Brown CS

09/03/2026

Malte Schwarzkopf Receives DARPA’s Young Faculty Award For Work On Compilers To Facilitate Code Analysis

Code analysis tools are crucial in preventing security vulnerabilities. But they’re difficult to develop and maintain because they must often deeply integrate with compilers, the monolithic programs that turn source code into executables that can run on a computer.

Enter: Malte's work to “catalyze innovation” with compilers, just awarded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA).

Discover the full story at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/09/03/malte-schwarzkopf-receives-darpas-young-faculty-award-for-work-on-compilers-to-facilitate-code-analysis/

09/03/2026

08/28/2026

Nikos Vasilakis Wins An NSF CAREER Award For Lowering Barriers To Improve Complex Systems

“Software systems are behind almost everything people do today,” says Brown CS faculty member Nikos Vasilakis, “from science and medicine to communication and artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, their vast complexity goes far beyond the understanding of their users, making even small improvements in their performance, security, or reliability feasible only for teams of experts.”

To address this problem, he’s just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award on transformorphic computing, a fundamentally new approach to automatically and correctly improving widely deployed systems without burdening their users and with strong guarantees about their behavior.

Read the full story at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/08/28/nikos-vasilakis-wins-an-nsf-career-award-for-lowering-barriers-to-improve-complex-systems

08/27/2026

Kathi Fisler Receives The 2026 ICER Lasting Impact Award

In her solo paper, written when Kathi was a faculty member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, she returns to and makes progress on Soloway’s Rainfall problem, often used to assess student programming skills in introductory courses. Soloway’s original read, “Write a program that will read in integers and output their average. Stop reading when the value 99999 is input.”

Read the paper and learn more at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/08/27/kathi-fisler-receives-the-2026-icer-lasting-impact-award

08/26/2026

Deepti Raghavan Wins An NSF CAREER Award To Improve Compound AI Systems

She’s just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to develop methods to serve and train compound AI systems efficiently. The ultimate goal is to produce new systems that enable practitioners to focus solely on creating and improving the accuracy of modern AI systems, without having to worry about details related to efficient ex*****on and resource management.

Learn more at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/08/26/deepti-raghavan-wins-an-nsf-career-award-to-improve-compound-ai-systems

08/25/2026

Beyond The Code: How Barbara Meier’s Painting Practice Illuminates Computer Animation Teaching

“My courses focus equally on the technical and artistic processes involved in creating computer imagery and animation. While resources for the technical side are abundant, I draw on my own experience as a painter to teach the artistic side.”

Discover more about Barbara's creative practice and her newest exhibition here: https://blog.cs.brown.edu/2026/08/25/beyond-the-code-how-barbara-meiers-painting-practice-illuminates-computer-animation-teaching/

08/21/2026

Shriram Krishnamurthi Has Been Inducted Into The ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy

Shriram Krishnamurthi has received one of software engineering’s highest honors for his lasting contributions to the foundations and growth of the discipline.

Read the full article at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/08/21/shriram-krishnamurthi-has-been-inducted-into-the-acm-sigsoft-software-engineering-academy/

08/20/2026

A New CNTR Project Aims To Increase AI's Transparency By Mapping Its Data Workers

A new project (“Where are the data workers behind AI?”) from the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign is an investigative attempt to make the data annotation and labeling industry transparent.

Learn more at Brown CS News: https://blog.cs.brown.edu/2026/08/20/a-new-cntr-project-increases-ais-transparency-by-mapping-its-data-workers