https://bushuyeu.com/ Updates from Pavel Bushuyeu, AI researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. en https://fiatlux-bench.github.io/ We released Fiatlux, a benchmark for evaluating humanoid robot policies on infrastructure maintenance tasks (paper). Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2026-10-we-released-fiatlux-a-benchmark-for-eval https://bushuyeu.com/#news I am pleased to share that I received the NSF NRT-AI DESCARTES fellowship award. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2026-09-i-am-pleased-to-share-that-i-received-th https://fortune.com/2026/08/11/ai-startup-b3-has-found-a-compute-niche-with-a-rent-to-own-model-aimed-at-academics-clients-include-stanford-and-nyu-researchers/ Shared with Fortune magazine how our lab is utilizing the rent-to-own compute platform B3IQ. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2026-08-shared-with-fortune-magazine-how-our-lab https://bushuyeu.com/#news I will join ʻIolani Artificial Intelligence Lab as a faculty member for their Honors Machine Learning class. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2026-07-i-will-join-iolani-artificial-intelligen https://bushuyeu.com/#news I will attend the ICML 2026 conference on July 6–11 in Seoul, South Korea. Please come attend our presentation in COEX Hall A on July 11, 2026 at 11 am. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2026-07-i-will-attend-the-icml-2026-conference-o https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10922 Our next iteration of the paper Data-Efficient Curation for Multimodal Reasoning under Fixed Training Protocols will be presented at the Efficient Multimodal Question Answering workshop at ICML 2026. Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2026-06-our-next-iteration-of-the-paper-what-mat https://blogs.ksbe.edu/edtechconference/ I will present the Robotica workshop, a video-to-robot teleoperation pipeline for the Unitree G1 built with ʻIolani Artificial Intelligence Lab students, at the Kamehameha Schools Ed Tech Conference (CONNECT26) at the Blaisdell Center, Honolulu, on June 2–3. Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2026-05-i-will-present-the-robotica-workshop-a-v https://bushuyeu.com/#news I’m presenting preliminary results from ShepBERT at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center × Google Cloud AI Research Workshop 2026. ShepBERT is a BERT-style clinical language model pre-trained on 230,000+ patient EHR records and designed to predict 1-year cancer risk, with a focus on Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations, who face a disproportionately high cancer burden relative to the mainland US. View the poster (PDF). Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2026-03-i-m-presenting-preliminary-results-from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10922 A new paper, Data-Efficient Curation for Multimodal Reasoning under Fixed Training Protocols, describing our approach to balancing difficulty and diversity in sampling high-quality supervised learning datasets for multimodal models. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2026-01-a-new-paper-what-matters-in-data-curatio https://bushuyeu.com/#news I will attend the NeurIPS 2025 conference on December 2–7 in San Diego, CA. Come join our presentation in the San Diego Convention Center, Upper Level Ballroom 6DE, at 11:15 AM – 2:00 PM PT on December 6, 2025. Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2025-12-i-will-attend-the-neurips-2025-conferenc https://dcvlr-neurips.github.io Our team (Yosub Shin, Michael Buriek, Boris Sobolev, Vikas Kumar, Haoyang Xu, Samuel Watson and me) took first place at the DCVLR challenge at NeurIPS 2025. Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2025-11-our-team-yosub-shin-michael-buriek-boris https://www.aklishin.science Collaborative Research: MATH-DT Dynamical Models and Statistical Guarantees for Sparse Sensing in Nuclear Digital Twins, as part of the Prof. Andrei Klishin lab. Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2025-09-collaborative-research-math-dt-dynamical https://bushuyeu.com/#news I joined the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as an M.Sc./PhD scholar. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://bushuyeu.com/#news-2025-08-i-joined-the-department-of-information-a