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Roboticists from around the world, including researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, are publishing their latest work at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), a two-week live online virtual affair the first part of June, with research activities continuing through August.

Georgia Tech at ICRA 2020

GT Computing, Jun 9, 2020

Frank Dellaert, a professor in the School of Interactive Computing, and affiliated with the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) and GVU Center, has been honored with the IEEE ICRA Milestone Award at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Ro

Dellaert Awarded IEEE ICRA Milestone Award

Omar Asensio Receives NSF CAREER Award

Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, Jun 8, 2020

ML@GT to Present Diverse Research Interests at CVPR 2020

GT Computing, Jun 5, 2020

A Personal Reflection From Dean Charles Isbell

Constellations Center for Equity in Computing, Jun 5, 2020

Predicting Hate Crimes Targeting Asian Americans Amid Covid-19 Outbreak

GT Computing, Jun 5, 2020

Meet ML@GT: Samarth Brahmbhatt Studies How Humans Grasp Objects, Enabling Robots to Do the Same

Memos from ML@GT, Jun 5, 2020

Team Using Deep Learning to Forecast Pandemic in the U.S.

GT Computing, Jun 5, 2020

Researchers Use Machine Learning to Fight Covid-19 Disinformation

GT Computing, Jun 1, 2020

IC Students Support Innovation in India through 'MakerGhat'

Working towards explainable and data-efficient machine learning models via symbolic reasoning

AI Hub, May 20, 2020

NSF Grant to Fund Georgia Tech Research into Psychological Impact of COVID-19

We’re in the Calm before a New Storm of COVID-19 Infections and Deaths

Scientific American, May 11, 2020

Georgia Tech model predicts jump in COVID cases, deaths

Georgia Health News, May 8, 2020

Machine Learning Method Amplifies 'Voice of the People' to Model Workplace Culture

GT Computing, May 8, 2020

The Student Center Celebrates 50 Years

Georgia Tech News Center, May 8, 2020

Social Media and Wellbeing: Does Bias in Self-Reported Data Impact Research?

Interactive Tool Helps People See Why Staying Home Matters During a Pandemic

Georgia Tech News Center, May 4, 2020

Three Faculty Members Promoted in School of Computer Science

GT Computing, May 4, 2020

SCS Ph.D. Student is at the Forefront of Emerging Memory Systems Research

GT Computing, May 4, 2020

Howard Receives Georgia Tech's Outstanding Achievement in Research Innovation Award

GT Computing, Apr 30, 2020

Topliff, Truong Tapped for 2020 NDSEG Fellowships

ECE Ph.D. students Charles Topliff and Joanne Truong have been named as recipients of the 2020 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships.

Machine learning technique helps wearable devices get better at diagnosing sleep disorders and quality

AI Hub, Apr 21, 2020

Ph.D. Students Named 2020 Members of NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Chao Zhang Wins Google Faculty Research Award

GT Computing, Apr 16, 2020

Meet ML@GT: Lara J. Martin Trains AI Agents to Become Storytellers

Memos from ML@GT, Apr 16, 2020

IC Ph.D. Students Named 2020 Members of NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

ML@GT researchers are improving the accuracy and efficiency of devices used to track sleeping using machine learning techniques.

Machine Learning Technique Helps Wearable Devices Get Better at Diagnosing Sleep Disorders and Quality

Georgia Tech Researchers Presenting Work Virtually at Top AI Conference Due to COVID-19

GT Computing, Apr 13, 2020

Georgia Tech and Intel Awarded Multimillion-Dollar Program to Defend Against Attacks on AI

GT Computing, Apr 10, 2020

Four ML@GT faculty members earn promotions and tenure

Four Machine Learning Faculty Members Earn Promotions and Tenure

Working Towards Explainable and Data-efficient Machine Learning Models via Symbolic Reasoning

Memos from ML@GT, Apr 7, 2020

Looking for Activities at Home? Try These Interactive Tools from IC Researchers

Pitch Perfect: GT Computing Undergrads Provide Automated Training Upgrade for Softball Team

SIAM Announces Class of 2020 Fellows

SIAM News, Apr 1, 2020

Explaining Machine Learning Models for Natural Language

Memos from ML@GT, Mar 26, 2020

Passing the Torch: Georgia Tech Roboticists Lead Future Generation of Women in the Field

