Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

08/31/2026

“At CMU, we train students how to be contributors to the next generation of tools. They’re going to use these AI tools, but they have enough knowledge that they can work on the tools themselves, and that means we as faculty have to adjust our teaching to focus on problem-solving and deeper thinking.”

Instructors across disciplines at Carnegie Mellon University have redesigned courses incorporating AI as a teaching tool to help students exercise more curiosity, creativity and critical thinking. Whether teaching the decision-making process behind coding, how technology shapes society or considerin...

08/29/2026

The CMU Robotics Institute's Michael Kaess has been named one of the inaugural fellows in the ONR Chief of Naval Research Fellows program.

Michael Kaess, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, has been named an inaugural fellow in the Office of Naval Research's (ONR) Chief of Naval Research Fellows program.

08/21/2026

SCS faculty member Ken Koedinger received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society for his work to advance learning sciences and technology.

Carnegie Mellon University faculty member Ken Koedinger received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (IAIED) for his work in advancing learning sciences and technology.

08/21/2026

CMU's Team Resnik was one of 10 groups invited to the Johnson Space Center to test the autonomous driving tool they developed as part of the NASA SUITS Challenge.

When Carnegie Mellon University's Team Resnik arrived in Houston, they reveled in the excitement of being at NASA's Johnson Space Center. But then in true CMU fashion, they quickly got to work. They had an autonomous driving system to test before they could find a lost lunar terrain vehicle as part....

08/17/2026

Carnegie Mellon University has named SCS alum Damion Shelton as associate vice president and the next executive director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, appointing an experienced entrepreneur, technology executive and Carnegie Mellon alumnus to lead the university's next phase of growth in entrepreneurship, enterprise creation and research commercialization.

Building on nearly a decade of growth at the Swartz Center and Carnegie Mellon's longstanding leadership in artificial intelligence, robotics, engineering, computer science and the sciences, Shelton will lead the center's next chapter.

08/12/2026

Zackory Erickson, an assistant professor at the CMU Robotics Institute, has earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for “Scaling Up Physical Human-Robot Interaction With Generative Simulation,” which addresses one of the biggest challenges to helping robots safely and effectively interact with people: lack of realistic training data.

Rather than relying on limited real-world interactions to train robots, the project will develop a new research framework called “Generative Simulation for Physical Human-Robot Interaction.” The framework will enable robots to learn from a virtually unlimited supply of automatically generated, physically realistic interaction scenarios. These simulations will allow robots to learn and be tested in a wide range of situations before working with people, advancing applications in areas such as assistive robotics, healthcare and collaborative manufacturing.

👉 https://www.ri.cmu.edu/erickson-earns-nsf-career-award/

08/06/2026

“Interactive systems shine when a proof needs insight and structure. Automated systems shine when millions of cases must be checked without a single mistake."

From generating proofs to verifying complex theorems, new AI-driven tools are changing how mathematicians work, collaborate and even define knowledge itself. At Carnegie Mellon University, a group of researchers is helping lead that transformation by bringing together logic, machine learning and automated reasoning.

Jeremy Avigad's work in formalized mathematics is reshaping how proofs are written, checked and shared.

08/01/2026

“I want the students to understand how design and policy together shape social life, and to recognize the responsibility designers and technologists carry in shaping the systems, behaviors and institutions that increasingly mediate our everyday experiences.”

CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Carnegie Mellon University students are stepping out of the classroom ready to prove that the people who design technology are uniquely qualified to help regulate it.

07/31/2026

From running community-based nonprofits to working in new drug discovery to attending medical school, we look at some of the SCS alumni whose careers showcase the versatility of an SCS education.

AMY WHIPPLE Bringing Computational Sciences to Health and Human Services Early in his career at the Homewood Children’s Village, Walter Lewis (SCS 2011) learned something interesting about the high school students who participated in their afterschool program. Most teenagers who had 100 hours or m...

07/31/2026

In a paper published in Science, computational biology researchers at Carnegie Mellon University shed new light on Alzheimer's disease that could lead to improved treatment options.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Washington shed new light on Alzheimer's disease that could point to improved directions for treatment.