Category: Outreach
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STL CoT confidence = most innovative poster
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Zhenjiang and Ani presented a poster with their work on chain-of-thought confidence with signal temporal logic at the Annual Nelms IoT Conference. The core idea of this research is to find patterns in LLM confidence that tend to correlate with correct and incorrect answers. Then, these patterns can be used to determine the confidence, i.e.,…
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ECE showcases new club: Gator Autonomous Racing
This semester marks a major development: the Gator Autonomous Racing (GAR) student club/design team was officially spun off from the TEA Lab. This week, the club has put together an impressive showcase with two racing cars (F1/tenth, aka RoboRacer) in the middle of Malachowsky Hall. The demonstration has attracted a lot of attention! A huge…
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Ivan does publicity for a neuro-symbolic conference
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Ivan Ruchkin is serving as the publicity chair of the 3rd International Conference on Neuro-Symbolic Systems (NeuS) 2026. Looking forward to your submissions!
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Demos at HWCOE celebration and dean’s tailgate
The TEA Lab and the newly formed Gator Autonomous Racing (GAR) club collaborated on two back-to-back demos: Congrats to the students on successfully demoing our autonomous racing technology!
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TEA Lab hosts incoming freshmen
This summer, the TEA Lab welcomed a group of incoming UF freshmen as part of the STEPUP (the Successful Transition and Enhanced Preparation for Undergraduates program). The visiting students learned about the importance of safe and trustworthy autonomy, got to poke around the autonomous racing cars, and asked great questions!
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Our world models are taking off
Our recent dive into world models is blossoming in several intriguing directions: multimodality, hallucinations, and modular verification. While we’re pushing these directions forward, take a look at a nice overview article about our research on world models.
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Zhongzheng and Yuyang give racing demo to Nelms family
Thanks to Yuyang and Zhongzheng for impressing the visitors from the generous Nelms family on a new racing track!
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TEA lab does double racing demos for Spring Visit
Great job to those who put together the demos for the ECE and MAE Spring Visits, particularly Zhongzheng and the F1/10 team!
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MANY posters, demos, awards at NELMS IoT conference
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Congratulations to many students from TEA lab presenting their work and getting recognition!
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Sam, Yuang, Zhenjiang present posters at UF AI Days 2024
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On October 29, 2024, the three students presented posters about the following papers: Zhenjiang Mao, Dong-You Jhong, Ao Wang, Ivan Ruchkin. Language-Enhanced Latent Representations for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Autonomous Driving [Arxiv] [Slides]. Robot Trust for Symbiotic Societies (RTSS) Workshop (co-located with ICRA 2024), Yokohama, Japan, 2024. Zhenjiang Mao, Siqi Dai, Yuang Geng, Ivan Ruchkin. Zero-shot Safety Prediction…