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I received the Google Gemma 2 Academic Program GCP Credit Award ($10,000) for my project on certifying the output of Large Language Models.

The award is presented to our paper “Paper: When Do Prompting and Prefix-Tuning Work? A Theory of Capabilities and Limitations” in the NeurIPS23 Workshop I Cant Believe Its Not Better (ICBINB): Failure Modes in the Age of Foundation Models.

Unfortunately, I did not attend NeurIPS 23 this year as I was ill (luckily, my student Aleksandar Petrov was there to present our paper). However, to my surprise, he sent me this image where I was selected as a notable Area Chair.

The award is presented to our paper “Provably Correct Physics-Informed Neural Networks” in the Workshop on Formal Verification of Machine Learning (WFVML 2023) in ICML23. Congrats to the my student Francisco Eiras.

I was nomiated to join the ELLIS the (European Laboratory for Learning Intelligence Systems). This is a network of AI European excellence focused on research around AI, machine learning, computer vision, and robotics.

I was awarded the Amazon Research Award in 2022 in the Machine Learning Algorithms and Theory track. The project proposal is “Randomized Smoothing; Future Directions and Extensions”

The award is presented for our outstanding presentation of the submission entitled Combating Adversaries with Anti-Adversaries at the LatinX in CV workshop in CVPR22. Congratulations to Motasem and Juan.

I have received a highlightef reviewer award at ICLR 2022 and received a free conference registration. The award is granted to 8.7% of 6207. Read more on: https://iclr.cc/Conferences/2022/Reviewers

My grant proposal titled “Robust Continual Learning at Scale” was awarded by the KAUST-CRG (KAUST-Competitive Research Grant) fund for a total amount of $1,050,000 USD. This is a joint grant with Philip H.

I was awarded the prestigious Junior Research Fellowship at Kellogg College (One of the University of Oxford’s many colleges). As part of the fellowship, I have access to the college’s facilities, free lunches as a college fellow, and the advising of up to 9 graduate students.