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April 2026 Friends, Last Friday, we had the opportunity to #DiscoverAItogether with the VALIANT community including curious minds from six universities and 43 companies. Our centerpoint VALIANT PITCH session at Discover AI 2026 delivered exactly what we hoped for and more: a fast-moving, high-energy showcase of ideas… Read More

Grimble, William; Kastner, Joel; Sargent, B.; Stassun, Keivan G. (2025). The two-zone temperature distribution model: Inferences on the structure and composition of dusty protoplanetary disks. Astrophysical Journal, 995(1), 86. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae1601 To better understand protoplanetary disks—the disks of gas and dust around young stars where planets form—scientists need models… Read More

Solanki, Abhijeet; Amiri, Wesam Al; Hasan, Syed Rafay; Guo, Terry N. (2026). Blinded by the beam: A unified real-time defense against laser-based attacks on navigational perception of autonomous vehicles. IEEE Access. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3681208 Autonomous vehicles (AVs) use multiple sensors—especially cameras and LiDAR (a laser-based system that measures distance)—to understand their surroundings. However,… Read More

Chandra, Vedant; Cargile, Phillip A.; Ji, Alexander P.; Conroy, Charlie; Rix, Hans-Walter; Cunningham, Emily; Dias, Bruno; Laporte, Chervin; Cerny, William; Limberg, Guilherme; Bandyopadhyay, Avrajit; Bonaca, Ana; Casey, Andrew R.; Donor, John; Fernández-Trincado, José G.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Gupta, Pramod; Hawkins, Keith; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Lucey,… Read More

Liu, Hua; Wei, Yanbin; Xing, Fei; Derr, Tyler; Han, Haoyu; Zhang, Yu (2026). Graph2video: Leveraging video models to model dynamic graph evolution. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(18), 15315–15323. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i18.38557 Many real-world systems—like social networks, recommendation platforms, and traffic systems—can be represented as dynamic graphs,… Read More

Vienneau, Emelina P.; Weeks, Abbie E.; Pan, Ying-Chun; Shema, Peggy M.; Morgan, Victoria L.; Byram, Brett C. (2026). Towards transcranial functional ultrasound imaging through the adult skull. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2026.3680008 Functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) is a technique that measures brain activity by tracking changes in… Read More

Couch, Tyler J.; Beck, Gerald J.; Berman-Rosenzweig, Erika; Jeffrey Carr, J.; Erzurum, Serpil C.; Frantz, Robert P.; Hassoun, Paul M.; Hill, Nicholas S.; Horn, Evelyn M.; Lempel, Jason K.; Leopold, Jane A.; Nian, Hui; Ray, David N.; Rischard, Franz P.; Schwalbach, Kevin T.; Terry, James G.; Hemnes, Anna… Read More

Robb, W. Hudson; Kaur, Gurkiran; Huang, Steven; Martinez, Felipe; Nguyen, Ba; Shin, Clifford H.; Yang, Ming; Conyers, Christopher T.; Grilli, Christopher B.; Upjohn, David P.; Ortega, Victor E.; Hohman, Timothy J.; Keegan, Richard M.; Parent, Ephraim E.; Cogswell, Petrice M.; Graff-Radford, Jonathan; Johnson, Derek R.; Ramanan, Vijay K.;… Read More

Gómez Maqueo Chew, Yadira; Dransfield, George; Barkaoui, Khalid; Cadieux, Charles; Ducrot, Elsa; Rackham, Benjamin V.; Timmermans, Maarten; Burgasser, Adam J.; Segura, Antígona; Stassun, Keivan G.; Ziegler, Carl; Soubkiou, Ahmed; Almenara, José M.; Demory, Brice O.; Gillon, Michaël; Jenkins, Jon M.; Jofré, Ezequiel; Khandelwal, Ankit; Páez, Sebastián; Petrucci, Roberto;… Read More

Zhang, Elina Yuchen; Carmichael, Theron W.; Huber, Daniel; Stassun, Keivan G.; Fukui, Akihiko; Narita, Norio; Murgas, Felipe; Pallé, Enric; Latham, David W.; Calkins, Michael L.; Seager, Sara; Winn, Joshua N.; Vezie, Michael; Hounsell, Rebekah; Osborn, Hugh P.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Jenkins, Jon M. (2026). An oasis in the… Read More