Basics2Breakthroughs: Studying the Hydraulic Mechanism in Jumping Spiders

Basics2Breakthroughs: Studying the Hydraulic Mechanism in Jumping Spiders

• Basics 2 Breakthroughs: Studying the Hydraulic Mechanism in Jumping Spiders Video Accelerators What does the jumping spider have in common with an excavator? • UC Berkeley gradua

Research & Labs · February 13, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 268 words
CMU Researchers Rethink Chronic Pain

CMU Researchers Rethink Chronic Pain

• Carnegie Mellon Researchers Rethink Chronic Pain Share on Facebook (opens in new window) Share on X (opens in new window) Share on LinkedIn (opens in new window) Print this page

Research & Labs · February 13, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 278 words
Crunching Big Data Into 3D Images Accelerates Discovery

Crunching Big Data Into 3D Images Accelerates Discovery

• Crunching Big Data Into 3D Images Accelerates Discovery Article Frontier Computing Key Takeaways Large, complex datasets collected at the Advanced Light Source can now be process

Research & Labs · February 12, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 296 words
CREATE Lab Studies Effects of Steelmaking in the Mon Valley

CREATE Lab Studies Effects of Steelmaking in the Mon Valley

• CREATE Lab Studies Effects of Steelmaking in the Mon Valley CMU Tech Helps Experts Examine Steel’s Impact on Environment, Economic Opportunity A new report from Carnegie Mellon U

Research & Labs · February 12, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 318 words
A 'Robot Pizza Chef' Serving Up Better Quantum Computers

A 'Robot Pizza Chef' Serving Up Better Quantum Computers

• Key Takeaways - The new QIS cluster tool at the Molecular Foundry lets researchers experiment with dozens of materials and methods for making qubit components in a single automat

Research & Labs · February 11, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 316 words
New AI Sensor 'Sniffs' Out Spectral Targets

New AI Sensor 'Sniffs' Out Spectral Targets

• Integrates machine learning directly into spectral sensor, removing separate processing step. • Delivers over 100‑fold gains in speed, resolution, and power efficiency. • Detects

Research & Labs · February 11, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 270 words
Jahanian Among National Academy of Engineering's Class of 2026

Jahanian Among National Academy of Engineering's Class of 2026

• Carnegie Mellon’s Cagan, Jahanian, and alumnus Pitel elected to the National Academy of Engineering 2026 class. • Cagan leads Mechanical Engineering, pioneering design automation

Research & Labs · February 11, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 177 words

CMU Libraries, NVIDIA Prototype the Future of Bioinformatics at Recent Hackathon

• Where Industry Meets Experimentation CMU Libraries and NVIDIA Hackathon Prototypes the Future of Bioinformatics by Sarah Bender For many biomedical researchers, the biggest chall

Research & Labs · February 11, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 252 words
Christini Earns Krulcik Scholarship

Christini Earns Krulcik Scholarship

• Marylee WilliamsTuesday, February 10, 2026Print this page. • After Cole Christini experimented with the open-world computer game Minecraft as a kid, he went on to make his own co

Research & Labs · February 10, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 267 words
Obituary: Arthur C. Sanderson Helped Found Robotics Institute

Obituary: Arthur C. Sanderson Helped Found Robotics Institute

• Matthew WeinFriday, February 6, 2026Print this page. • Sanderson, who served as one of the founding co-directors of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, died in Decem

Research & Labs · February 6, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 252 words

HCII Launches AI and Design Podcast

• Related People Nikolas Martelaro, Dan Saffer Q&A with AI & Design Podcast Hosts New podcast offers practical AI coverage for design professionals For professional designers and p

Research & Labs · February 5, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 276 words
An AI Model for Scientists

An AI Model for Scientists

• Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science The Breakdown OpenScholar is an AI model developed to help scientists keep up with new discoveries. • The model was trained

Research & Labs · February 4, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 243 words
Berkeley Lab Leads Effort to Build AI Assistant for Energy Materials Discovery

Berkeley Lab Leads Effort to Build AI Assistant for Energy Materials Discovery

• Developing the lithium-ion battery took decades of research. • A new multi-institutional project led by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley

Research & Labs · February 3, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 309 words
CMU Launches Security and Privacy Undergraduate Research Summer Scholars Program

CMU Launches Security and Privacy Undergraduate Research Summer Scholars Program

• Carnegie Mellon launches summer undergraduate research program to expand pathways into security and privacy The application deadline for this year’s program is February 1, 2026 M

Research & Labs · February 3, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 314 words
AI for Smarter, More Powerful, More Efficient Particle Accelerators

AI for Smarter, More Powerful, More Efficient Particle Accelerators

• AI for Smarter, More Powerful, More Efficient Particle Accelerators Article AI Particle accelerators are powerful tools that have revolutionized research in physics, chemistry, m

Research & Labs · February 2, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 315 words
Foundational AI Models to Accelerate Biological Discovery

Foundational AI Models to Accelerate Biological Discovery

• Foundational AI Models to Accelerate Biological Discovery Article AI Researchers from four national laboratories and industry are collaborating to unleash the full potential of b

Research & Labs · February 2, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 312 words
How a Machine Learning Pipeline Could Accelerate Innovation

How a Machine Learning Pipeline Could Accelerate Innovation

• How a Machine Learning Pipeline Could Accelerate Innovation Article AI Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is working to transform petabytes of imaging data from

Research & Labs · February 2, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 274 words
Kang Earns SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award

