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Less than a year after receiving the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography and being named an Identity 25 Digital Pioneer, Brown CS faculty member Anna Lysyanskaya has received another high honor in the field of cryptography. 

Brown CS doctoral student Rahul Sajnani has just been honored with the Best Student Paper Award for his research (“GeoDiffuser: Geometry-Based Image Editing with Diffusion Models”) at the 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).

Joseph was recognized as a leader in his field whose significant contributions meet or exceed the criteria of existing VGTC awards by being inducted into the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy at the annual IEEE VR conference.

Last month, SIGPLAN chose the 2023 work by forthcoming Brown CS faculty member Will Crichton, doctoral student Gavin Gray (formerly at ETH Zürich), and faculty member Shriram Krishnamurthi as one of four Research Highlights papers from the 2021-2023 period.
 

According to The Brown Daily Herald, Brown University is the top producing school of Fulbright U.S. students for the 2024-25 academic year. It's the fifth time Brown has earned the recognition in the past decade. 

 

The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) is an annual event focused on research into new techniques for data management. Last month, CIDR 2025 presented two Test of Time awards for papers published in conference years 2003, 2025, and 2007 that had great impact over the last 20 years. One of them (“The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine”) was the work of two Brown CS faculty members and six alums.

Brown CS faculty member Don Stanford has just delivered his last lecture for the department after more than two decades in the classroom. Some members of our community have known him for a half-century (he earned an MS in Computer Science, Computational and Applied Mathematics from Brown in 1977 after a BA in International Relations in 1972), and few of them will be surprised that Don’s energy and ability to engage with his audience are as strong as ever. 

A new article from The Brown Daily Herald interviews Brown CS faculty member Michael Littman, who has just been appointed as Brown’s first Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, a newly established leadership position with a campus-wide charge to advance, in a responsible manner, Brown’s engagement with AI across its academic missions.

 

CAREER Awards are given in support of outstanding junior faculty teacher-scholars who excel at research, education, and integration of the two within the context of an organizational mission.

In another story from the latest issue of Conduit, our annual magazine, Brown CS doctoral student Jason Xinyu Liu shares how he develops intelligent robots that assist people by executing natural language instructions from humans autonomously and safely.