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CMU Scores Fourth Straight Victory at MITRE eCTF Cybersecurity Competition
Thursday, May 15, 2025 A team of 15 students from Carnegie Mellon University have won the 2025 Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) security competition, securing CMU’s fourth straight win. The Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP) team is made up of students from the CMU Robotics Institute (RI), Information Networking Institute (INI), Electrical and Computer Engineering department (ECE) and Computer Science department (CSD).Carnegie Mellon University re-designated as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. programs have received the CAE-R designation, which distinguishes the top programs that help build a highly skilled and educated cybersecurity workforce. These designations allow faculty and students to apply for national grants to support critical security research, in addition to participating in the CAE community.Skarlatos Receives Scott Institute 2025 Seed Funding for AI Data Center Energy Demand Research
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Dimitrios Skarlatos, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has been awarded one of seven 2025 Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation seed grants. Skarlatos will use support from the Scott Institute award to tackle the growing energy demand of AI data centers — a theme that also took center stage during Energy Week 2025. Read MoreWorking With AI
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Explore Relationships With Artificial Intelligence Tools
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) are investigating how AI systems can improve the way researchers and developers enhance people's understanding and confidence in these systems. Read MoreCSD Faculty Among CHI 2025 Accepted Papers and Best Paper Award Winners
12 Award-Winning Papers with CMU Contributions at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Thursday, April 24, 2025 This year, authors from CMU contributed to more than 50 accepted papers, including 12 award-winning papers to CHI 2025, which received more than 5,000 completed paper submissions. Best Paper was awarded to the top 1% and Honorable Mentions to the top 5% of papers. CSD faculty Vincent Conitzer and David Touretzky were among the authors whose papers were accepted and Chris Donahue, assistant professor in CSD, and collaborators received a Best Paper award at CHI 2025.New Fund Honors Life of Bryan Kisiel
Thursday, April 24, 2025 Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) has established the Bryan Kisiel Altruism Award in AI to support SCS students and remember the life of Bryan Kisiel, who earned his bachelor's degree in computer science and worked in SCS for well over a decade. Read MoreCopilot Arena Helps Rank Real-World LLM Coding Abilities
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 With so many AI coding assistants out there, it can be hard to keep track of ones that perform well on real-world tasks. To help analyze which leading or emerging code-writing large language models (LLMs) the developer community prefers, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed Copilot Arena, a platform that crowdsources user ratings of LLM-written code. Read MoreTwo SCS Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Friday, April 18, 2025 Sheng Shu, a junior majoring in computer science and also studying chemistry in the Mellon College of Science, and Hyojae Park, a sophomore computer science major, are two of Carnegie Mellon University's three Goldwater Scholarship recipients this year. Read MoreCMU Study Shows Large Language Models Have Distinctive Styles
LLMs Can Be Distinguished by Word Choice, Level of Detail and More
Thursday, April 10, 2025 It's not unusual for people to have distinctive speech or writing styles. They can favor certain words and phrases or structure a sentence or a story uniquely. It turns out that text-generating AI models have similar idiosyncrasies. In a recent study, Carnegie Mellon University researchers found they could use characteristic word choices to determine which large language model (LLM) generated a particular bit of text with 97% accuracy. Read MoreZhang, Zhou Earn MongoDB Fellowships
Thursday, March 27, 2025 William Zhang and Renfei Zhou, both Ph.D. students in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, have been selected as 2025 MongoDB Ph.D. Fellows. The highly competitive fellowship program supports graduate students who demonstrate exceptional talent and a deep commitment to advancing database research. Read MoreFrom Exploration to Innovation: The Impact of SURF Grants
Friday, March 21, 2025 Undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon University can join this pursuit through the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). A SURF grant enables young researchers to collaborate with esteemed faculty, build professional networks and receive financial support to focus solely on their project, paving the way for future career or academic opportunities.Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
Incoming Ph.D. Student Andrew Krapavin Solves Classic Problem with collaborators CSD Assistant Professor William Kuzmaul, and Martín Farach-Colton, faculty at NYU
Sunday, March 16, 2025Jain Earns National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER)
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Aayush Jain, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The awards are the foundation's most prestigious for young faculty researchers. Jain will use the $600,000 award to study new and underexplored mathematical sources of hardness for cryptography as well as support graduate research in this area. Read MoreJoshi Among Ten Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Finalists
Through 3MT, Doctoral Students Share Accessible Research
Sarah Benderby Sarah Bender | Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Carnegie Mellon University’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) pits doctoral students against the clock and each other to explain complex research and captivate their audience in just three minutes. Ten finalists will compete in the 2025 3MT Championship at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11, in the Cohon University Center’s McConomy Auditorium. A livestream will also be available.
Read MoreUsing Computer Science To Save the Bees
Researchers Use Sensors, Forecasting Models To Track Honeybee Health
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) and the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) have created a system to help beekeepers monitor and analyze the health of their beehives and take corrective actions to prevent colony collapse — when a majority of the worker bees abandon the colony and its queen. Read MoreBalzer Earns NSF CAREER Award
Monday, February 24, 2025 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. The awards are the foundation's most prestigious for young faculty researchers. Read MoreFaculty Members Named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Two faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2025. Zhihao Jia and Deepak Pathak are among the 126 early career researchers announced as fellows. More than a thousand researchers are nominated each year, and winners receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship that can be used to advance their research. Read MoreKolter Joins New $10M AI Safety Science
Initiative Seeks To Ensure Reliable, Robust AI Systems
Friday, February 14, 2025 Zico Kolter will tackle critical artificial intelligence safety issues as part of the new AI Safety Science program established by former Google chief Eric Schmidt. Kolter's work has long focused on the safety and robustness of AI systems. Read MoreSatyanarayanan Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Mahadev Satyanarayanan, the Jaime Carbonell University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Satya is viewed as "the father of edge computing" for his seminal 2009 paper "The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing" and decades of pioneering contributions to the field. His research has focused on the challenges of performance, scalability, availability and trust in information systems that reach from the cloud to the mobile edge of the internet. Read MoreFaculty Participate in Global AI Conferences in Conjunction With Paris AI Action Summit
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 Faculty from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science recently traveled to Paris to participate in international gatherings of experts addressing the future of artificial intelligence. Read MoreCyLab faculty, students to present at NDSS Symposium 2025
Michael Cunninghamby Michael Cunningham | Thursday, January 30, 2025
Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 32nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium. Held at Wyndham San Diego Bayside from February 24th through the 28th, the event fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. Read More