Three AICIP PhDs completed in 2026
Konstantinos Georgiou, Maofeng Tang, and Fanqi Wang all defended and deposited their dissertations this year — spanning masked representation learning and the dynamics of neural training.
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UT wins $20M NSF award for ATHENA — with Dr. Qi among its three faculty leaders
The NSF selected UT as one of twenty national hubs in its Programmable Cloud Laboratories network. ATHENA will apply AI to automated materials discovery, with AICIP providing the machine learning core.
ExPLoRe accepted to ECCV 2026
The lab's latest self-supervised learning work routes per-patch training signal through Soft-MoE dispatch weights — closing out a three-paper arc from Cross-Scale MAE through MEDiC.
UT selected for the EcoCAR Innovation Challenge
UT is one of twenty North American universities chosen for the DOE's next advanced-vehicle competition. Dr. Qi is one of three faculty advisors, continuing the lab's decade of vehicle-autonomy research.
FujiView appears in the WACV 2026 main proceedings
Bryce Bible presented the lab's multimodal scenic-visibility forecasting system at WACV in Tucson — predicting whether Mount Fuji will be visible with ~89% same-day accuracy.
KIPPO published at IJCAI 2025
Andrei Cozma and Landon Harris's Koopman-inspired take on proximal policy optimization brings dynamical-systems structure to reinforcement learning.