On Monday, June 1, 2020, the Computer Science department held its first virtual Class Day award ceremony online.  Those honored are listed below. 

Olga Russakovsky has been selected for the 2020 Anita Borg Early Career Award by the Computing Research Association-Widening Participation (CRA-WP).

The Princeton University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is giving one of two annual awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching to Wyatt Lloyd, assistant professor of computer science.

Princeton senior Preeti Iyer has been honored for her service to the Class of 2020 and to the University, receiving the Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal, which recognizes the senior who, in the judgment of the student’s classmates, has done the most for Princeton.

Noah Apthorpe, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science was profiled as part of the recently launched Princeton Engineers series from the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

"People of ACM" interview with Mona Singh

Jennifer Rexford has been elected to the National Academy of Sciencesin honor of her outstanding contributions to computer science

Professor Margaret Martonosi is one of eleven Princeton faculty members elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is among 276 scholars, scientists, artists and leaders in the public, nonprofit and private sectors elected this year in recognition of their contributions to their respective fields.

Chae is a computer science major. He is pairing his studies with the Certificate Program in Statistics and Machine Learning at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) and the Certificate Program in Engineering and Management Systems at the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.

At Princeton, teaching faculty are especially important because computer science is the most popular major at the University, with more than 10% of undergraduates receiving a CS degree. But student interest in computer science extends well beyond those who want to make it a career. During the fall semester, 789 non-computer-science majors took courses offered by the department, and the total rose to 926 in the spring semester, according to Colleen Kenny, the department’s undergraduate program manager.

The National Science Foundation has awarded emergency grants to two teams of Princeton researchers developing ways to better track and contain pandemics including COVID-19.

Computer Science PhD student Prakash Murali has been awarded the 2020 IBM PhD Fellowship.