Visited Samsung Electronics to give an invited talk on our GRO project: “AI/ML Modeling + Large-scale Optimization for Large-scale Complex Engineering Systems.”
Xinhan Yang won the 2026–27 Robert E. Greiling, Jr. Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Renewable Energy.
Zhiping Li was named runner-up for the INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award.
Sylvia Liu won an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award.
Deyi Kong won the 2026 General Education Endowment Scholarship from the International Society of Automation (ISA).
Jul 2026Funding
Our group received an NSF award (#2608818, lead PI: Shancong (Sean) Mou) for Data Agent: autonomous data quality evaluation, curation and task-aware dataset design for vision-based industrial inspection.NSF Data Agent project: dataset screening, curation and task-aware design.
Jul 2026Paper
New paper accepted by the INFORMS Journal on Data Science: “DISCO: Disentangling Signal Restoration and Corruption Identification via Sample-Wise Latent Low-Rank Similarity.” Paper Congratulations, Yifeng!DISCO’s autoencoder with sample-wise latent low-rank similarity (Wang et al., 2026).
Jun 2026Funding
An unrestricted gift from NVIDIA supports our research on HVAC system modeling and optimization. Many thanks to the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program!
Jun 2026Paper
New paper accepted at ICML 2026: “Natural Hypergradient Descent: Algorithm Design, Convergence Analysis, and Parallel Implementation.” arXiv Congratulations, Deyi!NHGD’s parallel design: inner-level SGD on one device, synchronous hypergradient approximation on another (Kong et al., 2026).
Guest lecture on smart manufacturing at Virginia Tech about decomposition-based anomaly detection, at the invitation of Dr. Yuhao Zhong (slides).
Apr 2026Funding
Our Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) award, “Neural Refrigeration Cycle Network enabled Optimal Control of Closed-loop Fluid Infrastructure System,” was renewed for Year 2. We are grateful to Samsung for their continued support of this work toward energy-efficient infrastructure.
Deyi Kong was selected as a finalist for the INFORMS QSR Best Student Paper Award for her paper “Natural Hypergradient Descent: Algorithm Design, Convergence Analysis, and Parallel Implementation,” presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta on October 26. This is Deyi’s first Ph.D. work. Congratulations, Deyi!
Oct 2025Paper
Our paper “Heavy-Traffic Queue Length Behavior in a Switch under Markovian Arrivals” was selected for the Applied Probability Collection October 2025: Queueing Models, one of ten articles chosen from the Journal of Applied Probability and Advances in Applied Probability. Congratulations to Prof. Siva Theja Maguluri!
Oct 2025Workshop
Co-chaired VISION’25 at ICCV 2025 (Sunday, October 19, Hawai‘i Convention Center, Honolulu).ICCV 2025, Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Jun 2025Funding
NVIDIA gifted computing credits to support our project Big VISION: Advancing Data Quality for Vision-Based Industrial Inspection. Many thanks to the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program!
Apr 2025Award
Shancong (Sean) Mou received the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from Georgia Tech, which recognizes ten outstanding dissertations each year across all majors.
Mar 2025Talk
Invited visit to Samsung and presentation on AI/ML-enabled quality, efficiency and productivity improvement in complex engineering systems.
Feb 2025Talk
Invited presentation at the UMN Data Science Initiative Seed Grant Showcase & Spotlight on the Big VISION Initiative, which is building a large-scale dataset and an industry–academia forum for vision-based industrial inspection (VISION).Presenting Big VISION at the UMN Data Science Initiative Seed Grant Showcase
Video · mathinstitutes.orgShancong Mou - Derivative-Informed Training of Neural Operators on the FlyIPAM, May 22, 2026 · Workshop IV: Multi-Fidelity Methods to Enable Robust Optimization and Real-Time Control of Fusion Processes
vision-workshop-26.github.io4th Workshop on Vision-based InduStrial InspectiON (VISION) @ CVPR 2026Vision-Based Industrial Inspection Across Modalities (Surface, X-ray, 3D & More). Denver, Colorado.
