The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences has named Cyrus Neary the recipient of its 2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award. Neary, a former GRA with the Autonomous Systems Group, graduated with his Ph.D. in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics in August 2024 and will return to Austin this May for the commencement ceremony. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Mila - The Quebec AI Institute, and he will join the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor in the fall of 2025, where he looks forward to continuing to advance his work at the intersection of machine learning, autonomy, and robotics.
Neary's dissertation, "Engineering AI Systems and AI for Engineering: Compositionality and Physics in Learning," addresses one of today’s most urgent engineering questions: how to transform advances in artificial intelligence into safe, efficient, and trustworthy autonomous systems.
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