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We’re proud to announce three new tenure-track assistant professors joining TTIC in Fall 2026: Yossi Gandelsman (@YGandelsman), Will Merrill (@lambdaviking), and Nick Tomlin (@NickATomlin). Meet them here: buff.ly/JH1DFtT
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Please join us in welcoming two of our new Research Assistant Professors, Dr. Hongyuan Mei and Kartik Goyal! They will be joining TTIC's faculty in September. Follow the link to learn more: ow.ly/2MYa50Fl8Lm
#ttic #faculty #computerscience
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TTIC has named Professor Avrim Blum, current Chief Academic Officer and established leader in theoretical #CS and #ML, as Interim President, effective September 2025. Read the full announcement here: buff.ly/DvyV2GD
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On Friday, TTIC celebrated Professor David McAllester’s retirement. A founding faculty member who joined in 2002, Professor McAllester has been with TTIC for 23 years, shaping the institute through his leadership, mentorship, and pioneering research.
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TTIC is thrilled to announce a significant philanthropic donation from distinguished computer scientists @BlumLenore and Manuel Blum, which enabled the establishment of TTIC's first two faculty-endowed chairs. Read more: buff.ly/3SwF2KO
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TTIC (Nathan Srebro) and Northwestern (Zhaoran Wang, Dongning Guohost) host Special Quarter on Theory of Deep Learning (Sept - Dec 2020). Learn more here: ttic.edu/news/#0820 Registration required.
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Congratulations to Avrim Blum and colleagues for receiving the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. awards.acm.org/kanellakis
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Announcing our first Distinguished Lecture Series speaker: Lenka Zdeborova @zdeborova of @icEPFL with a talk titled "Statistical Physics Perspective on Understanding Learning with Neural Networks." Please join us at TTIC on Wednesday, March 26 at 11:00am in Room 530, 5th floor.
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A big warm welcome to our new incoming class of Ph.D. students! We are so excited to have you here!
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Today is the final day of the "Adaptive Learning in Complex Environments" workshop hosted at TTIC! Thank you to our organizers @abhishekunique7, Eric Mazumdar, and @AldoPacchiano, as well to all speakers and participants!
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Congrats to the #NobelPrize2024 winners for AI-driven breakthroughs in protein structure prediction! Learn how TTIC's Prof. Jinbo Xu's (@jinboxu_chicago) pioneering work in #deeplearning helped lay the foundation for these groundbreaking discoveries: buff.ly/4dUTzqX
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Congratulations to Professor Karen Livescu on being named a 2025 IEEE Fellow! 🎉 Recognized for her pioneering work in multi-view & pre-trained speech representation learning, she continues to advance #speechprocessing & #AI. Read more: buff.ly/3DsUrXa
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Congratulations to Idan Attias (@IdanAttias), TTIC postdoc, who was selected for the "Rising Stars in Data Science" workshop as part of its 2024 cohort by @hdsiUCSD in collaboration with @DSI_UChicago and @StanfordData: buff.ly/4127c4OC
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The TTIC community gathered today to wish President Matthew Turk a good farewell and to celebrate his time at the Institute!
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July 2023 marked the beginning of TTIC's 20th year of operations, and the start of our celebration of TTIC's 20th Anniversary. As 2023 comes to an end, we wanted to say thank you to everyone who's been part of our story!
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Today is day one of TTIC's 20th Anniversary Academic Workshop! Thank you to all the faculty, alumni, and students who are speaking and attending today.
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Student alumni highlight: Omar Montasser has taken his passion for #machinelearning from TTIC to Yale! After a postdoc at UC Berkeley, he's now an Assistant Professor exploring statistical learning theory & online learning. Read about his journey: buff.ly/ewVr8Py
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TTIC is getting a new look: Here is a sneak peek of new multi-use spaces for students.
