News Archive
20 Jul 2023
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan selected as Hessian.ai Fellow!
On Thursday, July 20th (8AM CST), in his visit to TU Darmstadt, Dr. Sriraam Natarajan was felicitated as hessian.AI f...
08 May 2023
Two Papers accepted to UAI 2023!
We have two papers accepted to UAI 2023. Congrats to Sahil, Saurabh and our wonderful collaborators Kristian Kersting...
25 Feb 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Kokel for successfully defending her thesis
Dr. Harsha Kokel defended her dissertation on “Beyond Data: Efficient Knowledge-Guided Learning for Sparse and Struct...
16 Sep 2022
Our paper titled Exploiting Domain Knowledge as Causal Independencies in Modeling Gestational Diabetes has been accepted to PSB 2023
Our paper titled “Exploiting Domain Knowledge as Causal Independencies in Modeling Gestational Diabetes” has been acc...
16 Sep 2022
Our paper on improving compute efficiency in domain adaptation tasks using data subset selection has been accepted to NeurIPS 2022
Our paper titled “Orient: Submodular Mutual Information Measures for Data Subset Selection under Distribution Shift” ...
16 Sep 2022
Our paper titled Active Feature Acquisition via Human Interaction in Relational domains has been accepted to CODS-COMAD 2023
Our paper titled “Active Feature Acquisition via Human Interaction in Relational domains” has been accepted to the 6t...
02 Sep 2022
Our paper titled Association of Genetic Predisposition and Physical Activity With Risk of Gestational Diabetes in Nulliparous Women has been accepted at JAMA Network Open 2022
Our paper on “Association of Genetic Predisposition and Physical Activity With Risk of Gestational Diabetes in Nullip...
26 May 2022
Our paper on extending RePReL for hybrid data is accepted at FUSION'22
We recently extended the RePReL framework for domains with a combination of structured and unstructured data. This wo...
05 Apr 2022
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan's newest RBDSCAI Fellow! Workshop talk and colloquium is now available to watch on Youtube
Sriraam Natarajan was felicitated as the newest fellow at IIT Madras’ Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and AI (RB...
15 Jan 2022
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan gives a keynote talk at IIT Madras
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan gives a keynote talk about the research we do at StARLinG Lab. The full version of the podcas...
25 Aug 2021
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan talks about AI on The Tech Between Us Podcast
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan talks about AI on The Tech Between Us Podcast. The full version of the podcast can be found h...
11 Aug 2021
Interventional Sum-Product Networks: Causal Inference with Tractable Probabilistic Models wins the best poster award at EEML 2021
The poster for Interventional Sum-Product Networks: Causal Inference with Tractable Probabilistic Models has won the ...
22 Jul 2021
Two publications at ICAPS 2021
Our Relational Planning and RL framework (RePReL) was accepted in the Planning and Learning Track, and our Human-guid...
14 Jun 2021
Two papers presented at Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) Conference
Two papers are being presented at the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AIME this ...
03 May 2021
Professor Natarajan's talk from RBCDSAI Distinguished Fellow Colloquium Series - Coffee Shop Banter is now available on youtube
Watch Professor Natarajan and Professor Kersting discuss Symbolic and Deep Learning and what it means for the future ...
04 Feb 2021
Paper on Relational Boosted Bandits accepted to AAAI 2021
Paper on Relational Boosted Bandits accepted to AAAI 2021. Congratulations to all the authors.
06 Nov 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Kaur for successfully defending her thesis
Dr. Navdeep Kaur defended her dissertation on “Efficient Combination of Neural and Symbolic Learning for Relational D...
05 Oct 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Ramanan for successfully defending her thesis
Dr. Nandini Ramanan defended her dissertation on “Effective and Efficient Structure Learning of Graphical Models” on ...
29 Sep 2020
Paper on Human-Guided Learning of Column Networks: Knowledge Injection for Relational Deep Learning accepted to CoDS-COMAD 2021
Paper on Human-Guided Learning of Column Networks: Knowledge Injection for Relational Deep Learning accepted to CoDS-...
29 Sep 2020
Paper on A Clustering based Selection Framework for Cost Aware and Test-time Feature Elicitation accepted to CoDS-COMAD 2021
Paper on A Clustering based Selection Framework for Cost Aware and Test-time Feature Elicitation accepted to CoDS-COM...
15 Sep 2020
Professor Natarajan's talk from RBCDSAI Summit is now available on youtube
Watch Professor Natarajan’s talk from Indian Institute of Technology Madras Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and ...
15 Sep 2020
Congratulations to Devendra for winning the best student paper award at KiML 2020 co-located with KDD 2020
Devendra’s paper on Knowledge Intensive Learning of GANs was awarded the best student paper award at KDD Workshop on ...
15 Sep 2020
Professor Natarajan was the keynote speaker at KiML 2020 workshop @ KDD 2020
Professor Sriraam Natarajan gave a keynote talk at the KDD Workshop on Knowledge-infused Mining and Learning (KiML) 2...
