🧥👕Everyday pose tracking with smart clothing that looks and wears like everyday clothing? We repurposed seams as capacitive sensors in a shirt (the black shirt below) to capture upper body movements. Excited to share our new paper SeamPose at #UIST2024! SciFiLab

New publication 📢📢 My research from my summer Center for Democracy & Technology was just published! In this blog post, I discuss why it is pertinent to attend to AI's seemingly mundane risks beyond high-risk, highly consequential scenarios of harm. cdt.org/insights/beyon…

An internship at MSR, including RiSE, is a great opportunity to work on exciting research projects and mingle with other fantastic students. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

I'm in need of an emergency reviewer - if your gig is in Games and LLMs, and you have some cycles in the next 48 hrs - please ping me! plz RT for wider reach. Thanks!

We, RiSE/MSR, are hiring for exciting and ambitious projects. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… (on the picture: lunch with colleagues)

In the final presentation session, a team from Cornell University examines the impacts of ending #affirmativeaction on college admissions. Their findings reveal that removing race from applicant ranking algorithms harms diversity without increasing academic merit. #HigherEd 👨‍🎓

Successfully defended my PhD thesis MIT Media Lab today - “Designing AI tools, curricula, & agents for creative learning”! Big thanks to my advisor cynthia breazeal & committee @PeterJWoodsPhD Hae Won Park #HalAbelson

Excited to share I’m now a PhD candidate 🥹 cheers to my wonderful committee Aditya (Aditya Vashistha), Mor (Mor Naaman (informor.bsky.social)), Drew & the lovely people who made the day special 🫶🏽 I’ll be in #CSCW DC presenting my doctoral work, feel free to say hi if you wanna chat about mod 🙌

🚨🚨🚨 The Queer in AI grad app program received 118 applications this year! We need to raise an additional $40,000 to cover testing and app fees so these amazing queer scientists can afford to apply to grad school. Please donate if you're able! paypal.com/donate/?hosted…

At Chandar Lab, we are happy to announce the second edition of our assistance program to provide feedback for members of communities underrepresented in AI who want to apply to high-profile graduate programs. Want feedback? Details: chandar-lab.github.io/grad-app-help/. Deadline: Nov 15!

This week, I attended the IVY Collective Symposium at Harvard. My highlight was the inspiring keynote by Prof. Paula Hammond from MIT. I also had the opportunity to present my poster, and compete in the 3-Minute Thesis. Huge thanks to the organizers for a successful symposium!

[Please RT] I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at University of Washington! I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/ University of Washington / @UW_iSchool

I am recruiting PhD students & Postdocs on AI Security, LLM Agents, Code Generation research at UMD Computer Science UMD Department of Computer Science & Maryland Cybersecurity Center Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) For PhD program pls mention me in your application cs.umd.edu/grad/apply. For Postdocs please email me.

🧐I am recruiting Postdoc and PhD students McGill University Mila - Institut québécois d'IA ! PhD on Fairness and Privacy: Apply through Mila - Institut québécois d'IA:mila.quebec/en/prospective… Postdoc on Machine Unlearning in Text-to-Image Models: Send me your CV! EQUAL Lab: shorturl.at/yDJLi ⏰Deadline: Dec 1st

Thrilled to share that I've been awarded the Google PhD Fellowship (NLP direction)!🎉 Super grateful to my amazing mentors Min-Yen Kan Nancy F. Chen Diyi Yang offering great support for my application❤️And huge thanks to Google AI for this honor! Looking forward to the journey ahead!

Researchers Cornell Information Science find that ignoring race in college admissions leads to an admitted class that’s much less diverse, but with similar academic credentials to those where affirmative action is factored in. René Kizilcec Cornell Tech Association for Computing Machinery news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/1…

I had a great time w CDT Research team 🙌🏾 I bonded w my academic identity more🤝🏾 realized how the fabrics of academia & civil society align & differ! met amazing people in DC policy space! 💯 recommended to anyone int! happy to answer ques!

I’m honored to be a member of the Forbes Under 30 Class of 2025 and an honoree within the inaugural AI category! I’m grateful to my community and am even more thankful to have the opportunity to work daily towards improving global equity in AI. forbes.com/profile/chinas…

I'm looking for PhD students with interests at the intersection of HCI and AI to join Renee Shelby and me as a part-time Student Researcher at Google AI this Winter/Spring! Experience with prompt tuning and model evaluation is a plus!