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).
This year’s event was held from April 10-11 and Brown CS student Eashan Iyer, who expects to concentrate in Mathematical Physics and Computer Science, was part of a cross-university team that placed second in the competition.
The waves are calling, the blue expanse with its endless opportunities to tinker with oil coolers and hose clamps and heat exchangers, to pull up alongside other sailors at the close of day and be social or not. John is weighing anchor: he’s retiring from Brown after 42 years of teaching, with 32 spent at Brown CS.
The AAAS has elected Brown CS PhD alum Danfeng (Daphne) Yao (now Professor of CS, Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. '56 Faculty Fellow, and CACI Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech) to the rank of Fellow.
Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, Robert Y. Lewis has been promoted to Associate Teaching Professor.
Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, Lorenzo De Stefani has been promoted to Associate Teaching Professor.
No stranger to controversy, AI pioneer Yann LeCun told a capacity crowd that large language models are not the future of AI and that a new approach is needed if machines are to achieve human-like intelligence.
As a tool for researchers, lawmakers, journalists and the public, the CNTR AISLE Portal provides analysis of state- and federal-level AI bills pending across the U.S.
Brown CS alum and Advisory Board member danah boyd has just received a Sloan Research Fellowship, recognizing her as one of the most promising scientific researchers working today, part of the next generation of U.S. and Canadian scientific leaders.
Less than a year after a receiving one of the highest honors in the field of virtual reality, Brown CS alum and former adjunct research faculty member and visiting scholar Joseph J. Laviola Jr. (now Charles N. Millican Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida) has been recognized again.
