School of Computer Science, University of Sydney
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The official account of the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney. 🔗 https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/schools/school-computer-science.html
Huge congratulations to Emily Wong, Hongyu Zhou, and Yanan Li, our outstanding #ComputerScience 🎓 students, who were recognised by the School for their PhD and MPhil theses! #USyd Emily Wong: Best MPhil Thesis Hongyu Zhou: Outstanding PhD Thesis Award Yanan Li: Best PhD Thesis Award Links below!
Congratulations to our very own Prof. Vincent Gramoli (@vincentgramoli.bsky.social), finalist of the Eureka Prize for "Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia"! #USyd #EurekaPrizes
Australian Museum Eureka Prizes@eurekaprizes.bsky.social · last wk.Prof Vincent Gramoli @vincentgramoli.bsky.social is a finalist in the Department of Defence Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia. Learn more: youtu.be/PtahZ1uBd-g #EurekaPrizes
Congratulations to our very own Prof. Vincent Gramoli (@vincentgramoli.bsky.social), finalist of the Eureka Prize for "Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia"! #USyd #EurekaPrizes
Australian Museum Eureka Prizes@eurekaprizes.bsky.social · last wk.Prof Vincent Gramoli @vincentgramoli.bsky.social is a finalist in the Department of Defence Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia. Learn more: youtu.be/PtahZ1uBd-g #EurekaPrizes
🎉 Feiyang Chen, Danushka Liyanage, Xi Wu, and Rahul Gopinath's paper "Dr. DD: 1-Minimal Isolation of Failure Causes via Deferred Restarts" was accepted at #ISSRE26! #deltadebug #softwaretesting #inputminimization 🔗 ISSRE: cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ 📝 Paper: rahul.gopinath.org/resources/is...
A reminder that the School of Computer Science at #USyd (@sydneycompsci.bsky.social) is hiring tenure-track* academics through its Faculty's Women In Engineering program! Deadline July 13 (Sydney time): usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E... *Australian equiv. of Assist, Assoc, full prof
Women in Engineering: Continuing (Tenure-Track) Academic Positions for Women, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney
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🚨📣 Clément Canonne and Sasha Rubin are organising a three-day event, "Sydney TCS Winter School 2026: Interactive Proofs and PCP Theorem" on July 22–24, 2026. Open to UG, Masters, and PhD students. Free attendance, but registration required! sites.google.com/view/sydney-...
Sydney TCS Winter School 2026
📅 July 22—24, 2026 🌏 Sydney (Australia)
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🚨📣 Qiang Tang and @aravind16coiner.bsky.social are organising a one-day cryptography school on August 7, 2026. Open to UG, master's, and PhD students. Free attendance, but registration required! sydney-cryptography-group.github.io/activities-e...
🎉 Our school members Zijian Luo, Xi Wu, Hong Jin Kang, Alan Fekete, and Rahul Gopinath have published their work "Maximal Format-Free Data Repair" at #ASE2026! #softwareengineering #database #datascience #dataengineering #datarepair 📝 Paper: rahul.gopinath.org/resources/as...
🎉 Clément Canonne and Nimitt (IIT Gandhinagar)'s paper "Distributed Gaussian Mean Testing under Communication Constraints: messages, samples, and coins" has been accepted at #RANDOM2026! 🔗 RANDOM'26: randomconference.com/random-2026-... 📝 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.29426
🎉 Clément Canonne and Joy Qiping Yang's paper "Entropy Equivalence Testing" has been accepted at #RANDOM2026! 🔗 RANDOM'26: randomconference.com/random-2026-... 📝 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.23225 Joint work with Yash Pote and Jonathan Scarlett (NUS) #algorithms #sublinearalgorithms
![Title: Entropy Equivalence Testing
Abstract: We introduce the problem of entropy equivalence testing for probability distributions, a relaxation of the well-studied closeness testing problem, where the distribution testing algorithm is now only required to distinguish, given samples from two unknown distributions p,q and a parameter ε∈(0,1/2], between p=q and |H(p)−H(q)|⩾ε (where H denotes the Shannon entropy). We provide a time- and sample-efficient algorithm for this task, showing that the optimal sample complexity for this task can be significantly lower than that of closeness testing. As an application, we leverage this result to provide the first non-trivial testing algorithm for (standard) closeness of low-degree Bayesian networks, which significantly improves on either the sample or time complexity of a baseline based on full learning.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iuogym7jtbioyaq32ecf6aln/bafkreici33q52fcvybzs2nlwke7bprnbafvxc447u5kbxotkfb4u37mvye)
Our "Women in Engineering" hiring round (at all academic levels) includes our School of Computer Science as well. Deadline is July 13!
School of Computer Science, University of Sydney@sydneycompsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe're hiring! As part of the "Women in Engineering" initiative at #USyd, the School of Computer Science is hiring women-identifying academics at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and A/Professor levels! (≈Asst, Assoc, and full prof) ⏰ Apply by July 13 (Sydney): usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
🎉 Jiajun and Qiang's paper "Morphic Accumulators and Applications" has been accepted at #CRYPTO2026! 🔗 CRYPTO: crypto.iacr.org/2026/ Paper: eprint.iacr.org/2026/1202.pdf #accumulators, #range-proof, #ring-signature, #polynomial-commitment, #optimal
🎉 Qiang's paper "Õptimal Adaptively Secure Hash-based Asynchronous Common Subset" has been accepted at #CRYPTO2026! 🔗 CRYPTO: crypto.iacr.org/2026/callfor... eprint.iacr.org/2024/1710.pdf #consensus, #asynchrony, #post-quantum
🎉 Michael and Qiang's paper "Balanced and Adaptively Secure Asynchronous Common Coin and Byzantine Agreement with Sub-quadratic Communication" has been accepted at #PODC2026! 🔗 PODC: www.podc.org/podc2026/ Paper: eprint.iacr.org/2026/998.pdf #randomness, #asynchrony, #byzantine #agreement
Our "Women in Engineering" hiring round (at all academic levels) includes our School of Computer Science as well. Deadline is July 13!
