We are excited to host KyungHyun Cho from New York University and Genentech Research & Early Development for a talk on “Reality Checks”. Join us: 🕛 Friday, August 29, 2:00 - 3:00 PM @ ICICS X836 UBC Language Sciences Institute CAIDA_UBC UBC Computer Science

It’s been a privilege to work with Yixin these past months—he has my full support. cbc.ca/news/canada/ki…

UBC Computer Science professors Dr. Joanna McGrenere and Dr. Tamara Munzner have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada for their excellence in research and innovation. Read more about their work in our latest article: cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/09/d…

Life update ✨ I’ll be joining UMD Department of Computer Science as faculty starting Spring 2026! I’m looking for motivated students (undergrad, MS, PhD) and postdocs interested in robotic manipulation, tactile sensing, and learning-driven hardware design. Excited to build my group at UMD—let’s connect!

Every lens leaves a blur signature—a hidden fingerprint in every photo. In our new #TPAMI paper, we show how to learn it fast (5 mins of capture!) with Lens Blur Fields ✨ With it, we can tell apart ‘identical’ phones by their optics, deblur images, and render realistic blurs.

At OpenAI I remember when we were excited to see a video model make a blurry, pixelated ping pong ball bounce up and down realistically for more than a second. "It learned physics!" That was ~4 years ago. Still think we're hitting a wall?

In Fall 2026, I will begin a tenure-track faculty position JHU Computer Science Announcing the SciPhy lab, where we will study the science of physical agents (robots) We are now recruiting our first cohort of PhD students. If this is you, see sci-fi-lab.github.io

“Physical AI needs AI-enhanced physics simulation.” I’ll be giving a talk on this topic at IROS 2025 this Friday afternoon — and at Zhejiang University the same morning. Catch me at either place!

Honored to be named a Canada Research Chair! Again, we’re recruiting postdocs and graduate students interested in aging, cancer, neuroscience, brain–computer interfaces, virtual cells, autonomous labs, and general AI for biology. Reach out if this sounds like you😃

People say there’s a huge gap between simulation and reality—especially when you run the simulation for a long time. That’s generally true… but we’re excited to share that we’ve taken a solid step toward closing that gap. We can now accurately simulate a robot folding boxes in

Hiring alert! Robotics and vis folks — take note 👀

🌍 We are hiring! Would you please help us spread the word? We welcome talents from every corner of the world — postdocs, PhD students, and paid, full-time research interns — to join us in exploring AI and physics simulation. #3D #Robotics #Graphics #Hiring #UBC

Considering a PhD/MSc in NLP? I’m hiring students this cycle! If you are passionate about making language models reliable and safe, eager about understanding and controlling language models, and would like to add to your research some multilingual flavor - apply to my group! 👇

UBC Computer Science welcomes new Assistant Professor Peter West! Dr. West will lead a research program studying large language models. Learn more about his journey into computer science and his research program at UBC! cs.ubc.ca/news/2025/11/d…

🧵 Evaluating robot policies in the real world is slow, expensive, and hard to scale. During my internship at SceniX AI this summer, we had many discussions around the two key questions: how accurate must a simulator be for evaluation to be meaningful, and how do we get there?

Life update: I will join NYU Courant Math (CAOS) and Center of Data Science as an assistant professor in Fall 2026. If you are interested in doing a PhD with me please let me know! zongyi-li.github.io

I’m recruiting PhD and Masters students at the University of British Columbia! Looking to work with students interested in LLM interpretability, and intersections with cog ling. The UBC NLP group is growing and awesome, and Vancouver is great. Come to 🇨🇦! isabelpapad.com/#joininglab