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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Fall 2026 Upcoming
I'll be at CoRL, EMNLP, and NeurIPS (Sydney) this fall! If you'd like to meet, send me an email or message me on X. Happy to talk about research and collaborations!
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October 2026
Three papers accepted to NeurIPS 2026! VisGym, PitchBench, and Animation2Code. I'm also hosting the Steerability Challenge at NeurIPS in Paris!
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September 2026
Two papers accepted to CoRL 2026, including a spotlight! T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation and Playful Agentic Robot Learning (Spotlight).
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September 2026
Five papers accepted to EMNLP 2026, including an oral! Main conference: SVE and DigitalCoach (Oral). Findings: CoVA-SFT and Clickbait. System demonstrations: Anamnesis.
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August 2026
REVERSE was highlighted in Communications of the ACM.