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Zamani Receives Amazon Award
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Hamed Zamani received an Amazon Research Award for “A Framework for Proactive and Collaborative AI Agents."
2nd Place for Grounded Reasoning Cup Team
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Alireza Salemi and Chris Samarinas took 2nd place in the prestigious Grounded Reasoning Cup 2026 competition.
CIIR Talk Series
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Researchers and practitioners speak about their work on IR and related disciplines during CIIR Talk Series presentations held biweekly on Fridays.
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June 17, 2026
Building upon their recent groundbreaking research on large language model reasoning and retrieval, a CIIR team won second place in the Grounded Reasoning Cup competition. The CIIR team… more
May 28, 2026
Hamed Zamani, CIIR Associate Director and CICS Associate Professor, received an Amazon Research Award in May 2026 for his proposal, “A Framework for Proactive and Collaborative AI Agents,”… more
May 13, 2026
The CIIR gathered on May 13, 2026 to celebrate three of the team's researchers (pictured left to right): Postdoc Haw-Shiuan Chang accepted a faculty… more
April 27, 2026
CIIR doctoral students Alireza Salemi and Chris Samarinas were selected to participate in the Grounded Reasoning Cup 2026 to be held at the Data + AI Summit (DAIS 2026) in San… more
