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Yi Ren

Associate Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Ren’s current research interests include optimization, product/configuration design, human-computer interaction and machine learning.

Recent stories

Yi “Max” Ren and Yang Jiao look at a laptop screen.

Two ASU researchers earn an NSF grant to develop an AI model capable of reasoning beyond information published in literature, which has never been done before.

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Zhe Xu earns National Science Foundation award to fund cyber-physical systems research in pursuit of advances in robotic technologies.

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Yi “Max” Ren and a team of ASU researchers are studying the attribution and secure training of generative models.

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Associate Professor Yang Jiao and Assistant Professor Yi “Max” Ren are pioneering a new field of materials science involving artificial intelligence.