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Guidi, Vashistha, Wang receive NSF Early Career Awards

Giulia Guidi, assistant professor of computer science, will use her award to expand large-scale computation capabilities. Aditya Vashistha, assistant professor of information science, will use his award to investigate how people share information and govern their communities in social media platforms designed for private groups. Y. Samuel (Sam) Wang, assistant professor of statistics and data science will use his award to develop theory and methods that broaden the empirical use of causal discovery.

At Cornell Bowers, faculty do AI and now staff do too

While students were away this summer, Cornell Bowers staff headed back to the classroom for We Do AI, the college's first AI training program for staff.

sorin lerner works with two staff members on their laptops

Smart drones, safe skies: Student’s system tests, coordinates drone fleets

Autonomous drones could deliver packages, inspect bridges and skyscrapers, monitor emergencies like wildfires and, eventually, ferry people. But the airspace still lacks the testing and coordination infrastructure needed to prove drones can operate safely. Mehrnaz Sabet, a doctoral student in the field of information science, is working to create that infrastructure.

Digital research repository arXiv to start new chapter as nonprofit

arXiv was born in northern New Mexico, the brainchild of then-Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Paul Ginsparg, Ph.D. ’81, as a simple way for researchers to share their work with colleagues before it appeared in peer-reviewed journals. On July 1, the digital research repository arXiv, housed at Cornell Tech, will transition to an independent nonprofit.