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...

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

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...

It was a great pleasure to host Prof. Bart Preneel (KU Leuven) and to see his talk on “Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Road Ahead” so well received. @sydneycompsci.bsky.social

🎉 Danushka Liyanage, Michael Cahill, Alan Fekete, Uwe Röhm's paper "A Benchmark for Databases with Varying Value Lengths" was accepted at #TPCTC2025! 🔗More about TPCTC: www.tpc.org/tpctc/tpctc2... #Database #DatabaseBenchmarking arxiv.org/abs/2508.07551

🎉 Danushka Liyanage, Nelum Attanayake, Zijian Luo, Rahul Gopinath's paper "Assessing Reliability of Statistical Maximum Coverage Estimators in Fuzzing" was accepted at #ICSME2025! 🔗 conf.researchr.org/home/icsme-2... @rahul.gopinath.org #SoftwareTesting #Fuzzing Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.17093

🚨 @jkkummerfeld.bsky.social from our school is organising "The 23rd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association" to be held between 26/11/2025 - 28/11/2025 at #USyd @sydney.edu.au Open to Students, academics, and industry working on NLP To register: alta2025.alta.asn.au

🎉 Jonathan K. Kummerfeld's paper "Should I Trust You? Detecting Deception in Negotiations using Counterfactual RL" was accepted at Findings of ACL! 🔗More about ACL: 2025.aclweb.org @jkkummerfeld.bsky.social #ai,#nlp,#diplomacy aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

🎉 Yidong Gan and Jonathan K. Kummerfeld's paper "Aligning AI Research with the Needs of Clinical Coding Workflows: Eight Recommendations Based on US Data Analysis and Critical Review" was accepted at #ACL2025! @jkkummerfeld.bsky.social #ai,#nlp,#clincial-coding aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

🎉 James C. Douglas, Yidong Gan, and Jonathan K. Kummerfeld's paper "Less is More: Explainable and Efficient ICD Code Prediction with Clinical Entities" was accepted at #ACL2025! 🔗More about ACL: 2025.aclweb.org @jkkummerfeld.bsky.social #ai,#nlp,#clinical-coding aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

🎉 Rahul's paper "From Theory to Practice: Blackbox Testing in an Industrial Telecom Environment" was accepted at #ISSRE2025! 🔗More about ISSRE: issre.github.io/2025/ @rahul.gopinath.org #SE, #softwareengineering, #blackboxtesting, #specificationinference rahul.gopinath.org/resources/is...

🎉 Jack and Rahul's paper "Automatic Data Repair without Format Specifications" was accepted at #ISSRE2025! 🔗More about ISSRE: issre.github.io/2025/ @rahul.gopinath.org #datarepair #softwareengineering #se rahul.gopinath.org/resources/is...

A/Prof. Jiangshan Yu's contributions to #blockchain technology were recognized by the 2024 IEEE Technical Achievement Award! Congratulations, Jiangshan! #USyd

Congratulations to Prof. Vincent Gramoli (@vincentgramoli.bsky.social‬), whose startup RedBelly was recently featured in the news: for the first time, the central bank of #Australia is teaming up with a public #blockchain! Read more: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Our School has just organised the annual #ResearchShowcase, where our academics, PhD, and Master's (by research) students presented their research with an interdisciplinary focus. 🎉🎉🎉

The School of #ComputerScience at #USyd will hold its 2025 #Research Showcase on Friday July 25, 1:45–6:15pm. This year's will revolve around multi-disciplinary collaboration. Discover the latest advances in AI, HCI, cybersecurity, data science, and more!  Register: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20161...

Armin Chitizadeh's article on safety and AI was published at #TheConversation and republished at #UKindependent. Article #TheConversation: theconversation.com/godfather-of... 🚨🚨🚨 Article #UKindependent: www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-gene...

The School of #ComputerScience at #USyd will hold its 2025 #Research Showcase on Friday July 25, 1:45–6:15pm. This year's will revolve around multi-disciplinary collaboration. Discover the latest advances in AI, HCI, cybersecurity, data science, and more!  Register: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20161...

📢 We are hiring! The School of #ComputerScience of #USyd 🇦🇺 is seeking outstanding women academics, at all seniority levels, for continuing (equivalent tenure system) positions. Deadline to apply: ⏰ August 25 #AcademicJobs #WomenInCS usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...