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Papers, awards and milestones from the lab, newest first.

2026 5

  1. Oguzhan B.'s paper TensorCommitments: A Lightweight Verifiable Inference for Language Models was accepted to NeurIPS 2026! Read the blog post and explore the code.
  2. Oguzhan B.'s paper AttentionViG: Cross-Attention-Based Dynamic Neighbor Aggregation in Vision GNNs was accepted to the Fifth Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG 2026)! Read the blog post.
  3. Sandeep Chinchali received the NSF CAREER award for "CAREER: Foundations of Cloud Robotics – Where Neural Networks Meet Physical Networks". Read the UT ECE announcement. award
  4. Po-han's paper UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles was nominated for the best paper award at AAMAS 2026!
  5. Po-han passed his PhD defense. defense

2025 6

  1. Sahil Shah's paper NeuS-QA: Grounding Long-Form Video Understanding in Temporal Logic and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning was accepted to AAAI 2026!
  2. Mohammad Omama received the Amazon AI PhD Fellowship, one of 15 UT Austin recipients! award
  3. Sai Shankar's paper Constrained Posterior Sampling: Time Series Generation with Hard Constraints was accepted to NeurIPS 2025!
  4. Po-han's paper VIBE: Annotation-Free Video-to-Text Information Bottleneck Evaluation for TL;DR was accepted to NeurIPS 2025!
  5. Oguzhan B.'s paper Fair Resource Allocation for Fleet Intelligence was accepted to GLOBECOM 2025!
  6. Oguzhan A.'s paper Distributed Upload and Active Labeling for Resource-Constrained Fleet Learning was accepted to CoRL 2025!