Machine Learning Tool May Help Us Better Understand RNA Viruses

GT Computing, Mar 23, 2020

Meet ML@GT: Cusuh Ham, a World Traveler Focused on Understanding Uncertainty in Machine Learning

Memos from ML@GT, Mar 20, 2020

Bot Dylan': Singer-songwriter robot called Shimon can write its own lyrics after studying tens of thousands of words penned by the musical greats - and has an album out in the Spring

The Daily Mail, Mar 12, 2020

How This Robot Taught Itself To Walk In Just a Few Hours

Popular Mechanics, Mar 4, 2020

Meet ML@GT: Abhishek Das Wants to Stop Climate Change and Develop AI Agents with Human-Level Skillsets

Memos from ML@GT, Mar 2, 2020

Accenture to Bring Their Tech Symposium to the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech

ML@GT Blog, Feb 24, 2020

Learning to Cooperate in Multi-Agent Environments

Memos from ML@GT, Feb 17, 2020

Ashwin Vijayakuma is a 2020 recipient of the J.P. Morgan Ph.D. Fellowship

GT Computing Student Plans to Study Connections Between Law and Machine Learning as a J.P. Morgan Ph.D. Fellow

Romance Gets Georgia Tech Treatment With Machine Learning Algorithm

Georgia Tech News Center, Feb 13, 2020

Startup is Remixing How Musicians Connect and Collaborate

Georgia Tech Researchers Lead Charge in Innovation and Social Responsibility at Premier Conference on AI

GT Computing, Feb 11, 2020

Changing the Conversation: Georgia Tech Researchers Provide New Approach to Automated Story Generation

Why asking an AI to explain itself can make things worse

MIT Technology Review, Jan 30, 2020

Jill Watson, an AI Pioneer in Education, Turns 4

Georgia Tech’s most well-known artificially intelligent teaching assistant, Jill Watson, turns four years old this January.

Residents of cities like Miami may look to migrate further inland to cities like Atlanta and Dallas to escape rising sea levels.

Machine Learning Examines Effects of Sea Levels Rising to Help Communities Plan Better for Future Generations

New Professor Brings Creativity to Systems Work

Sea-Level Rise Could Reshape the United States, Trigger Migration Inland

USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Jan 22, 2020

Georgia Tech and Facebook Speed Up AI Training by Culling the Weak

TechCrunch, Jan 22, 2020

New Research Applies Theoretical Computer Science to the Brain

Meet ML@GT: Harsh Shrivastava

Memos from ML@GT, Jan 14, 2020

Award Recognizes Professor's Impact on the Evolution of Online Learning

ML@GT Announces Spring 2020 Seminar Schedule

Memos from ML@GT, Jan 8, 2020

ML@GT adds six new associate directors to the leadership team from across the institute.

ML@GT Adds Six New Associate Directors to Leadership Team

Weinberg and Howard Appear on ‘The Age Of A.I.’ On YouTube, A Robert Downey Jr.-Hosted Docuseries On The Uses Of Artificial Intelligence

Decider, Jan 2, 2020

Yang and Parikh Named in the 30 Influential Women Advancing AI in 2019

Rework, Jan 2, 2020

Inspired by Asimov

Georgia Tech News, Jan 1, 2020

Meet ML@GT: What Yao Xie Has Learned On Her Journey to Becoming a Successful Professor and Mother

Memos from ML@GT, Dec 18, 2019

Pascal Van Hentenryck’s Socially Aware Mobility Lab Begins Its Work

Georgia Tech News, Nov 25, 2019

Georgia Tech will present 30 papers at the Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

ML@GT Displays Diverse Research Interests at NeurIPS

Anderson and his co-authors will present this work at at the Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Georgia Tech Researchers Explore New Ways to Give Navigation Directions to Robots

ML@GT faculty members Deven Desai, Swati Gupta, Judy Hoffman, and Rachel Cummings hosted a panel discussion with students on fairness and bias in machine learning.

