Our new issue is here! This year's cover story takes a look at the future of AI at Brown and beyond with Michael Littman, Brown's inaugural Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, as your guide. Other stories highlight student research and entrepreneurship, including responsible AI, a visit to a startup school, and an online game that explores our understanding of language. Finally, we offer detailed retrospectives as we bid farewell to Kathy Kirman Billings, Tom Doeppner, Steve Reiss, Don Stanford, and Stan Zdonik. Best wishes for a healthy and happy holiday season!
Brown CS Visual Computing PhD students Yiqing Liang and Rao Fu were recently selected for the annual Rising Stars workshop, a competitive program hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that recognizes talented underrepresented PhD students and postdocs, especially those who could potentially become faculty members in the coming years.
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.
