I signed this as well.
Over 400 researchers and I have signed this open letter calling for the AI and security communities to come together to improve alignment and containment approaches in order to protect our critical infrastructure and digital systems.
ai-security-letter.org/
Atul Prakash retweeted
Congrats to these 5 recent @MichiganCSE PhD alums stepping into faculty roles around the world! 🎓✨
👏 @XinyueChenn
👏 Jane Im
👏 @SarahJabbour_
👏 @shanestorks
👏 @diwenxue
Excited to see their impact as field leaders: myumi.ch/6PQm1
#UMichCSE #PhDtoAcademia
ALT A congratulatory graphic features five recent PhDs from Michigan CSE, each with their photo and new faculty position: Xinyue Chen at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Jane Im at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Sarah Jabbour at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Shane Storks at Eastern Michigan University, and Diwen Xue at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
I gave a Keynote talk on my perspective on AI security at the European Symposium on Computer Systems Research (ESORICS'26) this week. Key takeaway: both alignment and systems security are crucial and need advances. Find the slides here: tinyurl.com/EsoricsKeynote
Atul Prakash retweeted
〽️🎓We're so proud of our graduate students for their incredible achievements in research, teaching, and service this year. We had an amazing time celebrating you at the 2026 CSE Grad Finale!👏
🏆Full story: myumi.ch/ykXJJ
#UMichCSE #GoBlue #MichiganEngineering
ALT Graduate student award winners and honorees pose with faculty at the 2026 CSE Grad Finale, celebrating grad student achievements from the past year.
Atul Prakash retweeted
Huge congratulations to Prof. @radamihalcea for being elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! 🌟
One of the nation’s highest honors, recognizing her pioneering work in NLP and ethical AI at @UMich. 👏
🔗More: myumi.ch/2jN6z
#AI #NLP #UMich #WomenInSTEM #AAAS
ALT Professor Rada Mihalcea
The CSE Division has lifted the pre-selection requirement for the Computer Science major! No selection ticket needed to declare. Glad that CSE is able to do this with more manageable enrollments with respect to faculty size. cse.engin.umich.edu/academic…
Atul Prakash retweeted
📣 Calling all CSE alumni!
There’s still time to register for the CSE Alumni – Graduate Student Mixer on Thurs, April 16! We hope to see you there! 🙌
👉 RSVP here: myumi.ch/P3Pz4
#UMichCSE #AlumniEvent #Network
ALT Join us for the CSE Alumni – Graduate Student Mixer on Thursday, April 16, 2026, from 5:00–7:00 PM at the Bob and Betty Beyster Building onNorth Campus. We hope to see you there! 🙌
Atul Prakash retweeted
🚨 Still time to RSVP for a CSE Alumni Meetup in Palo Alto! 📅 Join us on Tuesday, April 7, from 5:30 to 8:00 PM to reconnect, network, and celebrate our CSE community.
🖊️ Register 👉 : myumi.ch/xwx5V
MORE 🔗 : myumi.ch/Nrqd9
#UMich #UMichCSE #GoBlue 💙 💛
ALT Register today for the CSE Alumni Bay Area Meetup happening Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Atul Prakash retweeted
Great talk last week from Thomas Montgomery, who led AI efforts at Ford Motor Company, on going where the work happens and tackling real industry challenges. 🚗🤖
🎥 Talk: myumi.ch/2rZ6Z
📰 Story: myumi.ch/D8Eyx
#AI #Leadership #CSEAlumni #UMichCSE
Atul Prakash retweeted
🗓️Join us this Thurs, March 12, for "Practical Advice from a Career in AI Analytics." The first in our new Alumni Lecture Series. Featuring Thomas Montgomery, CSE alum and retired AI Manager for Ford Motor Company.
More on this hybrid event: cse.engin.umich.edu/event/pr…
ALT Alumni lecture series with Thomas A. Montgomery on March 12. 2026.
Atul Prakash retweeted
🌟Join us Tuesday, April 7 for a CSE Alumni Meetup in Palo Alto! Reconnect, network, and celebrate our CSE community.
MORE EVENT INFO HERE👉 : myumi.ch/Nrqd9#UMich #UMichCSE #GoBlue 💙💛
ALT CSE alumni Bay Area meetup 2026
Atul Prakash retweeted
Big congratulations to @ziqiao_ma for winning the Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research.🎉
It's a major recognition of creativity, impact, and outstanding contributions to #AI research.
A well-deserved recognition!👏
cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/…
Atul Prakash retweeted
🎉Congratulations to Joan Nwatu, CSE PhD candidate, on receiving the 2026 Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement! Her work at the intersection of AI evaluation, bias, and society is making real impact. 🌟
🔗myumi.ch/e3PPJ
#UMichCSE @_agirlyengineer
Atul Prakash retweeted
Congrats to Farnaz Jahanbakhsh & Rayhan Rashed on winning the 🏆 UM Social Impact Engineering Award!🏆
Their #CHI26 work proposes a new paradigm for online moderation: transform content to preserve value while reducing harm — personalized to each user.
rayhan.io/diymod/
Atul Prakash retweeted
🎙️Thrilled that Episode 1 of the Deep Blue | The Michigan AI Podcast is here!
Vaibhav Balloli @v_balloli interviews Prof. Alex Rodriguez @_arodriguezca on using #AI for Uncertainty: Predicting epidemics and disasters:⬇️
youtube.com/watch?v=U2grAXku…
Atul Prakash retweeted
🎉 Congrats to Profs @BondiElizabeth and @Meha__Jain on receiving a Building Better Futures grant! Their work will bring AI-driven tools to support smallholder farmers in India — tech making real-world impact.🌾🤖
🔗 cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/…
#AI #Agriculture #SocialImpact #UMich
Atul Prakash retweeted
Don't miss this #SIAMDA26 paper!
Shabarish Chenakkod, Michał Dereziński, & Xiaoyu Dong give a proof of the conjecture of Nelson & Nguyen [FOCS 2013] on the optimal dimension and sparsity of oblivious subspace embeddings, up to sub-polylogarithmic factors:
epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1…
See our new work, FOCAL, at ICML 2025 for adding robust perception at test-time to vision foundation models such as CLIP under lighting shifts, rotations, etc. without retraining the foundation model. Congrats @ryantfeng @utksinghal and Stella Yu.
Q: How do we scale robustness/invariance to foundation models like CLIP?
A: Test-time search! 🔍
Our new work FoCal finds canonical views to boost robustness to complex transforms (e.g. viewpoint): sutkarsh.github.io/projects/…
📍 ICML Poster: Tue 11–1:30, E. Hall A-B (E-2203)
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Atul Prakash retweeted
We’re happy to announce that Travis Doom will be joining our teaching faculty as a Lecturer III in Fall 2025. 💫 Welcome to CSE! @doom_travis #UMCSE
👉Learn more about Travis: people.wright.edu/travis.doo…
ALT We're thrilled to welcome Travis Doom to CSE!
Atul Prakash retweeted
🎉Proud to announce! 16 papers from our brilliant CSE researchers will be showcased at #SODA2025 happening Jan 12-15 in New Orleans! 🚀 #GraphTheory #Optimization #DataStructures #UMCSE
👏Congrats to all 18 CSE authors!
👇More: cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/…