News – Kushagra Tiwary

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August 2026Teaching Assistant at the Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole. [BMM] Workshop
July 2026Paper at the ICML 2026 AI for Science Workshop: "Agent Systems for Academic Research Automation." [Paper] Paper
July 2026Invited talks at Mitsubishi and Panasonic in Japan. Talk
June 2026Started as a research intern at the Frontier Intelligence Group at Sakana AI.
December 2025Paper published in Science Advances: "What if Eye...? Computationally Recreating Vision Evolution." [Paper, MIT News, Science News, Project, Hacker News] Paper
December 2025Invited talk at the Kempner Institute, Harvard. Talk
June 2025Invited talk at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley. [Seminar page] Talk
June 2025Invited talk at the Caltech Vision Seminar. Talk
June 2025Attended the Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course in Woods Hole. [BMM] Workshop
April 2025Invited talk at MIT Imagination in Action: "How can AI aid scientific discovery?" [Video] Talk
March 2025Invited talk at Harvard Medical School. Talk
February 2025Invited talk at the MIT CSAIL Vision Seminar: "What if Eye...? Computationally Recreating Vision Evolution." Talk
January 2025Co-organized the Accelerating Discovery workshop at MIT. [Website] Workshop
December 2024Our data provenance work was featured in MIT Technology Review. [Article] Media
December 2024Interviewed by The Globe and Mail about AI training data. [Article] Media
November 2024Oral talk on the eye evolution paper at the New England Computer Vision Workshop. [Website] Talk
September 2024TEDx Boston talk: "Can AI Recreate 500 Million Years of Vision Evolution?" [Video] Talk Media
September 2024Co-organized the Neural Fields Beyond Conventional Cameras workshop at ECCV 2024. [Website] Workshop
August 2024"Consent in Crisis" was covered by The New York Times, 404 Media, Vox, and Yahoo! Finance. [Paper, NYT, 404 Media, Vox, Yahoo! Finance] Media
June 2024DecentNeRFs accepted at ECCV 2024. [Paper] Paper
April 2024Panelist at MIT Imagination in Action: "Frontiers of AI Research from Current MIT PhDs." [Video] Talk
February 2024My UROP student Bhavya Agrawalla was admitted to the CMU PhD program. [Website]
January 2024Awarded an MIT Generative AI seed grant for "Artificial Cambrian Intelligence." [MIT News] Award
September 2023Invited talk at the MIT CSAIL Graphics Seminar: "Neural Rendering and Secondary Cues: Learning Hidden Neural Radiance Fields using Reflections and Shadows." Talk
August 2023Presented our 3D reconstruction work at the Hyundai Vision Conference in South Korea. Talk
July 2023Awarded the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. [EECS News, MIT Media Lab News, QIF list] Award
July 2023DISeR (Designing Imaging Systems with Reinforcement Learning) accepted at ICCV 2023. [Project] Paper
May 2023Graduated from MIT with an S.M.
May 2023ORCa, which turns shiny objects into cameras, was featured on the mit.edu homepage and in MIT News. [Project, MIT News, MIT Spotlight] Media