Kang Earns SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award

• Kang Receives SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award By Adam Kohlhaas Eunsuk Kang, an associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Software and Societal Systems Department,

Research & Labs · February 2, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 282 words
CMU Launches Learnvia To Catalyze Student Success Nationwide

CMU Launches Learnvia To Catalyze Student Success Nationwide

• Carnegie Mellon Launches Learnvia To Catalyze Student Success Nationwide The nonprofit learning collaborative leverages a landmark $55 million investment from the Gates Foundatio

Research & Labs · January 29, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 388 words
AI, Automation, and Biosensors Speed the Path to Synthetic Jet Fuel

AI, Automation, and Biosensors Speed the Path to Synthetic Jet Fuel

• Key Takeaways - Automation and AI can systematically pinpoint optimal designs among hundreds of thousands of possibilities, increasing isoprenol titers five-fold in weeks. • - Bi

Research & Labs · January 29, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 117 words
A New Way To Track Skin Health

A New Way To Track Skin Health

• A New Way to Track Skin Health CMU researchers develop software that turns subtle skin changes into trackable data The Breakdown: New RI software works with a handheld imaging to

Research & Labs · January 28, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 268 words
CyLab Researchers Uncover 270 Million Crypto Phishing Attempts

CyLab Researchers Uncover 270 Million Crypto Phishing Attempts

• 270M phishing attempts on Ethereum and BSC, 17M victims, $83.8M lost. • Attack exploits wallet address usability; attackers craft lookalike 40‑char hex addresses. • Scammers send

Research & Labs · January 27, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 196 words
EcoFABs Could Help Fuel AI in Agriculture

EcoFABs Could Help Fuel AI in Agriculture

• EcoFABs are portable plastic chambers enabling reproducible plant-microbe experiments. • Global study across three continents confirmed consistent results using EcoFABs. • Open p

Research & Labs · January 22, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 168 words
Preserving Pittsburgh's Public Art, One Pixel at a Time

Preserving Pittsburgh's Public Art, One Pixel at a Time

• Pittsburgh Public Art archive maps murals with yellow pins, enabling easy location search. • Archive offers ultra‑high‑res images via Gigapan, letting users zoom into fine detail

Research & Labs · January 22, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 174 words
Ma Named 2025 ACM Fellow

Ma Named 2025 ACM Fellow

• Jian Ma, CMU computational biology professor, named 2025 ACM Fellow for groundbreaking genome and cell ML algorithms. • Ma’s work develops biologically grounded AI to decode cell

Research & Labs · January 21, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 294 words
Tulsiani Receives NSF CAREER Award

Tulsiani Receives NSF CAREER Award

• Shubham Tulsiani, CMU Robotics Institute assistant professor, receives NSF CAREER Award for groundbreaking perception research. • Award supports project bridging 2D video observa

Research & Labs · January 20, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 198 words
Expert Interview: Soren Prestemon on Magnet Technology

Expert Interview: Soren Prestemon on Magnet Technology

• Magnets are essential across scientific applications, particularly in particle physics and in light sources. • At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Soren Pres

Research & Labs · January 15, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 174 words
Leading the Field in Magnets

Leading the Field in Magnets

• In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. • Two years later, he founded what would become the Departme

Research & Labs · January 15, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 218 words
RL without TD learning

RL without TD learning

• In this post, Iâll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an âalternativeâ paradigm: divide and conquer. • Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not b

Research & Labs · November 1, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 187 words
What exactly does word2vec learn?

What exactly does word2vec learn?

• What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? • Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. • Despi

Research & Labs · September 1, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 202 words
Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction

Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction

• Predicting Ego-centric Video from human Actions (PEVA). • Given past video frames and an action specifying a desired change in 3D pose, PEVA predicts the next video frame. • Our

Research & Labs · July 1, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 206 words
Defending against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries (StruQ) and Preference Optimization (SecAlign)

Defending against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries (StruQ) and Preference Optimization (SecAlign)

• LLMs power new apps but prompt injection is top OWASP threat. • Attack injects malicious instructions into untrusted data, overriding trusted prompts. • Real-world examples: Yelp

Research & Labs · April 11, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 165 words
Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

• PLAID uses latent diffusion to generate protein 1D sequences and 3D structures simultaneously. • It learns from protein folding models’ latent space, enabling multimodal co‑gener

Research & Labs · April 8, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 194 words
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

• Deployed 100 RL-controlled AVs on rush‑hour highway to smooth congestion and cut fuel use. • Trained agents in fast, data‑driven simulations to maximize energy efficiency and thr

Research & Labs · March 25, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 185 words
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

• Anthology conditions LLMs with detailed backstories to create consistent virtual personas. • Uses naturalistic life narratives to represent diverse human values and experiences.

Research & Labs · November 12, 2024 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 171 words
Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination

Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination

• ChatGPT excels in English but favors Standard American/British over other dialects. • Study tested GPT‑3.5 Turbo and GPT‑4 across 10 English varieties. • Non‑standard dialects re

Research & Labs · September 20, 2024 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 173 words
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

• Researchers tested jailbreak via Scots Gaelic translation, initially replicating 43% success claim. • GPT-4 responded with bomb instructions in Gaelic, but full output differed f

Research & Labs · August 28, 2024 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 187 words
Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!

Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!

• Humans can sift through thousands of images, spotting subtle patterns-a skill AI still struggles to match. • Traditional VQA systems answer questions about single images, missing

Research & Labs · July 20, 2024 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 200 words