The International Neural Network Society (INNS) selected Distinguished Prof. Pierre Baldi as the recipient of the 2023 INNS Dennis Gabor Award for “remarkable contributions to the engineering of neural networks, applications of machine learning and related sciences.” Named for the esteemed electrical engineer and physicist who invented holography, the award recognizes outstanding individuals whose scientific […]

Work by UCI ICS doctoral students Gavin Kerrigan and Giosue Migiliorini, together with their advisor Prof. Padhraic Smyth, received an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2024 Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. Their research on functional flow matching generalizes recent deep generative models from discrete, vector representations to continuous functions, with diverse applications including […]

Congratulations to PhD student Justus Will and faculty Stephan Mandt and Pierre Baldi for being part of the team that won the Outstanding Dataset Paper award at the NeurIPS 2023 Conference, for their paper ClimSim: A large multi-scale dataset for hybrid physics-ML climate emulation. The ClimSim dataset introduced in the paper is the largest-ever data […]