Rare gathering indeed! Looking forward to meeting everyone + giving a keynote at this exciting "Multimodal AI" workshop at TTIC 🙂 Great job by the organizers in bringing together an impressively long lineup of amazing speakers on diverse topics! 👏 Come join us 👇

As a recipient of a Superalignment Fast Grant from OpenAI, Professor Zhiyuan Li is investigating the challenges of #superintelligence alignment, in which humans will eventually need to supervise AI systems that surpass their own abilities. Read more: buff.ly/3LMsDOm

#workshop Kumar Kshitij Patel Kumar Kshitij Patel TTIC giving a talk at #W25 International Workshop on Federated Learning in the Age of Foundation Models. Resources & papers: federated-learning.org/fl@fm-ijcai-20… #IJCAI2024

Join us for PhD candidate @Takuma_Yoneda's thesis defense titled "Distribution Matching in the Context of Robotics." Friday, August 9th from 10:30am CT. Join us in Room 530, or stream via Zoom: buff.ly/3SAufi6

Distinguished Paper Awards🏅#6831 ​​Online Combinatorial Optimization with Group Fairness Constraints 🎓 Negin Golrezaei, Rad Niazadeh, Kumar Kshitij Patel, Fransisca Susan (e.c) 📆 6831 Talk: 6 Aug at 3 PM Read: ijcai.org/Proceedings/20… #IJCAI2024 Congratulations!

Thank you to Blackstone Bicycle Works for visiting TTIC yesterday! BBW supports and engages youth from Chicago's South Side community through youth education programs. Learn more about them here: buff.ly/3ygXsIc

Today is day 2 of the Multimodal Artificial Intelligence workshop, as part of TTIC's 2024 Summer Workshop Program. We have enjoyed a stellar list of speakers, keynote talks, panels, posters, and lively discussions. Learn more about our workshop program: tinyurl.com/429u2x4x

Friday, August 16, 2024 at 11:00 am CT: TTIC Colloquium presents Sagi Snir of University of Haifa with a talk titled "Bacterial Genome Dynamics: A Random Walk Approach." Please join us in Room 530, or stream via Panopto: buff.ly/3yJ2mxy

Join us for PhD candidate @Jiading_Fang's Ph.D. defense titled "Embodied Spatial Intelligence: from implicit scene modeling to spatial reasoning." Monday, August 19 at 3:00pm CT. Please join us in Room 431, or stream via Zoom: buff.ly/4cza0sw

During her summer at TTIC through UChicago's Youth Internship Program, South Shore resident and recent high school graduate Jae’Lyn Prewitt conducted research, learned coding platforms, and even programmed a robotic arm to play tic-tac-toe: bit.ly/3ArMKzf

Congratulations to Kumar Kshitij Patel and colleagues for receiving a Distinguished Paper Award at IJCAI'24 for their paper, “Online Combinatorial Optimization with Group Fairness Constraints.” Read more: buff.ly/3AE1g6O

Thank you to @uchiengagement for featuring Jaelyn Prewitt, a Youth Internship Program intern at TTIC! Read more: buff.ly/46PV5c7

The final day of the Workshop on Learning-Augmented Algorithms, sponsored by TTIC and U.S. National Science Foundation. Thank you to all participants and organizers Samson Zhou (@szhouc), Ali Vakilian (Ali Vakilian), and Piotr Indyk!

🚀 Exciting summer at TTIC! The #Robotics Internship for high schoolers featured hands-on learning, mentorship, building robotic arms, and inspiring the next generation of innovators! Read about the experience: buff.ly/3WOPP3P

Join us for PhD candidate Ben Lai's thesis defense titled "Leveraging deep generative model for computational protein design and optimization." Thursday, August 29th at 9:00am. Join us in Room 530, or stream via Zoom: buff.ly/3Mihqpi

Happy Labor Day!

Monday, September 9th at 10:00am: Join us for Sudarshan Babu's thesis defense, titled "Acquiring and Adapting Priors for Novel Tasks via Neural Meta-Architectures." Please join us in Room 530, or stream via Zoom: buff.ly/4cZKoFq

September 10-11: TTIC will be hosting the 2024 Midwest #ComputationalBiology Workshop! Topics include #moleculardesign, health and biological language models, and AI in biology and medicine. Learn more and register: buff.ly/4dI1fO1