December 2020

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Unified Framework for the Competing Constraints in Federated Learning Principal investigator: Virginia Smith CMU will focus on federated learning systems with competing constraints, such as accuracy, fairness, robustness, and privacy. CMU will investigate statistical heterogeneity as a root cause for tension between these constraints. In particular, CMU will tackle heterogeneity via a unified framework for robust, privacy-preserving multi-task learning — unlocking a new generation of FL systems that can holistically address the constraints of realistic federated networks.

Smith Joins Private AI Collaborative Research Institute

Thursday, December 10, 2020
CMU faculty members Leman Akoglu and Christos Faloutsos were two of three authors on a paper that received the Most Influential Paper Award at the 2020 Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Mary McGohon, now at Google, was the third author.

SCS Team Wins Most Influential Paper Award at Data Mining Conference

Wednesday, December 9, 2020
COVIDcast Real-time COVID-19 Indicators by the Delphi Group | A new agreement with Change Healthcare will help CMU's COVIDcast researchers understand the current state of the pandemic as they continue to map real-time indicators of the virus.

Delphi Enhances COVIDcast With Change Healthcare Claims Data

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

November 2020

Katerina Fragkiadaki received funding this year through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP).

Fragkiadaki Wins Air Force Young Investigator Award

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

October 2020

Christos Faloutsos pictured.

SCS Celebrates New Professorships

Thursday, October 22, 2020
Derivative image by creative commons by Aaron Kittredge and cottonbro from Pexels

Even Our Language Is Polarized

Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Jian Ma portrayed, SCS faculty member Jian Ma is the lead principal investigator of a new NIH-funded center that aims to improve understanding of the 3D structure of cell nuclei and how changes in that structure affect cell functions in health and disease.

Carnegie Mellon Heads New Center for Studying Structure of Cell Nucleus

Thursday, October 15, 2020
CMU's Delphi Group is now monitoring nationwide trends in mask usage, access to COVID-19 tests and the results of those tests as part of its Covidcast efforts.

COVIDcast Now Monitoring Daily U.S. Mask Use, COVID-19 Testing

Monday, October 12, 2020

September 2020

Brandon Bohrer (top), Rogerio Bonatti, Megan Hofmann, Fish Tung and Lijun Yu have been named 2021 Siebel Scholars.

Five SCS Students Named 2021 Siebel Scholars

Monday, September 28, 2020
A team led by Distinguished Career Professor Rayid Ghani has found that machine learning can help public health officials identify children most at risk of lead poisoning.

Machine Learning Models Identify Kids at Risk of Lead Poisoning

Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Google.org has contributed $1 million and 12 personnel to support Covidcast, the university's effort to track and forecast COVID-19 activity.

Google.org Donates $1 Million, Personnel to CMU's COVID-19 Forecasting Project

Thursday, September 10, 2020
Source: https://symptomchallenge.org | CMU is a partner in Facebook's COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge.

Facebook Launches Competition To Improve Detection of COVID-19

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

August 2020

Photo by Kevin Ku, Unsplash | In the latest evaluation, a sub-team including the Auton Lab's Jarod Wang, Cristian Challu and Kin Gutierrez also topped the leader board in a component category — building collections of "primitives" for performing ML-related tasks such as data conditioning/preprocessing or classification. Their new time series forecasting algorithm pushed their collection to the top spot, Dubrawski said.

SCS Researchers Top Leaderboard in DARPA AutoML Evaluations

Friday, August 14, 2020

July 2020

A new CMU method uses machine learning to train a robot to recognize objects and to understand where in a home they might be found.

Which Way to the Fridge? Common Sense Helps Robots Navigate

Monday, July 20, 2020

June 2020

SCS researchers have developed an automated method for making emails and other communications more polite.

Could Your Computer Please Be More Polite? Thank You

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
After 36 years at CMU, former SCS Dean Randy Bryant will retire on June 30.

A Master of Transformations

Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Research projects spearheaded by Ziv Bar-Joseph and Rayid Ghani are among the first to receive funding from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute.

Two CMU AI Projects Addressing COVID-19 Win Funding

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

May 2020

Machine learning Professors Ameet Talwalkar and Virginia Smith portrayed with a background of Carnegie Mellon's Gates Hillman Center on the back

Smith and Talwalkar Earn Towards On-Device AI Research Award

Thursday, May 28, 2020
Leqi Liu portrayed, doctoral researcher at the Machine Learning Department

Liu Wins Open Phil AI Fellowship 2020

Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Picture of Gates Hillman Center, Source: Jonathan Speek, Unsplash / https://unsplash.com/photos/S4wMxGs6H3c | Machine Learning Department

Congratulations to Our New PhDs

Friday, May 8, 2020

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