Stony Brook Computer Science

09/25/2026

Big ideas. More resilient systems. Congratulations to Stony Brook University CS Assistant Professor Mohammad Javad Amiri on his NSF CAREER Award!

His research aims to keep data processing fast and reliable for services ranging from banking to healthcare.

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/4b2fshr9

09/25/2026

Tuhin Chakrabarty, assistant professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, weighs in for The Wall Street Journal on the latest controversy surrounding AI-generated novels - a French debut novel nominated for several literary prizes.

Read the story here: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/orlien-france-book-ai-accusations-f053fee6

The author of “C’était ça ou Mourir” (“It Was Either That or Die”) has defended his writing style in the face of accusations that he wrote the book using artificial intelligence.

09/22/2026

Could AI help scientists build better batteries? Stony Brook’s Yi Liu is working with Brookhaven National Laboratory to explore that possibility while leading an NSF-funded project to design new molecules.

Learn more: https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/yi-liu-leads-nsf-project-on-molecular-design-and-advances-battery-design-with-bnl/

09/17/2026

In this interview, Stony Brook University computer science professor Steven Skiena discusses algorithms and artificial intelligence. Following a brief introduction in Italian, the conversation continues in English.

Watch the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZcYKwFDkxE

09/04/2026

Xianfeng Gu has been named a Fellow of the Solid Modeling Association! Join us in congratulating the Stony Brook computer science professor on this honor.

Read the story: https://tinyurl.com/3wsue8dv

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08/20/2026

A new approach to quantum network design has earned a team of Stony Brook University and Binghamton University researchers a Distinguished Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems in Seoul.

Their protocol verifies local quantum connections before transmitting information hop by hop, offering a more reliable alternative to creating one fragile connection across an entire long-distance route.

The paper was one of only five selected for the distinction from approximately 145 accepted papers and more than 800 submissions.

Congratulations to Aruna Balasubramanian, Nengkun Yu, Zhengyu Wu, Xuan Du Trinh, Yuanyuan Yang and Yiming Zeng!

Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/39chdzem

08/07/2026

What if AI could learn to improve itself?

Stony Brook University researchers Haoyan Yang and Jiawei Zhou, along with their team, have developed a new framework that explains how large language models can become better at generating high-quality responses by refining what they already know.

Their work could help shape the future of AI systems that are more efficient, capable and reliable.

Read the story: https://tinyurl.com/5n797d8b

07/24/2026

Congratulations to Dominik Kempa, assistant professor of computer science at Stony Brook University, on receiving the Stony Brook Trustees Faculty Award for his breakthroughs in compressed indexing.

Kempa’s research tackles a complex challenge: How can enormous datasets remain compact while supporting efficient search, access and analysis—and preserving every detail? His work could help transform how we interact with genomic databases, source code, web archives and other massive collections of information.

At Stony Brook, we dare to make big data smaller—and its possibilities bigger.

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5xw8kds8

07/14/2026

This summer, 51 high school students are stepping into active university research through CSIRE.

Working alongside Stony Brook faculty and graduate mentors, students are exploring AI, cybersecurity, biomedical informatics and more.

Read the full story on SBU News: https://tinyurl.com/3x39dy3x

06/17/2026

Stony Brook Computer Science professor Steven Skiena will take audiences inside the real science of Ex Machina at Sag Harbor Cinema on Thursday, June 25.

Before a special screening of Alex Garland’s provocative sci-fi thriller, Skiena will present “Synthetic Dreams and Ghost Machines,” exploring the rapidly evolving fields of artificial intelligence and robotics—and how close reality may be to the technology imagined in the film.

The Science on Screen® program begins at 6 p.m.

Learn more and purchase tickets: https://sagharborcinema.org/films/ex-machina/