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UVM Neurobotics Lab, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Complex Systems and Data Science, University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
Joined April 2020
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Nick Cheney retweeted
How our genome is like a generative AI model technologyreview.com/2024/07… - nice little write-up by @JessHamzelou of new preprint by me and Nick @Cheneylab 😊
I'm such a fan on interdisciplinary science and it's been a joy working with the wonderful Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain to share a geneticists perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of analogies between our computational models and natural systems.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.15908
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 - 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 🧬
arxiv.org/abs/2407.15908- very excited to share this new preprint from me and Nick Cheney 😀🧵
Tenure provides the security to take on risky and uncertain approaches that may not pay off for many years or without the contributions of many others.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've been awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at the University of Vermont! Starting in research as an undergrad at UVM nearly 15 years ago, I'd never have imagined being in this position, but am so glad that it's come full circle!
I want to thank my students for doing the hard work in the trenches that's built such an interesting and impactful body of work in our lab, my colleagues for their mentorship and collaboration, and my family for their support and sacrifice as I take on such a demanding career.
Nick Cheney retweeted
I am happy to announce a workshop on
**Embodiment-Aware Robot Learning (EARL)**
earl.robot-learning.net
at Robotics: Science and Systems Conference #RSS2024 in Delft, Netherlands @RoboticsSciSys
on July 15, 2024
co-organized with @AlapKshirsagar @Jan_R_Peters
Honored to win my society's Impact Award this year. Thanks to all who read, shared, and built upon the work; and to the SIGEVO Board for calling it seminal to our field. Shout out to my collaborators for making this impactful and a ton of fun to work on! uvm.edu/news/cems/nick-chene…
This award looks at the 10-year impact a paper has had on our field, so your engagement with the research (or our fun videos tinyurl.com/evolvingsoftrobo…) have made this happen! I’m so very flattered every time someone reaches out or interacts with our work. You are all awesome!
In addition to the awesome collaborators on the paper @jeffclune @hodlipson @RobMacCurdy, those who’ve expanded this line of work beyond my wildest imagination are the real heroes of this award. @DoctorJosh @Kriegmerica nature.com/articles/s42256-0… wired.com/story/xenobot/
Nick Cheney retweeted
Our new paper: ⚡Zapping!⚡
Rehearsing transfer during pre-training by repeatedly "zapping" (resampling) weights is a cheap form of meta-learning that creates neural nets that are better at transfer learning!
w/ @fratietal, @jeffclune, and @CheneyLab:
arxiv.org/abs/2310.07996
Nick Cheney retweeted
Congratulations to Nick Cheney @CheneyLab, who was just awarded an NSF CAREER award, one of the highest-level recognitions that a young faculty member can receive.
He proposes to make AI more accessible via AutoML, NAS, and robotics. Details here:
nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAwar…
