Awards

Two students from Brown University, Andrea Greene-Horace and Yanling He, have just received the CrowdStrike Foundation's NextGen Scholarship, which supports the development of the next generation of talent and leadership in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. No more than six of these scholarships are given each year, and Brown students have received …

Within days of earning a Greek Diaspora Fellowship for work with Internet of Things software hardening, Professor Vasileios P. Kemerlis of Brown CS is making news again. This time, he's won the DIMVA 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award, which he shares with Fabio Pierazzi of King's College London. Held virtually this …

Since the Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program (GDFP) began four years ago, it's provided 123 fellowships to create brain circulation between Greek universities and universities abroad, strengthening capacity at the host institutions and developing long-term, mutually-beneficial collaborations. This year, only three of the 36 awards were in the areas of computer science or …

Held virtually this year, the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC) brings together leading systems researchers for the presentation of cutting-edge systems research and the opportunity to gain insight into a wealth of must-know topics, including virtualization, system and network management and troubleshooting, cloud and edge computing, security, privacy, and trust, …

Brandon J. Woodard, a Brown CS doctoral student advised by Professor David H. Laidlaw, has just won the NASA RI Space Grant Fellowship for 2020-2021, which provides stipend support for young researchers working toward their Master's or PhD degrees in a NASA-related field of study. Given by the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant …

Brown CS alums Deqing Sun ‘13 (currently a research scientist at Google) and Stefan Roth ‘07 (currently a professor of computer science at TU Darmstadt), along with Brown CS adjunct faculty member Michael Black (currently at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems), have won the Longuet-Higgins Prize for their …

In the inaugural Analog Devices Real-Time Sensor Fusion Challenge, sponsored by MassRobotics, teams from Massachusetts and Rhode Island were invited to compete and submit projects that fuse at least two sensor inputs, using the Robot Operating System (ROS) to create a system that provides better context awareness in robots. Brown’s …

Facebook recently announced the recipients of their research awards on privacy-preserving technologies and the role of applied cryptography in a privacy-focused advertising ecosystem.  Out of 164 proposals submitted, Facebook chose 14 winners, which include a Brown CS faculty member and two alums. A third alum was a finalist in the competition.Alum Foteini …

Brown University's Department of Computer Science has just announced that Eleanor Avril, a Brown CS student and one of the four Meta-TAs who coordinate the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant program, has just won the Norman K. Meyrowitz '81 Award. Named for an alum known for his contributions to the department, the award recognizes …

Brown CS PhD student Lucy Qin (advised by Brown CS Professor Seny Kamara) has just received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her work in applied cryptography. The award is the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, and aims to recognize and support outstanding graduate students in the fields of …