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CMU Computer Science Department @csdatcmu.bsky.social · Jul 17

Congratulations to CSD faculty Aditi Raghunathan and her research collaborators on receiving an ICML Outstanding Paper award for Roll the dice & look before you leap: Going beyond the creative limits of next-token prediction (icml.cc/virtual/2025...).

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15266

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Carnegie Mellon University @cmu.edu · Mar 13

🐝DID YOU KNOW? Honeybees pollinate a third of what people eat and drink, from coffee to almonds, but colonies are on the decline because of extreme weather, pesticides and parasites.

CMU School of Computer Science @scsatcmu.bsky.social · Mar 7

@carnegiemellon.bsky.social and @ucriverside.bsky.social researchers have created a system to help beekeepers monitor and analyze the health of their beehives and take corrective actions to prevent colony collapse.

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Using Computer Science To Save the Bees

CMU and UC Riverside researchers have created a system to help beekeepers monitor and analyze the health of their beehives and take corrective actions to prevent colony collapse.

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CMU Computer Science Department @csdatcmu.bsky.social · Mar 13

Aayush Jain has received an NSF CAREER award! Jain will use the award to study new and under-explored mathematical sources of hardness for cryptography as well as support graduate research in this area. Congrats Aayush!

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CMU Computer Science Department @csdatcmu.bsky.social · Mar 10

;-) Gotta remain the neutral party here. ¯\_(シ)_/¯

CMU Computer Science Department @csdatcmu.bsky.social · Mar 10

Indeed. We'll be posting congrats this week for Aayush's CAREER!

CMU Computer Science Department @csdatcmu.bsky.social · Mar 10

Perhaps not the flex that was hoped for there. 😏

CMU Computer Science Department @csdatcmu.bsky.social · Mar 10

ICYMI (because we need to catch up a little posting our news!):
Stephanie Balzer, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Congrats Stephanie!
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Balzer Earns NSF CAREER Award | Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department

Stephanie Balzer, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The awards are...

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CMU Computer Science Department @csdatcmu.bsky.social · Mar 10

But we have posts! ;-)

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CMU Computer Science Department @csdatcmu.bsky.social · Mar 10

Not gonna happen. ;-)

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · Mar 6

@csdatcmu.bsky.social Speaking of cool things by my cool colleagues, this belongs in your feed:

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Satyanarayanan Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Mahadev Satyanarayanan, the Jaime Carbonell University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

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CMU Computer Science Department @csdatcmu.bsky.social · Mar 7

Using Computer Science To Save the Bees - CSD faculty Christos Faloutsos, Fredkin University Professor of Computer Science, said researchers looked to heat-transfer physics for the equation when developing the EBV's beehive health forecasting model.
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Beekeeper's gloved hand holdint a beehive tray showing honeycomb and bees outdoors.

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Carnegie Mellon University Libraries @library.cmu.edu · Feb 7

Congrats to Three Minute Thesis preliminary round 2 co-winner, Ananya Joshi of the School of Computer Science! 📣

Since it began in at @carnegiemellon.bsky.social in 2014, 15% of #3MT finalists have come from @scsatcmu.bsky.social.

⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship on 3/11 from 6-8pm.

Ananya Joshi's 3MT Presentation Title: Large scale data monitoring for critical domains via human-AI collaboration.

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CMU Computer Science Department @csdatcmu.bsky.social · Mar 6

Cheering on Ananya Joshi competing with 9 Ph.D. finalists for the #3MT honor next week.

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Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship, 3/11 (6-8pm).

Portrait photo of Ananya Joshi, CMU CSD Ph.D. student.

CMU Computer Science Department @csdatcmu.bsky.social · Mar 6

Took a little while, but here we are. :-)

And... we would never expect you to not "do you" Dave. ;-)

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Carnegie Mellon University @cmu.edu · Mar 5

Two Carnegie Mellon @scsatcmu.bsky.social faculty members will receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2025.

Congratulations to Zhihao Jia and Deepak, among 126 early career researchers announced as fellows. 👏

Computer Science Faculty Members Named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows

Two faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2025.

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