Latest News Leading the Future of Physical AI at CMU Wednesday, September 10, 2025 Ahead of the AI Horizons Summit, Martial Hebert, dean of the School of Computer Science and a speaker at the conference, shared his perspective on physical AI — what it is, why it matters now and how it’s set to transform industries and create new opportunities. Read More Season Two of 'Does Compute' Now Available SCS Podcast Brings Research Stories From the Lab to Listeners Monday, September 8, 2025 Season two of the SCS podcast "Does Compute" launches today and features ten episodes that bring technology Read More Qualcomm Appoints Kolter to Board of Directors Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Qualcomm Incorporated has announced the appointment of Jeremy (Zico) Kolter to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Dr. Kolter will serve on the Governance Committee. Read More Faculty and Students Present at USENIX Security Symposium Wednesday, August 13, 2025 Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium held in Seattle on August 13-15. The event brings together experts from around the world, who will highlight the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. Read More CMU Hacking Team Wins DEF CON Capture-the-Flag Title Monday, August 11, 2025 The winningest team in DEF CON’sOpens in new window Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon UniversityOpens in new window’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its fourth consecutive title, earning its ninth victory in the past 13 years. Read More SCS Alumna Among CMU Fulbright Recipients Thursday, August 7, 2025 Rachel Wilson, who earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science with a minor in Hispanic studies, applied for a Fulbright as a way to spend more time abroad in Spanish-speaking communities to better understand their relationship with technology. She is going to Peru, where she will help teach both English and computer programming part-time in high schools. Read More New NSF Institute Will Help Mathematicians Harness AI, Advance Discoveries Monday, August 4, 2025 With an investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and ad Read More Alums Compete in World Championship With CMU Pipes and Drums Friday, August 1, 2025 A set of bagpipe-playing twins will be among those representing Carnegie Mellon University on the international stage as its Pipes and Drums band prepares to compete for the first time in the European Pipe Band Championships in Perth, Scotland, Aug. 9, and World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Aug. 15. Read More Dettmers Receives Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award Friday, August 1, 2025 Tim Dettmers, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's machine learning and computer science departments, has been named a recipient of the inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award. The award recognizes early career faculty whose work advances scalable and efficient machine learning systems. Read More Carnegie Mellon Joins NSF Effort to Build Trustworthy AI Assistants Wednesday, July 30, 2025 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute to a newly launched National Science Foundation (NSF) AI Research Institute to develop artificial intelligence assistants capable of trustworthy, sensitive and context-aware interactions with people. The assistants could potentially be used in mental and behavioral health fields, where trust and safety are of the utmost importance. Read More Imagination Meets Automation With BrickGPT Thursday, July 24, 2025 Fusing artificial intelligence and imagination, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a tool that uses text prompts to help people — and even robots — bring ideas to life with Lego bricks. Read More Mr. Stehlik’s Opus Reflections on a 40 Year Teaching Life Wednesday, July 16, 2025 In one of the most celebrated computer science schools in the world, one of the most beloved figures is a man who collects fountain pens and books. His first fountain pen, he points out, was filled with green ink — not red. It’s a metaphor for how Mark Stehlik approaches his craft: finding ways to say go when everyone else is saying stop. Read More At the Forefront of Energy and AI SCS Faculty Are Tackling Some of Society's Toughest Challenges While Pioneering Solutions for Tomorrow Wednesday, July 16, 2025 CMU thrives at the intersection of AI, innovation and energy, and world-class researchers in the School of Computer Science are tackling some of society's toughest challenges while pioneering new solutions for tomorrow. Read More SCS Project Aims To Create Energy-Efficient Data Centers Monday, July 14, 2025 According to projections, data centers around the world could double their electricity consumption by 2030. Driven by AI, data centers could claim 945 terawatt hours of energy in the next five years, a figure that’s greater than the current electricity consumption of Japan. With support from The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation’s seed grant program, Dimitrios Skarlatos will develop a proof-of-concept for a virtualization layer capable of performing fine-grained, efficient power management of GPUs. Read More Skarlatos Receives 2025 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award Thursday, July 10, 2025 Dimitrios Skarlatos, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, earned the 2025 IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Young Computer Architect Award for his "contributions to virtual memory management and computer security." Read More How Carnegie Mellon University's CS Academy is Preparing Kids for the Future Friday, June 27, 2025 Carnegie Mellon CS Academy hit 500,000 students enrolled and it all started in local schools. Learn more about how Carnegie Mellon University's computer science academy is preparing kids for the future. Read More SCS Faculty Earn Amazon Research Awards Friday, June 13, 2025 Five faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have received Amazon Research Awards to support work in areas such as artificial intelligence, cryptography and automated reasoning. The awards recognize innovative academic work with the potential for broad societal and scientific impact, and provide recipients with unrestricted funding, Amazon Web Services (AWS) promotional credits, and access to Amazon’s cloud computing tools and public datasets. Read More TEEL Lab Programs Awardable Through Department of Defense Marketplace Thursday, June 12, 2025 The TEEL Lab's AI Technicians and AI User workforce training programs have received awardable status in the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, the premier offering of Tradewinds, the