Congratulations to BAIR students and faculty for their Best Paper Awards at the recently held #ICRA2025 in Atlanta. BAIR Researchers from Masayoshi Tomizuka's lab and the Berkeley DeepDrive Consortium won the Best Paper in Automation for their paper "Physics-Aware Robotic
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BAIR Researchers Win ACM SIGGRAPH Award for Neural Rendering
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Congratulations to BAIR alumni @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_ who have been awarded ACM SIGGRAPH's @siggraph Significant New Researcher awards "For outstanding contributions to neural rendering and novel view synthesis."
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BAIR Faculty Member Elected to National Academy of Sciences
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Congratulations to BAIR faculty member @AlisonGopnik who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (
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Brain-to-Voice Neuroprosthesis Restores Natural Speech for Paralyzed Patients
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Researchers from UC Berkeley and UCSF led by @KayloLittlejohn @CheolJunCho @ChangLabUcsf @GopalaSpeech have unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with severe paralysis with brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis Published in @NatureNeuro
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AI System Enables Humans to See New Colors Beyond Visual Spectrum
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Humans just saw a *new* color—literally outside the known visual spectrum. BAIR faculty and visual computing expert Ren Ng and collaborators made it possible with the Oz Vision System. Newly published in @ScienceAdvances
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BAIR Faculty Discusses Future of LLMs and Synthetic Data
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BAIR faculty Stuart Russell, Dan Klein, @alsuhr
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Defending Against Prompt Injection: StruQ and SecAlign Methods
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New BAIR Blog Post: Defending against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries (StruQ) and Preference Optimization (SecAlign) http://
bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2025/04/1
1/prompt-injection-defense/
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Jennifer Chayes Named Among Top 20 California Tech Influencers
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BAIR Faculty member and Dean of @BerkeleyCDSS Jennifer Chayes (
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UC Researchers Achieve Real-Time Brain-to-Speech Synthesis Breakthrough
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Work led by BAIR students @KayloLittlejohn and @CheolJunCho advised by BAIR faculty @GopalaSpeech "…made it possible to synthesize brain signals into speech in close to real-time." https://
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Making AI Systems More Reliable Through Transparency
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BAIR faculty @JacobSteinhardt discusses the challenges of making AI systems more reliable—and how his work at @TransluceAI aims to bring more transparency to AI models