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2025 Summer Workshop Program

TTIC is proud to host its annual Summer Workshop Program, featuring the Midwest Robotics Workshop (June 2-3), workshops on Information-Computation Tradeoffs for Statistical Problems (June 16-18), Algorithmic Game Theory (July 21-22), Algorithmic and Structural Aspects of Submodularity (August 4-6), Incentives for Collaborative Learning and Data Sharing (August 13-15), Local Algorithms (August 18-20), and Foundations of Speech and Audio Foundation Models (September 4-5).


Join top researchers as they explore breakthroughs and foster collaboration across fields.

Research

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2025 Annual Student Workshop

May, 2025 - TTIC’s Annual Student Workshop featured research talks, alumni insights, and student awards.

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Karen Livescu announced as 2025 IEEE Fellow

December, 2024 - Professor Karen Livescu is announced as an IEEE Fellow, class of 2025.

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EMNLP'24 Paper Awards

December, 2024 - Professors Kanishka Misra, Karen Livescu, and collaborators received the EMNLP'24 Outstanding and Best Paper Awards.

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TTIC at SODA 2025

November, 2024 - Shashank Srivastava wins Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards at SODA ’25, and TTIC researchers present 7 papers at the conference.

Latest News

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Hyde Park Academy Partnership

September, 2025 - TTIC and Hyde Park Academy formed a partnership to connect students to the concepts and tools of TTIC research.

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TTIC welcomes four new RAPs

September, 2025 - TTIC is pleased to announce four Research Assistant Professors will be joining its faculty.

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TTIC Announces Avrim Blum as Interim President

September, 2025 - CAO Avrim Blum will serve as Interim President of TTIC.

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Summer ARM Internship Program 2025

August, 2025 - TTIC hosted its annual ARM (Autonomous Robotics Immersions) internship for high school students in Chicago.

Highlights

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Faculty Highlight: Matthew Turk

August, 2025 - Matthew Turk concludes his six-year presidency at TTIC, marked by community building and academic excellence.

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Student Alumni Highlight: Freda Shi

April, 2025 - Ph.D. Graduate Freda Shi Advances NLP Research as an Assistant Professor.

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Student Alumni Highlight: Omar Montasser

March, 2025 - Student alumni Omar Montasser shares his postgraduate journey from TTIC to Yale.

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Student Highlight: Pushkar Shukla

October, 2024 - Ph.D. candidate Pushkar Shukla is working to combat biases in machine learning models to build safer AI systems.

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