SCS Faculty Receive Amazon Research Awards
Amazon has named three Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science researchers among the 63 recipients of its latest Amazon Research Awards.
Bajcsy Earns DARPA Young Faculty Award
Andrea Bajcsy, an assistant professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has earned a DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) for her work to create models and algorithms that help embodied AI systems make more reliable decisions in diverse environments. The YFA program provides funding to promising junior faculty at [...]
Changliu Liu Earns IFAC Robotics Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Changliu Liu, associate professor at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University, earned the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Robotics Outstanding Young Researcher Award “for significant and sustained contributions in intelligent robot control with provable safety and efficient human-robot collaboration in manufacturing, logistics, and autonomous driving." Liu received the award during the ceremony [...]
Robotics Alum Earns PAMI Young Researcher Honorable Mention
Ishan Misra, who earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in 2018, received a 2025 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researcher Award honorable mention at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). The honor recognizes early career researchers for distinguished contributions to computer vision. Misra, now a director [...]
Ioannis Gkioulekas Recognized as Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist
Ioannis Gkioulekas, associate professor at the Robotics Institute in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has received the 2025 Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist award in the field of Applied Sciences and Technologies: Artificial Intelligence. The Bodossaki Foundation recognizes contributions made to Greek society that align with their four strategic action pillars: promoting education, [...]
Jiaoyang Li Earns NSF CAREER Award
Jiaoyang Li, assistant professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has earned the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The CAREER Program grants some of NSF’s most prestigious awards to early-career faculty who show exemplary dedication to the mission of their institution and act as [...]
CMU’s Autonomous Reforestation Robot Earns National Award
Appleseed Labs, a team within the Kantor Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, received the Excellence in Regenerative Agriculture award at the 2025 Farm Robotics Challenge. The team was advised by Senior Project Scientist Francisco Yandun and included students Will Heitman, Joyce Zhu, Ken Muangsiri, Alex Smith, Qimeng Yu and Rohan Walia, who joined from the [...]
CMU Scores Fourth Straight Victory At MITRE Cybersecurity Competition
A team of 15 students from Carnegie Mellon University have won the 2025 Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) security competition, securing CMU's fourth straight win. The eCTF is a two-phase competition run by MITRE that challenges teams to design and submit a secure system and then analyze and attack other teams’ designs with the goal [...]
Andrea Bajcsy Earns NSF CAREER Award
Andrea Bajcsy, assistant professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has earned the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The CAREER Program grants some of NSF’s most prestigious awards to early-career faculty who show exemplary dedication to the mission of their institution and act as [...]
Howie Choset Elected AAAS Fellow
Howie Choset, Kavčić-Moura Professor of Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute has been elected as a 2024 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. Choset is being recognized for “distinguished contributions to the field [...]
RI Ph.D. Wins Three Minute Thesis Competition, Earns Jane Street Fellowship
Vivian Shen, Robotics Institute Ph.D. student, emerged as the champion of the Carnegie Mellon University Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT). The internationally recognized competition, hosted by Carnegie Mellon Libraries, challenges Ph.D. students from across the university to present their thesis in an accessible language in just three minutes. 3MT offers CMU doctoral candidates of any [...]
SCS 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. Two faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2025. Deepak Pathak and Zhihao Jia are among the 126 early career researchers announced as fellows. More than a thousand [...]
CMU’s AirLab Advances in GoAERO Competition
An aerial rescue vehicle developed by a team of students and faculty advisors at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute AirLab will advance to the next stage of the GoAERO Competition. The Tartan Air Rescue team and its TRAAV-160 flyer was named a Stage 1 winner of the competition along with 10 other teams. Tartan [...]
RI Ph.D. Receives NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
Tairan He, second-year Ph.D. student at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute has been awarded the 2025-2026 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. He will receive the prestigious fellowship alongside just 9 other students selected from applicants worldwide. For 24 years, NVIDIA has invited Ph.D. students to submit their research proposals for consideration, with a particular emphasis on [...]
Two RI Ph.D. Students Receive Generative AI in Healthcare Fellowship
The Center for Machine Learning and Health (CMLH) at Carnegie Mellon University recently announced the 2024 Generative AI in Healthcare Fellows. This round, two Robotics Institute Ph.D. students, Angela Chen and Bardienus (Bart) Duisterhof, earned their place among the seven recipients. Chen and Duisterhof both utilize artificial intelligence (AI) in unique ways to expand their [...]
CMU, NREC Researchers Earn Best Paper Award at SSRR 2024
Researchers from the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab (RISLab) at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute and the National Robotics and Engineering Center (NREC) have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) 2024 for their work titled Rapid quadrotor navigation in diverse environments using an onboard depth camera. SSRR hosts [...]
Takeo Kanade Among 2024 John Scott Award Recipients
Takeo Kanade, professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, has received the 2024 John Scott Award alongside two other world leaders in robotics research. The John Scott Award, established in 1815 by Scottish chemist and pharmacist John Scott to honor Benjamin Franklin, recognizes work that has reshaped the field of robotics and [...]
Jun-Yan Zhu Named Samsung AI Researcher of the Year
Jun-Yan Zhu, an Assistant Professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has been selected as a 2024 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year. Samsung’s AI Researcher of the Year program recognizes five promising researchers under 35 who have made outstanding contributions to artificial intelligence research. The recipients receive $30,000 [...]