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🎉 Congratulations to Professor Noah Snavely on receiving the 2026 PAMI Thomas S. Huang Memorial Prize — a top honor recognizing career contributions in computer vision and image processing.

Presented by the IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Technical Committee, the award recognizes researchers whose work has made lasting, high-impact contributions to the field.

At Cornell Tech, Snavely’s work spans a diverse range of projects, from mapping technologies to 3D generative models. His recent research on synthesizing entire 3D worlds from text prompts has exciting real-world implications across various industries, such as game design and filmmaking.

We’re proud to celebrate Noah’s leadership and impact.👏

Learn more about the award: https://tc.computer.org/tcpami/awards/pami-thomas-s-huang-memorial-prize/

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Cornell Tech researchers, alongside collaborators from Princeton, Yale, and beyond, have released an IC3 survey examining the intersection of crypto and AI — cutting through hype to map risks, opportunities, and what comes next: https://bit.ly/4vBznno

Computer Scientists Publish Landmark Survey on Crypto x AI Convergence IC3’s new survey on the crypto-AI intersection separates hype from scientific reality, highlighting security risks and open research problems....

Congratulations to Cornell Tech master’s student Aymaan Shaikh on being selected for the inaugural Arc Institute AIxBio Fellows Program.

Chosen from a highly competitive pool, Aymaan will collaborate with peers and researchers on cutting-edge projects at the intersection of AI and biology. As part of his work, he’s helping build tools that make it easier for scientists to connect AI models with lab research — speeding up how discoveries can move from computation to real-world experiments.

Join us in congratulating Aymaan! 👏

Learn more about his project below: https://arcinstitute.org/news/aixbio-fellows-cohort-announcement-2026

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Introducing the 2026 Arc AIxBio Fellows | Arc Institute Some of the most exciting AI projects I have worked on started not with graduate students or postdocs in my lab, but with undergraduates driven by raw curiosity and technical ambition. So when we launched the AIxBio Fellows Program earlier this year, I was curious who would apply and what kinds of p...

Please join us in welcoming the 2026 CUNY Honors Connect at Cornell Tech Summer Research Opportunity Program cohort! 🎉

This summer, students from Macaulay Honors College will dive into hands-on research, collaborate with faculty mentors, and explore some of today's most important challenges in technology and society. We're thrilled to have you on campus and look forward to seeing all you'll accomplish.

Creating precise, visually compelling art can be a technically demanding process – even for experienced artists.

Researchers at Cornell Tech and Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science have created an AI framework, ShadowDraw, that can create “shadow art” – partial line drawings that are completed by the shadow cast from an object – by simply scanning it.

A paper outlining this work will be presented June 6 at ’26. Its authors are Ph.D. student Rundong Luo, professor Noah Snavely, and assistant professor Wei-Chiu Ma.

Learn more in the Cornell Chronicle:
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/06/computer-framework-generates-shadow-art-scan-object

Last week, we welcomed the Johnson Cornell Tech MBA Class of 2027 to campus for New Student Orientation! It was exciting to meet this talented new cohort and watch them begin building connections with one another as they embark on their MBA journey. Here's to a year of learning, collaboration, innovation, and growth — we can't wait to see the impact you'll make. 🐻❤️ Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

A team of four Cornell Tech master’s students was selected as one of just 16 finalist teams worldwide to compete in the Global K2 Think Hackathon, hosted at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi.

Competing among over 3,000 applicants across 50+ countries, Aymaan Shaikh, Computer Science ’26; Abhinabha Barat, Health Tech ’27; Niki Karanikola, Connective Media ’27; and Samantha Wu, Data Science and Decision Analytics ’26, built CarePilot, an AI-powered healthcare assistant designed to automate billing, scheduling, and patient lab explanations.

Representing Cornell Tech on a global stage, the team collaborated with top students, researchers, and industry professionals in a 48-hour build challenge, highlighting the university’s strength in applied AI and healthcare innovation.

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On May 27, nearly 300 researchers, industry leaders, and nonprofit innovators gathered at Cornell Tech for the inaugural Frontiers of AI Summit, hosted by Cornell Tech and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, to discuss the foundational advances shaping the future of artificial intelligence.

Participants from institutions including Cornell University, Princeton University, Columbia University, and New York University mingled with representatives from nonprofit organizations such as the Simons Foundation and Biohub, and startups gaining traction in the AI space, such as Cursor, Gimlet Labs, Makora, and Radical AI.

The mix reflected the wide reach of AI today, spanning everything from the design of core systems to their growing use in science, medicine, and engineering.

Learn more about the inaugural event below: https://tech.cornell.edu/news/frontiers-of-ai-summit-cornell-tech-2026/

Professor Karan Girotra is featured in new AP coverage on how AI investment is evolving from early speculation into a more established, big-budget industry.

“Now it’s traditional investment in something we know works. People want your car, you need to build the factory ahead of demand.”

He was also quoted in The Independent and U.S. News and World Report. Read more in the AP: https://apnews.com/article/openai-trial-musk-altman-ipo-776743f032d8e5ac4faf85088db8bfc0

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Could anything but profit steer AI? The OpenAI trial offered clues but no verdict The trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made clear the two billionaires agreed on one thing: building artificial intelligence would require significant resources — and enormous amounts of money.

The Cornell SC Johnson College of Business is highlighting the graduation of the Cornell Tech MBA program, designed to blend business fundamentals with hands‑on experience in the tech sector in New York City.

“Cornell Tech gives you a chance to discover who you are," said Cornell Tech MBA student Nghi Tran, the JCT MBA class of '26 representative. “You eventually start asking yourself not just what you want to build, but who you want to become while building it.”

That integration is intentional. “Our goal is to educate leaders who are fluent in business fundamentals and technological change,” said Professor Manoj Thomas, associate dean overseeing Cornell’s New York City programs. “These students leave Cornell ready to lead teams, build companies and navigate uncertainty with confidence.”

Read more: https://business.cornell.edu/hub/2026/05/21/where-tech-meets-tradition-cornell-mbas-graduate/