DoD's suite of tools and services designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of AI, machine learning, data and analytics capabilities. The two programs can be offered across the entire DoD. Read More Alum Wins SIGGRAPH Dissertation Award Adam Kohlhaas by Adam Kohlhaas | Friday, June 6, 2025 Rohan Sawhney, an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, has received the 2025 SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for research that redefines how computers simulate and process geometric data. His dissertation introduces a novel framework that moves beyond traditional finite element methods by applying grid-free Monte Carlo techniques to solve fundamental partial differential equations. Read More Stellar Code Helps Ye Land Internship Wednesday, June 4, 2025 Runqiu Ye, a rising junior in computer science, spent the summer of 2024 writing code for an astrophysics simulation that tracks the mass, radius, temperature and orbits of millions of binary stars, including any interactions that happen between each partner star. Assistant Physics Professor Katie Breivik said that Ye’s ability to learn a new programming language and produce results quickly likely helped him stand out for the internship. Read More Human-AI Collaboration Can Unlock New Frontiers in Creativity Tools Developed by SCS Researchers Show Benefits for Inventors, Designers, Songwriters Thursday, May 29, 2025 Content churned out by generative AI models is surprisingly competent, if not always particularly exciting. But research at Carnegie Mellon University suggests that when AI serves as a partner to human designers, artists and songwriters, the results could exceed what the machine or person do separately. AI tools can help humans get out of creative ruts and explore a broader range of ideas, while humans can provide judgment — call it taste — about what people will like or if the output conveys the right message or feeling. Read More Carnegie Mellon, Mid-Atlantic Hub Host First NSF I-Corps Cohort for AI, Robotics Wednesday, May 21, 2025 The cohort was the first NSF I-Corps program in the country to focus specifically on AI and robotics and reflects the expertise of CMU and its Mid-Atlantic I-Corps Hub partner institutions in commercializing research in these fields. The cohort sessions happened virtually throughout April. Twenty-five teams of faculty, students and alumni from CMU, the University of Maryland, Penn State University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania and more learned how to navigate the commercialization process. Read More CSD Ph.D. Student Named DOE Computational Science Fellow Adam Kohlhaas by Adam Kohlhaas | Friday, May 16, 2025 Stephen Huan, a doctoral student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, is one of 30 students nationwide selected for the Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship for the 2025–26 academic year. The felløwship supports researchers applying high-performance computing to problems in science and engineering. His work centers on machine learning, statistics and applied mathematics, with a focus on efficient algorithms for generative modeling, sampling and statistical inference. Read More 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). Read More 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. 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Leading the Future of Physical AI at CMU Wednesday, September 10, 2025 Ahead of the AI Horizons Summit, Martial Hebert, dean of the School of Computer Science and a speaker at the conference, shared his perspective on physical AI — what it is, why it matters now and how it’s set to transform industries and create new opportunities. Read More
Season Two of 'Does Compute' Now Available SCS Podcast Brings Research Stories From the Lab to Listeners Monday, September 8, 2025 Season two of the SCS podcast "Does Compute" launches today and features ten episodes that bring technology Read More
Qualcomm Appoints Kolter to Board of Directors Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Qualcomm Incorporated has announced the appointment of Jeremy (Zico) Kolter to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Dr. Kolter will serve on the Governance Committee. Read More
Faculty and Students Present at USENIX Security Symposium Wednesday, August 13, 2025 Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium held in Seattle on August 13-15. The event brings together experts from around the world, who will highlight the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. Read More
CMU Hacking Team Wins DEF CON Capture-the-Flag Title Monday, August 11, 2025 The winningest team in DEF CON’sOpens in new window Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon UniversityOpens in new window’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its fourth consecutive title, earning its ninth victory in the past 13 years. Read More
SCS Alumna Among CMU Fulbright Recipients Thursday, August 7, 2025 Rachel Wilson, who earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science with a minor in Hispanic studies, applied for a Fulbright as a way to spend more time abroad in Spanish-speaking communities to better understand their relationship with technology. She is going to Peru, where she will help teach both English and computer programming part-time in high schools. Read More
New NSF Institute Will Help Mathematicians Harness AI, Advance Discoveries Monday, August 4, 2025 With an investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and ad Read More
Alums Compete in World Championship With CMU Pipes and Drums Friday, August 1, 2025 A set of bagpipe-playing twins will be among those representing Carnegie Mellon University on the international stage as its Pipes and Drums band prepares to compete for the first time in the European Pipe Band Championships in Perth, Scotland, Aug. 9, and World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Aug. 15. Read More
Dettmers Receives Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award Friday, August 1, 2025 Tim Dettmers, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's machine learning and computer science departments, has been named a recipient of the inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award. The award recognizes early career faculty whose work advances scalable and efficient machine learning systems. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Joins NSF Effort to Build Trustworthy AI Assistants Wednesday, July 30, 2025 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute to a newly launched National Science Foundation (NSF) AI Research Institute to develop artificial intelligence assistants capable of trustworthy, sensitive and context-aware interactions with people. The assistants could potentially be used in mental and behavioral health fields, where trust and safety are of the utmost importance. Read More
