The CILVR Lab (Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics) regroups faculty members, research scientists, postdocs, and students working on AI, machine learning, and a wide variety of applications, notably computer perception, natural language understanding, robotics, and healthcare. Follow us @CILVRatNYU on Twitter!
CILVR News
05/30/24 – Republic of Korea Minister of Science and ICT(Information and Communication Technology) Lee Jong-ho and New York University President Linda G. Mills announced the establishment of the Global AI Frontier Lab. The lab will be headed by Prof. Yann LeCun and Prof. Kyunghyun Cho of the Courant Institute and Center for Data Science. Read more here.
05/08/24 – Professors Rob Fergus & Joan Bruna’s (of Computer Science and Data Science) 2014 paper on “Intriguing properties of neural networks”, runner up for the inaugral test-of-time award at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) ’24. Congratulations!
05/07/24 – Nathan Frey, Dan Berenberg, Kyunghyun Cho, Rich Bonnau and others received the outstanding paper award at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024 for paper on Protein Discovery with Discrete Walk-Jump Sampling. Congratulations!
04/28/24 – Prof. Kyunghyun Cho of Computer Science and Data Science is giving a talk on Machine Learning in Prescient Design’s Lab-in-the-Loop Antibody Design at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024.
03/29/24 – Lerrel Pinto has been awarded a 2024 IEEE Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation. Congratulations!
01/25/24 – Yann LeCun has been named an ACM Fellow for 2023, “for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.” Congratulations!
01/12/24 – Sanae Lotfi, a PhD student at CDS, has been recognized as one of the 2023 Rising Stars in Machine Learning. Read more here.
10/25/23 – Yann LeCun announced as inaugural Jacob T. Schwartz chair. Read more here.
10/05/23 – Yann LeCun named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI. Read more here
10/05/23 – Yann LeCun testified at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on artificial intelligence, arguing in favor of “the rapid and free exchange of ideas, scientific publications, open source code, and trained models”.
09/25/23 – Prof. Yann LeCun gave a keynote address and Prof. Kyunghyun Cho participated in a panel discussion at the New York Digital Vision Forum. Read more here.
09/15/23 – CILVR Seminar will be held biweekly on Thursdays at 11 a.m., starting Sept 28 in the CDS 7th floor space. Look here for more details.
09/15/23 – Prof. Lerrel Pinto (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU Courant, CDS) has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35”
09/07/23 – KyungHyun Cho, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, has been named one of the “30 Leaders Under 40 Changing Healthcare in 2023” by Business Insider.
07/17/23 – NYU Courant Computer Science Students and Faculty Siddhant Haldar, Jyothish Pari, Anant Rai, and Prof. Lerrel Pinto (NYU-Courant Computer Science and Center for Data Science) won the Best Student Paper award at the Robotics, Science, and Systems Conference. July 2023.
06/05/23 – The paper “A Comparison of Semi-Supervised Learning Techniques for Streaming ASR at Scale” by PhD Student Cal Peyser of Courant-CS with co-authors Michael Picheny and Kyunghyun Cho (Courant-CS and CDS) and Tara Sainath, Ronny Huang, and Rohit Prabhavalkar (Google) was named as one of the top 3% of all papers accepted at the International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) June, 2023.
05/19/23 – “Don’t be fooled: label leakage in explanation methods and the importance of their quantitative evaluation” Authored by MD/PhD candidate at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Neil Jethani, PhD candidate at the Courant Institute Adriel Saporta, and CDS Assistant Professor Rajesh Ranganath, was recently named a notable paper at the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2023.
04/20/23 – CDS Faculty Tal Linzen and Rajesh Ranganath earn NSF CAREER Awards
01/05/23 – Prof. Kyunghyun Cho (Courant CS / CDS) has been selected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. Link to original article (in korean)
12/01/22 – CILVR faculty Grace Lindsay has launched her new lab – the Lindsay Lab. You can read more about it here.
10/13/22 – CILVR faculty Sam Bowman (lead PI) and He He are starting an AI alignment research group, focused on empirical alignment/controllability questions involving large language models. There’s an introductory blog post here.
09/13/22 – Prof. Joan Bruna is an invited speaker at SIAM!
08/08/22 – Congratulations to Sanae Lotfi, Pavel Izmailov, Gregory Benton, Dr. Micah Goldblum and Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson for receiving an outstanding paper award at ICML 2022 for their paper “Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization“!
07/19/22 – Prof. Lerrel Pinto was awarded an Amazon Research Award for his proposal “Visual Imitation in the Wild through Decoupled Representation Learning”. Congratulations, Lerrel!
07/08/22 – Prof. Andrew Wilson has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal, “New Frontiers in Bayesian Deep Learning”. Congratulations!
07/08/22 – Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson was recently granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor, effective this fall. Congratulations, Andrew!!!
06/30/22 -Prof. Yann LeCun posted “A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence”, a major position paper. Comments are solicited!
06/15/22 – Prof. Yann LeCun will be sharing Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award with Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis for their pioneering contributions to Artificial Intellgence. Congratulations, Yann!
06/02/22 – Prof. Sam Bowman was recently granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor, effective this fall. Congratulations, Sam!!!