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About 150 guests gathered outside the new #VTInnovationCampus Academic Building One to dedicate The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech. A sign unveiling was followed by remarks from VP & Campus Director Lance Collins, Timothy D Sands, benefactors Mehul & Hema Sanghani, @vtdeanross & an indoor celebration.

Long overdue recognition for Barto and Sutton! I still remember 1992-93 at Anna University, Guindy (🇮🇳), where I had to ask a friend in the US to photocopy & snail-mail me 📬 Sutton’s “Learning to predict by the method of temporal differences” paper! RL has only soared since

M.S. student Andrew Neeser focuses his research The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), a powerful approach to grounding large language models in real-world documents. Read his Student Spotlight: tinyurl.com/5n89xuhj

'&' is a smooshed together e+t. The Latin for 'and' is 'et.'

Wish I had this when I was teaching ridge regression and LASSO earlier this semester. Fantastic animations!

The 5 worst words in the English language: "I will keep my score". That’s fine. Please keep it. We’re looking for one with… better explanatory power.

The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech alumni Cho-Ting "Amanda" Lee presented a paper from her thesis work on large language models (LLMs) and spreadsheets ICSE this week in Ottawa, Canada. She graduated last Spring with a master's degree Virginia Tech Computer Science and was advised by Naren Ramakrishnan.

The Fibonacci elephant. [bityl.co/L4M2]

Huge congrats to Andrew Neeser for successfully defending his MS thesis today! He joined my group as a BS student and is now a RAG expert; now, he’s headed to the The Washington Post to apply his AI skills to journalism! 🚀🚀 Many thanks to his committee, Chang-Tien Lu and

School rezoning decisions often cause emotional stress for families and communities. LCPS News is using Redistrict, an online interactive platform created by graduate students The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech, that allows users to map and share their own plans. tinyurl.com/39zz82kt

Congratulations to Priya, co-advised with Xuan Wang Xuan Wang, on a successful defense of her MS thesis on improving multi-agent LLM deliberation for real-world tasks. Thanks to Pinar Yanardag 🚀 CVPR2025 for serving on her committee! Next stop? No stop — she’s continuing right into her PhD

🎉 Congrats to Aishwarya Aishwarya Kumaran on a successful MS thesis defense tackling backward reasoning in LLMs! She’s now off to the West Coast🚀 to Qualcomm. Many thanks to Lifu Huang and Xuan Wang for serving on her committee and to Ming Jin for his inputs!

At Virginia Tech's DC area Graduate School commencement, Mandar ✨ formally received his Ph.D. Virginia Tech Computer Science when hooded by advisor Naren Ramakrishnan The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech. He successfully defended his dissertation last Fall & is a senior software engineer Google. Congrats #HokieGrad Mandar🎉!

Pro tip: To sound like an AI insider, replace “evaluation” with “evals” (and pronounce it as “eee-vals”). Here goes. evals for my ML course this sem have landed. Favorite line so far: “I learned this class better than any ML algorithm could.” Humans 1 – Algorithms 0. Let’s

New alum The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech: Congrats 🎉👏! to Aishwarya Kumaran (Aishwarya Kumaran) -- advised by Naren Ramakrishnan. She has graduated from Virginia Tech with a master's degree in computer science and is now headed to Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, as a software engineer. #HokieGrad #VT25

If LLMs tend to agree with humans (sycophancy) during conversations, what happens when they interact in a multi-agent system? How does it influence multi-agent LLM effectiveness & efficiency? Our ACL'25 paper tackles this question. Congrats to my PhD student Priya! 👏

🎓Congrats to Dr. Shengzhe Xu who successfully defended his PhD dissertation yday! Many thanks to his committee of Chang-Tien Lu, Daphne Yao Yao Group, Ruoxi Jia, and Manish Marwah. In addition to his work on synthetic tabular data generation, Shengzhe dabbled in language

TECH ON TAP Coming up on Tuesday, June 24 at 6 p.m. Patrick Butler The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech and Kenneth McKinley Children's National Hospital 🏥 team up to explain how data and AI are transforming emergency care. Register today 🔗tinyurl.com/ykj7kvfe