GT Experts Bring Diverse Perspectives on the Challenges and Importance of Algorithmic Fairness

Explaining Blended Matching Pursuit: A Multi-Purpose AI Algorithm

Memos from ML@GT, Nov 19, 2019

Making Artificial Intelligence Work in a Changing Environment

Memos from ML@GT, Nov 12, 2019

Explaining Nonparametric Regression on Low Dimensional Manifolds using Deep Neural Networks

Memos from ML@GT, Nov 8, 2019

This summer, Samira Samadi presented work at the International Conference on Machine Learning.

Making Sure Computing Machines Don’t Stereotype People

National Labs, Georgia Tech, Collaborate on AI Research

Georgia Tech Research Horizons, Nov 5, 2019

Opportunities for Impact: Startup Zyrobotics Helped Ayanna Howard Reach More People

Meet ML@GT: James Smith, a Machine Learning Student Who Can Probably Outrun You

Krishna Tapped as Deputy Director for $5.5 Million Department of Energy Artificial Intelligence Initiative

Georgia Tech Researchers Share 13 Publications at Premier Visualization Conference

The School of Interactive Computing, Oct 21, 2019

Jill Watson Now Fielding Questions on New AI-enabled Research Tool

Ronald C. Arkin is Third Speaker in Mudd Lecture Series

The Columns, Oct 14, 2019

Premier Computer Vision Conference Accepts 10 Georgia Tech Papers

Dean talked with individual students after his informal Q&A with members of the machine learning club, The Agency.

Google AI Chief Spends Time with Students during Campus Visit

Clone of OLIVES Team Wins IEEE ICIP Best Paper Award

ECE's Gukyeong Kwon, Mohit Prabhushankar, and Can Temel won the Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).

ML@GT Alumni Corner: Jason Lin on His Experiences at the Apples and Lyfts of the World

Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech, Oct 3, 2019

Taking a HINT: Leveraging Explanations to Make Vision and Language Models More Grounded

ML@GT Blog, Oct 2, 2019

New $1.2 Million NSF Grant Aims to Improve Treatment for PTSD Patients

ML@GT Announces First Ph.D. Fellowship Program

Embodied Amodal Recognition: Learning to Move to Perceive Objects

ML@GT Blog, Sep 30, 2019

Cleaning Up the Community: Shagun Jhaver Explores Impact of Content Moderation Practices on Social Media

Greg Canal is a Ph.D. student studying computer engineering.

Meet ML@GT: Greg Canal, a Data Scientist Inspired by Donald Glover

IN THE NEWS: Facebook Experiments With AI-powered Styling Program

Vogue Business, Sep 24, 2019

Fashion++ turns your fashion Don’t into a Do with minimal tweaks

VentureBeat, Sep 18, 2019

2019-2020 officers for The Agency include Will Crawford, Sahit Chintalapudi, Akhil Goel, Neil Thistlethwiate, and Anish Thite

Machine Learning Fuels Campus Romance

Cassie Mitchell: An Assistant Professor Pioneering Research in Predictive Medicine While Chasing Paralympic Gold

Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech, Sep 12, 2019

Overcoming Large-scale Annotation Requirements for Understanding Videos in the Wild

ML@GT Blog, Sep 10, 2019

Cassie Mitchell Receives 2019 Award from the American Neurological Association

Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering, Sep 4, 2019

Gil Weinberg and Robotic Musicianship lab awarded new grant from National Science Foundation

Georgia Tech School of Music, Aug 30, 2019

Tech Unbound Podcast EP7: AIs and People Create Something Beautiful

GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Aug 27, 2019

Jiang enjoyed exploring Egypt by hot air balloon.

Meet ML@GT: Zifan Jiang

Researchers Use Social Media to Help Measure Outcomes of Psychiatric Medication

While You Were Away: GT Computing 2019 Summer Highlights

College of Computing, Aug 21, 2019

ML@GT will welcome Diyi Yang, Debankur Mukherjee, Chao Zhang, Sehoon Ha, Judy Hoffman, Srijan Kumar, and Xiuwei Zhang to its faculty in 2019-2020.

