US CMUDepartment of Philosophy Dec 9
Develops methods for causal discovery and causal representation learning, aiming at explainable and controllable AI from a causal perspective.
2026 Ada-Diffuser: Latent-Aware Adaptive Diffusion for Decision-Making ICLR 2026 Beyond DAGs: A Latent Partial Causal Model for Multimodal Learning ICLR 90 T1143 papersGroup size not listed CN TsinghuaDepartment of Computer Science and Technology Feb 28
Works on database systems, human-machine collaborative crowd computing, spatio-temporal data processing, and the fusion of AI and databases.
2026 A Topology-Aware Localized Update Strategy for Graph-Based ANN Index VLDB 2026 AgenticScholar: Agentic Data Management with Pipeline Orchestration for Scholarly Corpora SIGMOD 84 T1102 papers15 members32 alumniDE TUMDepartment of Computer Science
Develops explainable machine learning that combines vision and language so models can justify their decisions, including zero-shot and few-shot learning with…
2026 A Systematic Study of In-the-Wild Model Merging for Large Language Models TMLR 2026 APM: Evaluating Style Personalization in LLMs with Arbitrary Preference Mappings NeurIPS 56 T169 papers14 members18 alumniSG NTUCollege of Computing and Data Science
Works on human-centered AI and human-AI interaction, AI ethics, and AI for health, ageing, sustainability and education.
2026 "It Seems to Understand My Heart": An Empirical Study of Persona-Driven Persuasive AI Agent for Aging-in-Place in Singapore CHI 2026 A Comprehensive Survey on Multimodal Recommender Systems: Taxonomy, Evaluation, and Future Directions TPAMI 43 T194 papersGroup size not listed US UT AustinComputer Science Dec 15
Develops NLP methods and AI agents that communicate and collaborate with people, including semantic parsing, ambiguity and LLM reasoning.
2026 Calibrating Verbalized Confidence with Self-Generated Distractors ICLR 2026 FrankenReport: Early Exiting in Long-Form Generation Using Expected Value of Computation EMNLP 43 T161 papersGroup size not listed US CMUHuman-Computer Interaction Institute Dec 9
Tongshuang Wu Daniel P. Siewiorek Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Studies human-AI collaboration, including interactive tools for evaluating and debugging language models.
2026 “I Don't Think RAI Applies to My Model” – Engaging Non-champions with Sticky Stories for Responsible AI Work Best Paper CHI 2026 A Benchmarking Framework for Context-aware XR Interfaces UIST 31 T177 papers8 members8 alumniCA TorontoComputer Science Dec 1
Studies large language models, collaborative and decentralized machine learning, and learning from limited data.
2025 A Survey on Model MoErging: Recycling and Routing Among Specialized Experts for Collaborative Learning TMLR 2025 AttriBoT: A Bag of Tricks for Efficiently Approximating Leave-One-Out Context Attribution ICLR 30 T138 papers12 members25 alumniCA TorontoComputer Science Dec 1
Studies interaction techniques for AR/VR and technology-assisted learning, including AI coding assistants for students.
2026 Gazeify Then Voiceify: Physical Object Referencing Through Gaze and Voice Interaction with Displayless Smart Glasses IUI 2026 LOOM: Personalized Learning Informed by Daily LLM Conversations Toward Long-Term Mastery via a Dynamic Learner Memory Graph PerFM@AAAI Workshop 29 T153 papers3 members12 alumniUS NYUMechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Civil and Urban Engineering (Tandon) Dec 12
Chen Feng Institute Associate Professor Directs the AI4CE Lab, working on active and collaborative robot perception, visual SLAM and robot learning for construction, manufacturing and transportation.
2026 Chain-SLAM: Globally Consistent Backend for Multi-Session LiDAR SLAM via Chained Loop Closure IROS 2026 CRAG: Can 3D Generative Models Help 3D Assembly? ICML 28 T134 papers19 members140 alumniSG NTUCollege of Computing and Data Science
Works on evaluating language models and building interactive AI, including question answering and human-AI collaboration.