#ttic #stem #education
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Congratulations Julia Chuzhoy, recipient of the 2020
@theNASciences Michael and Sheila Held Prize for advances in discreet optimization and structure of graphs! #NASaward #ComputerScience bit.ly/Chuzhoy
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Congrats to Prof. David McAllester, who received an Open Philanthropy funding award for two years to research in the area of AI safety! Read more here: buff.ly/3NPvFQC #AI #AIresearch
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TTIC is happy to announce that Dr. Matthew Turk has been recognized as a 2020 ACM Fellow! ttic.edu/news/#0121
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We had the honor of meeting Dr. Tarika Barrett, CEO of @GirlsWhoCode in New York at the Girls Who Code Fair! #womeninSTEM
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Today is the third and final day of our first workshop for TTIC's 2022 Summer Workshop Program, "New Models in Online Decision Making for Real-World Applications." A big thank you to our organizers @EfroniYonathan, @aldopacchiano, AadirupaSaha and Akshay Krishnamurthy!
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In case you missed it: Research at TTIC presented Nati Srebro's talk, "Shannon, Turing and Attention: Why would I have invented the transformer," which is now available to view on YouTube: buff.ly/4fvYoZ8
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Congratulations to recent TTIC Ph.D. graduate Shashank Srivastava whose paper, “Improved List Size for Folded Reed-Solomon Codes," was awarded the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards at SODA'25! TTIC researchers also present 7 papers: buff.ly/3YRNHuu
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The 2022 Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop will be held jointly by @northwesterncs and TTIC on January 5-6, 2023. The focus of this workshop will be on junior researchers in all areas of theoretical computer science. Learn more and register here: buff.ly/3UZj8Og
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Meet some of TTIC's interns this summer! Visiting students work on research projects in collaboration with TTIC faculty, and youth interns go through a robotics curriculum. Learn more and apply for next year: ttic.edu/visiting-student
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Friday, September 29th at 12:30pm CT: Research at TTIC presents Avrim Blum with a talk titled "Learning, Game Theory, and Adversaries." Please join us in Room 530, or stream via Panopto: buff.ly/4564qtL
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TTIC is pleased to welcome four new Research Assistant Professors (RAPs) to its faculty this fall: Mahdi Haghifam, Siddharth Prasad, Kaylene Stocking, and Jeff Xu. Learn more about our new RAPs and their research: buff.ly/DUGstPT
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Yesterday kicked off our Distinguished Lecture Series with presenting speakers @BlumLenore and Manuel Blum. Thank you for an engaging talk with the TTIC community!
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Talks at TTIC presents Naomi Saphra (@nsaphra) of NYU (@CILVRatNYU) with a talk titled "Interpreting Training." Please join us on Monday, February 27 at 11:30 am CT in Room 530 or via Panopto: buff.ly/3xINPhu
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Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate our 20th anniversary at our banquet and two-day workshop last week! Read more about the workshop and our history: buff.ly/47tFy0K
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Thank you to Dan Jurafsky of @Stanford and everyone who attended today's Distinguished Lecture!
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Today is the start of TTIC's first workshop in its 2024 Summer Workshop Program lineup: "New Frontiers in Algorithmic Robust Statistics." Learn more and view the schedule here: tinyurl.com/y9ph34rw
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Congratulations to Prof. Matt Walter (@mattrwalter) and his colleagues on receiving the 2026 AAAI Classic Paper Award for their influential 2011 paper on understanding natural language commands for robotic navigation and manipulation! Read more: buff.ly/0ct5Ns7
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TTIC is accepting Research Assistant Professor applications until Dec. 1! This position includes no teaching requirements, research funding up to three years, and is located on the University of Chicago campus. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/3QlcVKP #academiajobs
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Congratulations to @TTIC_Connect 's Steve Hanneke and additional authors on #COLT2020 Best Paper award! arxiv.org/abs/2005.11818
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We are hiring summer interns! Calling all students interested in #ML and algorithms, computer vision, speech and language processing, #robotics, and computational biology. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/3Ityru3
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TTIC is sad to share news of the passing of Dr. Misuru Nagasawa, the founding President of TTIC (2001-2010) and President Emeritus (from 2010). Dr. Nagasawa passed on May 8, 2020 at the age of 97. His fellowship and leadership made the foundation on which TTIC has ever grown.