Imagination Meets Automation With BrickGPT Thursday, July 24, 2025 Fusing artificial intelligence and imagination, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a tool that uses text prompts to help people — and even robots — bring ideas to life with Lego bricks. Read More
Mr. Stehlik’s Opus Reflections on a 40 Year Teaching Life Wednesday, July 16, 2025 In one of the most celebrated computer science schools in the world, one of the most beloved figures is a man who collects fountain pens and books. His first fountain pen, he points out, was filled with green ink — not red. It’s a metaphor for how Mark Stehlik approaches his craft: finding ways to say go when everyone else is saying stop. Read More
At the Forefront of Energy and AI SCS Faculty Are Tackling Some of Society's Toughest Challenges While Pioneering Solutions for Tomorrow Wednesday, July 16, 2025 CMU thrives at the intersection of AI, innovation and energy, and world-class researchers in the School of Computer Science are tackling some of society's toughest challenges while pioneering new solutions for tomorrow. Read More
SCS Project Aims To Create Energy-Efficient Data Centers Monday, July 14, 2025 According to projections, data centers around the world could double their electricity consumption by 2030. Driven by AI, data centers could claim 945 terawatt hours of energy in the next five years, a figure that’s greater than the current electricity consumption of Japan. With support from The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation’s seed grant program, Dimitrios Skarlatos will develop a proof-of-concept for a virtualization layer capable of performing fine-grained, efficient power management of GPUs. Read More
Skarlatos Receives 2025 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award Thursday, July 10, 2025 Dimitrios Skarlatos, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, earned the 2025 IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Young Computer Architect Award for his "contributions to virtual memory management and computer security." Read More
How Carnegie Mellon University's CS Academy is Preparing Kids for the Future Friday, June 27, 2025 Carnegie Mellon CS Academy hit 500,000 students enrolled and it all started in local schools. Learn more about how Carnegie Mellon University's computer science academy is preparing kids for the future. Read More
SCS Faculty Earn Amazon Research Awards Friday, June 13, 2025 Five faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have received Amazon Research Awards to support work in areas such as artificial intelligence, cryptography and automated reasoning. The awards recognize innovative academic work with the potential for broad societal and scientific impact, and provide recipients with unrestricted funding, Amazon Web Services (AWS) promotional credits, and access to Amazon’s cloud computing tools and public datasets. Read More
TEEL Lab Programs Awardable Through Department of Defense Marketplace Thursday, June 12, 2025 The TEEL Lab's AI Technicians and AI User workforce training programs have received awardable status in the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, the premier offering of Tradewinds, the DoD's suite of tools and services designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of AI, machine learning, data and analytics capabilities. The two programs can be offered across the entire DoD. Read More
Alum Wins SIGGRAPH Dissertation Award Adam Kohlhaas by Adam Kohlhaas | Friday, June 6, 2025 Rohan Sawhney, an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, has received the 2025 SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for research that redefines how computers simulate and process geometric data. His dissertation introduces a novel framework that moves beyond traditional finite element methods by applying grid-free Monte Carlo techniques to solve fundamental partial differential equations. Read More
Stellar Code Helps Ye Land Internship Wednesday, June 4, 2025 Runqiu Ye, a rising junior in computer science, spent the summer of 2024 writing code for an astrophysics simulation that tracks the mass, radius, temperature and orbits of millions of binary stars, including any interactions that happen between each partner star. Assistant Physics Professor Katie Breivik said that Ye’s ability to learn a new programming language and produce results quickly likely helped him stand out for the internship. Read More
Human-AI Collaboration Can Unlock New Frontiers in Creativity Tools Developed by SCS Researchers Show Benefits for Inventors, Designers, Songwriters Thursday, May 29, 2025 Content churned out by generative AI models is surprisingly competent, if not always particularly exciting. But research at Carnegie Mellon University suggests that when AI serves as a partner to human designers, artists and songwriters, the results could exceed what the machine or person do separately. AI tools can help humans get out of creative ruts and explore a broader range of ideas, while humans can provide judgment — call it taste — about what people will like or if the output conveys the right message or feeling. Read More
Carnegie Mellon, Mid-Atlantic Hub Host First NSF I-Corps Cohort for AI, Robotics Wednesday, May 21, 2025 The cohort was the first NSF I-Corps program in the country to focus specifically on AI and robotics and reflects the expertise of CMU and its Mid-Atlantic I-Corps Hub partner institutions in commercializing research in these fields. The cohort sessions happened virtually throughout April. Twenty-five teams of faculty, students and alumni from CMU, the University of Maryland, Penn State University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania and more learned how to navigate the commercialization process. Read More
CSD Ph.D. Student Named DOE Computational Science Fellow Adam Kohlhaas by Adam Kohlhaas | Friday, May 16, 2025 Stephen Huan, a doctoral student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, is one of 30 students nationwide selected for the Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship for the 2025–26 academic year. The felløwship supports researchers applying high-performance computing to problems in science and engineering. His work centers on machine learning, statistics and applied mathematics, with a focus on efficient algorithms for generative modeling, sampling and statistical inference. Read More
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). Read More
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. Read More
