# News Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 31 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 31 results [### Aaron (Louie) Putterman wins the prestigious Jane Street Fellowship! ](/news/2026/05/aaron-louie-putterman-wins-prestigious-jane-street-fellowship) May 11, 2026 Fourth-year theory PhD student Aaron (Louie) Putterman secures the highly competitive Jane Street Graduate Fellowship Award for the 2026 cycle! Awardees come from 20+ different universities and are studying varying disciplines across computer science... ![Aaron (Louie) Putterman](/sites/g/files/omnuum4596/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/grf-aaron-louie-putterman.png?itok=EyFd5E0R) [### Salil Vadhan elected to the National Academy of Sciences! ](/news/2026/05/salil-vadhan-elected-national-academy-sciences) May 11, 2026 Salil Vadhan has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! Salil is among the 120 new members and 25 international members honored by the NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Many... ![Salil Vadhan. Headshot. Salil is in a sunny indoor location. He is bald, with medium-brown skin. He is facing the viewer and smiling broadly.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4596/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/seas-toc/files/salil_theory_group_webpage_copy.jpg?h=9ec0a175&itok=VQnR1Cc3) [### Cynthia Dwork awarded the 2026 Japan Prize! ](/news/2026/02/cynthia-dwork-awarded-2026-japan-prize) February 01, 2026 Cynthia Dwork has been awarded the 2026 Japan Prize for her contributions to "leading research for building an ethical digital society, including differential privacy and fairness." The Japan Prize is awarded annually to scientists and engineers from... ![Cynthia Dwork, a light-skinned woman with curly auburn hair and glasses, sits at a cafe in front of a bank of windows.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4596/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/seas-toc/files/cynthia_1.13.22.jpg?h=e6d05437&itok=tB6jSWH1) [### Madhu Sudan wins the FOCS 30-year Test of Time Award! ](/news/2025/12/madhu-sudan-wins-focs-30-year-test-time-award) December 23, 2025 Congratulations to Madhu Sudan for receiving the FOCS 30-year Test of Time Award for the paper: "Private Information Retrieval" (Authors: Benny Chor, Oded Goldreich, Eyal Kushilevitz, Madhu Sudan)! This remarkable paper introduced a fundamental primitive... ![Madhu Sudan. Headshot. Madhu is in front of a blurry outdoor landscape. He has short, curly dark hair and medium-brown skin and glasses. He is smiling broadly.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4596/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/seas-toc/files/madhu_theory_group_webpage_copy.jpg?itok=h5ZuBj9U) [### Salil Vadhan elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! ](/news/2025/04/salil-vadhan-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences) April 26, 2025 Professor Salil Vadhan has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious academic societies. Since 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has honored excellence and convened leaders from across... ![Salil Vadhan. Headshot. Salil is in a sunny indoor location. He is bald, with medium-brown skin. He is facing the viewer and smiling broadly.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4596/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/seas-toc/files/salil_theory_group_webpage_copy.jpg?h=9ec0a175&itok=VQnR1Cc3) [### Cynthia Dwork wins National Medal of Science! ](/news/2025/01/cynthia-dwork-wins-national-medal-science) January 14, 2025 Professor Cynthia Dwork received the National Medal of Science at the White House on January 3. Cynthia was cited for “visionary contributions to the field of computer science and secure public-key cryptography” and how her “innovative research, analyses... ![Cynthia Dwork, a light-skinned woman with curly auburn hair and glasses, sits at a cafe in front of a bank of windows.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4596/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/seas-toc/files/cynthia_dwork_headshot_square.jpg?itok=O72pF8gS) [### Now Accepting Applications for Professorships and Postdoctoral Fellowships ](/news/now-accepting-applications-tenure-track-professor-computer-science) December 20, 2023 The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is now seeking candidates for the following positions: Tenure-Track Professor in Computer Science ( link) Tenure-track or Tenured Professor in Computer Science and Kempner... ![Harvard SEAS](/sites/g/files/omnuum4596/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/seas-toc/files/unnamed.jpg?itok=VdTSCV9K) [### Harvard Theory Undergrad Sílvia Casacuberta Puig wins CRA Researcher Award; International Rhodes Fellowship ](/news/harvard-theory-undergrad-s%C3%ADlvia-casacuberta-puig-wins-cra-researcher-award-global) December 21, 2022 Harvard TCS undergraduate Sílvia Casacuberta Puig is the proud recipient of two major honors this Winter! Sílvia took home a CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, as well as a prestigious International Rhodes Scholarship. Huge congratulations to... ![Silvia is a young woman with long dark hair and medium-toned white skin. In the photo, she is standing in front of a tree and smiling, wearing a black dress with white polka dots.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4596/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/seas-toc/files/silvia.jpg?itok=l8k0wsNS) [### Prof. Madhu Sudan wins 30-year FOCS Test of Time Award for Paper on "Proof verification and the hardness of approximation problems" ](/news/prof-madhu-sudan-wins-30-year-focs-test-time-award-paper-proof-verification-and) November 07, 2022 Congratulations to Prof. Madhu Sudan for receiving a 30-year FOCS Test of Time Award for the paper: "Proof verification and hardness of approximation problems". (Authors: Sanjeev Arora, Carsten Lund, Rajeev Motwani, Madhu Sudan, Mario Szegedy) This... ![FOCS Logo - A stylized, hand-drawn fox face on a green background](/sites/g/files/omnuum4596/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/seas-toc/files/screen_shot_2022-03-17_at_1.57.19_pm.png?itok=IxOeDcmz) [### Prof. Boaz Barak Awarded FOCS 2021 "Test of Time" Award for Groundbreaking 2001 Paper ](/news/prof-boaz-barak-awarded-focs-2021-test-time-award-groundbreaking-2001-paper) March 17, 2022 The 2021 FOCS conference took place this February 2022, and Harvard Theory's own Boaz Barak received the prestigious FOCS "Test of Time" Award for his 2001 paper " How to Go Beyond the Black-Box Simulation Barrier". On their website, the FOCS 2021 Test of... ![FOCS Logo - A stylized, hand-drawn fox face on a green background](/sites/g/files/omnuum4596/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/seas-toc/files/screen_shot_2022-03-17_at_1.57.19_pm.png?itok=IxOeDcmz) [### Theory Undergrads Make Strong Showing in CRA Awards! Ted Pyne a Winner ](/news/harvard-undergrads-make-strong-showing-cra-awards-ted-pyne-winner) January 05, 2022 Harvard CS Theory Students made an incredible showing in the recent Computing Research Assocation (CRA) awards. This program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area... description [### Prof. Madhu Sudan to Receive 2022 IEEE Hamming Medal ](/news/prof-madhu-sudan-receives-2022-ieee-hamming-medal) February 11, 2022 Prof. Sudan will receive the prestigious 2022 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for "fundamental contributions to probabilistically checkable proofs and list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes." Read more at the ... ![Madhu Sudan. Headshot. Madhu is in front of a blurry outdoor landscape. He has short, curly dark hair and medium-brown skin and glasses. He is smiling broadly.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4596/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/seas-toc/files/madhu_theory_group_webpage_copy.jpg?itok=h5ZuBj9U) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")