31 Aug 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Das for successfully defending her thesis
Dr. Srijita Das defended her dissertation on “Sample Efficient Cost-Aware Active Learning” on 31st August, 2020.
24 Jun 2020
Professor Sriraam Natarajan's invited talk at US-Serbia & West Balkan Data Science Workshop, Serbia 2018, is now available online
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan’s invited talk at US-Serbia & West Balkan Data Science Workshop, Serbia 2018, is now avai...
24 Jun 2020
StARLinG Lab YouTube Channel is Live
Video lectures, talks, and tutorials by members of StARLinG Lab are on our StARLinG Lab UTD Youtube Channel.
23 May 2020
Video of Dr. Natarajan's distinguished lecture at University of South Carolina is now available on YouTube.
Video of Dr. Natarajan’s distinguished lecture at University of South Carolina is now available on YouTube.
08 May 2020
Paper on Lifted Variational Inference accepted to IJCAI 2020
Paper on Lifted Variational Inference accepted to IJCAI 2020. Congratulations to all the authors.
18 Apr 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Dhami for successfully defending his thesis
Dr. Devendra Singh Dhami defended his dissertation on “Learning effective machine learning methods for health care” o...
18 Apr 2020
Our work on Interactive Transfer Learning in Relational Domains got accepted at KUIN Springer Journal, 2020
Our work on Interactive Transfer Learning in Relational Domains got accepted at KUIN Springer Journal, 2020. Refer to...
29 Feb 2020
Professor Natarajan distinguished lecture at University of South Carolina
Professor Sriraam Natarajan gave a distinguished lecture on “Human Allied Artificial Intelligence” at University of S...
28 Jan 2020
Six papers accepted to STARAI Workshop at AAAI 2020.
Six paper accepted at Ninth International Workshop on Statistical Relational AI (Starai) organized at AAAI 2020. Cong...
28 Jan 2020
Paper on Knowledge-intensive gradient boosting accepted to AAAI 2020.
Paper on Knowledge-intensive gradient boosting accepted to AAAI 2020. This work proposes an approach to leverage qual...
31 Dec 2019
Dr. Gautam Kunapuli joins Verisk Analytics
Congratulations to Dr. Gautam Kunapuli for joining Verisk Analytics. We wish you all the best for your new venture an...
16 Oct 2019
Dr. Das Defended his dissertation
Dr. Mayukh Das defended his dissertation on Human-Allied AI successfully on October 14th.
21 Aug 2019
Two abstracts accepted at WiML, 2019
Congratulations to all the authors on the acceptance of their abstracts at 14th Women in Machine Learning workshop co...
21 Aug 2019
Professor Natarajan will be a program co-chair for SDM 2020
Professor Natarajan is serving as the program co-chair for SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2020 with Professor Y...
26 Jul 2019
Professor Natarajan recognized as distinguished SPC at IJCAI 2019
Congratulations to Professor Natarajan for recognition as Distinguished SPC at IJCAI 2019 for his exceptional reviewi...
04 Apr 2019
Professor Natarajan is the Program Chair for CODS-COMAD 2020
Professor Natarajan is serving as one of the Program Chairs for CODS-COMAD 2020 to be held in Hyderabad from 5th to 7...
25 Mar 2019
Nandini's paper on Causal learning for Post-Partum Depression accepted to AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium
Nandini’s paper on Causal learning for Post-Partum Depression accepted to AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium on “Beyond Curve...
04 Dec 2018
Professor Natarajan gave a keynote at IIT Madras as distinguished faculty
Professor Sriraam Natarajan was recognized as a Distinguished Faculty by Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI ...
04 Dec 2018
Professor Natarajan is the director of THE CENTER FOR MACHINE LEARNING at UTD
Professor Sriraam Natarajan is the director for THE CENTER FOR MACHINE LEARNING at UTD. The purpose for this centre ...
02 Nov 2018
Nandini presented her paper on Efficient structure learning for Relational Logistic Regression at KR 2018
Nandini presented her paper and poster on Efficient structure learning for RLR at KR 2018 held in Tempe, Arizona. Nan...
02 Nov 2018
Paper on approximate counting using hypergraph accepted to AAAI 2019. Congratulations Mayukh and Dev.
Paper on approximate counting using hypergraph accepted to AAAI 2019. This work allows for fast counting by transform...
05 Oct 2018
Prof. Natarajan is attending PROBPROG 2018 at MIT
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan is attending PROBPROG 2018 held at MIT, Cambridge from Oct 4th to Oct 6th, 2018. Our lab has ...
02 Oct 2018
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Sriraam Natarajan is one of the speciality cheif editors for frontiers
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan is serving on the editorial board as one of the speciality chief editors in the area of Machi...
