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Chair’s Blog

  • New AI Degree
    We are delighted to announce that, joint with our colleagues in Electrical and Systems Engineering, we will be introducing a new Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering in Artificial Intelligence! For decades AI has been a Read more…
  • CIS Welcomes 3 New Faculty for 2023!
    As we start the 2023-24 academic year, I am pleased that we are able to welcome three amazing new colleagues to the CIS Department! Jérémie Lumbroso joins us as a Practice Assistant Professor, after spending Read more…

Highlighted Research Projects

Developing Real-Time Virtualization

Recent years have witnessed two major trends in the development of complex real-time systems. First, they are moving from physically isolated hosts towards common computing platforms shared by multiple systems. Using common platforms can bring Read more…

Network Provenance

Operators of distributed systems often find themselves needing to answer a diagnostic or forensic question. Some part of the system is found to be in an unexpected state; for example, a suspicious routing table entry Read more…

Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy

Large, diverse datasets hold tremendous promise, if only we can derive statistical insights from them. But often, these datasets are siloed and withheld, because of privacy concerns. Differential privacy can mitigate these concerns — it Read more…

Fairness in Machine Learning

Important decisions such as police deployment, loan approvals, hiring, and parole from incarceration are beginning to be made by machine learning algorithms. This has lent urgency to the question of whether these algorithms are fair. Read more…

Foundations of Adaptive Data Analysis

Classical tools for rigorously analyzing data make the assumption that the analysis is static: the models to be fit, and the hypotheses to be tested are fixed independently of the data, and preliminary analysis of Read more…

Improving GPU Performance and Programmability

In recent years, graphics processing units (GPUs) have thoroughly permeated consumer processor designs. It is now essentially impossible to find a smartphone, tablet or laptop without a substantial integrated GPU on the processor die. Utilizing Read more…

Measuring the World’s Well-Being

The World Well-Being Project (WWBP) is pioneering scientific techniques for measuring psychological well-being and physical health based on the analysis of language in social media. As a collaboration between computer scientists, psychologists, and medical researchers, Read more…

The Science of Deep Specification

In our interconnected world, software bugs and security vulnerabilities pose enormous costs and risks. The Deep Specification project addresses this problem by showing how to build software that does what it is supposed to do, Read more…