2026

1. - Aug: Glad to be in the organizing committee of UAI'26. Looking forward to working with Sofia and Christine as Online Chairs.
2. - Jun: Organizing "AI for Education", summer workshop at IDEAL Special Program. (More details to follow)
3. - May: Teaching CS-411: Graduate and Undergraduate course for Artificial Intelligence this Summer.
4. - Apr: Keynote speaker at DA2PL Conference at Belgium, April 16-17, 2026. Please attend and give your feedback!
5. - Mar: @RL Enthisiasts: RLC deadline is March 5th (AOE)! Looking forward to receiving your submission!
6. - Feb: Two new preprints out on arXiv! Please check publications for details.
7. - Jan: Our paper on LLM-as-a-Judge is accepted to AISTATS'26.
8. - Jan: Teaching CS-412: Graduate and Undergraduate course for Intro to ML this Spring.

2025

1. - Dec: Attending NeurIPS'25 at San Diego (Dec 3-7). Hope to catch up if you are around : )
2. - Dec: Looking forward to reconnecting the Alignment enthusiasts at San Diego Alignment Workshop (Dec 1-2) again!
3. - Sept: Glad to be in the organizing committee of RLC'26. Updates to follow!
4. - Sept: Two papers accepted to NeurIPS'25.
5. - Aug: Teaching CS-594: Graduate-level course on RLHF Theory this Spring!
6. - May: We are running a RL Theory Summer Reading group (May-Aug, 2025).
7. - Apr: Two papers accepted to ICML'25.
8. - Feb: Our paper on Efficient MNL Assortment Optimization is accepted to ICLR'25.
9. - Jan: Left Apple and joined UIC as a tenure-track assistant professor. Hola Acamedia! Good to be back! Teaching ML this Fall!

2024

1. - Dec: One conference and one workshop paper at NeurIPS'24. See you in Vancouver!
2. - Jul: New ICML Workshop on Models of Human Feedback for AI Alignment. Co-organizing with Thomas Kleine Buening, Christos Dimitrakakis, Scott Niekum, Constantin Rothkopf, and Lirong Xia.
3. - May: Our UAI'24 paper got accepted!
4. - Jan: We got six new papers accepted! 1 in ALT'24, 2 in ICLR'24 and 3 in AISTATS'24. Check out publications for more details.

2023

1. - Dec 14: Chairing a session on "Online Learning" at NeurIPS, on Thu, Dec 14th (Schedule: Oral 6D: Room R06-R09).
2. - Dec 11: Giving a tutorial with Aditya on 'Learning with Preferences' at NeurIPS'23, New Orleans, USA. (Including panel discussion with Yoshua Bengio, Craig Boutilier, Elad Hazan, Rob Nowak and Tobias Schnabel. Our website.
3. - Dec 9-11: Meeting all the "Alignment Enthusiasts" at New Orleans Alignment Workshop, New Orleans, USA.
4. - Oct 17-18: I am at UMich, CSE (Bob and Betty Beyster Building)! Giving a lightning talk at Michigan AI Symposium.
5. - Sept 8-9: Organizing another workshop on Federated Learning [Event Website] at TTI Chicago.
6. - Aug 17-18: Attending David & Yishay Fest. Can't wait to meet David, Yishay, Rob Nowak, Rob Schapire, Nicolo, Alex, Michael, Mehryar, Haim, Sham and a bunch of learning theory folks.
7. - Serving as an AC for NeurIPS'23, ICLR'24, and AIStats'24.
8. - July 31: Giving a tutorial at UAI'23 on 'Federated Learning'. [UAI'23 tutorials]. Attending UAI, CMU, Pittsburgh!
9. - July 28: Excited for our workshop at ICML'23 on Many Facets of Learning with Preferences. Attending ICML, Hawaii, Honolulu!
10. - July 20: Giving a talk at Simons on 'Online Federated Learning'. [Event website]