The inaugural conference AI & Gender-Based Harms: Implications for Policy and Practice examined the impact of AI-facilitated gender-based harms and response policies with an interdisciplinary roster of researchers, clinicians, advocates, policymakers, and practitioners. Brown CS and Data Science Institute faculty member Diana Freed co-founded and co-chaired the conference with colleagues from Fordham University, the NYC Mayor's Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence, and Weill Cornell Medicine.
His project aims to build new graph algorithms that work in the presence of length constraints and, in doing so, provide new algorithms for solving classic problems as fast as possible.
With a course offered this past spring semester, professors and students alike have begun grappling with the role automated AI agents have in teaching students the basics of software development.
"Most benchmarks for AI agents," the authors explain, "usually only ask one question, did the agent complete the task? And what they don't ask is whether the agent should have completed the task in the first place."
Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown University’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, Srinath Sridhar has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
Peihan is the John E. Savage Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Chen is the Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and Suresh is the Dean's Professor of Data Science and Computer Science.
"These are our top students," says Director of Undergraduate Studies Kathi Fisler. "As a group, they've done superior work, but we were also very impressed with how generously they were able to give back to the department and their fellow students."
She'll study how people communicate goals to machines and design AI systems that can interpret imperfect instructions by reasoning about the intent behind them. Expected outcomes include safer decision-making technologies and new tools that help organizations deploy AI more effectively.
“I'm deeply honored by this award,” Ed says, “but my impact is measured in milli-Andys.”
Last month, Brown CS faculty member Michael Littman, Brown University’s Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, received one of his profession’s highest honors by being elected an Academy member.
