Salil Vadhan named 2018 ACM Fellow

December 14, 2018

Vadhan, the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and area co-chair for Computer Science at SEAS and Harvard College Professor, was chosen for his work advancing computational complexity and cryptography, and for promoting public support for theoretical computer science.

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Jaroslaw Blasiok named 2019 Siebel Scholar

October 5, 2018

Five computer science graduate students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have been named 2019 Siebel Scholars.

Emma Alexander, Jaroslaw Blasiok, Robert Bowden, Nam Wook Kim, and Bradley McDanel will each receive a $35,000 award for their final year of graduate studies.

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Yaron Singer named Sloan Research Fellow

February 15, 2018

Two computer scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have been named 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows.

Finale Doshi-Velez and Yaron Singer, assistant professors of Computer Science at SEAS, join 126 early-career scholars who “represent the most promising...

"Best-Ever" Streaming Algorithm

October 25, 2017

The FOCS 2016 paper of Jelani Nelson and collaborators Heavy Hitters via Cluster-Preserving Clustering is described in a lay-audience Quanta article Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data. Read more about "Best-Ever" Streaming Algorithm

Jean Pouget-Abadie named 2018 Siebel Scholar

October 12, 2017

Five computer science graduate students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have been named 2018 Siebel Scholars.

Jean Pouget-Abadie, Hongyao Ma, Andy Miller, Brandon Reagen, and Sam Wiseman will each receive a $35,000 award for their final year of graduate studies.

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Madhu Sudan elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 3, 2017

Madhu Sudan, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences(SEAS) has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

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Dwork awarded Gödel Prize

March 28, 2017

Cynthia Dwork has been awarded the 2017 Gödel Prize for her outstanding paper in the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality. Dwork, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), shares the award with coauthors Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim and Adam Smith.

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Jelani Nelson wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

January 11, 2017

Jelani Nelson, Assistant Professor Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Nelson is among 102 scientists and researchers who received the award, which is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering...

2017-18 CMSA Program on Combinatorics & Complexity

November 7, 2016

During academic year 2017-18, the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a Special Year on Combinatorics and Complexity. This year will be organized by Noga Alon, Boaz Barak, Jacob Fox, ...

Undergraduate student Sitan Chen ’16 wins Fay Prize

July 12, 2016

Undergraduate student Sitan Chen ’16, joint mathematics/computer science concentrator at Harvard College, wins Fay Prize for his senior thesis on holographic algorithms, and presents his work at the 2016 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/radcliffe-institute-honors-outstanding-undergraduate-work...

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