Fire blight can devastate orchards, killing branches and entire trees while causing major economic losses for growers. To help farmers detect the disease earlier and reduce the spread of infection, a team of students from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI) developed a robotic solution that recently earned national recognition. The team, the Fire Blighters, [...]
Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI), has received a 2026 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researcher Award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). This award is among the highest honors in computer vision for early-career researchers and recognizes [...]
Steinfeld received the Test of Time Award on behalf of his team at the 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction in Edinburgh. A team led by Carnegie Mellon University’s Aaron Steinfeld has earned the inaugural Test of Time Award at the 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). The award honors [...]
Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI), has received a 2026 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The award recognizes early career faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics whose research shows exceptional promise for advancing capabilities critical for the U.S. Navy [...]
Three faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are among five CMU researchers selected to receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2026.
Shubham Tulsiani, an assistant professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project developing perception systems to better understand the 3D world. The CAREER Award is the NSF's most prestigious recognition for early career faculty.
Amazon has named three Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science researchers among the 63 recipients of its latest Amazon Research Awards.
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, 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 [...]
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, 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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, 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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, 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, 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 [...]
