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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.