School of Computer Science, University of Sydney@sydneycompsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe're hiring! As part of the "Women in Engineering" initiative at #USyd, the School of Computer Science is hiring women-identifying academics at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and A/Professor levels! (≈Asst, Assoc, and full prof) ⏰ Apply by July 13 (Sydney): usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
We're hiring! As part of the "Women in Engineering" initiative at #USyd, the School of Computer Science is hiring women-identifying academics at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and A/Professor levels! (≈Asst, Assoc, and full prof) ⏰ Apply by July 13 (Sydney): usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Women in Engineering: Continuing (Tenure-Track) Academic Positions for Women, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney
Join a growing Faculty and be part of a University that places amongst the world’s best teaching and research institutions Located in the heart of Sydney’s bustling inner west quarter, close to beache...
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🎉 Our PhD student Joy (Qiping) Yang's paper "An Exponential Lower Bound for Spectral Density Estimation on Unweighted Graphs" has been accepted at #COLT2026! He is @ccanonne.github.io 's PhD student. 🔗 COLT: learningtheory.org/colt2026/ #learningtheory #algorithms
🏆 Congratulations to Aravind, recipient of an Amazon Research Award for his research on Post-Quantum Cryptography, titled "Efficient Robust Post-Quantum Distributed Key Generation and Threshold Signatures"! #USyd @aravind16coiner.bsky.social
Aravind (Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan)@aravind16coiner.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m excited to share that I’ve received an Amazon Research Award for my proposal “Efficient Robust Post-Quantum Distributed Key Generation and Threshold Signatures”, at #USyd @sydneycompsci.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au About the program: www.amazon.science/research-awa... #AmazonResearchAwards
I’m excited to share that I’ve received an Amazon Research Award for my proposal “Efficient Robust Post-Quantum Distributed Key Generation and Threshold Signatures”, at #USyd @sydneycompsci.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au About the program: www.amazon.science/research-awa... #AmazonResearchAwards
Amazon Research Awards
Collaborating with scientists around the globe to fund research, share knowledge and encourage innovation.
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We're hiring! As part of the "Women in Engineering" initiative at #USyd, the School of Computer Science is hiring women-identifying academics at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and A/Professor levels! (≈Asst, Assoc, and full prof) ⏰ Apply by July 13 (Sydney): usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Women in Engineering: Continuing (Tenure-Track) Academic Positions for Women, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney
Join a growing Faculty and be part of a University that places amongst the world’s best teaching and research institutions Located in the heart of Sydney’s bustling inner west quarter, close to beache...
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
As the end of semester is nearing and the finals are around the corner, a well-needed break for our students to relax and refuel in the School of #ComputerScience, with free gelato from Mapo! #USyd
As the end of semester is nearing and the finals are around the corner, a well-needed break for our students to relax and refuel in the School of #ComputerScience, with free gelato from Mapo! #USyd
🎉 Congratulations to Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Anusha Withana, and Chang Xu on their #LinkageProjects! These will enable their teams and industry partners to empower children with cerebral palsy, cut energy waste, and deliver better aged care to all Australians! #ResearchWithImpact #USyd (More below)
Over $99.8m awarded to 178 research partnerships aligned with Australia’s National Science Priorities. ‘Strong partnerships are essential to ensuring Australian research delivers benefits to industry and the community,’ ARC CEO Prof Ute Roessner. Read more: www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub...
🎉 Congratulations to Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Anusha Withana, and Chang Xu on their #LinkageProjects! These will enable their teams and industry partners to empower children with cerebral palsy, cut energy waste, and deliver better aged care to all Australians! #ResearchWithImpact #USyd (More below)
Wonderful time at the 🏆 2026 School of Computer Science annual awards ceremony last Tuesday, where academics and staff gathered to celebrate the exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions of our students! A few of the many highlights below—and so much talent! 🎓 #USyd
Researcher or student interested in #AI/ML, and in #Sydney? A CVPR-ICML Pre-Conference workshop will be held at the School of Computer Science at #USyd, on Friday, May 22, to spotlight cutting-edge papers from #CVPR2026 and #ICML2026. Register to attend (free): www.eventbrite.com.au/e/cvpr-icml-...
CVPR-ICML Pre-Conference by Sydney AI Meetup
A focused seminar sharing and discussing the latest breakthrough papers from top-tier machine learning and computer vision conferences.
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🏆 Our PhD student Linwei Tao has been selected as an Apple Scholar in AIML, a fellowship recognising emerging leaders in #AI and #MachineLearning! Linwei is one of only 20 scholars in 2026, and the first recipient from an Australian University! Read more: machinelearning.apple.com/updates/appl...
Announcing the 2026 Apple Scholars in AIML
The Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship program supports emerging leaders in academic research through funding as they pursue their PhDs…
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Great turnout and wonderful talks at the Raising The Bar 2026 event last Thursday, where our very own Dr. Zhanna Sarsenbayeva discussed her work "Using AI to build better lives"! #RTB2026 #RaisingTheBar #USyd Read more: www.rtbevent.com/zhanna-sarse...
🎉 Sichao Li's paper "Faithful-First Reasoning, Planning, and Acting for Multimodal LLMs" has been accepted at #ACL2026! 🔗 More about ACL: 2026.aclweb.org arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08409
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