Dec 13
Elaine Shi is a professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, interested in cryptography, game theory, algorithms, and foundations and blockchains. She and CBI Fellow Elisa Masserova are working on advancing the state of the art in secure multi-party computation (MPC).
Nov 22
As a new CBI fellow, Jinfeng Lou, hopes to on creating robust, adaptable models that incorporate real-time data from sensors, environmental indicators, and human behavior during emergencies such as subway flooding.
Nov 15
Faculty members Pingbo Tang and Cleotilde Gonzalez are working together with CBI Fellow Jinfeng Lou to help solve subway flooding in urban areas using AI and human solutions.
Nov 08
Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them) will join CMU's Department of Chemical Engineering as a faculty member in the Fall of 2025. The CBI Fellowship will provide them with the resources to pursue research that will give them new skills–particularly in machine learning and catalysis–which sets them up for success in their faculty career.
Nov 01
Rachel Kurchin is an assistant research professor in materials science and engineering, leading the Accelerated Computation of Materials for Energy (ACME) group. She and CBI fellow Evan Spotte-Smith are working on an alternative method to synthesize ammonia using electrochemistry, which could more easily leverage renewable energy and therefore be more environmentally friendly.
Oct 24
CBI fellow Xiang Yue is working with Professor Graham Neubig in the Language Technologies Institute to improve LLM reasoning.
Oct 15
Help us welcome our new CBI fellows and their faculty hosts! Our get-to-know-you series will start with faculty host Graham Neubig from the Language Technologies Institute.
Jul 29
CBI is proud to announce a bright new cohort of CBI Fellows! Meet Jinfeng Lou, Lisa Masserova, Evan Walter Clark Spotte-Smith, Qiaosi Wang, and Xiang Yue!
Jul 09
Review of President Alessandro Oltramari's trip to Dagstuhl and a summary of the institute's correlation to CBI's mission.
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