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In between classes and extracurriculars, participants in the 2025 annual Bits On Our Mind (BOOM) event, which showcases students’ tech-based projects, could have been seeing friends or catching up on sleep, but instead they were using their free time to brainstorm, experiment, code, and create. BOOM, now in its 27th year, took place April 23 in the Duffield...

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July 31, 2024 By Patricia Waldron Eighteen students from across the country got a crash course in computer vision, machine learning, and how to secure a research career in tech during the 2024 SoNIC Summer Research Workshop, held June 24-28 on Cornell’s Ithaca campus. SoNIC participants developed models to help people with impaired vision to identify objects...

On Feb. 17, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science whisked away Bowers CIS students, faculty, and staff on a day trip to the Greek Peak Mountain Resort. Upon arrival, participants put on their gear and hit the slopes to go skiing, snowboarding, and tubing. From beginners to...

As an electrical and computer engineering (ECE) major fresh on the Cornell campus, Kaelem Bent ’27 was eager to find his community. “I had no connections,” he said. “Nobody.” Lidya Bekele ’28, a computer science major, didn’t have much networking experience. Tim Adeyemi ’27 hadn’t even planned to attend Cornell in the first place were it not for a chance...

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 around people, buildings, aircraft and each other. Mehrnaz Sabet, a doctoral student in the field of...

Cornell student developers behind GaitGuard, a wearable sensing system to aid in physical therapy, took home two awards, including third place overall, at Yale University’s 12 th annual YHack on March 29. Arsh Singh ’28, Paul Trusov ‘29, and Jimmy Mulosmani ‘29, all computer science majors, alongside Sam Rosen, a mechanical engineering student at the...

May 13, 2024 By Louis DiPietro If the use of drones becomes as prevalent as Mehrnaz Sabet believes, our skies are about to get much more congested, and machine learning could be the answer for safe and autonomous aerial traffic flow. To help on this front, NASA has awarded a multidisciplinary team led by Sabet, a doctoral student in the field of information...