02 Oct 2018
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan is the invited speaker at CoDS-COMAD 2019
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan is the invited speaker at CoDS-COMAD 2019 to be held in Kolkata, India from 3rd to 5th Jan, ...
26 Sep 2018
Devendra is attending CHASE 2018 in Washington D.C
Dev is attending CHASE 2018 for his paper on Drug Drug interaction.
25 Sep 2018
NSF Eager Award for Sequential Decision Making
We are pleased to announce that our NSF Eager proposal has been accepted:
18 Sep 2018
StARLinG YouTube Channel is Live
Video lectures, talks, and tutorials by members of StARLinG Lab are on our StARLinG Lab Youtube Channel.
18 Sep 2018
Catch Prof. Sriraam Natarajan on live TV, CNN Serbia
Catch Prof. Sriraam Natarajan on live TV, CNN Serbia here Interview on live TV, CNN, Serbia. He was an invited speake...
13 Aug 2018
Catch Prof. Sriraam Natarajan's video lectures on Human Allied AI from ACAI 2018 here
Catch Prof. Sriraam Natarajan’s video lectures on Human Allied Statistical Relational AI from Summer School on Statis...
02 Aug 2018
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan is invited speaker @ ACAI 2018
Catch Prof. Sriraam Natarajan teach Human Allied Statistical Relational AI at ACAI 2018 Summer School on Statistical ...
02 Aug 2018
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan is invited speaker @ US-Serbia & West Balkan Data Science Workshop, Serbia
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan is invited speaker at US-Serbia & West Balkan Data Science Workshop, Serbia on August 26-...
02 Aug 2018
Submission on Boosting Relational Logistic Regression accepted to KR 2018
Our collaborative work with David Poole’s group and Kristian Kersting on Boosting Relational Logistic Regression has ...
02 Aug 2018
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan podcast on Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence at TWiML&AI is now available
Prof. Sriraam Natarajan podcast on Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence at TWiML&AI is now available
02 Aug 2018
Prof. Gautam Kunapuli is teaching CS6375: Machine Learning in Fall 2018
Prof. Gautam Kunapuli is teaching CS6375: Machine Learning in Fall 2018. For more information please visit here
02 Aug 2018
Our proposal on Efficient Learning with Human-in-the-Loop in Structured, Noisy and Temporal Domains has been accepted by AFRL
Our proposal on “Efficient Learning with Human-in-the-Loop in Structured, Noisy and Temporal Domains” has been accept...
11 Jul 2018
Sriraam Natarajan to talk on 'Human Aware Statistical Relational AI' @ StarAI
Catch Sriraam Natarajan talking about Human Aware Statistical Relational AI at StarAI workshop on 14th July, 2018.
25 Jun 2018
'Human-Guided Learning for Probabilistic Logic Models' published at Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Advice-giving has been long explored in the artificial intelligence community to build robust learning algorithms whe...
07 Jun 2018
Submission on Kernel Learning from Heterogeneous Similarities accepted to CHASE
“Drug-Drug Interaction Discovery: Kernel Learning from Heterogeneous Similarities” was accepted to CHASE, IEEE Confer...
07 Jun 2018
Submission on 'Active Feature Elicitation accepted to IJCAI
“Whom Should I Perform the Lab Test on Next? An Active Feature Elicitation Approach” was accepted at International Jo...
22 Feb 2018
Sriraam Natarajan Awarded with Amazon Faculty Award
Professor Sriraam Natarajan is a recipient of the 2017 Amazon Research Awards for work on “Guiding Probabilistic Lear...
25 Jan 2018
AAMAS'2018 Papers Accepted
Great start to 2018, our two papers were accepted in International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Sys...
04 Dec 2017
Statistical Relational Learning Tutorial at NIPS
Sriraam Natarajan presented a tutorial on Statistical Relational AI with Luc De Raedt, Kristian Kersting and David Po...
10 Nov 2017
Submission on Mixed Sum-Product Networks Accepted to AAAI
“Mixed Sum-Product Networks: A Deep Architecture for Hybrid Domains” was accepted at AAAI!
01 Oct 2017
Dr. Gautam Kunapuli Joins StARLinG
A warm welcome to Dr. Gautam Kunapuli! He has joined StARLinG Lab and The University of Texas at Dallas as a Research...
29 Sep 2017
Two Papers Accepted at BIBM
Two papers were accepted at BIBM, one on predicting the number of cardiovascular procedures (Shuo) and the other on p...
19 Sep 2017
Alexander's Paper Accepted at Knowledge Capture 2017
Our paper on using entity-relational diagrams to set background knowledge and provide user advice for our boosting al...
19 Sep 2017
Two Health Informatics Papers Accepted
Two Health Informatics Papers were accepted: “Identifying Parkinson’s Patients” at AI in Medicine, and “Boosting for ...
09 Jun 2017
RRBM Paper Accepted at ILP
Navdeep’s paper on Relational Restricted Boltzmann Machines using Probabilistic Random Walks has been accepted to ILP...