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
Pierre Baldi receives the IEEE 2027 Neural Network Pioneer Award
2027 Neural Network Pioneer Award to: Pierre Baldi, University of California, "for contributions to the theory of neural networks and applications in bioinformatics and chemoinformatics".
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.