Recipients

Yulun Tian (University of Michigan), Robotics/Physical AI
  • Real-Time and Information-Efficient Latent World Memory for Physical AI
Aviral Kumar (Carnegia Mellon University), Artificial Intelligence
  • Persistent LLM Agents that Continually Adapt at Test Time
Diyi Yang (Stanford University), Artificial Intelligence
  • Quantifying and Mitigating Agentic Risks in Computer-Use Agents
Felix Heide (Princeton University), Artificial Intelligence
  • Neural High-Resolution Atlas RAW Generation for Learned Burst Imaging
Ranjay Krishna (University of Washington), Artificial Intelligence
  • RoboMolmo: A Foundation Model for Whole-Body Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation
Jason Wu (Purdue University), Multimedia
  • Design-Aligned Generative User Interfaces
Jianping Pan (University of Victoria), Open Category
  • Measure and Improve NTN Performance and User Experience on Samsung Phones

John M. Cioffi (Stanford University), Wireless Communication
  • AI-Based Joint Transceiver and Channel Optimization for Wireless Access
David Wentzloff (University of Michigan), Wireless Communication
  • Resilient A-IoT Tags with Adaptive Energy Harvesting and Passive Beamforming
Ifana Mahbub (The University of Texas at Dallas), Wireless Communication
  • Miniaturized Spin-Wave Antennas with Beamsteering and Polarization Control for Efficient Wireless Communication
Gordon Gao (Johns Hopkins University), Digital Health
  • CGM and Behavior-based Large Health Model for Just-in-Time Diabetes Management
Thomas Ploetz (Georgia Institute of Technology), Digital Health
  • Wearables-Based Biomarker for Influenza Prediction Through Personalized Self-Supervised Modeling on Healthy Subjects
Ranjay Krishna (University of Washington), Artificial Intelligence
  • Perception Tokens for Visual Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
Ke Sun/Anhong Guo/Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan), Artificial Intelligence
  • NeuroTrace: Intelligent Key-Moment Perception, Storage, and Retrieval for Efficient Wearable Memory Augmentation
Gordon Wetzstein (Stanford University), Camera Technologies
  • Flat Computational Cameras for Optical Neural Network
Yunzhu Li (Columbia University), Robotics
  • Multi-Modal Actionable Scene Graphs for Preference-Aware Interactive Exploration and Manipulation
Zackory Erickson (Carnegie Mellon University), Robotics
  • Generative Simulation for Physical Human-Robot Interaction (GenPHRI)
Sanghyun Hong (Oregon State University), Open Category
  • Protecting Privacy of Generative AI Ecosystems from Prompt-based Data Extraction
Gordon Wetzstein (Stanford University), Open Category
  • Holographic Optical See-through Augmented Reality Glasses with Off-axis Metasurface Combiners