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Juba receives CAREER award for artificial intelligence research

Brendan Juba, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University in St. Louis’ McKelvey School of Engineering, will take a closer look at these relationships and generalization in artificial intelligence and develop new algorithms with a five-year $543,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

CAREER awards support junior faculty who model the role of teacher-scholar through outstanding research, excellence in education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organization. One-third of current McKelvey engineering faculty have received the award.

Juba, who studies algorithms for integrated learning and reasoning in artificial intelligence, said researchers have recognized for a long time that relational generalization is necessary for artificial intelligence, but it has been difficult to solve. So far, there have been two types of approaches.

In addition to developing new algorithms, Juba plans to redesign a core undergraduate algorithms course to strengthen students’ grasp of algorithms by making the course more interactive.

“Algorithms have been kind of a stumbling block and very challenging for students, so I’m trying to increase participation in some sense because we understand that passive methods of instruction are not as effective,” Juba said. 

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