SCS Faculty Receive Chaired Professorships
Marylee WilliamsMonday, October 27, 2025Print this page.
Two School of Computer Science professors recently received endowed faculty chairs to recognize their research contributions and support future work.
Carolyn Rosé, faculty in the Language Technologies Institute and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, received the Kavčić-Moura Professorship. Rosé's work bridges deep theoretical insights from language and interaction, such as social psychology and cognitive psychology, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, and computational modeling technology. She has made significant contributions to automated analysis of conversational processes — in particular, collaborative learning processes — and dynamic agent-based support for group processes.
"As a researcher who has dedicated her career to impact in education and who directs one of Carnegie Mellon's largest data science graduate programs, I am honored to receive a chair named after Aleksandar Kavčić, in light of his current work in Serbia to provide free textbooks for schools through his foundation, and José Moura, who has partnered with him and others to invest in data science education at Carnegie Mellon," Rosé said.
The chaired professorship will support Rosé's work in human-AI collaboration with applications in sense-making and problem-solving in areas such as cybersecurity and data science.
Jun-Yan Zhu, faculty in the Robotics Institute, received the Michael B. Donohue Assistant Professorship of Computer Science and Robotics. Zhu's research focuses on computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning. He leads the Generative Intelligence Lab, which studies the collaboration between human creators and generative models. This human-centered approach empowers creators with generative AI while retaining control over the creation process and data ownership.
"The chaired professorship will be instrumental in allowing us to pursue cutting-edge research into a human-centric generative AI framework," Zhu said. "Our goal is to empower creators to benefit from large-scale generative models while retaining control over the creation process and receiving proper compensation. This support will also help us continue our work to bring generative AI from the digital world to the physical one, enabling the creation of tangible objects through AI and advanced manufacturing."
In addition to the chaired professorships awarded this year, SCS also recently recognized faculty members who received Raj Reddy Career Development chairs last year. Honorees and their professorships include Zachary Lipton, the Raj Reddy Career Development Professorship in Artificial Intelligence; Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Career Development Professorship in Robotics; Emma Strubell, the Raj Reddy Career Development Professorship in the Language Technologies Institute; and Bogdan Vasilescu, the Raj Reddy Career Development Professorship in Software and Societal Systems.
A reception recognizing the recipients was held last week.
Aaron Aupperlee | 412-268-9068 | aaupperlee@cmu.edu