On 17 May 2019, Prof. Manuel Blum and Prof. Lenore Blum from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University came to visit the Chern Institute of Mathematics.

Prof. Manuel Blum, winner of the 1995 A. M. Turing Award and member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, is a pioneer in the field of cryptography and program result-checking, and one of the founders of the computational complexity theory. He is an internationally renowned expert in theoretical computer science and currently a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Prof. Lenore Blum, previously serving as the Deputy Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) during 1992-1997, is currently a Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.