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Call for papers! We are co-organizing several workshops: KDD 2026 Workshop on Agentic AI for Scientific and Societal Advances, KDD 2026 Workshop on Reliable Scientific Foundation Models (RelSciFM), AI for Education Day at KDD 2026, CVPR 2026 – 2nd Workshop on Knowledge-Intensive Multimodal Reasoning, and the upcoming ICML 2026 Workshop on AI for Physics (AI4Physics). Welcome submissions!

Congratulations to Yue Huang for his papers accepted by ICLR 2026! Check the recent contributions on Benchmarking Generative Foundation Models (TrustGen) and Guardrail for General Agentic Systems. Our work Benchmarking Large Language Models on Safety Issues in Scientific Labs was highlighted by New Scientist and Science News.

Congratulations to Yue Huang, Xiaonan Luo, and Xiangqi Wang for their papers accepted by AAAI 2026! Congratulations to Yujun Zhou for the paper Benchmarking Large Language Models on Safety Issues in Scientific Labs, to appear in Nature Machine Intelligence.

Congratulations to Yue Huang and Xiangqi Wang for their papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025! We are also organizing an AI for Scientific Research Workshop at AAAI 2026—welcome to submit!

Congratulations to Yue Huang and our co-authors for winning the Best Paper Award at the KDD 2025 SciSoc LLM Workshop for Evaluating Large Language Models with Psychometrics, and the Best Paper Award at the ICML 2025 Workshop on Data in Generative Models (DIG-BUG) for Preference Leakage: A Contamination Problem in LLM-as-a-Judge. Many thanks to all our collaborators! Congratulations also to Yue Huang, Kehan, and Yili for their papers accepted at CIKM 2025.

With the support of the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society, the Foundation Models and Applications Lab (FMAL) is launched! It is co-directed by Prof. Xiangliang Zhang and Prof. Meng Jiang. There is an opening for a postdoctoral researcher on Foundation Models and Applications—contact us if interested! Congratulations to Yue Huang, Kehan, Yili, Tianyu, and Haomin for recent publications at ICLR’25, IJCAI’25, and ACL’25. Congratulations to Zhenwen and Manal—your graduations bring our lab’s PhD count to 17!

Three papers accepted by NeurIPS 2024 (1 highlight, 2 posters). Congratulations to Kehan and Yue Huang. Four papers accepted by EMNLP 2024—congratulations to Yujun, Yue Huang, Ziyi, and Tianyu. We also launched the IEEE CS North America Student Challenge 2024 on Inferring User Latent Preference from Conversations with LLM.

Congratulations to Ziyi—the 15th PhD graduated from our lab, with his thesis Exploring Trustworthy Concerns in Computer Vision: From Deterministic to Generative Domains. Two papers accepted by ICML 2024, one by ACL 2024, two by KDD 2024, and one by IJCAI 2024. Congratulations to Yue Huang, Yujun, Taicheng, Zhenwen, and Ziyi.

Congratulations to Zhenwen! Two of his recent papers, focused on solving Math Word Problems, have been accepted at EMNLP 2023.

PI Dr. Zhang is awarded another NSF grant ($1.5 million) for the project Exploiting Federal Data and Beyond: A Multi-modal Knowledge Network for Comprehensive Wildlife Management under Climate Change.