Lab notebook

News

Research releases, talks, student milestones, awards, and other signals from Furong Lab.

Teaching

Generative AI Agents at DeepLearn 2026

An advanced summer-school course on agent architectures, reasoning, alignment, safety, and world models.

Talk

Building Self-Improving Foundation Models

Auditors, actuators, and amplifiers for trustworthy AI.

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Talk

Reasoning as Control

Adaptive test-time compute for planning agents.

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Publications

Seven papers accepted to ICML 2026

Work spanning reasoning, safety, multimodal systems, scientific prediction, and multi-agent learning.

Impact

PropensityBench adopted in Meta Muse

The agentic safety benchmark is used in the released Muse Spark MSL model.

Publications

TraceGen accepted to CVPR 2026

World modeling in 3D trace space for cross-embodiment robot learning.

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Recognition

Five papers accepted to ICLR 2026

Including MomaGraph, selected for an oral presentation.

Recognition

AAAI 2026 oral

One paper accepted and selected for an oral presentation.

Publications

Four papers accepted to NeurIPS 2025

Including one spotlight presentation.

Keynote

World-model learning for generalist agents

Keynote at the RLC workshop on Reinforcement Learning Beyond Rewards.

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Keynote

Computer Vision in the Wild

Keynote at the fourth CVPR Workshop on Computer Vision in the Wild.

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Keynote

Test-Time Thinking for Trust

Keynote at the second Texas Colloquium on Distributed Learning on enhancing generative AI agents.

Keynote

Erasing the Invisible

Keynote at the ICLR Generative AI Watermarking Workshop on stress-testing watermark robustness.

Keynote

World models for sequential decision-making

Keynote at the ICLR World Models Workshop on learning foundation models for action.

Keynote

Towards Generative AI Security

Keynote at the New York Academy of Sciences Annual Machine Learning Symposium on stress-testing and alignment.

Career

Promotion to associate professor with tenure

Promotion in the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, effective July 1, 2024.

Talk

Integrity in AI at the U.S. SEC

A talk for the SEC AI Community of Practice on multimodal approaches to misinformation and content authenticity.

Public engagement

AskScience AMA on artificial intelligence

A public Reddit discussion about machine learning, trustworthy AI, and current research questions.

Service

NSF–Amazon Fairness in AI PI Meeting

Chair and organizer of the Fairness in Artificial Intelligence principal-investigator meeting.

Talk

Trustworthy Machine Learning in an Ever-Changing World

University of Maryland Department of Computer Science colloquium.

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This curated archive emphasizes consequential releases, invited talks, recognition, career milestones, public engagement, and academic service.