, but a course of action, a challenging and rewarding process of analysis and refinement. This fall, Deepti joins Brown CS as assistant professor. She’s one of the four latest hires in the multi-year CS With Impact campaign, our largest expansion to date.
On May 11, Brown CS faculty member Ritambhara Singh gave a keynote address at the 1st International Caparica Conference on Prescriptomics and Precision Medicine, a biomedical conference on safety for precision medicine, which in its first iteration, focused on how researchers can develop models that leverage the properties of different biological or clinical data types that should be integrated to make accurate diagnostic predictions. Prescriptomics is an emerging field focusing on the complex interplay within genetics and their impact on the effectiveness, safety, and response to precision medicine.
Akshay Narayan is skeptical of absolutes. A postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute, his work focuses on ways to make specialization for network environments accessible, and this fall, he joins Brown CS as assistant professor. He’s one of the four latest hires in the multi-year CS With Impact campaign, our largest expansion to date.
Brown CS is happy to announce that effective as of July 1, 2024, faculty member Ellie Pavlick has received a distinguished named chair. Formerly the Manning Assistant Professor of Computer Science, she’s now the Briger Family Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science.
