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Amazon Research Awards

Our department faculty have received four Amazon Research Awards.  Awards for 2019 were awarded to Anasse Bari for work in predictive analytics and artificial intelligence for social good; and to Andrew Wilson for work in scalable numerical methods and probabilistic deep learning with applications to AutoML.  Awards for 2020 were awarded to Lerrel Pinto, Daniele Panozzo, and Denis Zorin work in learning to manipulate deformable objects through robust simulations; and to Kyunghyun Cho for his study of independently controllable attributes for controllable neural text generation.