CMU Computer Science Department

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CSD Interim Head, Jignesh Patel, has announced that Charlie Garrod, Associate Teaching Professor in the Computer Science Department & Software & Societal Systems Department, is the next Director of the CS Undergraduate Program.

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Fredrikson receives Test of Time Award Carnegie Mellon University's Matt Fredrikson has received the 2025 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Test-of-Time Award, honoring research with enduring impact in computer a...

Professor Matt Fredrikson of the @csdatcmu.bsky.social and @cmus3d.bsky.social recently received the 2025 @acm.org Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Test of Time Award, honoring research with enduring impact in computer and communications security.

Congratulations to CSD faculty Aditi Raghunathan and her research collaborators on receiving an ICML Outstanding Paper award for Roll the dice & look before you leap: Going beyond the creative limits of next-token prediction (icml.cc/virtual/2025...).

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15266

🐝DID YOU KNOW? Honeybees pollinate a third of what people eat and drink, from coffee to almonds, but colonies are on the decline because of extreme weather, pesticides and parasites.

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Aayush Jain has received an NSF CAREER award! Jain will use the award to study new and under-explored mathematical sources of hardness for cryptography as well as support graduate research in this area. Congrats Aayush!

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;-) Gotta remain the neutral party here. ¯\_(シ)_/¯

Indeed. We'll be posting congrats this week for Aayush's CAREER!

Perhaps not the flex that was hoped for there. 😏

ICYMI (because we need to catch up a little posting our news!):
Stephanie Balzer, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Congrats Stephanie!
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But we have posts! ;-)

Not gonna happen. ;-)

Satyanarayanan Elected to National Academy of Engineering Mahadev Satyanarayanan, the Jaime Carbonell University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

@csdatcmu.bsky.social Speaking of cool things by my cool colleagues, this belongs in your feed:

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Using Computer Science To Save the Bees - CSD faculty Christos Faloutsos, Fredkin University Professor of Computer Science, said researchers looked to heat-transfer physics for the equation when developing the EBV's beehive health forecasting model.
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Ananya Joshi's 3MT Presentation Title: Large scale data monitoring for critical domains via human-AI collaboration.

Congrats to Three Minute Thesis preliminary round 2 co-winner, Ananya Joshi of the School of Computer Science! 📣

Since it began in at @carnegiemellon.bsky.social in 2014, 15% of #3MT finalists have come from @scsatcmu.bsky.social.

⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship on 3/11 from 6-8pm.

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Cheering on Ananya Joshi competing with 9 Ph.D. finalists for the #3MT honor next week.

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Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship, 3/11 (6-8pm).

Took a little while, but here we are. :-)

And... we would never expect you to not "do you" Dave. ;-)

Computer Science Faculty Members Named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows Two faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2025.

Two Carnegie Mellon @scsatcmu.bsky.social faculty members will receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2025.

Congratulations to Zhihao Jia and Deepak, among 126 early career researchers announced as fellows. 👏