Brown CS News

Each year, Brown CS invites one of the field's most prominent scientists to address wide-ranging topics in honor of Paris. Last month, Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering Leonidas (Leo) J. Guibas of Stanford University delivered the twenty-fifth annual Paris C. Kanellakis Memorial Lecture: “The Space Between The Images – Visual Learning From Relations”.

Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, Stephen Bach has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

The award recognizes strong achievement from undergraduate researchers and provides $13,350 to enable them to continue their work over the summer.

Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown University’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, George Konidaris has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor.

For Erin, the complexity of the immune system is less a mystery than a puzzle waiting to be understood. Everest is driven by a simple question: How can machines better support people in high-pressure environments?

At one of the world's leading cryptography conferences, Anna laid out the field's history, starting with Diffie and Hellman’s breakthrough paper in 1976 that eventually paved the way to secure online communications.

Her work explores how AI systems can reason directly in dynamic 3D environments rather than only through text, including methods that extend 4D capture with generative models.

The award will allow Chen to create a scientific framework that allows machines to learn directly from passive observations and active interactions with the physical environment.

Brown CS faculty member Amy Greenwald and two of her past students have recently been recognized as winners of a 2026 Influential Paper Award from the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), a non-profit organization that promotes science and technology in the areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, and multiagent systems. IFAAMAS established the Influential Paper Award in 2006, and it honors research papers from past AAMAS conferences that have had lasting impact on the fields of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Presented annually, it recognizes papers published at least ten years earlier that introduced key results, …

The Computing Research Association (CRA) is a coalition of more than 200 organizations with the mission of enhancing innovation by joining with industry, government, and academia to strengthen research and advance education in computing. Every year, they recognize North American students who show phenomenal research potential with their Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, and for 2025-2026, four Brown CS students received honors: Joshua Yang (Runner-Up) as well as Arnie He, Wanjia Fu, and Alexander Portland (Honorable Mentions).