Congratulations to Dr. Nada Alalyani for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation!

Here are three of us outside the Lingotto Conference Center in Turin, Italy, site of LREC-COLING 2024, held from May 20-25. From left to right: Shadi Manafi, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Abhijnan Nath, and Ibrahim Khebour.

Three SIGNAL Lab students were awarded scholarships by the CSU CS department for meritorious achievements in AI/computer science.

Congratulations to Hannah VanderHoeven on successfully defending her Master’s thesis!

I am beyond excited that we have been awarded a contract on the DARPA Friction and Accountability in Conversational Transactions (FACT) AI Exploration program! Our project, TRACE: Transparency, Reflection, and Accountability in Conversational Exchanges, will address a lack of “friction” (deliberation and reflective reasoning) in LLMs that prevent them from...