Student & Alumni News

Rising Star Q&A: Natasha Shamis

Natasha Shamis (BC ’06) talks about how her technical background has been key in the evolution of her career path to leading the design for innovative technology-powered products.

Five CS graduates awarded the Jonathan Gross Prize

The Jonathan Gross Prize honors students who graduate at the top of their class with a track record of promising … Continue reading Five CS graduates awarded the Jonathan Gross Prize

CS major Alexandre Lamy named Columbia Engineering 2019 Valedictorian

As valedictorian of the Class of 2019, Alexandre Lamy will receive Columbia Engineering’s highest academic honor. Lamy will also be awarded the School’s Illig Medal and speak at Engineering Class Day on May 20.

A Podcast on Women in CS by Women in CS

CompilHer is an educational technology podcast with the aim of encouraging high school girls to pursue computer science in college … Continue reading A Podcast on Women in CS by Women in CS

The Art and Science of Star Wars

Learn the science behind movie magic in this talk with Nora Wixom BC’13, a visual effects director at Lucasfilm. Nora will be talking about the technology used to create the computer graphics and visual effects … Continue reading The Art and Science of Star Wars

Startup Ravn, Led By Jake Bullock (GS ’17) Is TechCrunch Top Pick From Y Combinator Winter 2019 Batch

Looking around corners is one of the most dangerous parts of war for infantry. Ravn builds heads-up displays that let soldiers and law enforcement see around corners thanks to cameras on their gun, drones or elsewhere.

DevFest Returns For A Week Of Learning And Coding

Hundreds joined DevFest for a week of workshops that ended with an 18-hour hackathon. In its ninth year, the event gathered technologists … Continue reading DevFest Returns For A Week Of Learning And Coding

CS Student to Present at Google Cloud Next ’19

Tomer Aharoni (GS ’19) will present “Nagish”, a software that helps people with hearing and speech difficulties communicate over the … Continue reading CS Student to Present at Google Cloud Next ’19

Columbia Advances To ICPC World Finals

A Columbia team has advanced to the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). They will go to … Continue reading Columbia Advances To ICPC World Finals

Exploring The Intersection Of AI And Philosophy

Kara Schechtman (CC ‘19) has been selected as one of the recipients of the Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Program to pursue a … Continue reading Exploring The Intersection Of AI And Philosophy

CS Undergraduate Students Recognized By The Computing Research Association

The Computing Research Association (CRA) awarded Serina Chang as one of four awardees of the 2019 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. … Continue reading CS Undergraduate Students Recognized By The Computing Research Association

Rachel Wu (SEAS ’19) Chosen To Present At Google’s Annual Women Engineers Summit

Wu gave a lightning talk, “Life of a Machine Learning Dataset”, at the conference last July. She was selected out of … Continue reading Rachel Wu (SEAS ’19) Chosen To Present At Google’s Annual Women Engineers Summit

CS undergrad, Alyssa Hwang (SEAS ’20), Presented Her Research at Columbia, Harvard and Stanford Research Conferences

Hwang spent the summer working for the Natural Language Text Processing Lab (NLP) and the Data Science Institute (DSI) on … Continue reading CS undergrad, Alyssa Hwang (SEAS ’20), Presented Her Research at Columbia, Harvard and Stanford Research Conferences

WiCS at the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration

Women technologists from around the world gathered in Houston, Texas to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration. Columbia’s Womxn in Computer … Continue reading WiCS at the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration

A Man Of 3 Worlds: The Russian-American Billionaire Giving Millions To U.S. and U.K. Universities

Len Blavatnik (M.S. ’91) is 27th on the Forbes 400 list. Blavatnik has given $500 million to charities, including Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.