Meet the champions of the Amazon Nova AI Challenge, where university teams around the world went head-to-head to break and defend LLMs under real adversarial pressure:.🏆 Defending: UIUC (PurpCorn-PLAN).🏆 Attacking: Purdue (PurCL).🥈 CTU Prague & Nova Lisbon. These students just

YC startup school . Bowling @Rippling . YC startup school line. UIUC link up in SF. Pitching *ideas* at Amazon Exploratorium

Good luck to Dr. Jay V. Kalinani as he joins UIUC as a research scientist on a major NSF-funded project developing neutrino transport for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in the Einstein Toolkit consortium. We look forward to ongoing collaboration among our institutions!

yay to graduating 💙🧡 #uiuc #graduation2025

📢 Yesterday at USENIX ATC 2025, Xinyu Lian from UIUC SSAIL Lab presented our paper on Universal Checkpointing (UCP). UCP is a new distributed checkpointing system designed for today's large-scale DNN training, where models often use complex forms of parallelism, including data,

We are happy to announce our first guest for 2026, Travis Mullenix, a Dallas-based voice actor most known for his work as Rentaro Aijo in The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really REALLY Love You!, Nijiro Nanase in Blue Lock, Buffalo in One Piece, & more!. @TMullenixVO

furspotting in uiuc.

There’s actually somewhere trashier to get married than Vegas

‼️We propose to learn temporal positional encodings for spatial-temporal graphs, L-STEP, in our #ICML2025 paper. Even simple MLPs can achieve leading performance in various temporal link prediction settings!. 📄 Paper: 💻 Code: 

@hkustNLP @uiuc_nlp @aclmeeting [1/n] "𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴, 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴." Such 𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨-𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 is extremely simple and straightforward for the human cognitive process,

My First ethereum, Illini Tower, UIUC.

#AgBTO at UIUC just wrapped 🎉🚜🤩 and the energy in the room was the kind you bottle for the tough R&D days ahead. We walked through BTO’s top targets:. 🧠 Real-time biosensing.🌾 Rugged crops.🏭 On-demand biomanufacturing. — and then saw ideas that could leapfrog today’s

Happy first day of summer! ☀️. The sun's looking down on a campus that gets it — solar panels, geothermal systems, and zero-energy buildings all working for a brighter tomorrow. 🌱. #ILLINIpride #SustainableIllinois #FirstDayOfSummer #UIUC

@pepsibong

The Siebel Center for Design is a hub of human-centered #innovation at UIUC. 🌿. With #SunGuard™ SNX 51/23 + IS 20, its #glass delivers daylight, comfort & #clarity — supporting LEED® Gold goals. Where transparency meets purpose. 🔗

[RO] EgoVLA: Learning Vision-Language-Action Models from Egocentric Human Videos.R Yang, Q Yu, Y Wu, R Yan. [UC San Diego & UIUC & MIT] (2025).

Smash’s longest running tournament series strikes back for its 24th iteration, Show Me Your Moves '25! With a slew of top players across Ultimate, Melee, and “Brawl,” it is surely a tournament you do not want to miss out! Register NOW until the end of July to save a bit of cash!

I’m so vehemently anti-med student.

@kubichisama caught u by o block