What a way to start the year! Researchers at the School of CS at #USyd have 14 papers accepted at #CHI2026, the premier conference in #HCI! Congratulations to Anusha Withana (@anushaw.bsky.social), Eduardo Velloso (@vellosoraptor.bsky.social), Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, their students, and collaborators!

🎉 Huge congratulations to our academics Liyi Zhou, Xiang Zhang, and Yu Yao, who were awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) by the Australian Research Council! We look forward to the amazing research this will enable them to conduct at #USyd! rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

Congratulations to our researchers on their 5 ARC #DiscoveryProjects! This is over AUD 3.5M towards cutting-edge research in areas as diverse as biomedical foundation models, robust logic-based planning, ML-aided algorithms, computational design with living materials, and LLM vulnerabilities! #DP26

🎉🎉🎉 The paper also won "Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2025". The award recognises this work for advancing the understanding of how people can effectively control supernumerary (extra) arms. #Award #CHI'25 Award list: chi2025.acm.org/best-paper-a...

🎉 Hongyu, Tom, Yihao, Zhanna, and Anusha's paper "Juggling Extra Limbs: Identifying Control Strategies for Supernumerary Multi-Arms in Virtual Reality" was published at #ACM #CHI'25! 🔗 chi2025.acm.org #HCI, #VirtualReality, #EmbodiedInteraction, #SupernumeraryLimbs, #InteractionDesign