This is Michigan AI Laboratory, a vibrant research group that includes faculty, research scientists, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows working in AI.
Excited to announce that @UMichCSE researchers are presenting 7 papers at #CVPR2026, advancing research in medical imaging, geospatial #AI, motion understanding, and next-generation foundation models.
Check them out:🔽
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University of Michigan continues to lead in #AI education & research! 🎉
Proud to be ranked #5 among top postsecondary institutions graduating students in AI-related PhDs, according to the Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index Report: 🔽📊
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🎨 Paid research interview for non-commercial artists (€30)
We are researchers at CISPA in Germany are studying artists’ views on generative AI, the use of artworks as AI training data, related policies, and Machine Unlearning.
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From @UMichCSE to international #AI safety.🌍
Alum Eric Winsor (BSE CE ’19) works with the UK AI Security Institute evaluating frontier AI models & strengthening safeguards against potentially harmful capabilities:
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Happy to share this photo from our Michigan AI gathering at #AAMAS2026 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
🚨 It takes just ONE biased example to break an aligned LLM.
Our new paper shows that one-shot GRPO on a single flipped label induces systematic bias that generalizes across attributes, categories & benchmarks that the model never saw.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2606.10931
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Celebrating @UMichCSE Prof. @jjpark3D Jeon Joon Park for receiving a @NSF CAREER Award! 🎉
His research pushes generative models to better follow physical laws, unlocking advances in physics simulation and radiation therapy. 🌍⚡
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Cheers to affiliate faculty Nima Fazeli on being promoted to Associate Professor of Robotics!
Prof. Fazeli's work spans embodied intelligence, robotic manipulation, & #AI-driven perception w/ applications ranging from surgical systems to space robotics.
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What does it actually mean to integrate #AI into #healthcare?
In this interview Jenna Wiens & Mike Sjoding explore how #machinelearning earning is supporting clinicians today and why engineer-clinician collaboration is essential to improving patient care:
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Really excited about AI Explorers! 🌍
Programs like this can make a difference by expanding access to mentored research and PhD application guidance. Excited to be involved, and work with students from the 2026 cohort!
Please apply or share with students who might benefit: theaiexplorers.org 🚀⭐️
🌍Very excited to launch AI Explorers—a global research & mentorship program for pre-doctoral students, aiming to help participants build stronger PhD applications through mentored research & academic guidance.
For our 2026 cohort, we especially encourage applicants from Africa and Latin America.
Apply here: theaiexplorers.org
Featured in today's STAT "AI Prognosis" newsletter: Your sepsis algorithm shouldn't require a time machine 🕗
Check it out for an explainer of what we found in our recent npj Digital Medicine article.
A big congratulations to all the 2026 @Umich EECS Undergraduate Student Award recipients! 🏆
Recognized for their exceptional scholarship, research, leadership, & service these students exemplify innovation, dedication, and excellence. #GoBluecse.engin.umich.edu/stories/…
As #AI conferences scale, reviewing is becoming both more important and more strained.
In the latest Michigan AI Blog post, PhD candidate Danniell Hu interviewed our faculty and graduate students on the best practices for peer review in #AI research.
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There are now 710,082 total living alumni of the University of Michigan. 〽️
ALT A crowd of graduates looks toward the stage during the University of Michigan's 2026 Spring Commencement ceremony in Michigan Stadium. A large maize Block M prominently hangs in the background.
🌍Very excited to launch AI Explorers—a global research & mentorship program for pre-doctoral students, aiming to help participants build stronger PhD applications through mentored research & academic guidance.
For our 2026 cohort, we especially encourage applicants from Africa and Latin America.
Apply here: theaiexplorers.org
How can #AI learn from medical reports & other complex annotations?
ItemizedCLIP, a framework for learning complete and explainable visual representations from itemized text supervision, tackles this challenge. Details below:🔽 #CVPR2026arxiv.org/abs/2512.11141
Thanks to @AmazonScience for supporting our work on measuring and monitoring scheming in AI agents. Looking forward to advancing tools for safer and more trustworthy AI systems!
Congrats to Prof. @LuWang__ on receiving an Amazon Research Award from @AmazonScience for work on detecting deceptive coordination in multi-agent AI systems.
Read more: myumi.ch/7Jdqy
Would you rent your time & skills to #AI agents?
@UMichCSE Prof. Michael Wellman weighs in on RentAHuman.ai, a newly launched platform designed so that humans can help AI agents who need assistance in the physical world.
🔗nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
What happens when training labels aren't perfectly detailed? 🦅
Seulki Park, @zilinwan, and Prof. Stella X. Yu introduce a new framework where images may be labeled at different levels of a taxonomy. #CVPR2026#ComputerVisionarxiv.org/abs/2510.14737