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Vasilis received a Top Reviewer Award and the group’s paper (“PickleBall: Secure Deserialization of Pickle-based Machine Learning Models”) received one of five Distinguished Artifact Awards. 

Brown CS faculty members Serena Booth and Suresh Venkatasubramanian have just been appointed to co-chair the AI and Algorithms Subcommittee, whose recent work includes responses to government RFIs, techbriefs, and statements on chatbot use.

ARIA, a Brown-based research consortium supported by a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation, welcomed scientists from across the U.S. to kick off a five-year program with a launch event in Providence.

The Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, given this year to Wanjia Fu to support her work with Brown CS faculty member Srinath Sridhar, recognizes strong achievement from undergraduate researchers and offers them the opportunity to continue their work over the summer.

This year’s lecture was delivered by Claire Mathieu, a former Brown CS faculty member who currently serves as research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Computer Science at Université Paris-Cité (France).

In a testament to Brown Visual Computing’s almost sixty-year tradition of research excellence and leadership, members of the Brown CS community co-authored five of the conference’s accepted papers.

The USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) presented its Best Paper Award this year to a Brown CS team led by doctoral student Evangelos Lamprou and collaborators Lukas Lazarek, a postdoctoral researcher, and faculty member Nikos Vasilakis. Other collaborators include Ethan Williams and Zhuoxuan Zhang of Brown CS, Georgios Kaoukis of the National Technical University of Athens, Michael Greenberg of the Stevens Institute of Technology, and Konstantinos Kallas of UCLA. 

Brown CS is again partnering with Google Research to offer exploreCSR: Socially-Responsible Artificial Intelligence, a semester-long immersive research experience program for undergraduate students.

The chatbots routinely violated core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight.

Brown CS is glad to announce that applications are open for the Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, which provides $13,350 annually to support an undergraduate engaged in an intensive faculty-student summer research partnership with the Department of Computer Science.