ACE-CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) is an international, cross-campus collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University USA and Carnegie Mellon University Africa.

The ACE includes investigators located both in Pittsburg, USA, and in the CMU-Africa campus located in Kigali, Rwanda.

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The CMU ACE Programme focuses on research and curriculum development with the following highlights:

1. Research: Focus on two major research areas: Incentives and economics, and adoption and usability. The former includes aspects of cryptography, mechanism design, and smart-contract programming languages, while the latter deals with barriers to adoption and the evolution needed to increase usability, particularly when operating in resource-limited environments.
2. Education: Focus on curriculum development for improving blockchain literacy with two primary objectives: Training the next generation of blockchain developers and producing educational materials to improve world-wide understanding of blockchains and their security. The programme will create a blockchain minor for undergraduate students.
3. Community support: Promotes a robust and vibrant community of interdisciplinary scholars from across CMU’s colleges and CMU Africa collaborating on frontier challenges for blockchain and supported by programmes such as ACE Student Fellowships in Blockchain Studies; ACE Student Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Sponsorships; ACE-CMU Africa Fellowships; the Annual ACE-CMU Blockchain Summit; and more.