I am leading an AI-based Autonomous Car Project (Sep. 2006) 
I was selected as a
recipient of the "AI
Ten to Watch" award from IEEE
Intelligent Systems Magazine (also see the
mindswap-blog announcement) (May/June 2006) I won a Faculty
Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National
Science Foundation (NSF) (Jan. 2006) I am co-chairing Commonsense 2007 with Rob Miller and Vladimir Lifschitz (ongoing 2006 - Mar. 2007)