UCSB NLP & AI @ NeurIPS 2025!

Conferences today are all about connecting, and our whole lab @ucsbNLP is heading to San Diego for #NeurIPS2025! We would love to chat about research on AI agents, multimodal reasoning, and alignment & safety, career paths, and more. I will be there during 12/2-12/6. Please feel

Thrilled to announce that we’re heading to NeurIPS 2025 with 13 accepted papers (8 Main + 5 Workshop)! Proud of the team and all collaborators 🔥 @NeurIPSConf

Excited for this week's AI Agent Frontier Seminar! We're thrilled to host Dr. Xin (Eric) Wang (@xwang_lk) from @ucsbNLP. He'll discuss Building AI Agents that Reason and Act Like Humans, from GUI automation to "Soft Thinking." Join us tomorrow, Oct 31, at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET. All

🌊 The UC Santa Barbara NLP Group is recruiting Ph.D. students for Fall 2026! Work with our faculty in NLP, AI, ML, multimodality, and agents, and join a vibrant community on the California coast. 📍 Learn more: https://t.co/C2wlA2BsDU #PhD2026 #HiringNow #NLP #AI

I was laid off by Meta today. As a Research Scientist, my work was just cited by the legendary @johnschulman2 and Nicholas Carlini yesterday. I’m actively looking for new opportunities — please reach out if you have any openings!

🚀 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐭!🎤 🤔 Ever felt that most presentation tools lack flexibility and creativity? 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘴.

The UCSB NLP group is having a great time at COLM 2025 in Montreal! #COLM2025

Congratulations UC Santa Barbara physics professor John Martinis for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics!

Just another day at the UCSB NLP group, with research, sunshine, and a campus walk by the beach 🌊🌴☀️#UCSB #NLP

We did it! 🎉 12 papers from UCSB NLP accepted at #EMNLP2025 (7 Main + 5 Findings) Proud of everyone’s hard work—poster below 👇

It is official: my first day at UCSB as a faculty. Happy to join the force to advance AI research and nurture talent. Let's go @ucsbNLP @ucsbcs!

Congratulations to all! Super excited to graduate 7 PhD students this year: they are joining UW, Princeton, Google x 2, xAI, Amazon, and Meta. They are the future of AI!

Finally completed this journey. Thanks a lot to my family, advisors and friends!

1/3 How can we reliably trace a student’s understanding with just a few exercise responses? In classrooms, it’s important for teachers to track students’ understanding and predict their future performance on exercises. However, existing knowledge tracing (KT) algorithms often

After all the papers, presentations, and sleepless nights... You can finally say it: Call me Doctor. 😎🎓 Congrats to the PhD Class of 2025! ❤️

RLVR is not just about RL, it's more about VR! Particularly for LLM coding, good verifiers (tests) are hard to get! In our latest work, we ask 3 questions: How good are current tests? How do we get better tests? How much does test quality matter? https://t.co/dCXr6mmg3Z

If you're trying to decide which CVPR tutorial to attend, Check out @KaijieZhu07, @XiaoSophiaPu, @nieyuzhou, Hao Chen, and my tutorial on Evaluating Multimodal Models Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend, but my lovingly crafted slides are in the mix :)

📰 Thrilled to be featured in my hometown newspaper🤯 @diariodeburgos as part of a series on people living abroad! The article discusses my journey from Burgos to California. Check out the article in español 🇪🇸🔗 https://t.co/iKo2QaWvH7

I’m attending #ICLR in Singapore! Also excited to share that I’m joining the Princeton Language and Intelligence Lab as a postdoc in July. In Fall 2026, I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo. I’ll be recruiting—feel free to reach out and chat!