Top Row (L-R): Professors John "Spike" Hughes and David Laidlaw Bottom Row: Associate Professors Anna Lysyanskaya and Amy Greenwald

The Department is excited to announce the promotions of John “Spike” Hughes and David Laidlaw to Professor and Amy Greenwald and Anna Lysyanskaya to Associate Professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2008. “These faculty members are highly visible and internationally respected in their fields and have a strong commitment to teaching and advising. They contribute in important ways to the Department and Brown University, as well as the field of Computer Science as a whole,” said Department Chair Roberto Tamassia. “We ...

Assistant Professors Rodrigo Fonseca and Erik Sudderth

The Department is pleased to announce the addition of two new faculty members, Rodrigo Fonseca and Erik Sudderth, who will both start at Brown in the fall of 2009. Rodrigo will join the Department after doing postdoctoral work at Yahoo! Research and receiving his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Division of the University of California at Berkeley. His interests lie at the intersection of networking, operating systems and distributed systems. Erik will come to Brown after serving as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph ...