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Director, PLAN Lab @iSchoolUI · NeurIPS'26 & ICML'26 Organizing Committee · GenAI, VLMs, Embodied AI, robots 🤖 | PhD @illinoisCDS 🇬🇷 plan-lab.github.io
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I am honored and grateful to receive an 𝗡𝗦𝗙 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥 award “𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦-𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.” 🎉

This project will support our work in the 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡 𝗟𝗮𝗯 toward more reliable, self-improving embodied AI systems. I am deeply thankful to @NSF, my students, whose creativity and hard work inspire me, as well as my collaborators, mentors, and @iSchoolUI colleagues for their support. I am also grateful to my former academic home @VT_CS where this work began to take shape. Excited for the work ahead!

Learn more about our lab 👉 plan-lab.github.io

#NSFCAREER #NSFfunded #EmbodiedAI #MultimodalAI #ResponsibleAI #iSchoolUI #PLANLab
plan-lab.github.io PLAN Lab | Perception AND LANguage Multimodal generative models that perceive, generate, and reason across language, vision, video, and 3D worlds. UIUC.
iSchool at Illinois @iSchoolUI May 22
#iSchoolUI Assistant Professor Ismini Lourentzou has received a $600K @NSF CAREER award for her project, “Shaping Embodied Intelligence Through Language-Guided Introspection,” which aims to build safer and more reliable AI systems. 🤖

Congrats, Ismini! ▶️ bit.ly/42QoWjn
Assistant Professor Ismini Lourentzou
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Proud of @Jensen_Yuan for leading this work! 👏

🤖VTAM is our visuo-tactile world-action model for contact-rich manipulation, trained with ~100 demos per task and no tactile pretraining.

Code and data are open-sourced👇
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Can a world-action model learn to predict touch without any tactile pretraining?

We introduce VTAM, an efficient visuo-tactile world-action model. With ~100 demos per task and no tactile or action pretraining, it is comparable to tactile models pretrained on 30K+ hours of visuo-tactile robot data, and is 6× faster at inference. 🧵

📄Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.23481
🌐Web: plan-lab.github.io/projects/vtam/

Code and data are open source!
💻 Code: github.com/PLAN-Lab/VTAM
🤗 Data (xArm + GelSight, 3 tasks): huggingface.co/datasets/Jense…
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I will be sharing an overview of our research on 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 at the @iSchoolUI Research Showcase tomorrow, Oct. 30.
📍Illini Union, Rooms A & B
⌚2:15–3:15 p.m. CT

Come learn about world models and robotics!
iSchool at Illinois @iSchoolUI Oct 21
Join us for the #iSchoolUI Research Showcase on Oct. 30, from 11:30 a.m.–4:45 p.m. at the Illini Union! Explore human-centered, interdisciplinary research through keynote talks, short presentations, and posters. All are welcome!

Full schedule ▶️ bit.ly/47zLdnV
The 2026 iSchool Research Showcase will be held this year on Friday, October 30, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. in Rooms A & B of the Illini Union. This event will feature posters and presentations on topics regarding AI and machine learning, libraries, information, and learning, health and heathcare, social impact and public policy, indigenous knowledge and cultural preservation, and cybersecurity and privacy.
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