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 			<li> [Dec. 20, 2025] Congrats Dr. Harsh Rangwani for winning the prestigious IKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award in Data Science 2025! We are incredibly proud to celebrate a 𝐡𝐚𝐭-𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 of successes for VAL:🔹2025: Harsh (Winner)🔹2024: Sravanti (Winner)🔹2023: Jogendra (Runner-Up) </li>
+		    <li> [Dec. 19, 2025] Prof. Venkatesh will be serving as Area Chair for ICML'26 and ECCV'26. </li>
 			<li> [Nov. 8, 2025] We have two papers accepted at AAAI 2026. Congrats Abhipsa, Ankit, Aviral, Srinath, Jaswanth, and Abhijnya! </li>
 			<li> [Sep. 29, 2025] Prof. Venkatesh Babu has been recognized in Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists <a href="Top2per_certificate_2025.pdf"> List </a> 2025 [sixth consecutive year] </li>
 			<li> [Sep. 24, 2025] Prof. Venkatesh delivered a keynote talk at DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), Freiburg. </li>