Congratulations to NYU Assistant Professor Saining Xie on Receiving the AISTATS 2025 Test of Time Award!

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Saining Xie on receiving the AISTATS 2025 Test of Time Award for the influential 2014 co-authored paper "Deeply-Supervised Nets" .This seminal work introduced auxiliary supervision at hidden layers to tackle vanishing gradients and boost feature discriminativeness—an innovation that helped define modern deep learning training practices. Read more here.