What a way to start the year! Researchers at the School of CS at #USyd have 14 papers accepted at #CHI2026, the premier conference in #HCI! Congratulations to Anusha Withana (@anushaw.bsky.social), Eduardo Velloso (@vellosoraptor.bsky.social), Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, their students, and collaborators!

When we use AI, are we optimising efficiency - or just saving time? Computer scientist and USYD lecturer Dr Elliot Varoy explores how generative AI genuinely helps us, and where it starts to get in the way, such as the case with AI slop and 'workslop'. Learn more: srkr.io/63322IyQ

And this is a wrap for 2025! Much happened, and a lot to be proud of, in research, teaching, and impact across the board. Looking forward to what we will achieve, academics, staff, and students together, in 2026! #ComputerScience

🎉Congratulations to Aravind (@aravind16coiner.bsky.social), on being awarded an USD 25k grant by the SUI Foundation for "Sequential Conditional Payments Across Blockchains With Minimal Contracts"! #Blockchain

Had a great time organizing (with Julian Mestre, R Ravi, and Mik Zlatin) a post #FOCS2025 2-day workshop on Trends in Approximation and Online Algorithms! Featuring an amazing lineup of speakers (from established experts to rising stars) + wiki edit-a-thon + gelato cart from Mapo 1/n

The next round of our International Visitor Program is now open! Math researchers from overseas, apply now to spend 4+ weeks working with new and existing collaborators here 🦘🌏 Aus researchers, please share: mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/internationa... Due: 17 Feb 2026 #mathsky

Wonderful Q&A session at the "Celebration of TCS" at #USyd! Ft. (from left to right) Shafi Goldwasser, Robbie Gates, Tony Wirth, Ioana Bercea, Bernhard Haeupler, and Meena Mahajan. Moderated by @swumboh.bsky.social and Mik Zlatin!

Our special Basser-SMRI Seminar with @sydneycompsci.bsky.social is now on YouTube: Is Dijkstra’s Algorithm Optimal? — Robert Tarjan, Princeton University youtu.be/Pc40q0JGdjc

Fantastic talk by Shafi Goldwasser at #USyd, to a packed auditorium!

Wonderful turnout and enthusiasm this week for #ComputerScience, with packed rooms for Bob Tarjan and Moti Yung's Basser seminars! #USyd

This December, the Faculty of Engineering at #USyd is delighted to welcome Dr Moti Yung, who will speak at the Basser seminar series in our School. He will tell us about "Malicious Cryptography: beyond adhering to specifications in secure systems" 🕒 Tuesday, Dec 2 3:30—4:30pm

Join us on Monday 1st December for the first SMRI-Basser Joint Seminar, to be given by Robert Tarjan (Princeton University) @sydneycompsci.bsky.social 'Is Dijkstra's Algorithm Optimal?' 2 pm, Monday 1st December, 2025 The Quad General Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney #MathSky #CSforAll

This December, the Faculty of Engineering at #USyd is delighted to welcome Prof. Shafi Goldwasser, who will deliver a Dean's Lecture on "Constructing Trust: A Cryptographic Tool Kit!" 🕒 Wednesday, Dec 10 3:00—5:00pm (includes lecture and networking) ⏰ Register by Dec 5 (link and location below)

🎉 Huge congratulations to our academics Liyi Zhou, Xiang Zhang, and Yu Yao, who were awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) by the Australian Research Council! We look forward to the amazing research this will enable them to conduct at #USyd! rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

Proud to receive the David Robinson award tonight from the Information, Telecommunications, and Electronics Engineering (ITEE) College of Engineers Australia, for outstanding achievements in ITEE Engineering. Nominated by my honours supervisor from many years ago Prof Graham Town

ICMY: this December, the School of Computer Science at #USyd will host an absolutely incredible line-up of speakers, jointly with the SMRI (@sydmathinst.bsky.social) and the Faculty of Engineering! 🗓️ Mon 1: Bob Tarjan 🗓️ Tue 2: Moti Yung 🗓️ Wed 10: Shafi Goldwasser Details and how to attend below! ↴

ICMY: this December, the School of Computer Science at #USyd will host an absolutely incredible line-up of speakers, jointly with the SMRI (@sydmathinst.bsky.social) and the Faculty of Engineering! 🗓️ Mon 1: Bob Tarjan 🗓️ Tue 2: Moti Yung 🗓️ Wed 10: Shafi Goldwasser Details and how to attend below! ↴

