Congratulations to Assistant Professor Ferdinando Fioretto and students Jacob Christopher, Michael Cardei, and Jinhao Liang for receiving the prestigious DARPA Disruptive Idea Award for their paper, “Neuro-symbolic Generative Diffusion Models for Physically Grounded, Robust, and Safe Generation.” The paper was presented at NeuS-25, held in May 2025.
NeuS 2025, the 2nd International Conference on Neuro-symbolic Systems, took place at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The conference brings together cutting-edge research and innovative ideas at the intersection of neural and symbolic computing, fostering the development of next-generation AI systems.
At this year’s conference, DARPA awarded $100,000 to each of the five most disruptive paper submissions. These awards are intended to support bold, high-risk ideas that challenge conventional thinking in AI, even if the methodologies or experimental results are still in early stages.