SCS Faculty Receive Amazon Research Awards
Adam KohlhaasWednesday, December 10, 2025Print this page.
Amazon has named three Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science researchers among the 63 recipients of its latest Amazon Research Awards, recognizing projects that advance reliability, safety and performance in emerging AI systems.
Faculty members receiving awards include:
- Andrea Bajcsy, an assistant professor in the Robotics Institute, and Fernando De La Torre, a research professor in the Robotics Institute, were selected for the project "Fine Grained Planning Evaluation for VLM Web Agents."
- Maarten Sap, an assistant professor in the Language Technologies Institute, was selected for his project, "OpenAgentSafety: Measuring and Mitigating Safety Harms of LLM-Based AI Agent Interactions."
The awards continue a steady run of Amazon-supported research at Carnegie Mellon. The university recently celebrated two doctoral students named Amazon Ph.D. fellows for 2025, reflecting cross-disciplinary progress in responsible AI and machine learning. Amazon and CMU also launched a strategic AI Innovation Hub in October to accelerate research collaborations in areas such as trustworthy AI, robotics and large-scale systems.
This year's recognition highlights CMU's advances in developing AI agents that operate safely and effectively in real-world settings, along with the university's expanding role in shaping next-generation intelligent systems.
Learn more about the Amazon Research Awards on the Amazon Science website.
Aaron Aupperlee | 412-268-9068 | aaupperlee@cmu.edu