Artificial Intelligence News
Latest academic promotions
We are happy to announce four promotions in the department:
- Dr Charilaos Efthymiou has been promoted to Associate Professor
- Dr Igor Carboni Oliveira has been promoted to Associate Professor
- Dr Hongkai Wen has been promoted to Professor
- Dr Weiren Yu has been promoted to Associate Professor
Many congratulations to our colleagues for all their achievements!
An Easy-Sounding Problem Yields Numbers Too Big for Our Universe
On this recent article in the Quanta magazine, Alex Dixon, who wrote in Haskell the first solver for the problem, commented:
For the past 50 years, Vector Addition Systems—a simple but powerful computational model—have been a topic of great interest in theoretical CS. The reachability problem in that model asks whether we can get from some configuration to another.
The problem sounds relatively easy on a first glance, and an exponential lower bound held firm for over 40 years. Work by excellent theoreticians, including familiar names from Warwick DCS, finally closed the difficulty of the problem in 2021, concluding that it is very, very difficult indeed.
Paris Giampouras joins the department as an Assistant Professor
We are happy to announce that Dr Paris Giampouras has joined the Department of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor. Originally from Greece, he has relocated to Warwick from Baltimore, where he spent four years working as a Postdoctoral Fellow and later as a Research Faculty member at the Mathematical Institute for Data Science at Johns Hopkins University. His expertise lies in machine learning theory and its applications in image processing and computer vision. More specifically, his research has focused on exploring parsimonious representations to address various inverse problems and adversarial robustness.
Currently, he is focusing on two main areas: a) leveraging structured representation in Generative AI applications, and b) developing algorithms that enable continual learning of various tasks for deep learning systems. His goal is to contribute to the foundational understanding of AI algorithms, with a focus on robustness, applications of AI in medicine, and climate change.
We welcome him to the department!