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 event data over time. Applications include better prediction of health outcomes in medicine, more accurate financial forecasting, and predicting wildfire ignitions.