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Aditya Grover honored for AI contributions

He will present his AI research at IJCAI’s August conference in Canada.

Aditya Grover / UCLA

The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) has named Indian-American computer scientist Aditya Grover the 2025 recipient of the Computers and Thought Award,  which recognizes early-career researchers for notable contributions to AI. 

An assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, Grover was recognized for his foundational contributions that bridge deep generative models, representation learning, and reinforcement learning, and for their applications in advancing scientific reasoning.

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Grover leads the Machine Intelligence Group at UCLA, where his research focuses on the development of AI systems that can reason and make decisions with minimal supervision. His work lies at the intersection of generative modeling and sequential decision-making, contributing to the design of more capable and efficient AI systems.

Beyond academia, Grover is the co-founder of Inception, a generative AI startup developing large language models optimized for speed, cost, and quality. He also explores the role of machine learning in sustainability through the ML4Climate initiative.

Grover holds a PhD in artificial intelligence from Stanford University, postdoctoral training from University of California Berkeley, and a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Hosted by the IJCAI Organization—a non-profit scientific body supported by leading AI societies worldwide—the annual conference is a premier global forum for presenting and discussing advances in AI. 

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