Michigan AI

06/19/2026

🎉Exciting news 🎉
Prof. Jenna Wiens will serve as a Program Chair for & PhD candidate Michael Ito will serve as a Program Chair Assistant!

https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/Committees

06/18/2026

Smarter fusion for graph learning !💡
GLANCE brings adaptive, node-aware GNN+LLM fusion, improving results across benchmarks while keeping costs low.

Work by Donald Loveland, Yao-An Yang & Danai Koutra:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10849

06/18/2026

Cheers to Hong Chen, David Jurgens, and Misha Teplitskiy for receiving an "Empowering Research with AI Award" from The AI Institutes at Michigan!

This award recognizes the use of artificial intelligence to advance knowledge or practice in various research field.

Project: The Noisy Path from Source to Citation: Measuring How Scholars Engage with Past Research (U-M School of Information; U-M College of Engineering)

The AI Institutes at Michigan has awarded 86 researchers and teams across the University of Michigan through its Empowering Research with AI Awards. The awards recognize their use of artificial intelligence to advance knowledge or practice in research fields. 

06/17/2026

📢 Upcoming Dissertation Defense

Thrilled to announce Xinyue Chen's Ph.D. dissertation defense: "Designing Human-AI Systems to Mediate Collaborative Work"

🗓️TOMORROW June 18 @ 12:00 pm ET

https://cse.engin.umich.edu/event/designing-human-ai-systems-to-mediate-collaborative-work

06/16/2026

One prompt to rule them all? 🚀

SPRIG finds a single optimized system prompt can rival task-specific tuning & generalizes across models and settings.

Research by Lechen Zhang, Tolga Ergen, Lajanugen Logeswaran, Moontae Lee, David Jurgens.


🔗https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14826

06/15/2026

From University of Michigan College of Engineering to international safety.🌍

Alum Eric Winsor (BSE CE ’19) works with the UK AI Security Institute evaluating frontier AI models & strengthening safeguards against potentially harmful capabilities. Proud to see Wolverines contributing to global AI safety efforts! 👏

https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/how-one-u-m-alum-is-helping-stress-test-advanced-ai

06/15/2026

Cheers to affiliate faculty Nima Fazeli on being promoted to Associate Professor of Robotics!

Prof. Fazeli's work spans embodied intelligence, robotic manipulation, & -driven perception w/ applications ranging from surgical systems to space robotics. Well deserved! 👏🤖

https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/cse-announces-2026-faculty-promotions

06/13/2026

Next week at Rackham, all graduate students are invited to prepare for job and internship interviews at our interactive virtual workshop on June 17. We'll focus on:

- Articulating strengths and skills
- Answering behavioral interview questions

See the full line-up of Rackham events and register: rackham.umich.edu/events

06/13/2026

Happy to share this photo from our Michigan AI meet-up at in Cyprus! 🎉📸

Thanks for making it such a memorable gathering. Go Blue!💙〽️

(L-R) Austin Nguyen, Madelyn Gatchel, Xintong Wang, Zun Li, Michael Wellman, Yongzhao Wang

06/12/2026

Congratulations to University of Michigan Profs. Jenna Wiens, Nikola Banovic, Irina Gaynanova, & Joyce Lee on receiving Laude Moonshots funding for their AI-driven glucose management project!

Their project explores how can support individualized care, helping patients and clinicians make more informed decisions about glucose management and diabetes treatment.

Selected from 125 proposals across 47 institutions, the project was recognized for its potential to transform diabetes care through personalized, AI-enabled support. 🩺🤖