Artificial Intelligence at Skidmore College

Student Research: Josh Feldman '26 won first prize in the CCSC NE Undergraduate Research Competition for his research on adaptive activation functions in neural networks. Click the picture for Josh's LinkedIn post.

Student Research: Hamza Mustafa '27 worked with Professor Wenlu Du training a robot dog with reinforcement. Click the picture for a detailed story.

Student Research: Azizul Hakim ’26 worked with Professor Wenlu Du using reinforcement learning to optimize traffic signals. Click the picture for a detailed story.

New Faculty: Professor Kate Candon joined the Computer Science Department in Fall 2026. Professor Candon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University in August 2026. She works on Human-Robot Interaction research.

Talk: Professor Tahiya Chowdhury, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Colby College, gave a talk titled Adapting in the Age of Intelligent Machines.

Research: Professor Tom O'Connell spent his sabbatical working with the Collaborative Intelligent Systems group at Basis Research Institute, a non-profit AI research institute. Their work was presented at the Workshop on Data on the Brain and Mind at The Thirty-ninth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

New Faculty: Professor Wenlu Du joined the Computer Science Department in Fall 2024. Professor Du completed her Ph.D. at The New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2024. She works on reinforcement learning in finance, transportation systems, and robotics.