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The official account of the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney.

🔗 https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/schools/school-computer-science.html
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🎉 Huge congratulations to our academics Liyi Zhou, Xiang Zhang, and Yu Yao, who were awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) by the Australian Research Council!

We look forward to the amazing research this will enable them to conduct at #USyd! rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
Research Management System - Funded Projects - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026 round 1
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November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Proud to receive the David Robinson award tonight from the Information, Telecommunications, and Electronics Engineering (ITEE) College of Engineers Australia, for outstanding achievements in ITEE Engineering. Nominated by my honours supervisor from many years ago Prof Graham Town
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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ICMY: this December, the School of Computer Science at #USyd will host an absolutely incredible line-up of speakers, jointly with the SMRI (@sydmathinst.bsky.social) and the Faculty of Engineering!

🗓️ Mon 1: Bob Tarjan
🗓️ Tue 2: Moti Yung
🗓️ Wed 10: Shafi Goldwasser

Details and how to attend below! ↴
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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ICMY: this December, the School of Computer Science at #USyd will host an absolutely incredible line-up of speakers, jointly with the SMRI (@sydmathinst.bsky.social) and the Faculty of Engineering!

🗓️ Mon 1: Bob Tarjan
🗓️ Tue 2: Moti Yung
🗓️ Wed 10: Shafi Goldwasser

Details and how to attend below! ↴
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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This December, the Faculty of Engineering at #USyd is delighted to welcome Dr Moti Yung, who will speak at the Basser seminar series in our School. He will tell us about "Malicious Cryptography: beyond adhering to specifications in secure systems"

🕒 Tuesday, Dec 2
3:30—4:30pm
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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🎉 Qiang Tang, Hanwen Feng and Yuchen Ye's paper "Optimal Byzantine Agreement with Message Drops" has been accepted at #Asiacrypt2025!

🔗 Asiacrypt 2025: asiacrypt.iacr.org/2025/
Paper: eprint.iacr.org/2025/1738

Coauthored with Zhenliang Lu (CityU HK)

#consensus #unstable #network
Asiacrypt 2025
Asiacrypt 2025
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November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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🎉 Qiang Tang and Hanwen Feng's paper "Practical Asynchronous Distributed Key Reconfiguration and Its Applications" has been accepted at #IEEESP2026!

🔗 IEEE SP 2026: sp2026.ieee-security.org

Paper: eprint.iacr.org/2025/149

#DistributedKeyReconfiguration #Asynchronous #Consensus
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2026
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November 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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🎉 🎉🎉Congratulations to Qiang Tang, Hanwen Feng and Michael Mai from the school for winning the DSN 2025 Best paper award for the paper "A Communication Optimal Asynchronous Consensus Using Only Hash"! 🎉🎉🎉 #BestPaper #DSN2025
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Coauthored with Zhenliang Lu
#consensus #crypto #theory
DSN 2025
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November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Reminder: we are hiring at #USyd! Multiple continuing (equiv. tenure-track) teaching and research positions: excellent candidates in all areas of #ComputerScience are encouraged to apply!

⏰ Deadline Dec 1: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
Multiple Continuing (Tenure-Track) Academic Positions, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney
Join a thriving Faculty of Engineering at a University ranked amongst the world’s best teaching and research institutions Located in the heart of Sydney’s bustling inner west quarter, close to beaches...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Join us on Monday 1st December for the first SMRI-Basser Joint Seminar, to be given by Robert Tarjan (Princeton University)
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'Is Dijkstra's Algorithm Optimal?'

2 pm, Monday 1st December, 2025
The Quad General Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney
#MathSky #CSforAll
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Dean's Lecture Series — Prof Shafi Goldwasser | Wednesday 10 December 2025

📍Eastern Avenue Auditorium (F19)
Camperdown NSW 2006
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📋 Register (by Dec 5): signup.e2ma.net/signup/20429...
Abstract Summary For decades now cryptographic tools and models have at their essence transformed technology platforms controlled by worst case adversaries to trustworthy platforms. This talk will describe how interactive proofs and cryptographic modeling can be used to build trust in legal domains and various phases of the machine learning pipelines, including verification of LLM outputs. About the Speaker Shafi Goldwasser is the Research Director for the Resilience Research Pod at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, the C. Lester Hogan Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley and the Leighton Family Professor of Mathematics at MIT. She was director of the Simons Institute from 2018 to 2024. She is a professor emeritus of computer science and applied mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Goldwasser received a BS in applied mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979, and MS and PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1984. Goldwasser was the recipient of the ACM Turing Award for 2012. She was also the recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1993 and another in 2001 for her work on interactive proofs and connections to approximation, and was awarded the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (1996), the RSA award in mathematics (1998), the ACM Athena award for women in computer science (2008), the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (2010), the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2011), the Barnard College Medal of Distinction (2016), and the Suffrage Science Award (2016). She is a member of the AAAS, ACM, NAE, NAS, Israeli Academy of Science, London Mathematical Society, Royal Society and Russian Academy of Science and received honorary doctorates from Haifa University, Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan UNiversity, Ben Gurion University, Hebrew University, Waterloo University and Carnegie Mellon University.
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This December, the Faculty of Engineering at #USyd is delighted to welcome Prof. Shafi Goldwasser, who will deliver a Dean's Lecture on "Constructing Trust: A Cryptographic Tool Kit!"

