Yaqi Xie joins UIUC as assistant professor and starts recruiting for AI agents and robots
dhruv2038 · x · 2026-07-27
Yaqi Xie says she is joining UIUC ECE and CS as an assistant professor and is recruiting PhD students, interns, and postdocs.
- She says the lab will focus on trustworthy AI agents and robots.
- The post highlights a human-AI synergy direction using neuro-symbolic fusion.
- It also mentions bridging foundation models with symbolic reasoning to build robot partners and evolving knowledge-guided world models.
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