Grainger VIP Impact Report

BHUVANA KRISHNASWAMY Assistant Professor

KANGWOOK LEE Assistant Professor Thank you for the generous support provided by the Grainger Faculty Scholarship funds. These funds have been instrumental in advancing my research group’s work on large language models, diffusion models, and efficient machine learning algorithms. The funds have enabled us to present our findings at prestigious conferences, such as the International Conference on Machine Learning and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. The Grainger funds have not only facilitated our participation in these top-tier conferences but have also supported the dissemination of our research to the broader scientific community. We are grateful for this support, which has been crucial in advancing our research agenda, fostering collaborations with leading experts in the field, and ultimately, pushing the boundaries of machine learning and its applications. Thank you for your generous support. I used the Grainger Scholarship Fund for my summer salary. All my projects are funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF). However, because of the constraints of NSF funding on summer salary, I could not pay my salary entirely. With the additional help of this scholarship, I was able to focus on CAREER proposal writing without the additional responsibility of research work. My CAREER proposal was awarded and has had a successful year. The Grainger Scholarship Fund helped me spend an entire month focusing on writing, receiving feedback, and iterating my proposal.

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