This December, the Faculty of Engineering at #USyd is delighted to welcome Dr Moti Yung, who will speak at the Basser seminar series in our School. He will tell us about "Malicious Cryptography: beyond adhering to specifications in secure systems" 🕒 Tuesday, Dec 2 3:30—4:30pm

🎉 Qiang Tang, Hanwen Feng and Yuchen Ye's paper "Optimal Byzantine Agreement with Message Drops" has been accepted at #Asiacrypt2025! 🔗 Asiacrypt 2025: asiacrypt.iacr.org/2025/ Paper: eprint.iacr.org/2025/1738 Coauthored with Zhenliang Lu (CityU HK) #consensus #unstable #network

🎉 Qiang Tang and Hanwen Feng's paper "Practical Asynchronous Distributed Key Reconfiguration and Its Applications" has been accepted at #IEEESP2026! 🔗 IEEE SP 2026: sp2026.ieee-security.org Paper: eprint.iacr.org/2025/149 #DistributedKeyReconfiguration #Asynchronous #Consensus

🎉 🎉🎉Congratulations to Qiang Tang, Hanwen Feng and Michael Mai from the school for winning the DSN 2025 Best paper award for the paper "A Communication Optimal Asynchronous Consensus Using Only Hash"! 🎉🎉🎉 #BestPaper #DSN2025 dsn2025.github.io Coauthored with Zhenliang Lu #consensus #crypto #theory

Reminder: we are hiring at #USyd! Multiple continuing (equiv. tenure-track) teaching and research positions: excellent candidates in all areas of #ComputerScience are encouraged to apply! ⏰ Deadline Dec 1: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Dean's Lecture Series — Prof Shafi Goldwasser | Wednesday 10 December 2025 📍Eastern Avenue Auditorium (F19) Camperdown NSW 2006 maps.app.goo.gl/M3zMEGwWRC5o... 📋 Register (by Dec 5): signup.e2ma.net/signup/20429...

This December, the Faculty of Engineering at #USyd is delighted to welcome Prof. Shafi Goldwasser, who will deliver a Dean's Lecture on "Constructing Trust: A Cryptographic Tool Kit!" 🕒 Wednesday, Dec 10 3:00—5:00pm (includes lecture and networking) ⏰ Register by Dec 5 (link and location below)

Reminder: we are hiring at #USyd! Multiple continuing (equiv. tenure-track) teaching and research positions: excellent candidates in all areas of #ComputerScience are encouraged to apply! ⏰ Deadline Dec 1: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Last Friday, we held our Pervasive Computing showcase, on the theme "Reimagining Fictional Technologies through Pervasive Computing" Our students brought to life amazing visions of SciFi and Fantasy, from design to physical fabrication, using today's tech—3D printing, laser cutting, and much more!

Come and join us: we have 2x Postdoctoral Research Associate positions available at SMRI. Mathematicians of all areas are encouraged to apply (pure, applied, statistics). Please share with your network #MathSky Closing December 3 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

🎉 Congratulations to our PhD student Xiuchuan Li, who was awarded one of the prestigious 2025 Global Google PhD Fellowships! This support from Google.org recognises Xiuchuan's excellence, research leadership, and potential to shape the future of technology. #USyd #PhD research.google/programs-and...

The Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory (SACT) group at #USyd has several postdoc positions available (2+ years) in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science, with one focusing on streaming and one on planning and synthesis. Expected start mid- or end 2026. More information: usyd-sact.github.io

The Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory (SACT) group at #USyd has several #PhD positions available, in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science, with one focusing on computational geometry and one on streaming algorithms. Expected start mid- or end 2026. More information: usyd-sact.github.io

🎉 Clément Canonne's paper "Interactive Proofs For Distribution Testing With Conditional Oracles" has been accepted at #ITCS2026! 🔗 ITCS'26: itcs-conf.org Coauthored with Ari Biswas (University of Warwick), Mark Bun, and Satchit Sivakumar (Boston University) #interactiveproofs #algorithms #theory

🎉 Abigail Gentle (PhD student) and Clément Canonne's paper "Uniformity Testing under User-Level Local Privacy" has been accepted at #ITCS2026! 🔗 Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.18379 (coauthored with Vikrant Singhal (OpenDP and Harvard)) #theory #algorithms #privacy

🎉 Congratulations to our PhD student Xiuchuan Li, who was awarded one of the prestigious 2025 Global Google PhD Fellowships! This support from Google.org recognises Xiuchuan's excellence, research leadership, and potential to shape the future of technology. #USyd #PhD research.google/programs-and...

