Second patent of the group, USC 1587 - US 12,332,873, Multimodal Retrieval and Execution Monitoring Using Rich Recipe Representation, was awarded.

We released the python package, gaico, GenAI Results Comparator, to help compare, analyze and visualize outputs from Large Language Models (LLMs) [Python, Foundation Models, Library].

Three proposals get USC internal funding (1 as PI, 2 as Co-PI) to develop concepts of safe chatbots using neuro-symbolic methods with applications in medical student training and archival (library) information accessibility [Chatbots, Neuro-symbolic].

We're proud to announce that 4 of our undergraduate members have successfully graduated in May 2025: John Aydin, Rae Jones, Vansh Nagpal, and Nitin Gupta. Three of them celebrating their graduation during the commencement ceremony.

Dr. Likitha was formally recognized with PhD hooding on May 8 (see 1:21:37 to 1:21:58). Dissertation defended on topic, Building Trustable Methods for Group Recommendations: Advancing Fairness and Robustness Across Domains, on (Friday, Feb 14).

A new resource award received for NAIRR Pilot Demonstration Project: A Compact Foundation Model for Planning-Like (PL) Tasks for Next Generation Trusted Applications (NAIRR250014), to support computing for NSF NAIRR project [Resources, Foundation Models, Planning, Demonstration].

Biplav to give a talk, 'From MIA to Becoming Essential: Using Human-Inspired Computing to Help AI Earn Human Trust for Societal Problems' at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC on 25 April 2025.

Biplav to give a talk, 'Beyond Trustworthy Machine Learning: Using Human-Inspired Computing to Help AI Earn Trust for Societal Problems' at CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (virtually) on 16 April 2025.