| 05-18-2026 | Amazon Research Awards funded for Generative UI research ($70,000+$50,000 AWS credits)! |
| 05-10-2026 | Journal paper accepted at Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. |
| 04-21-2026 | UTK CCI I³ Research Funding Award awarded ($2,500) for Investigating AI-Mediated News Consumption . |
| 04-15-2026 | UTK CCI AI Grant awarded ($9,981) for social robots in collaborative learning. |
| 04-15-2026 | UTK CCI AI Grant awarded ($9,420) for a generative AI chatbots project (Co-PI). |
| 04-13-2026 | My student Wanqi Zhang received the CCI Graduate Student Research Award (2026)! |
| 04-08-2026 | Interviewed and featured in Scientific American for our HRI ‘26 paper and preprint. |
| 03-22-2026 | Short paper accepted at CHIIR ‘26. |
| 03-20-2026 | Two papers accepted at HRI ‘26 — a full paper and a late-breaking report. |
| 03-10-2026 | Our HRI research featured in a CCI spotlight on student-led human-robot interaction work. |
| 02-13-2026 | My student Qian Yang received a UTK Graduate Student Research Award (Fall 2025)! |
| 01-07-2026 | Google Gemini Academic Program Award ($10,000 in Google Cloud credits) for AI-assisted research. |