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Shiwei Liu and Visual Informatics Group Receive Best Paper Award at LoG 2022

Jan. 6, 2023
Texas ECE and Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFMl) postdoc Shiwei Liu along with Prof. Atlas Wang and the Visual Informatics Group received the Best Paper Award at the Learning on Graphs (LoG) 2022 Conference for their paper “You Can Have Better Graph Neural Networks by Not Training Weights at All: Finding Untrained GNNs Tickets.” LoG is a new annual research conference that covers areas broadly related to machine learning on graphs and geometry, with a special focus on review quality.
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Prof. Andrea Alù Appointed Simons Investigator in Physics

June 28, 2016
Prof. Andrea Alù was recently appointed as a Simons Investigator in Physics. This program aims to provide a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, and enables them to undertake long-term investigations of fundamental questions in their fields. Each year, the Simons Foundation invites nominations from universities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom for the Simons Investigators in Mathematics, Physics, Theoretical Computer Science and the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems (MMLS) programs.