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TTIC students and faculty enjoy the rich, culturally vibrant city of Chicago, which is beautiful during all seasons. #Chicago
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TTIC is hiring Research Assistant Professors in #ML, #Robotics, #Algorithms & more! 3-year, fully funded role — no teaching required, full research freedom, strong mentorship & collaborations. Join a top #CS research community in Chicago. Apply by Dec 1: buff.ly/wv1sA0i
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TTIC PhD students awarded both Best Student Paper awards at COLT 2019! Congratulations Blake Woodworth and Omar Montasser! ttic.edu/news/#0619-2
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PhD Candidate @mingdachen is awarded the 2020 Google PhD Fellowship in Natural Language Processing. Congrats Mingda! tinyurl.com/y56ra7d4
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TTIC welcomed seven new Research Assistant Professors (RAP) and one new Assistant Professor to its faculty this fall. Learn more about our new Professors and community members here: buff.ly/3F3V5ba
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Prof. Julia Chuzhoy (TTIC) & Prof. Sanjeev Khanna (@CIS_Penn, Adjoint Faculty at TTIC) were announced jointly as recipients of an @NSF CCF award for their project, "Fast Combinatorial Algorithms for (Dynamic) Matchings and Shortest Paths." Learn more here: buff.ly/44nCEKk
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TTIC Admissions | Join us as we challenge the foundation of computer science. ttic.edu/phd-program Application deadline: December 20, 2020.
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Congratulations to TTIC faculty Avrim Blum, Julia Chuzhoy, Yury Makarychev & Nati Srebro for receiving a @NSF TRIPODS Phase II award along with researchers at @UICnews, @IllinoisTech, @NorthwesternU, @UChicago, together forming @IDEAL_chicago. Learn more: buff.ly/3br9DGR
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As a recipient of a Superalignment Fast Grant from @OpenAI, Professor Zhiyuan Li is investigating the challenges of #superintelligence alignment, in which humans will eventually need to supervise AI systems that surpass their own abilities. Read more: buff.ly/3LMsDOm
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Today is day 2 of the Multimodal Artificial Intelligence workshop, as part of TTIC's 2024 Summer Workshop Program. We have enjoyed a stellar list of speakers, keynote talks, panels, posters, and lively discussions. Learn more about our workshop program: tinyurl.com/429u2x4x
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Wednesday, January 11th at 10:30 am CT: TTIC Young Researcher Seminar Series presents Elena Voita (@lena_voita) of FAIR with a talk titled "A Journey on Interpretability Methods in NLP: Inside-Out and Back." Register via Zoom here: buff.ly/3vIeHNp
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Join us for PhD candidate @Takuma_Yoneda's thesis defense titled "Distribution Matching in the Context of Robotics." Friday, August 9th from 10:30am CT. Join us in Room 530, or stream via Zoom: buff.ly/3SAufi6
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Thank you to everyone who joined our TTIC Summer Workshop Program, "New Frontiers in Federated Learning (Recent Theoretical Advances & Practice)."
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Friday, September 20, 2024 at 11:00 am CT: Talks at TTIC presents @IdanAttias of @IDEAL_chicago with a talk titled "Information Complexity of Stochastic Convex Optimization: Applications to Generalization, Memorization and Privacy." Please join us in Room 530, 5th Floor.
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Wednesday, February 26th at 11:30AM CT: Talks at TTIC presents @NickATomlin of @Berkeley_EECS with a talk titled "Reasoning with Language Models." Please join us in Room 530, 5th floor.
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Thursday, February 20th, at 1 PM CT: UChicago/TTIC NLP Seminar presents @ShikharMurty of @StanfordNLP with a talk titled "Building the learning-from-interaction pipeline for LLMs." Please join us in Room 530, 5th floor.
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There is no academic hiring freeze at TTIC. We're moving ahead with impactful research in computer science. Faculty positions open! Bring your outstanding academic record and passion for computer science research: join our world-class team. ttic.edu/faculty-hiring/
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Congratulations to Rose Bradford, first-ever recipient of the Latrice Richards Outstanding Admin Service Award!