Great student and alumni engagement at today's Basser seminar! Mark Shand, from Waymo LLC, told us about their work at Waymo on technologies for autonomous driving. #ComputerScience #USyd

Congratulations to our researchers on their 5 ARC #DiscoveryProjects! This is over AUD 3.5M towards cutting-edge research in areas as diverse as biomedical foundation models, robust logic-based planning, ML-aided algorithms, computational design with living materials, and LLM vulnerabilities! #DP26

Grateful to receive the ACM CCS Top Reviewers Award. On different program committees and reviewing dozens of papers every year is a voluntary effort driven purely by passion for research. It’s heartening to see that dedication acknowledged. @sydneycompsci.bsky.social

🎉 The School of #ComputerScience welcomes the appointment of Prof. Tony Wirth as Head of School. We are looking forward to seeing the School grow under his leadership, to meet the opportunities and challenges ahead with academic excellence, inclusivity, and collegiality front and center! #USyd

Our annual academic recruitment round is open -- we're hiring in all fields (not just those listed). Come join us! bsky.app/profile/sydn...

The School of #ComputerScience at #USyd is hiring #Education focused academics (Sydney Horizon Educators)! Applications are welcome for levels B, C, and D. Details and how to apply below. ⏰ Deadline: December 1, Sydney time. usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

🎉 Joachim Gudmundsson's paper "A well-separated pair decomposition for low density graphs" has been accepted at #SODA2026! 📝 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.08204 🔗 More about SODA'26: www.siam.org/conferences-... #Algorithms #TCSSky #ComputationalGeometry #SIAMDA26

The School of #ComputerScience at #USyd is hiring! Multiple continuing (≡ tenure-track) positions in all areas, with particular focus on the ones listed below. Women and candidates from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. ⏰ Apply by Dec 1: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

The School of #ComputerScience at #USyd is hiring! Multiple continuing (≡ tenure-track) positions in all areas, with particular focus on the ones listed below. Women and candidates from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. ⏰ Apply by Dec 1: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

📢 Come be my colleague: the School of Computer Science at 🇦🇺 #USyd is hiring! Multiple tenure-track-equivalent positions across the board (including theory!), but with a specific focus on Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Digital Systems, and ML/AI. ⏰ Dec 1 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Our Senior Lecturer, Dr. Elliot Varoy says that "Talking to a rubber duck might unlock the solution" when we are stuck on a problem. Read his message at The Conversation theconversation.com/stuck-on-a-p... #USyd #SolvingProblems

Dr. Zhanna Sarsenbayeva was interviewed on her research in #HCI and Human-Centered Computing in the age of #AI and AI assistants: www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/... The goal? "Placing humans at the forefront of technological development, ultimately resulting in devices that work better for us" #USyd

🎉 Shakyani Jayasiriwardene (PhD student), Anusha Withana, & Zhanna Sarsenbayeva's paper "More Than Words: The Impact of Voice Assistant Personality Traits on Failure Mitigation" has been accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp)! 🔗 Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #HCI #AffectiveComputing #VoiceAssistants #AI

If you want to hear about #ComputerScience academics in Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿, I am maintaining a starter pack just for this! Follow all these accounts at once, or browse the list to discover new names! go.bsky.app/N5x6GLQ (And if you're not there but should be, let me know—I'll add you!)

🎉 André van Renssen and Shuei Sakaguchi (PhD student)'s paper "Local Routing on Ordered Θ-graphs" has been accepted at #ISAAC2025! 🔗 More about ISAAC'25: isaac2025.csie.ncku.edu.tw #Algorithms, #ComputationalGeometry

🚨🚨🚨@ccanonne.github.io and André van Renssen from our school are organising the workshop "A Celebration of TCS" before #FOCS on 11/12/2025 at #USyd @sydney.edu.au Open to (Post)graduate students and all researchers Attendance is free but registration required: sites.google.com/view/celebra...