News

19th Sep 2025
Congrats to Vardhan and Chi for their NeurlPS2025 paper titled ‘MIRAGE: A Benchmark for Multimodal Information-Seeking and Reasoning in Agricultural Expert-Guided Conversations‘.

19th Sep 2025
Congrats to Cheng and Emre for their NeurlPS2025 paper titled ‘ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs‘.

19th Sep 2025
Congrats to Ishika for their NeurlPS2025 paper titled ‘Neural Networks for Learnable and Scalable Influence Estimation of Instruction Fine-Tuning Data‘.

19th Sep 2025
Congrats to Sagnik for their NeurlPS2025 paper titled ‘Reinforcement Learning Finetunes Small Subnetworks in Large Language Models‘.

19th Sep 2025
Thrilled to share our ConvAI contributions to NeurlPS2025! Congrats to Emre, Ishika, Sagnik and Vardhan. Find all the authors in San Diego this December ☀️

19th Sep 2025
Congrats to Shuhaib for their TACL2025 paper titled “Goal Alignment in LLM-Based User Simulators for Conversational AI“.

25th Aug 2025
Excited to welcom to Yijyun, Nguyen and Pardis to the lab!

23rd Sept 2024
Elated to share our ConvAI contributions to IEEE SLT2024 - congratulations to Yi-Jyun (Jenny), Suvodip, Taaha, Sizhe. Hope to see you in Macao!

23rd Sept 2024
Honored to share our ConvAI contributions to EMNLP2024! Congrats to Ishika Agarwal, Sagnik Mukherjee, Sumuk Shashidar, and Abhinav Chinta - we’ll see you in Miami 🌴☀️

26th Aug 2024
Heartiest welcome to Emre, Janvijay, Beyza, Sagnik, Suvodip, Shuhaib, and Takyoung to the lab.

16th Jans 2024
Dilek and Gokhan officially joined the Computer Science department at UIUC in the spring of 2024.

27th Sep 2023
Dilek and Gokhan hired as a faculty in the Computer Science department at UIUC. See announcement here!