Gavin Kerrigan, Ph.D. ’24 alumnus in computer science, and Distinguished Prof. Padhraic Smyth won the AISTATS 2026 Best Paper Award for their paper titled EventFlow: Forecasting Temporal Point Processes with Flow Matching. The CML researchers won the honor amid over 2,100 submissions to the AISTATS conference, for developing a new deep generative model that predicts […]

UCI Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems associate director Padhraic Smyth has been appointed the inaugural Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence. Prof. Smyth’s significant contributions to AI over his distinguished career include the development of theories and algorithms for machine learning, with a particular emphasis on statistical methods that have set the […]

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 […]