Hi there, I'm David
I'm an incoming Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UC Irvine, starting January 2027, where I'll be recruiting PhD students. My research develops pragmatic conversational AI that can adapt to different people, ground language in multimodal context, and communicate over extended interactions. I also maintain tsnecuda and µstat.
News
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January 2027 Upcoming
I'm joining UC Irvine as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. I'm recruiting PhD students who apply in Fall 2026 to start in Fall 2027.
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September 2026
Two papers accepted to CoRL 2026! T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation and Playful Agentic Robot Learning.
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September 2026
Five papers accepted to EMNLP 2026! Main conference: SVE and DigitalCoach. Findings: CoVA-SFT and Clickbait. System demonstrations: Anamnesis.
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August 2026
REVERSE was highlighted in Communications of the ACM.
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July 2026
Presented Are Large Reasoning Models Interruptible? at ICML 2026.
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June 2026
At CVPR 2026, our paper AutoGaze was selected as a spotlight. I also co-organized the fifth What's Next in Multimodal Foundation Models workshop (MMFM5) and served on the CV4Edu panel.