NYU Computer Science
Turing Award
Yann LeCun shares the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, "the fathers of the deep learning revolution." Congratulations!
Gödel Prize and Simons Investigator
Oded Regev has been awarded the 2018 Gödel Prize for his 2005 paper, "On lattices, learning with errors, random linear codes, and cryptography." He has also been named a 2019 Simons Investigator for his work in lattice-based cryptography. Congratulations!
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
Silver Professor Denis Zorin has received the 2019 Computer Graphics Achievement Award "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to computer graphics and geometric modeling." Congratulations!
John von Neumann Prize
Margaret Wright has been awarded the 2019 John von Neumann Prize by SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics). Congratulations!
NSF CAREER Award
Joan Bruna has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal, "Theory and Applications of Geometric Deep Learning." Congratulations!
Norbert Wiener Prize
Marsha Berger has been awarded the American Mathematical Society Norbert Wiener Prize. Congratulations!
Welcome Julia Kempe
Julia Kempe has been appointed Director of the Center for Data Science, and Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Data Science. Welcome!
Welcome Daniel Neill
Daniel Neill is joining the department as an Associate Professor of Public Service and Computer Science, with a joint appointment in the Computer Science Department and in the Wagner School of Public Service. Welcome!
Welcome Benjamin Peherstorfer
Benjamin Peherstorfer is joining the department as an assistant professor. His research combines computational statistics, machine learning, and numerical analysis. Welcome!
Professor Aurojit Panda joins the department
His work spans programming languages, networking, and systems.
Academia Europaea
Julia Kempe has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea. Congratulations!
IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Patrick Cousot is the recipient of the IEEE John von Neumann medal, given "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology".
Kyunghyun Cho selected as a 2017 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Professor Cho represents NYU as 1 of 15 CIFAR Azreli Global Scholars. Congratulations!
Yann LeCun elected to National Academy of Engineering
Yann LeCun has been elected to the NAE "for developing convolutional neural networks and their applications in computer vision and other areas of artificial intelligence."
Recognition for our Students
Our students have won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, an Adobe Research
Fellowship, an NYU Presidential Service Award, and a GSAS Outstanding
Dissertation Award
(L to R: Alex Wang, Zhongshi Jiang, Ananditha
Raghunath, Noah Stephens-Davidowitz)
