Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems
Faculty and students from across UC Irvine, advancing the foundations of machine learning and their application in science, engineering, and society.
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What we work on
Research areas
Our research ranges from the theory of learning to its application across the sciences, engineering, and society.
Recent highlights
News & awards
Alex Berg receives the 2026 Koenderink Prize
Alex Berg and Team received the 2026 Koenderink Prize (test of time award) at ECCV for their influential paper - SSD: Single Shot Multibox Detector.
Roy Fox receives NSF CAREER Award
CS Faculty Roy Fox receives the NSF CAREER Award for his project, "Modular Shared Robot Learning".
CML new directors
Judy Hoffman and Stephan Mandt are taking over as new directors of the Center for Machine Learning.
Sven Koenig Receives ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
Sven Koenig, Chancellor’s Professor and Bren Chair of computer science at the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), received the 2026 Autonomous Agents Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI) at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026). The ACM award recognizes researchers in autonomous agents whose current work has a significant influence on the field.
Best Paper Award at AI-Stats 2026 conference
PhD student Gavin Kerrigan (now postdoc at Oxford), undergraduate student Kei Nelson (now PhD student at UC Berkeley) and Padhraic Smyth were co-authors of the paper "EventFlow: forecasting temporal point processes with flow matching" that won the Best Paper at this year's AI and Statistics Conference in May 2026, out of 2100 paper submissions.