Apr 2025 - Invited Talk, “The implications of AGI” Chief AI Officer Summit, Silicon Valley.
Apr 2025 - “Personality Traits in Large Language Models,” accepted to Nature Machine Intelligence.
Apr 2025 - Plenary Panelist, “Will agentic AI revolutionize how we interact with technology and solve complex problems?” World Summit AI Americas.
Mar 2025 - “Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning,” selected to Oral at ICLR 2025 – 1.8% acceptance rate.
Jan 2025, Invited Expert and Keynote Speaker, Emerging Technologies Workshop, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 2025.
Jan 2025, Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Dec 2024, Invited contributor, The Rise of AI Robots: Physical AI Is Coming for You, Global Insights, Citi.
Sep 2024 - “Many-Shot In-Context Learning," selected for Spotlight at NeurIPS 2024.
Sep 2024, Judge, AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge, Bezos Earth Fund.
July 2024 - “Stop Regressing: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Classification in Deep Reinforcement Learning,” selected for Oral at ICML 2024 - 1.5% acceptance rate.
July 2024 - “Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI,” Positional paper selected for Spotlight at ICML 2024 - 3.5% acceptance rate.
May 2024 - “A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis,” selected for Oral at ICLR 2024 – 1.17% acceptance rate.
March 2024 - Named as 50 Women in Robotics you need to know about, Women in Robotics.
Sep 2023 - Program Chair for AutoML 2023
May 2023 - Serving in L4DC Awards Committee
April 2023 - Serving as ICLR Senior AC and Awards Committee
Jan 2023 - Selected for IEEE RA-L Senior Editor for Robot Learning
Jan 2023 - “Automatic Domain-Specific SoC Design for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” S Krishnan, Z Wan, K Bhardwaj, P Whatmough, A Faust, S Neuman, G Wei, D Brooks, VJ Reddi, MICRO 2022, receives IEEE Micro Top Picks 2023 Honorable Mention
Dec 2022 - CoRL Keynote
Oct 2022 - IROS Keynote
July 2022 - AutoRL tutorial at AutoML
Jun 2022 - Invited to IEEE RAS Committee on RAS Governance Review and Restructuring
Dec 2021 - Invited to IEEE RAS Ad Hoc Committee to Explore Synergies in Automation and Robotics (CESAR)
Sep 2021 - Four events at IROS (details):
Self-supervision in Motion Planning & panel @ CLAMP - recorded talk
Learning to Learn for RL & panel @ SPAR
Panel on RL & Control & HCI @ RL-Conform
Autonomous navigation @ IPLC
May 2021 - Air Learning accepted to Mach Learn
April 2021 Techxplore - Air Learning: A gym environment to train deep reinforcement algorithms for aerial robot navigation
April 2021 - BlogPost: Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
April 2021 - BlogPost: Model-Based RL for Decentralized Multi-agent Navigation
Mar 2021 - BlogPost: PAIRED: A New Multi-agent Approach for Adversarial Environment Generation
Mar 2021 - Medium: DQNReg with Stable Baselines
Mar 2021 - Three papers accepted to ICRA
Jan 2021 - Elected to serve on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Administrative board.
Jan 2021 - Analytics India Magazine: What Are Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Jan 2021- Science Magazine: Who needs a teacher? Artificial intelligence designs lesson plans for itself
Jan 2021 - Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms accepted as oral for ICLR 2021.
Jan 2021 - Three papers [1, 2, 3] mentioned in Google AI Year in Review Blog post.
Jan 2021 - Elected to serve on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Administrative board.
Jan 2020 - Elected to serve on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Administrative board.
Dec 2020 - The Sky Is Not the Limit: A Visual Performance Model for Cyber-Physical Co-Design in Autonomous Machines, selected as Best of CAL in 2020.
Dec 2020 - Program Chair for CoRL 2021
Dec 2020 - Two posters at DeepRL@NeurIPS
Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms, Co-Reyes et al.,.
Adversarial Environment Generation for Learning to Navigate the Web, Gur et al.
Oct 2020 - Two papers accepted to CoRL
Jun 2020 - Neural Collision Clearance Estimator for Batched Robot Motion Planning accepted to WAFR.
May 2020 - Fast Deep Swept Volume Estimator accepted to IJRR.
Apr 2020 - Long-Range Indoor Navigation with PRM-RL accepted to T-RO.
Apr 2020 - Techxplore: A framework for indoor robot navigation among humans
Mar 2020 - VentureBeat: Google’s AI helps robots navigate around humans in offices
Feb 2020 - IEEE Early Career Award in Robotics and Automation
Jan 2020 - Research featured in Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
Nov 2019 - Interview with GA Tech
Oct 2019 - Medium article: QWeb: Solving Web Navigation Problems using DQN by Sherwin Chen
Oct 2019 - Bitcraze blog: Learning to Seek: autonomous source seeking using deep reinforcement learning onboard a Crazyflie
Oct 2019 - Medium article: What if Quantization was Applied for Reinforcement Learning? by Christopher Dossman
June 2019 - Best paper at RL4RL@ICML, Lyapunov-based Safe Policy Optimization for Continuous Control
June 2019 - Jeff Dean's keynote at AutoML @ ICML mentions AutoRL
Mar 2019 - NY Times article on Robotics at Google
Feb 2019 - Venture beat: Google lays out framework for autonomous errand-running robots and follow-up: [1], [2], [3], [4]
Feb 2019 - Google AI Blog: Long-Range Robotic Navigation via Automated Reinforcement Learning
Jan 2019 - Two papers mentioned in: Looking Back at Google’s Research Efforts in 2018
Dec 2018 - ZdNet article on "Learning to Navigate the Web", ICLR 2019 paper: "Forget Go, Google helps AI learn to book flights on the Web"
Dec 2018 - Interview with Pc Magazine ahead of WAFR: "This Google Research Scientist Helps Robots Make Good Decisions"
Sep 2018 - ZdNet article on the sorting paper: "Google suggests all software could use a little robot AI"
July 2018 - Distinguished Alumni, School of Engineering, University of New Mexico
May 2018 - Best paper in Service Robotics at ICRA
April 2017 - New York Times interview, Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)
Fall 2015 - Alum News, Newsletter The Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) Newsletter, Summer/Fall 2015
May 2015 - Sandia Daily News "Sandia robotics scientist wins prestigious UNM dissertation award" (Read more)
April 2015 - Inside UNM, "Faust receives Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Prize" (Read more)
March 2015 - AI Matters, Dissertation Brief, "Reinforcement Learning and Planning for Preference Balancing Tasks"
April 2014 - The Innovation Door to The University of New Mexico, Vol. XXVII – Spring 2014, pages 2, “Multicopter’s Smart Technology Provides Safer, More Efficient Delivery System.”