05/20/2025 - Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Cognizant AI Labs have developed an AI-driven system that leverages 175 years of global land use and carbon storage data to generate optimal environmental policy strategies. The AI model, backed by Project Resilience and AI for Good, balances complex trade-offs to maximize carbon storage, minimize economic disruption, and improve everyday life.
05/01/2025 - Peter Stone, Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin and Chief Scientist at Sony AI, has received the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence. His research has transformed how autonomous agents learn from experience, collaborate in teams, and adapt across tasks—contributions that have shaped the fields of reinforcement learning, multiagent systems, and intelligent robotics.
04/23/2025 - Third-year doctoral student, Jiaheng Hu is one of two recipients selected for a Ph.D. fellowship with Two Sigma, a New York-based hedge fund dedicated to research and development in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
03/18/2025 - UT Austin and Tec de Monterrey have established the OriGen Health Research Center to leverage Latin America’s largest biobank and AI-driven analysis for advancing precision medicine. The collaboration includes faculty from UT’s College of Natural Sciences, Dell Medical School, and College of Pharmacy, with researchers applying machine learning and data science to genetic and clinical data. This work will enhance understanding of chronic diseases affecting Latino populations and develop targeted, data-driven healthcare solutions.
03/18/2025 - Assistant Professor Yuke Zhu has been named one of five IEEE’s Early Career Award winners for “groundbreaking contributions” in embodied artificial intelligence and robot learning.
03/04/2025 - PhD student Yeonju Ro received the 2024 IBM PhD Fellowship award with an endowment of $40,000.
01/31/2025 - Dr. Adam Klivans, UT Computer Science professor and director of the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning, joined KXAN Austin to discuss the impact of DeepSeek’s latest AI model. He explained how the Chinese company’s breakthrough in training efficiency—achieving high-performance results with significantly less computational power—has surprised the AI industry and affected major tech stocks. Klivans also highlighted ongoing questions about DeepSeek’s methods and the broader implications for AI development.
12/03/2024 - Co-hosts Marc Airhart and Casey Boyle talk with CS Professor Peter Stone to distinguish what is and is not artificial intelligence. Stone, also director of Texas Robotics, executive director of Sony AI America, works on the 100 Year Study on AI and is part of UT’s Good Systems initiative. Airhart, Boyle, and Stone talk about ethical AI use and what is the best way of thinking about it in this artificial intelligence primer.
12/03/2024 - A new podcast, made in collaboration with the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts, will answer the burning questions in all things artificial intelligence. Guests from across campus will engage in conversations with co-hosts Marc Airhart, a science communicator for CNS and Casey Boyle, associate rhetoric professor and Digital Writing and Research Lab Director.
11/19/2024 - Mina Huh, a computer science Ph.D. student at UT Austin, has been awarded a Google Ph.D. Fellowship, the company announced on November 14.