Michigan AI

09/07/2026

How can better represent diverse human perspectives?

Researchers introduce DEM-MoE, a demographic-aware framework for modeling annotator disagreement in subjective NLP tasks. By combining demographic-aware experts with synthetic annotations, the approach improves the representation of varied viewpoints and advances more inclusive AI systems.
Work by Yinuo Xu, Veronica Derricks, Allison Earl, David Jurgens

https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1914/

09/04/2026

Ann Arbor friends, join us NEXT FRIDAY at the Ann Arbor District Library downtown for Friday Night AI!

We will explore with Ann Arbor Public Schools students how robots are designed, built, and tested, and why making them work reliably in the real world remains one of AI's biggest challenges. Bring your family and friends!

Moderator: Rada Mihalcea (Director Michigan AI LAB)
📅 SEPTEMBER 11 @ 6:30 pm ET

https://ai.engin.umich.edu/events/friday-night-ai/september-11-2026

09/03/2026

How should guide teaching & learning at Univ. of Michigan?

The university is seeking input from faculty, staff, and students on its draft AI guiding principles.
Community feedback is open for 2 weeks, an opportunity to help shape 's approach:

The University of Michigan has released a new report examining the role of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning, along with draft university-wide guiding principles regarding AI. Members of the U-M community are invited to provide feedback on the draft principles during a two-week commen...

09/03/2026

Michigan Engineering alumni, Homecoming weekend is October 16–17! North Campus will be buzzing with ways to reconnect, reminisce, and see what’s happening at Michigan Engineering.

Meet current students, catch up with fellow Wolverines, hear from college leaders — including the new Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, Mingyan Liu — and celebrate game-day weekend with the Engineering community.

Pull out your maize and blue and make plans to join us!

View the full schedule and register: https://homecoming.engin.umich.edu/college-wide-events/

09/02/2026

09/02/2026

Do really need 10+ reasoning steps to answer simple questions?

Check out TRACE, a framework for analyzing how LLMs think. The study finds that long-thinking models are slower on simple tasks due to over-exploration and over-verification.

Work by: Frederick Zhang, Anhad Mohananey, Alexandra Chronopoulou, Pinelopi Papalampidi, Somit Gupta, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Lu Wang, Shyam Upadhyay

🔗https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.773/

09/02/2026

Whoa! Despite the rain outside, you all showed up yesterday for Festifall on North Campus! We hope you got to meet some new people, learn about all the different organizations, and hope you get a chance to check out Festifall on Central tomorrow from 3-5 and 6-8pm. Go Blue!

09/01/2026

🏆 Warm congratulations to Hyoungwook Jin, Minju Yoo, Jieun Han, Zixin Chen, So-yeon Ahn, and Xu Wang on winning the Best Paper Award at Learning@Scale 2026!

They introduce RelianceScope: An Analytical Framework for Examining Students’ Reliance on Generative AI Chatbots in Problem Solving.
Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3774398.3811612
Website: https://jhw123.github.io/project/reliancescope

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08/30/2026

Welcome HoMe, students. Get all the info you need to kick off the fall semester right in the 8/28 issue of the Grad Student newsletter: myumi.ch/DWWDR

08/30/2026

Calling all Michigan Engineering alumni! Engage in quick, informal chats about career paths and real-world experiences with students by participating in our 30-minute mentoring program. All sessions are hosted via Zoom in Eastern Standard Time (EST), and you can volunteer for as little as 30 minutes. Sign up today at the link in the comments to help the next generation of engineers!