Funding recommendation
AI mentoring for student veterans
An NSF proposal led by Sooin Kim, with Thomas Pedroni and Dongxiao Zhu, was recommended for funding to support student veterans in engineering.
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News & milestones
Research announcements, awards, and achievements from our community.
Grant announcement
NAIRR supports safer reasoning models
Our project on safety-aware post-training for large reasoning models received support from the NSF-led National AI Research Resource pilot.
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Paper acceptance
FluenceFormer accepted at MIDL 2026
Ujunwa Mgboh’s first-authored paper develops transformer-based fluence map prediction for radiotherapy planning.
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Paper acceptance
WalkGPT accepted at CVPR 2026
Rafi Ibn Sultan’s first-authored paper combines vision, language, depth, and segmentation to support pedestrian navigation.
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Paper acceptance
LLM unlearning paper accepted at ICLR 2026
Saleh Zare Zade’s first-authored paper, “Attention Smoothing Is All You Need for Unlearning,” studies how models can forget targeted information.
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Oral paper acceptance
Token-selective unlearning at AAAI 2026
Xiangyu Zhou’s first-authored paper, “Not All Tokens Are Meant to Be Forgotten,” was accepted for an oral presentation.
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Grant announcement
NIH funds accessibility-aware wayfinding
VisionWay advances AI for accessible path selection and navigation.
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NSF funds foundational LLM unlearning research
The project develops foundations and applications for removing unwanted knowledge from large language models.
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Paper acceptance
Two papers accepted at ECAI 2025
First-authored work by Rafi Ibn Sultan and Saleh Zare Zade advances mobility infrastructure segmentation and membership inference research.
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Paper acceptance
Conversational risk assessment paper accepted
Mohammad Amin Roshani’s first-authored study on LLM-powered COVID-19 risk assessment was accepted by JMIR AI.
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Paper acceptance
Two medical imaging papers accepted at WACV 2025
Chengyin Li’s first-authored papers advance multimodal and multi-organ medical image segmentation.
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Grant announcement
Federal support for geriatric care
The lab participates in a $5 million HRSA Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program project.
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Paper acceptance
FocalUNETR accepted at MICCAI 2023
Chengyin Li’s first-authored paper develops a focal transformer for boundary-aware prostate segmentation in CT images.
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Awards
2023 Computer Science awards
Yao Qiang received the Michael E. Conrad Award, and Chengyin Li received the department’s Best Graduate Research Assistant recognition.
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NSF supports AI for mobility equity
A Convergence Accelerator grant supports human-centered AI to improve mobility access for people with disabilities.
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NIH supports personalized MIS-C risk assessment
An R33 grant supports a chatbot that brings together social, clinical, and molecular information for risk assessment.
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