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TTIC celebrates outstanding achievements at #EMNLP24! Prof. Kanishka Misra earned the Outstanding Paper Award for insights into linguistic generalization, and Prof. Karen Livescu’s team won Best Paper for advancing open multilingual speech tech. Read more: buff.ly/3OVgUi1
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Women In Theory really know how to kick off meetings: in song!! This is so fun! piped.video/watch?v=4Wl-3kad…
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We are hiring Research Assistant Professors (RAPs), a fixed-term, non-tenure track faculty position, fully funded by the Institute and focuses on research! Learn more and apply: ttic.edu/research-assistant-…
Come be my colleague at @TTIC_Connect starting next Fall and apply to their research assistant professor program! Up to 3 years of research funding + no teaching reqs + PI status!
I am happy to share any insights I can offer! Deadline is December 1!
facapp.ttic.edu/
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Happy #WomensHistoryMonth ! Today we are highlighting the world's first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace.
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Join us for PhD candidate @FredahShi's thesis defense titled "Learning Language Structures Through Grounding." Tuesday, May 7th from 1-3pm CT. Please join us in Room 529, or stream via Zoom: buff.ly/4bivv0s
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TTIC is hiring tenure-track faculty! Join a top #CS research environment with exceptional PhD students, strong research support, and a uniquely light teaching load. Apply by Dec 1: buff.ly/wv1sA0i #CSJobs #FacultyHiring
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TTIC's 20th Anniversary Workshop has come to an end! Thank you to all the student alumni, faculty alumni, and current faculty who presented and to everyone who attended our workshop and celebrated our 20th year in operations with us!
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Today, the TTIC community gathered for an all-Institute pizza lunch with a visit from our External Advisory Committee: William T. Freeman, Shafi Goldwasser, Takeo Kanade, and Éva Tardos!
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Congratulations to our Ph.D. graduates Lingyu Gao, Boqiao (Ben) Lai, Han Shao, Freda Shi, Shashank Srivastava, Kevin Stangl, Takuma Yoneda, and Davis Yoshida! Read more about our 2024 Diploma and Awards Ceremony: ttic.edu/news/#0924-2
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Meet our newest faculty members! From advancing artificial social intelligence to exploring the theory of statistical learning, Professors Shiry Ginosar, Kanishka Misra, Zhewei Sun, Jingyan Wang, and Tianhao Wang bring diverse expertise to our community: buff.ly/3UDGdIK
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TTIC would like to welcome and thank Dr. Shafi Goldwasser as our newest External Advisory Committee member. Dr. Goldwasser is a Turing Award winner, director of @SimonsInstitute, and teaches at @UCBerkeley, @MIT & @WeizmannScience. Read more: buff.ly/3caKAZ2
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Congrats to Nina, former TTIC summer intern and longtime friend of the institute!
Maria Florina “Nina” Balcan of @CarnegieMellon University will receive the 2019 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for foundational and breakthrough contributions to minimally-supervised learning. bit.ly/3aOnktQ
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Congratulations to TTIC students Kshitij Patel and Nirmit Joshi, and Professors Lingxiao Wang and Nati Srebro were awarded the Best Student Paper Honorable Mention, and Karen Livescu, who was the Test of Time Runner Up award by @icmlconf! Read more: buff.ly/4684kTW
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We are #hiring for tenure -track faculty positions! Join a strong community of top colleagues in #ML, #robotics, #computerscience, #nlp, #coputervision, and #computationalbiology! Learn more: buff.ly/3YApgkY
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TTIC is excited to announce Dr. Ka Yee Lee as the newest member of its Board of Trustees, beginning May 1, 2024. Dr. Lee has been serving as Interim Dean of @UChicagoPSD since February 2024. Read the full announcement here: ttic.edu/news/#0524-1
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Congrats to TTIC Faculty Alum Sham Kakade, appointed head of Harvard's new Kempner Institute, and beginning in Jan. 2022, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School. tinyurl.com/2p9bdhdj
#ttic #harvard #computerscience
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In honor of TTIC's 20th anniversary, we wanted to share our story and highlight the outstanding accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and students. View a 20-year timeline of the history of TTIC: buff.ly/3PYEVGg
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Congratulations to Professor Karen Livescu for being named a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)!
To learn more about this honor, visit tinyurl.com/szajdzt7.
