Artificial Intelligence
Bridging gaps in rural health care with AI-powered mobile clinics
General practitioners with AI help could make diagnoses, run and interpret tests, and perform procedures like specialists.Wei Lu earns 2024 Best Paper Award for work in spiking neural networks
The paper was published in Proceedings of the IEEE in September 2023, and already has more than 500 citations.GenAI diffusion models learn to generate new content more consistently than expected
Award-winning research led by Prof. Qing Qu discovered an intriguing phenomenon that diffusion models consistently produce nearly identical content starting from the same noise input, regardless of model architectures or training procedures.Focused ambitions
While hunger for an artificial intelligence that can think like a human remains unsated, AI continues to appear in our lives in smaller ways.Researchers recognized at CHI for work on human-NLP system to create reading quiz questions
Their paper received an honorable mention for their work in making high-quality quiz questions easier to create.“We have one another to make each other better than what we were yesterday” — embracing the collective of PhD cohorts at CSE
PhD student Joan Nwatu discusses the supportive structure of her cohort and academic network at U-M CSE.Jenna Wiens receives U-M Sarah Goddard Power Award for outstanding research and advocacy for women in academia
The award recognizes U-M faculty and staff who have significantly contributed to the betterment of current challenges faced by women.“It’s a supportive and collaborative environment” — making connections as a PhD student in and outside the classroom
U-M CSE PhD candidate Sarah Jabbour discusses how collaboration is centered in her experience as a graduate student.Two projects recognized with JP Morgan Chase Faculty Research Award
The award supports industry collaboration with innovative and influential research in the field of artificial intelligence.U-M hosts Eric Horvitz for Obert C. Tanner Lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values
Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz’ lecture was hosted in partnership with Michigan Engineering. U-M is one of nine institutions worldwide that hosts an annual Tanner Lecture on Human Values.U-M, Schmidt Futures to partner on new AI research program
$10M will fund training for 60 postdoctoral fellows as part of international cohort.Prof. Emily Mower Provost receives NSF grant for research in personalized emotion recognition
The project aims to create new and personalized speech emotion recognition approaches and to use these approaches to investigate how changes in emotion are related to changes in mental health.Six new projects funded by LG AI Research
The projects are a part of LG’s mission to advance AI such as Deep Reinforcement Learning, 3D Scene Understanding, and Reasoning with a Large-scale Language Model and Bias & Fairness related to AI ethics.Rada Mihalcea receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
Mihalcea is being recognized for her contributions to computational linguistics and her efforts to broaden participation in the field of computer science.U-M team reaches next phase of Amazon Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge
Team SEAGULL, led by doctoral student Yichi Zhang and advised by Prof. Joyce Chai, strives to develop embodied AI agents capable of attending to users’ needs, following natural language instructions, collaborating, and continuously improving through interaction.Austin Nguyen awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to study multi-agent reinforcement learning
Nguyen, a CSE PhD student, aims to leverage AI and machine learning to advance cooperative agents.Prof. Xinyu Wang collaborates with UiPath to democratize automation
The two will collaborate on building new programming techniques that are accessible to non-experts and non-programmers.LG AI Research opens North American Artificial Intelligence Research Center in Ann Arbor with strong ties to U-M
The LG AI Research Center, and its partnership with U-M, represents a commitment by LG to become a leader in developing advanced AI technologies.Joyce Chai named ACL Fellow for significant contributions to grounded natural language processing and the interaction between language processing and robotics
Prof. Chai has been recognized for significant contributions to grounded natural language processing and the interaction between language processing and robotics.$20M NSF AI-EDGE Institute aims to transform 5G and beyond networks
University of Michigan is a core member of a new NSF-led Institute that is a collaboration between 11 institutions, three government research labs, and four global companiesCSE doctoral student Tara Safavi receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Prof. Danai Koutra recognized as rising star with ACM SIGKDD Award
Faculty Profile: Emily Mower Provost
AI-powered Whatsapp Bot fights fake news in India
Jenna Wiens Named New Precision Health Co-Director
Glen Chou receives the NDSEG Fellowship to improve the safety of autonomous systems
Jason Corso on artificial intelligence
UM::Autonomy competes with brand new boat design
COVE: a tool for advancing progress in computer vision
Patented camera calibration tool automates calibration target acquisition
Rada Mihalcea co-authors new book on text mining
U-M researchers launch fight against C. difficile with $9.2M grant from NIH
Lie-detecting software uses real court case data
Jason Corso receives Google Faculty Research Award
2015 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards
John Laird Authors Book on Soar Cognitive Architecture
Professor John E. Laird, the John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering in the EECS Department, has authored a new book entitled "The Soar Cognitive Architecture," which has been published by MIT Press.Nate Derbinsky Wins Best Poster Award at ICCM
Ph.D. candidate Nate Derbinsky has won the Best Poster Award at the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), which took place April 13 - 15 in Berlin, Germany.