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	News (Aug 2024): PhD. student Zekun Li received JP Morgan PhD. Fellowship.
	News (Sept 2023): Our GauchoChat team has won the overall first-place prize for the Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 5 (SGC5) . We found the weakness of the current large language models (LLMs) including ChatGPT and developed techniques, GauchoChat: Towards proactive, controllable, and personalized social conversation that turns a reactive LLM to a proactive one.
	News (June 2023): Our GauchoAI team has won the second-place prize for the Alexa Simbot Challenge. Our approach is summarized in GauchoAI: A proactive modular embodied AI that collaborates with humans.