#WomenInSTEM #ISCA #computerscience
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This summer, 18 talented visiting students joined TTIC to collaborate with our faculty on cutting-edge #CS research! From #algorithms to #robotics, they spent the season immersed in innovation: buff.ly/VbEnWo3
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Congratulations to Mohit Bansal @mohitban47, TTIC Research Assistant Professor alumnus on the $1.5M @GoogleAI Focused Research Award!
Congrats to Mohit Bansal (@mohitban47), assistant professor & director of @UNCNLP lab, for the $1.5M @GoogleAI Focused Research Award (divided evenly w/ @yoavartzi), to work on spatial language understanding+generation.
@unccollege @unc @UNCResearch
cs.unc.edu/news/bansal-recei…
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TTIC PhD Candidate, Blake Woodworth, has been awarded a Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning. ttic.edu/ Congratulations, Blake!
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TTIC just took an online group tour of the Guggenheim Museum's artworks in NYC. What a great start to the week! We're socially distanced, we're learning, we're doing, and we're having such a nice time. guggenheim.org/at-large
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At TTIC, Ph.D. students aren’t just learning—they’re shaping the future of computer science. Join our close-knit research community in Chicago and access the tools, mentorship, and support needed to thrive. Apply by Dec. 9, 2024 (NO FEE): buff.ly/4eerzP5
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TTIC Professors @Anand_Bhattad, Greg Shakhnarovich, Xiaodan Du, and Nick Kolkin (TTIC alum) were among the organizers of the "Knowledge in Generative Models" workshop at #ECCV2024 in Milan! @eccvconf
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TTIC's Nati Srebro is part of a team receiving a collaboration award from NSF + Simons Foundation to uncover foundations of deep learning. ttic.edu/news/#0820-2 (Photo credit: Peter Bartlett, UC Berkeley)
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Avrim Blum's Research at TTIC talk, "Modeling Societal Phenomena with (Learning) Theory," is now available to stream on TTIC's YouTube channel: buff.ly/3Xlbfq8
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Researchers from Google AI and TTIC, including PhD candidate Mingda Chen and Prof. Kevin Gimpel, created ALBERT, a model with state-of-the-art performance on several natural language understanding tasks. More here: venturebeat.com/2019/09/26/g…
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Friday, October 18th at 12:30pm CT: Research at TTIC presents Nati Srebro with a talk titled "Shannon, Turing and Attention: Why would I have invented the transformer." Please join us in Room 530, or stream via Panopto: buff.ly/3Y66Zuf
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Congratulations to @DhruvBatraDB, TTIC Research Assistant Professor alumnus, on being selected for a PECASE Award! The award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.
Congratulations, @DhruvBatraDB for being selected as a #PECASE winner! b.gatech.edu/32dOgiJ
ALT Headshot photo of Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Dhruv Batra.
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October 11th at 12:30pm CT: Research@TTIC presents Kanishka Misra (@kanishkamisra) with a talk titled "Controlled Rearing of Language Models can Reveal Linguistic Insight." Please join us in Room 530, or stream via Panopto: buff.ly/3NeZvQS
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TTIC held its Diploma and Awards Ceremony yesterday! Congratulations to the class of 2025: Sudarshan Babu, Jiading Fang, Mrinalkanti Ghosh, Gene Li, Naren Sarayu Manoj, Ankita Pasad, Kumar Kshitij Patel, Pedro Henrique Pamplona Savarese, and Pushkar Shukla.
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Wednesday, April 24th at 11:30 AM CT: TTIC is excited to present Lenore Blum (@BlumLenore) and Manuel Blum of @CSDatCMU as the first speakers of our Distinguished Lecture Series 2024. Please join us in Room 530, or stream via Panopto: buff.ly/3vYfv4u
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Congratulations, Alexander Razborov, TTIC Resident Adjoint Professor, longtime partner and friend to the Institute!
Congratulations to Alexander Razborov, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, who was one of 6 @UChicago scholars elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences:
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We are hosting a virtual PhD Admissions Open House on Monday, Dec. 4 at 11:00 am CST via Zoom. Learn more about our PhD program in #computerscience from TTIC faculty and students, followed by an open Q&A. Learn more and register (required): buff.ly/49U3FYn
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