Four Columbians Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Professor Emeritus Alfred Aho and Professor Toniann Pitassi are among the Columbians recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Research and News
Xi Chen Wins Both 2021 Gödel Prize and Fulkerson Prize
Xi Chen is one of a small number of researchers to be awarded two highly prestigious honors—the 2021 Gödel Prize and the 2021 Fulkerson Prize—in one year. He and his long-time collaborator Jin-Yi Cai, a … Continue reading Xi Chen Wins Both 2021 Gödel Prize and Fulkerson Prize
Columbia Engineering Professor Leads New Crypto Research Center of A16z
While continuing to teach at Columbia Engineering, Tim Roughgarden will serve as head of research at a16z Crypto Research
Christos Papadimitriou and Xi Chen Win 2022 ACM SIGecom Test of Time Awards
The SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes papers published between ten and twenty-five years ago that have significantly impacted research or applications exemplifying the interplay of economics and computation. Papadimitriou and Chen’s influential papers settled … Continue reading Christos Papadimitriou and Xi Chen Win 2022 ACM SIGecom Test of Time Awards
Concerned Your Smartphone Is Spying on You?
CS researchers have built an algorithm that blocks a rogue microphone from correctly hearing your words—in English so far—80% of the time.
CertiK, a Web3 Security Company, Doubles Its Valuation to $2 Billion in Just 3 Months
Assistant Professor Ronghui Gu’s blockchain security firm CertiK is considered a unicorn company.
Baishakhi Ray Wins 2022 IEEE TCSE Award for Rising Star in Software Engineering
Baishakhi Ray is recognized for innovative and high-quality research on software engineering and artificial intelligence, which has impacted both the academic and industrial communities.
Elias Bareinboim and Christian Kroer Win ONR Young Investigator Awards
Bareinboim will develop a new framework that will lead to more efficient and robust decision-making; Kroer will develop new algorithms based on game theory to solve real-world problems with multiple actors.
David Knowles Wins NSF CAREER Award
Award supports computer scientist’s work to develop bioinformatics tools and methods to better understand RNA splicing’s role in ALS, cancer, and neuron development.
Henry Yuen Wins NSF CAREER Award
The theoretical computer scientist will use the award to push the boundaries of quantum information science.
Can 5G Really Bring Down an Airplane?
How the 5G rollout grounded hundreds of flights—and how to fix it
They Found a Way to Thematically Sort All of Wikipedia on a Laptop
Professor David Blei, with co-authors Matthew Hoffman and Francis Bach, is recognized with a Test of Time Award at NeurIPS, the world’s top machine learning conference, for scaling his topic modeling algorithm to billions of … Continue reading They Found a Way to Thematically Sort All of Wikipedia on a Laptop
One Thing Leads to Another
Teaching AI to distinguish between causation and correlation would be a game changer— well, the game may be about to change.
Tim Roughgarden Elected Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory
The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory named economic theory fellows who have substantially advanced economic theory through scholarly and creative achievement.
Giving Girls the Gift of Science
Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi spent an afternoon with middle school girls to kickstart their interest in artificial intelligence through science-based activities. … Continue reading Giving Girls the Gift of Science
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