2026 BenchMarker: An Education-Inspired Toolkit for Highlighting Flaws in Multiple-Choice Benchmarks ACL 2026 Check The Scoreboard: An Analysis of Scoring Schemes on Multiple-Choice Evaluation EMNLP 27 T149 papers12 members33 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Directs the CLeAR group on machine learning and decision-making for trustworthy collaborative robots, from human trust modelling to tactile e-skins.
2026 Abstracting Robot Manipulation Skills via Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Policies ICLR 2026 Conflict-Aware Additive Guidance for Flow Models under Compositional Rewards ICML 26 T131 papers10 members24 alumniUS CMUHuman-Computer Interaction Institute Dec 9
Studies human-AI interaction and accessibility, including crowd-powered and AI-powered assistive systems.
2026 ``I followed what felt right, not what I was told'': Autonomy, Coaching, and Recognizing Bias Through AI-Mediated Dialogue CHI 2026 HIDAgent: A Platform-Agnostic Hardware Bridge for Personal Computer Use Agents UIST 26 T136 papers3 members17 alumniUS NYUComputer Science (Courant) Dec 12
Greg Durrett Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Studies natural language processing with large language models, including reasoning, factuality checking and explanation of model outputs.
2026 GENIE: A Fine-Grained Measure for Novelty EMNLP 2026 Improving LLMs via Validator-to-Generator Alignment EMNLP 25 T151 papers6 members31 alumniUS UWPaul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Dec 15
Builds human-AI systems for urban accessibility, including crowdsourced and computer-vision sidewalk assessment, and AR tools.
2026 ArtScape: Detecting, Characterizing, and Interactively Exploring Urban Art at Scale Using Vision Language Models UIST 2026 BikeButler: A Personalized, Context-sensitive Bike Routing Tool using Open Data and VLM-based Analyses of Street View Imagery CHI 23 T165 papers7 members257 alumniUS CMUMachine Learning Department Dec 9
Develops machine learning methods and tools for AI for science, human-AI interaction and AI agents.
2025 Agreement-based Cascading for Efficient Inference TMLR 2025 CodingGenie: A Proactive LLM-Powered Programming Assistant FSE 21 T125 papers8 members21 alumniGB OxfordDepartment of Computer Science Jan 7
Misha Sra Professor of Computer Science Studies human-AI interaction grounded in shared context such as maps, 3D models and virtual or physical environments.
2026 CoDA: Agentic Systems for Collaborative Data Visualization ICLR 2026 Embedded vs. Situated: An Evaluation of AR Facial Training Feedback CHI 20 T160 papersGroup size not listed CN ZhejiangSchool of Artificial Intelligence Feb 28
Works on intelligent design, human-AI collaboration and multimodal generative models.
2026 Circular-DPO: Aligning Multi-Stage 3D Generative Models via Preference Feedback Loop CVPR 2026 Diffusion Distillation with Direct Preference Optimization for Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene Completion AAAI 20 T130 papersGroup size not listed US USCComputer Science Dec 15
Sai Praneeth Karimireddy Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Works on optimization and federated, collaborative learning, including incentives for data sharing.
2026 Beyond the Trade-off: Unifying Fairness and Performance in Federated Learning ICML 2026 Beyond URLs: Metadata Diversity and Position for Efficient LLM Pretraining ICLR 20 T134 papers6 members5 alumniCN TsinghuaInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) Feb 28
Works on collaboration and trustworthy operation of distributed intelligence, mechanism design, blockchain systems, and network economics.
2026 Near Optimal Robust Federated Learning Against Data Poisoning Attack ICLR 2026 Secure Outlier-Aware Large Language Model Inference ICLR 19 T135 papersGroup size not listed US StanfordComputer Science Dec 8
James Landay Denning Director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI Studies human-computer interaction and human-centered AI, including ubiquitous computing and behavior-change technology.
2026 Bloom: Designing for LLM-Augmented Behavior Change Interactions CHI 2026 Comparing Design Metaphors and User-Driven Metaphors for Interaction Design CHI 17 T128 papersGroup size not listed