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Our high school robotics interns had a great field trip to Argonne National Lab (@argonne) to tour the Aurora Exascale Supercomputer, the Rapid Prototyping Lab, and the Vis Lab!


Join us for PhD candidate Pushkar Shukla's thesis defense titled "Understanding and evaluating computer vision models through the lens of counterfactuals." Tuesday, July 29, at 11:00 am in Room 530, 5th floor.

We had a blast hosting Jackson Park campers at our #Robotics lab! The kids got hands-on with our robots and asked amazing questions.


Join top researchers in sublinear-time computation, #distributedalgorithms, #graphicmodels, and more for the Workshop on Local #Algorithms (WOLA 2025), as part of TTIC's 2025 Summer Workshop Program. August 18-20. Learn more and register: buff.ly/OnSXn90

Summer in Hyde Park, #Chicago, means fresh produce, local treats, and sunny strolls! Check out the neighborhood farmers' markets near TTIC — perfect for a break or weekend adventure.

August 13-15: Join us to discuss data valuation, market design, and legal frameworks for a future of responsible, high-quality data use at the "Incentives for Collaborative Learning and Data Sharing" workshop: buff.ly/At3Dwxf

Up next in our 2025 TTIC Summer Workshop Program series is the workshop on "Algorithmic and Structural Aspects of #Submodularity." Hosted at TTIC, join top researchers on August 4-6. Learn more and register for free: buff.ly/6Xjaa04

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 12:30 pm CT: Talks at TTIC presents Janani Sundaresan of @UWCheritonCS with a talk titled "Distributed Triangle Detection is Hard in Few Rounds." Please join us in Room 530, 5th floor.

Thank you to the Blackstone Bicycle Works Camp and Youth Internship Program students for visiting TTIC yesterday to learn more about #robotics and our lab! We had a blast hosting you guys!




TTIC is full of energy each summer thanks to our amazing interns! Here’s Robin, hosted by Prof. Zhiyuan Li. Discover our visiting student and #computerscience internship opportunities: buff.ly/WerU8Yi

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Reminder: TTIC is hosting an exciting lineup of workshops as part of its 2025 Summer Workshop program! View our upcoming workshops on #ML, #algorithms, #LLMs, #NLP, and more: buff.ly/6Xjaa04

Wishing our community a safe and joyful #IndependenceDay. Happy 4th of July!

Our high school robotics interns had a great field trip at Hamburger University, where they participated in a panel of early career talent and toured two research labs!

Announcing the next workshop in our summer 2025 lineup: Algorithmic Game Theory, July 21-22, 2025. This workshop focuses on the intersection of game theory and #computerscience, with an exciting lineup of speakers. Learn more and register now: buff.ly/HsfDnhI

We’re proud to announce three new tenure-track assistant professors joining TTIC in Fall 2026: Yossi Gandelsman (@YGandelsman), Will Merrill (@lambdaviking), and Nick Tomlin (@NickATomlin). Meet them here: buff.ly/JH1DFtT

TTIC was a proud sponsor of the 2025 Midwest Machine Learning Symposium, hosted at @UChicago this week, with TTIC Research Assistant Professor Tianhao Wang as an invited speaker!

UChicago is thrilled to host #MMLS2025 in just a few days! We can’t wait to welcome the ML community to campus. Huge thanks to our amazing sponsors: @schmidtsciences @UChicagoCS @DSI_UChicago @InvenergyLLC @promega Millennium Management @TTIC_Connect 🧵(1/2)