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Dec 08

Meet CBI Fellow Kiyn Chin

Kiyn Chin completed her Ph.D. in robotics at CMU’s Robotics Institute in September 2024. She's working with Professor Carmel Majidi as a CBI Fellow to advance robotics technology towards safer, more sustainable, and more accessible architectures via circular design practices and the development of sustainable soft robotic hardware.

Oct 29

Akinci appointed Dean of College of Engineering Opens in new window

Burcu Akinci has been appointed the next Dean of CMU’s College of Engineering, effective January 1, 2026.

Oct 23

New cohort of CBI fellows: Meet Hanif Tayarani

As electric vehicles become more common, researchers are exploring how they can help power the grid rather than strain it. Hanif Tayarani, a new Carnegie Bosch Institute (CBI) Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, is leading this effort by studying the complex relationship between EVs, renewable energy, and the electric grid.

Sep 18

Carnegie Bosch Institute welcomes newest fellows for 2025

The Carnegie Bosch Institute is pleased to announce the addition of two exceptional postdoctoral researchers to its 2025 fellowship cohort: Kiyn Chin and Hanif Tayarani

Sep 11

CBI-backed NSF project advances AI with open knowledge resource

A new project with CBI collaborators brings together Wright State University, Bosch, and Knowledge Systems Research LLC to develop an open knowledge resource designed to integrate seamlessly with modern neural AI systems. By integrating reliable knowledge modules into large models, this resource will serve as a bridge between raw data and reasoning capability, making AI more trustworthy, interoperable, and aligned with human standards.

Jul 14

Meet CBI’s industry mentors: Jon Francis

Meet Jon Francis, a CMU alum and CBI industry mentor focusing on the area of robotics. Francis is a senior research scientist in robot learning and multimodal machine learning at the Bosch Research and Technology Center and supports CBI fellows in part because he believes there is value in encouraging the research communities to tackle real-world problems.

Jun 18

Meet CBI’s industry mentors: Emily Ruppel

Emily Ruppel, CBI industry mentor and sustainability area chair is one of four CBI industry mentors who provide invaluable industry perspectives that complement the academic and entrepreneurial training of the CBI fellows, helping to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and practical application.

Apr 18

CBI highlights responsible and sustainable AI at first symposium

CBI's first Symposium on Responsible & Sustainable AI (ReS AI) took place in March to highlight cutting-edge research and industry insights on responsible and sustainable AI. Keynote speakers from Carnegie Mellon University, Penn State University, and Bosch shared cutting-edge research and industry insights on responsible and sustainable AI while the CBI Fellows presented the unique work they have had the opportunity to do as part of the fellowship program, covering topics from privacy, security, and inclusiveness in AI systems to technologies for environmental management.

Jan 21

Meet CBI fellow Chelsea Wang

Wang is working to design AI systems that can responsibly account for people’s changing social perceptions of AI during human-AI interactions.

Jan 13

Shared research interests bring faculty together with a CBI fellow: Meet CBI faculty hosts Hong Shen and Jodi Forlizzi

Meet host faculty members Hong Shen and Jodi Forlizzi, who are working with CBI fellow Qiaosi Wang on guiding the design of next-generation human-AI interactions.

Jan 07

Cryptography for social good: Meet Lisa Masserova

CBI Fellow Lisa Masserova is working with Elaine Shi from CMU's Computer Science Department to use cryptography to improve the security-related aspects of existing systems, and enable new, exciting use cases for social good.

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