ML@GT to Welcome Seven New Faculty Members

Researchers Use Social Media to Help Measure Outcomes of Psychiatric Medication

IN THE NEWS: Apollo-inspired Robot Hacks Together Tools Using Everyday Objects

ZDNet, Aug 13, 2019

AI 'Performers' Take Center Stage and Get Creative with People in Public Spaces

Georgia Tech's Marcus Nanotechnology Building

ML@GT Announces Fall Seminar Series Speakers

Argoverse is the first public autonomous vehicle dataset to include high-definition (HD) maps.

Argoverse Gives Researchers Access to New Datasets for Autonomous Vehicles

'MacGyver'-like Robot Can Build Own Tools By Assessing Form, Function of Supplies

Tech Tuesday Takeover! Salt, the Humanoid Robot, Joins Christine and Cara

Atlanta & Company, Aug 6, 2019

Georgia Tech Faculty, Students, and Alumni Take Part in 41st Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Tech Unbound Podcast EP6: Video Game Developers React in Wildly Different Ways to AI-Enabled Software

GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Jul 29, 2019

Samira Samadi Researches Theory that Can Help Everyone

Meet ML@GT: Jana Boerger, a Logistics Queen with a Heart for Community Building

Tech Unbound Podcast EP5: Robot Able to Instantly Identify Household Materials Without Touching Objects

GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Jul 17, 2019

Back row: Camilo, Jason, Akash, Bogdan, Manan Computer screens: Evangelos, Nathan Front row: Sam, Alex, Keuntaek make up Team Icarus.

With $1 Million on the Line Team Icarus to Compete in Finals of Drone Racing Competition

Dhruv Batra and Mark Davenport received the 2019 PECASE.

Batra and Davenport Honored with Prestigious Science Award from the White House

Artificially intelligent neural interfaces: DARPA funds Emory/GT/Northwestern research

Emory News Center, Jul 15, 2019

Machine Learning in Science and Engineering Conference Enjoys Successful Second Year

Institute for Data Engineering and Science, Jul 10, 2019

Robot Classifies Materials of Household Objects Using 'Light-Reading' Device

Robot Able to Instantly Identify Household Materials Using Near-Infrared Light

IC's Dhruv Batra Named PECASE Winner, One of Three at Georgia Tech

Indian-Americans shine in White House honors for rising stars in the world science and tech

The Hindu Times, Jul 3, 2019

Is Our AI On the Way to Becoming Control?

StarTrek.com, Jul 2, 2019

Charles Isbell, John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing

Isbell Begins Term as Dean of Computing

IC Researchers Earn 2018 IJRR Paper of the Year for Impactful Robotics Research

Georgia Tech Team Wins New Fetch Robot at ICRA's FetchIt! Mobile Manipulation Challenge

Georgia Tech Student Leads Creation of the First High-resolution Land Cover Map of the US

How Computation is Changing Journalism

ACM News, Jun 18, 2019

The Interaction Hour: Zvi Galil and the Online Revolution at Georgia Tech

The School of Interactive Computing, Jun 14, 2019

She Designs High-Tech Responses to Human Health Problems

National Geographic, Jun 14, 2019

IC Researchers Awarded Outstanding Study Design Paper Award at ICWSM-19

Georgia Tech Heads to the Golden State to Present at World’s Leading Computer Vision Conference

Georgia Tech alum, Nick Diakopoulos, releases his first book

Diakopoulos Forges a Path to Combine Journalism and Artificial Intelligence

The Aerospace Engineering School's Team Icarus Wins a Place in Alpha Pilot Competition

Georgia Tech Aerospace News, Jun 6, 2019

ICML 2019: Georgia Tech Researchers Present at Global Machine Learning Conference

New Machine Learning Algorithms Keep Group Data Diverse

Georgia Tech researchers are looking at how to more efficiently teach robots and artificial agents how to do tasks using video.

Artificial Intelligence Agents Begin to Learn New Skills from Watching Videos

The workshop provided several opportunities for students to receive mentoring from guest speakers, network, and have technical discussions.

Georgia Tech Faculty Organizes First Data Science for Social Good Workshop

Google and Facebook Name Tushar Krishna Recipient of Research Awards

Meet ML@GT: Sean Foley, A Master of Dungeons and Dragons and Annotation

Coda Opening Celebrates Innovation, Industry Collaboration

Georgia Tech News, May 24, 2019

Together, Man and Robot Write Film Score

Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, May 20, 2019

AIs and Humans Become ‘Creative Equals’ with New Design Tool

Will video game developers welcome AI assistance in their workflow? In short, yes, and in wildly different ways, based on research from Georgia Tech published this month.

