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
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- Please join us in welcoming two of our new Research Assistant Professors, Dr. Hongyuan Mei and Kartik Goyal! They will be joining TTIC's faculty in September. Follow the link to learn more: ow.ly/2MYa50Fl8Lm #ttic #faculty #computerscience
- TTIC has named Professor Avrim Blum, current Chief Academic Officer and established leader in theoretical #CS and #ML, as Interim President, effective September 2025. Read the full announcement here: buff.ly/DvyV2GD
00:00- On Friday, TTIC celebrated Professor David McAllester’s retirement. A founding faculty member who joined in 2002, Professor McAllester has been with TTIC for 23 years, shaping the institute through his leadership, mentorship, and pioneering research.
- TTIC is thrilled to announce a significant philanthropic donation from distinguished computer scientists @BlumLenore and Manuel Blum, which enabled the establishment of TTIC's first two faculty-endowed chairs. Read more: buff.ly/3SwF2KO
- TTIC (Nathan Srebro) and Northwestern (Zhaoran Wang, Dongning Guohost) host Special Quarter on Theory of Deep Learning (Sept - Dec 2020). Learn more here: ttic.edu/news/#0820 Registration required.
- Congratulations to Avrim Blum and colleagues for receiving the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. awards.acm.org/kanellakis
- Announcing our first Distinguished Lecture Series speaker: Lenka Zdeborova @zdeborova of @icEPFL with a talk titled "Statistical Physics Perspective on Understanding Learning with Neural Networks." Please join us at TTIC on Wednesday, March 26 at 11:00am in Room 530, 5th floor.
- A big warm welcome to our new incoming class of Ph.D. students! We are so excited to have you here!
- Today is the final day of the "Adaptive Learning in Complex Environments" workshop hosted at TTIC! Thank you to our organizers @abhishekunique7, Eric Mazumdar, and @aldopacchiano, as well to all speakers and participants!
- Congrats to the #NobelPrize2024 winners for AI-driven breakthroughs in protein structure prediction! Learn how TTIC's Prof. Jinbo Xu's (@jinboxu_chicago) pioneering work in #deeplearning helped lay the foundation for these groundbreaking discoveries: buff.ly/4dUTzqX
- Congratulations to Professor Karen Livescu on being named a 2025 IEEE Fellow! 🎉 Recognized for her pioneering work in multi-view & pre-trained speech representation learning, she continues to advance #speechprocessing & #AI. Read more: buff.ly/3DsUrXa
- Congratulations to Idan Attias (@IdanAttias), TTIC postdoc, who was selected for the "Rising Stars in Data Science" workshop as part of its 2024 cohort by @hdsiUCSD in collaboration with @DSI_UChicago and @StanfordData: buff.ly/4127c4OC
