We are shocked and saddened to share news of the sudden passing of our esteemed colleague, great researcher and caring adviser Rance Cleaveland.

Our thoughts are with his family, friends and loved ones during this profoundly sad time. go.umd.edu/Cleaveland

After becoming the first Black person to earn a PhD in the field, Elbert Cox, PhD 1925, spent a lifetime inspiring others to follow.
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Congrats to Max Springer, a Ph.D. student advised by Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi (IG@mhajiaghayi,YT:hajiaghayi), on his recent election to the AAAI Student Committee.

Thrilled to serve as a founding member of the AAAI Student Committee!

Thoughtful, fascinating read on the limits and contributions of models by Dan Rockmore. My summary, can’t take actions only with them, can’t take actions without them! newyorker.com/culture/annals…

Check out Marina Knittel and Max Springer's work on fair hierarchical clustering at #NeurIPS2023 ! Breaks the polynomial approximation barrier over their earlier work at #ICML2023 .

Marina: mknittel.github.io
Max: mss423.github.io

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2311.12501

In this work, we showed that breaking image watermarking detectors is possible! 🔥🥷

— imperceptible watermarking methods inevitably suffer from evasion or spoofing errors.
— perceptible watermarking techniques are vulnerable to adversarial attacks.

Happy to be a part of it!

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Brian Conrad, Stanford Mathematics Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, on the spread of California's high school math woes to the rest of the nation.

'Data literacy would be a better name for the most widely taught high-school data-science

Thrilled to announce our 2-approximation algorithm for Prize-Collecting Steiner Forest settling an important network design open problem for almost 35 years. Kudos to my students for hard work. Hoping to showcase it at SODA24 with deserving recognition arxiv.org/abs/2309.05172…

Stop by our presentation today ICML Conference where we'll be discussing our latest algorithm for low-cost solutions to fair clustering which mitigates algorithmic biases! Joint work with John P Dickerson Mohammad Hajiaghayi (IG@mhajiaghayi,YT:hajiaghayi) and (twitter-less) Marina Knittel.

proceedings.mlr.press/v202/knittel23…

Check our new preprint just posted on our work modeling insulin sensitivity and secretion NIDDK

Our May monthly digest features:
- mitigating biases in ML with Max Springer
- invited talks from ICLR 2024
- an ethics and policy article list compiled by Dr. Casey Fiesler
- learning to walk with AI Warehouse

Excited to be presenting at @aamas2023 in London tomorrow! Stop by if you are attending (it has nothing to do with formula racing — this is pure clickbait)

Today in nature, Google Quantum AI and collaborators have braided non-Abelian anyons for the first time. Unlike all particles observed so far, the state of two non-Abelian anyons changes when they are swapped, opening an exciting path in quantum computing

nature.com/articles/s4158…

A very nice blog post on AIhub by my student Max Springer Max Springer on our recent fair clustering paper in ICML Conference 2023.