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Map of part of the network of regional airline Mesa and mainline carrier United Airlines.

Oct 29, 2026

Optimizing Regional Airlines

Professor Vikrant Vaze is co-author of "Integrated Schedule Planning for Regional Airlines Using Column Generation" published in Transportation Science. "Where, how often, when, and with what aircraft an airline operates its flights decides passenger demand and costs. Ours is the first study to jointly optimize all these decisions by developing a new algorithm resulting in significant profit improvements and better ability to serve small and rural communities with connections to larger hub airports," said Vaze.

Peter Bertone presenting at the ARMI summit

Oct 29, 2026

ARMI Breakthrough Technology Award

PhD Innovation Program Fellow Peter Bertone, co-founder and CEO of GyroGel, presented his company's patient-specific facial bone graft substitute at the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) Investment Summit, and received their 2026 Breakthrough Technology Award. "As part of the award, GyroGel will be automatically enrolled in BioFab Startup Lab Cohort 5 and receive commercialization support to help advance the technology toward scalable manufacturing." wrote ARMI.

Yuanhao Chen presenting at the ACM conference.

Oct 22, 2026

Best Paper: Speech Neuroprosthesis

PhD student Yuanhao Chen '25 received the Best Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery's International Conference on Multimodal Interaction in Napoli, Italy. The paper, co-authored with Professor Peter Chin, is titled, "MoDAl: Self-Supervised Neural Modality Discovery via Decorrelation for Speech Neuroprosthesis." Said Chen, "Professor Chin and I developed a multimodal LLM-based system that converts the brain activity of a speech-impaired person with bulbar-onset ALS, recorded by implanted electrodes as they try to speak, directly into text. While earlier systems discarded signals from Broca’s area due to degraded performance, our system learns to extract complementary information from Broca's area, and it makes about 18% fewer word errors than the best previous system that decodes end-to-end, in a single step."

Vikrant Vaze

Oct 22, 2026

Paper of the Year Award

Professor Vikrant Vaze is co-author of "Multimodal Transportation Pricing Alliance Design: Large-Scale Optimization for Rapid Gains" selected by the Transportation Science editorial board to receive one of the journal's Paper of the Year Awards for 2025. "We show that innovative pricing optimization algorithms and mechanism design can incentivize collaboration between public transit agencies and private on-demand operators to simultaneously benefit passengers, increase provider profits, reduce emissions and improve equity—a rare win-win-win-win opportunity," said Vaze.

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