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  <Title>UMBC Prof. Tejas Gokhale gives new faculty talk at AAAI 2024</Title>
  <Tagline>Robust Visual Understanding: from Recognition to Reasoning</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content"><img src="https://ai.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/734/2024/02/ejas-Gokhale_aaai24.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><div><br></div><div><div><span>UMBC Assistant Professor <a href="https://www.tejasgokhale.com/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Tejas Gokhale</strong></a> delivered an invited talk at the New Faculty Highlights session at the <a href="https://aaai.org/aaai-conference/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>2024 AAAI conference</strong></a>. The talk, "Towards Robust Visual Understanding: from Recognition to Reasoning", described his research on building perception and reasoning models with a focus on benchmarking and improving robustness of data-driven visual understanding systems. AAAI's <strong><a href="https://aaai.org/aaai-conference/nfh-24-program/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">New Faculty Highlights</a></strong> session recognizes and invites new AI faculty from across the globe to present their research and contribute an article to <strong><a href="https://aaai.org/ai-magazine/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">AI Magazine</a>.</strong></span></div></div></div>
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  <Summary>UMBC Assistant Professor Tejas Gokhale delivered an invited talk at the New Faculty Highlights session at the 2024 AAAI conference. The talk, "Towards Robust Visual Understanding: from Recognition...</Summary>
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