🕒 Wednesday, Dec 10
3:00—5:00pm
(includes lecture and networking)

⏰ Register by Dec 5 (link and location below)
Dean's Lecture Series with Professor Shafi Goldwasser: Wednesday 10 December 2025 at the University of Sydney
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Reminder: we are hiring at #USyd! Multiple continuing (equiv. tenure-track) teaching and research positions: excellent candidates in all areas of #ComputerScience are encouraged to apply!

⏰ Deadline Dec 1: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
Multiple Continuing (Tenure-Track) Academic Positions, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney
Join a thriving Faculty of Engineering at a University ranked amongst the world’s best teaching and research institutions Located in the heart of Sydney’s bustling inner west quarter, close to beaches...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Last Friday, we held our Pervasive Computing showcase, on the theme "Reimagining Fictional Technologies through Pervasive Computing"

Our students brought to life amazing visions of SciFi and Fantasy, from design to physical fabrication, using today's tech—3D printing, laser cutting, and much more!
A robotic flower A laptop, and a robot created, on a table A robot head A dragon head
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Come and join us: we have 2x Postdoctoral Research Associate positions available at SMRI. Mathematicians of all areas are encouraged to apply (pure, applied, statistics). Please share with your network #MathSky
Closing December 3
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SMRI Postdoctoral Research Associate
Two (2) Full time, 3 years fixed term opportunities. Located at the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute (SMRI) Opportunity to contribute to research focused on pure or applied mathematics or statis...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to our PhD student Xiuchuan Li, who was awarded one of the prestigious 2025 Global Google PhD Fellowships! This support from Google.org recognises Xiuchuan's excellence, research leadership, and potential to shape the future of technology. #USyd #PhD
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November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory (SACT) group at #USyd has several postdoc positions available (2+ years) in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science, with one focusing on streaming and one on planning and synthesis. Expected start mid- or end 2026.

More information: usyd-sact.github.io
Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory (SACT)
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November 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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The Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory (SACT) group at #USyd has several #PhD positions available, in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science, with one focusing on computational geometry and one on streaming algorithms. Expected start mid- or end 2026.

More information: usyd-sact.github.io
Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory (SACT)
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November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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🎉 Clément Canonne's paper "Interactive Proofs For Distribution Testing With Conditional Oracles" has been accepted at #ITCS2026!

🔗 ITCS'26: itcs-conf.org

Coauthored with Ari Biswas (University of Warwick), Mark Bun, and Satchit Sivakumar (Boston University)

#interactiveproofs #algorithms #theory
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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🎉 Abigail Gentle (PhD student) and Clément Canonne's paper "Uniformity Testing under User-Level Local Privacy" has been accepted at #ITCS2026!

🔗 Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.18379 (coauthored with Vikrant Singhal (OpenDP and Harvard))

#theory #algorithms #privacy
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to our PhD student Xiuchuan Li, who was awarded one of the prestigious 2025 Global Google PhD Fellowships! This support from Google.org recognises Xiuchuan's excellence, research leadership, and potential to shape the future of technology. #USyd #PhD
research.google/programs-and...
Google.org: Google's philanthropy
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November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Great student and alumni engagement at today's Basser seminar! Mark Shand, from Waymo LLC, told us about their work at Waymo on technologies for autonomous driving. #ComputerScience #USyd
The seminar room in the School of Computer Science at The University of Sydney, packed.
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Congratulations to our researchers on their 5 ARC #DiscoveryProjects! This is over AUD 3.5M towards cutting-edge research in areas as diverse as biomedical foundation models, robust logic-based planning, ML-aided algorithms, computational design with living materials, and LLM vulnerabilities! #DP26
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Grateful to receive the ACM CCS Top Reviewers Award. On different program committees and reviewing dozens of papers every year is a voluntary effort driven purely by passion for research. It’s heartening to see that dedication acknowledged. @sydneycompsci.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM