<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Friends,<div><br></div><div>We have crafted a sneaky plan to make Dr. Miller all nostalgic about the Auton Lab and as a part of it, on his last day we will entertain him with a team lunch.</div><div><br></div><div>It will take place in Gates-Hillman Center classroom 4303 from 1pm to 2pm.</div><div><br></div><div>We will order food.</div><div><br></div><div>See you there!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Artur</div><div><br></div><div>PS It would be very helpful if you rsvp-d by emailing Kaitlyn Buss (cc-d) so that she can have an estimated headcount for the food order.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 10:01 AM Artur Dubrawski <<a href="mailto:awd@cs.cmu.edu">awd@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Team,<div><br></div><div>I can't say I am pleased to announce what many of you already know: Kyle is leaving the Auton Lab after almost 12 years of contributing tremendously to our Team's research and administration.</div><div><br></div><div>His contributions had been invaluable in multiple ways. Just to name a few, he spearheaded development of a collection of new algorithms for area search and monitoring that substantially improved our Nation's radiation safety. He came up with an algorithm to predict the emergence of novel variants of Covid. He has done many more really useful and novel things, including most recently leading ideation of distributed AI.</div><div><br></div><div>Kyle definitely will be missed in many ways. But we will work together to bridge the gaps exposed by his departure. Just as in professional sports, when a top player leaves their team, this opens space for younger players to grow, and we have multiple such highly talented people in our team. So I am sad, but not worried about the Team.</div><div><br></div><div>As for Kyle, he will stay with us till July 12th. Let us please make sure we squeeze him out of all his know-how before that date. Also, once an Autonian always an Autonian, so please join me in wishing Kyle great success at his new professional home. But then also please join me in making him super busy these last few days of his outstanding tenure here. He will then proudly carry the resulting bumps and bruises with him, together with a few joyful memories of his time at the Auton Lab.</div><div><br></div><div>Kyle: Thanks very much for all you have done, and good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>Artur</div></div>
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