NYU Computer Science
Legion of Honor
Yann LeCun has been named a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Congratulations!
Turing Award
Yann LeCun shares the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, "the fathers of the deep learning revolution." Congratulations!
Welcome New Faculty!
We are delighted to welcome He He, who is joining the department as Assistant Professor.
Welcome New Faculty!
We are delighted to welcome Andrew Wilson, who is joining the department as Assistant Professor.
Academia Europaea
Chee Yap has been elected to Academia Europaea. 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!
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!
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)
