Some great news for Taiwo as the spring semester comes to a close.
Taiwo Adebiyi was recognized this week at the Spring Faculty and Staff Meeting of the Cullen College of Engineering (CCE) as the 2025–2026 recipient of the Andrea Prosperetti Research Computing Student Award. This annual award recognizes one graduate student or postdoctoral researcher who has made outstanding contributions to research in scientific computing, data science, high-performance computing, and their applications. Taiwo received the award for his work on TS-roots, a new algorithmic and software framework for efficient and exact Gaussian Process Thompson Sampling in Bayesian optimization.
He was also selected for the 2026–2027 SCIPE Chishiki AI in Civil Engineering Graduate Fellowship, administered through the University of Texas at Austin. Five fellowships are awarded this year, the others going to students from MIT, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, and the University of Georgia. The fellowship provides a $37,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, travel support, computing access, and mentorship through the Chishiki AI network.
And this summer, Taiwo will join Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as an Advancing Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery (AML) Fellow, a ten-week internship in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Twelve AML fellows are selected nationally, each leading their own project; Taiwo's will be on Bayesian machine learning for stochastic natural gas dynamics. This fellowship will provide a $17,500 stipend as well as travel support.
These recognitions highlight the growing impact of the UQ Lab's work at the intersection of uncertainty quantification, Bayesian optimization, scientific computing, and intelligent engineering systems. Kudos to Taiwo! 🎉