Two Georgia Tech Alums Receive Prestigious Awards at CHI 2019

Xu Chu is one of the first recipients of the J.P. Morgan AI Research Faculty Awards.

Xu Chu Named Inaugural JP Morgan AI Research Award Recipient

Two faculty members affiliated with the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech have teamed up to receive a grant from the National Science Foundation to further explore combining machine learning techniques and materials science.

Georgia Tech Receives $449,000 NSF Grant to Create ‘Adaptive Fingerprints’ for Materials Using Machine Learning

ICLR is one of the premier artificial intelligence conferences that ML@GT researchers will be presenting at in 2019.

Advancing Learning Representations at ICLR: ML@GT Presents 12 Papers at Premier AI Conference

IC Researchers Seek to Improve Treatment for Schizophrenia Under New $2.7 Million NIMH Grant

Tech Unbound Podcast EP1: A.I. Agent Plays Frogger and Convinces Spectators It Knows What It’s Doing

GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Apr 30, 2019

CHI 2019: Georgia Tech Research Integrates Human Capabilities with Machine Advances for Positive Impact in Society

GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Apr 30, 2019

Married to the Ph.D. — And Each Other

Georgia Tech News, Apr 29, 2019

Autism and Computing Research at Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech's Child Study Lab Sees Computer Science as New 'Microscope' for Autism Research

Most Common Self-Treatments for Opioid Addiction

New Machine Learning Research ID’s Opioid Addiction Self-Treatments and Risks

The Interaction Hour podcast: Autism and Computing

The Interaction Hour - School of Interactive Computing, Apr 23, 2019

Unaiza Ahsan is hooded by her advisor, Irfan Essa, at commencement spring 2019.

Meet ML@GT: Unaiza Ahsan

In The News: People of Color at Risk if Self-driving Cars Aren't Properly Trained

NBC News Digital, Apr 18, 2019

New research on autonomous robots from the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech in collaboration with Salesforce Research and the University of Maryland will be presented at two major AI conferences this summer, ICLR and CVPR.

Could a Robot Save People from a Burning Building? Georgia Tech is Pushing New Robotics Research in that Direction

College's Skyrocketing Stature, Global Impact Highlights of Galil's Legacy as Dean of Computing

AISTATS 2019 will be held in Okinawa, Japan where Georgia Tech researchers will present 12 papers.

The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Statistics: ML@GT Researchers Present 12 Papers at AISTATS

Machine Learning at Georgia Tech and School of Interactive Computing associate professor James Hays collaborated with researchers from TU Berlin and Universität Regensburg to create new eye-tracking software.

People May Be Able to Find Images on a Computer Based Solely on Their Eye Movements

In The News: Will Artificial Intelligence Replace the Military?

Tech Register, Apr 9, 2019

Georgia Tech’s Newest AI System Explains Its Decisions to People in Real-Time to Understand User Preferences

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers, in collaboration with Cornell and University of Kentucky, have developed an artificially intelligent (AI) agent that can automatically generate natural language explanations in real-time to convey the motivations behind its actions. The work is designed to give humans engaging with AI agents or robots confidence that the agent is performing the task correctly and can explain a mistake or errant behavior.

Six Members of GT Computing Awarded Prestigious Fellowships

Charles Isbell Named Next Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech

GT Computing, Apr 3, 2019

Data-Driven Policing

Georgia Tech Institute for People and Technology, Apr 2, 2019

Eight faculty members affiliated with the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech have received tenure or a promotion that will begin for the 2019-2020 academic year.

ML@GT Faculty Members Receive Tenure and Promotion

Coda, Georgia Tech’s newest and largest home in Tech Square, was envisioned in a digital world years before it became a part of Midtown’s skyline

In 2015, the IMAGINE Lab, part of the Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization at Georgia Tech, was tasked by stakeholders at the institute to create a pilot project for a quick visual tool for planning the future Coda building.