News · Yuxin Chen

Sep 2026 Our work on AI-driven trigger systems at the Large Hadron Collider is featured by UChicago News.

Jul 2026 PoLARIS, the NSF programmable cloud laboratory for polymer science, receives a $20M NSF award; I serve as co-PI and AI/Workflow Lead.

Jul 2026 Learning to Trigger: Reinforcement Learning at the Large Hadron Collider received the Best Paper Award at the ICML AI4Physics Workshop.

Jun 2026 Invited talk at the International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL2026), TTIC.

Jun 2026 Invited talk at the Midwest Machine Learning Symposium (MMLS 2026), Purdue.

Apr 2026 Honored to receive an NSF CAREER Award.

Mar 2026 Invited talk at the SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification 2026.

Mar 2026 Invited talk on "Quality-aware Scaling Laws" at the Meshes of Midscale Models (M3) Workshop at UChicago. See our ICLR paper for details.

Nov 2025 Guest lecture on deep generative models at The Philosophy of AI: Mind and Model.

Nov 2025 Our self-driving physical vapor deposition system (npj Computational Materials) is featured by UChicago PME.

Oct 2025 Talk on Direct Regret Optimization at INFORMS.

Oct 2025 UChicago Schmidt AI+Science Fellows Talk on "Active Imitation Learning" with Matt Walter.

May 2025 Our work on AI-designed chemical sensors (MSDE, selected as a Recent HOT Article) is featured by UChicago PME.

Apr 2025 Our work with Shuolong Yang on self-learning AI robots for quantum materials fabrication, supported by a 2024 NSF Future Manufacturing Seed Grant, is featured by UChicago PME.

Mar 2025 New topics course on Active Representation Learning.

Nov 2024 Spotlight talk on "Goal-oriented Active Learning for Nanoengineering" at the 2024 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grantees Conference.

Oct 2024 Our review of machine learning for electrocatalyst design (Chemical Society Reviews, featured as inside front cover) is covered by UChicago PME.

Mar 2024 UChicago Schmidt AI+Science Fellows Talk on Bayesian Optimization.

Jul 2023 AI & Science Summer School 2023, July 17–21.

Jan 2023 New topics course on Bayesian Optimization and Adaptive Experimental Design.

Nov 2022 Talk at the SILO Seminar Series at UW–Madison.

Oct 2022 JTFI Workshop on AI for Experiments — Research Collaborations, Part II.

Aug 2022 Co-organizing the first UChicago AI + Science Summer School, August 8–12.

Feb 2022 Talk at the UChicago CAM Colloquium.

Jan 2022 Talk at ISAIM'22.

Oct 2021 JTFI Webinar on AI + Measurements — Partnering to Advance AI Research & Development, Part I.

May 2021 Our DOE-funded project on AI-assisted recovery of energy, nutrients, and freshwater from municipal wastewater is featured by UChicago News.

Jul 2020 Invited talk at the Optimizing Human Learning workshop.

May 2020 Talk at the UChicago Statistics Colloquium.

Jan 2020 Talk at Argonne National Laboratory.

Nov 2019 Talk at the IPAM Workshop at UCLA.

Nov 2019 Talk at the TTIC Colloquium.

Oct 2019 My introductory profile at UChicago CS by Rob Mitchum.

Sep 2019 Three papers accepted at NeurIPS'19.

May 2019 Starting Fall 2019, I will be joining UChicago CS as an assistant professor.

Feb 2019 Co-organizing the 2nd Caltech AI4Science workshop.

Aug 2018 Co-organizing the Caltech AI4Science inaugural workshop.