
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 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 New Faculty Highlights session recognizes and invites new AI faculty from across the globe to present their research and contribute an article to AI Magazine.