06/15/2026
Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in the CMU Robotics Institute, has received a 2026 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Young Researcher Award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
Pathak Receives 2026 PAMI Young Researcher Award - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI), has received a 2026 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researcher Award at the IEEE Conference
06/15/2026
Whether they're watching on TV or navigating with a LiveSplats prototype, we hope Fernando and his family have a blast cheering for Spain today!
Up close and personal with LiveSplats, a new 3D virtual tech tool developed by CMU team
Fernando De la Torre’s 10-year-old son, Nico, wants to attend a FIFA World Cup match this summer in Atlanta, to cheer on Spain. The problem: not only are the tickets themselves costly, they’re difficult to obtain through a high-demand lottery process. “The question is, how can we o...
06/12/2026
Researchers in the CMU Robotics Institute have designed an autonomous navigation robot that can move through orchard rows, detect fire blight symptoms and map infected trees in real time.
Carnegie Mellon Team Helps Farmers Fight Crop Disease With Robots - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Fire blight can devastate orchards, killing branches and entire trees while causing major economic losses for growers. To help farmers detect the disease earlier and reduce the spread of infection, a team of students from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute
06/11/2026
With the World Cup starting getting started, we thought it'd be a great time to highlight Shivaas Gulati, the SCS alum who's applying machine learning to help improve Southend United, the English football club he's co-owned since 2024.
Game Changers: How CMU Computer Scientists Are Reshaping Professional Sport — The Link - The Magazine of CMU's School of Computer Science
Game Changers: How CMU Computer Scientists are Reshaping Professional Sports SHERI HALL When Shivaas Gulati (SCS 2010) looks at a professional sports franchise, he doesn’t just see athletes and game strategies — he sees a complex system of interconnected elements reacting and interacting with on...
06/10/2026
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across generations and adapt their behavior to changing environments all without a brain or nervous system.
Bacteria Can Learn and Form Memories Without a Brain
06/07/2026
For the fifth straight year, CMU students took first place in the MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition, further cementing the university’s status as the top program in one of the nation’s most demanding collegiate security contests.
Carnegie Mellon extends historic run with its fifth straight MITRE eCTF title
For the fifth consecutive year, Carnegie Mellon University students have claimed first place in the MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) cybersecurity competition, further cementing the university’s status as the top program in one of the nation’s most demanding collegiate security contests.
06/06/2026
Tuomas Sandholm received the ACM SIGecom Test of Time Award for research that combined automated mechanism design with techniques from optimal stopping theory to develop online auction mechanisms that can make near-optimal decisions under uncertainty.
Sandholm Receives SIGecom Test of Time Award
Tuomas Sandholm, the Angel Jordan University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and his co-authors have received the ACM SIGecom Test of Time Award for their 2007 paper, "Automated Online Mechanism Design and Prophet Inequalities."
06/05/2026
Computational biology researchers are working to better understand the role that genes play in bipolar disorder — work that's deeply rooted in decades of student ingenuity supported by the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program.
SURF Grant Powers Research Into the Genetics of Bipolar Disorder
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05/28/2026
Recent CMU studies show that as older adults embrace AI, they want the technology to be more in tune with their emotional needs.
How Do Boomers Really Feel About AI?
As older adults embrace artificial intelligence, they want the technology to be more in tune with their emotional needs, according to a recent study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers.
05/28/2026
SoundBubble helps isolate and amplify the often subtle sounds of fingers as they tap, trace or rap various surfaces, or use different hand tools. That information could, in turn, give computers important contextual hints about what users are doing and how the computer might help them.
Listening to Your Fingertips
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