NYU Computer Science
Welcome new faculty!
Welcome to Lerrel Pinto, who is joining the department as assistant professor.
Turing Award
Yann LeCun shares the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, "the fathers of the deep learning revolution." Congratulations!
International Collegiate Programming Contest
Muge Chen, Zhen Li, and Andy Polizzotto placed fifth in the inaugural North America Championship of the International Collegiate Programming Contest. They will advance to the World Finals in Moscow in June. Congrats to them and their coach, Joanna Klukowska!
Sloan Fellowship!
Daniele Panozzo has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship for his work in solving partial differential equations on complex geometrical domains. 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!
Legion of Honor
Yann LeCun has been named a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Congratulations!
Eric E. Sumner Award
IEEE has awarded the 2020 Eric E. Sumner Award to Ted Rappaport "for pioneering contributions to radio channel modeling and characterization, and millimeter wave communication systems." Ted has also been named to the Wireless Hall of Fame. 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!
Norbert Wiener Prize
Marsha Berger has been awarded the American Mathematical Society Norbert Wiener Prize. Congratulations!
Academia Europaea
Chee Yap has been elected to Academia Europaea. 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!
NSF CAREER Award
Joan Bruna has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal, "Theory and Applications of Geometric Deep Learning." Congratulations!
Academia Europaea
Julia Kempe has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea. Congratulations!
