Brown CS

06/12/2026

Brown CS faculty member Adriana Schulz (who completed this research at the University of Washington) and collaborators have developed an artificial intelligence system that automatically estimates the environmental impacts of making different electronic devices. The system takes only a minute to run and achieves estimates with accuracy similar to human experts.

06/11/2026

Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, And Michael Littman Explore Agentic AI Coding In A New Brown CS Course

They created a class, which ran during the spring semester, called Agentic Studio. The idea was to give a small number of students with at least one prior computer science course a chance to learn firsthand — but in a supervised way — what coding agents can and can’t do, where they add value, where they fall apart and what role human software engineers have in working with AI agents.

Learn more at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/06/11/kathi-fisler-shriram-krishnamurthi-and-michael-littman-explore-agentic-ai-coding-in-a-new-brown-cs-course

06/11/2026

06/03/2026

Brown CS PhD Student Victor Ojewale And Suresh Venkatasubramanian Receive An RLEval Best Paper Award

Held at the ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS), the RLEval: Methods and Reinforcement Learning Environments for Evaluating AI Agents workshop is believed to be the first-ever research venue for questions of AI agent evaluation and benchmarking. Last week, Brown CS PhD student Victor Ojewale and his advisor, Brown CS faculty member Suresh Venkatasubramanian (also Professor of Data Science, Deputy Director of the Data Science Institute, and Director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign) received the event’s Best Paper Award.

Learn more (and read the paper) at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/06/03/brown-cs-phd-student-victor-ojewale-and-suresh-venkatasubramanian-receive-an-rleval-best-paper-award

06/02/2026

Srinath Sridhar Has Been Promoted To Associate Professor With Tenure

Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown University’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, Srinath Sridhar has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Learn more at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/06/02/srinath-sridhar-has-been-promoted-to-associate-professor-with-tenure

05/29/2026

Peihan Miao, Chen Sun, And Suresh Venkatasubramanian Receive Named Professorships

Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) is pleased to announce that effective July 1, 2026, faculty members Peihan Miao, Chen Sun, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian (also Professor of Data Science, Deputy Director of the Data Science Institute, and Director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign) have received named professorships. Peihan is the John E. Savage Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Chen is the Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and Suresh is the Dean's Professor of Data Science and Computer Science.

Learn more at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/05/29/peihan-miao-chen-sun-and-suresh-venkatasubramanian-receive-named-professorships

05/28/2026

Serena Booth Receives An NSF CAREER Award For Inferring AI Specifications By Modeling Humans

“Artificial intelligence (AI) systems,” writes Brown CS faculty member Serena Booth, “increasingly influence both high stakes and everyday decisions across many sectors of the economy. However, providing clear and reliable instructions for intelligent systems is difficult even for relatively narrow applications. Failures occur because instructions are created by people, and human reasoning is shaped by limited information, context, and common cognitive mistakes. As AI becomes more widespread, improving how systems interpret human intent will be essential for safety and reliability.”

To address that challenge, she’s just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to study how people communicate goals to machines and design AI systems that can interpret imperfect instructions by reasoning about the intent behind them.

Learn more at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/05/28/serena-booth-receives-an-nsf-career-award-for-inferring-ai-specifications-by-modeling-humans

05/27/2026

Brown CS Alum Ed Lazowska Receives University Of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award

The University of Washington (UW)’s Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award celebrates a legacy of transformational teaching, honoring UW faculty, living or not, who inspired and influenced their students long after they left the classroom. In order to measure impact rather than simply popularity, nominations are solicited only from alums who graduated more than a decade ago. This year’s winner is Brown CS alum Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus of UW’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. He retired in 2025 after 48 years of teaching.

Learn more at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/05/27/brown-cs-alum-ed-lazowska-receives-university-of-washingtons-distinguished-teaching-legacy-award

05/26/2026

Michael Littman Has Been Elected To The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences

Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States, with early members who included Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. Today, it’s an independent research center committed to multidisciplinary, nonpartisan research that engages experts in various fields to provide pragmatic solutions for complex challenges. Last month, Brown CS faculty member Michael Littman, Brown University’s Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, received one of his profession’s highest honors by being elected an Academy member.

Learn more at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2026/05/26/michael-littman-has-been-elected-to-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/