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Student Success Story: High Schooler's Paper Accepted to CVPR 2025, the #1 Computer Vision Conference
Student Success Story
April 28, 2025

Student Success Story: High Schooler's Paper Accepted to CVPR 2025, the #1 Computer Vision Conference

A high school Astral Fellow had their research paper accepted to a workshop at IEEE/CVF CVPR 2025, the #1 ranked computer vision conference in the world. Here is the acceptance email, what CVPR is, and why this matters.

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Student Success Story: High Schooler's Paper Accepted to Interspeech 2025, the #1 Speech Conference
Student Success Story
May 12, 2025

Student Success Story: High Schooler's Paper Accepted to Interspeech 2025, the #1 Speech Conference

A high school Astral Fellow had their research paper accepted to the main track at Interspeech 2025, the world's top conference for speech science, language processing, and spoken language technology.

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Student Success Story: High Schooler's Paper Accepted to IEEE/IFIP DSN 2025, the #1 Dependability Conference
Student Success Story
April 15, 2025

Student Success Story: High Schooler's Paper Accepted to IEEE/IFIP DSN 2025, the #1 Dependability Conference

A high school Astral Fellow had their paper accepted to a workshop at the 55th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2025), the world's premier venue for system reliability, security, and dependability research.

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Student Success Story: High Schooler's Paper Accepted to IJCAI 2025, the #5 AI Conference Worldwide
Student Success Story
May 5, 2025

Student Success Story: High Schooler's Paper Accepted to IJCAI 2025, the #5 AI Conference Worldwide

A high school Astral Fellow had their paper accepted to a workshop at IJCAI 2025, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, one of the oldest and most prestigious AI conferences in existence, running since 1969.

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Student Success Story: High Schooler's Paper Accepted to ACM ICMI 2025, the Top Multimodal Interaction Conference
Student Success Story
June 2, 2025

Student Success Story: High Schooler's Paper Accepted to ACM ICMI 2025, the Top Multimodal Interaction Conference

A high school Astral Fellow had their paper accepted to the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2025), the leading venue for research on how humans communicate through speech, gesture, gaze, and other modalities.

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Astral Fellows at CVPR 2025: Poster Session, Industry Booths, and Researchers Who Define the Field
Conference
June 15, 2025

Astral Fellows at CVPR 2025: Poster Session, Industry Booths, and Researchers Who Define the Field

Astral Fellows researchers traveled to Nashville in June 2025 to present their accepted paper at the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference, the largest and most competitive computer vision conference in the world.

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