Hey #NLProc folks, we're hosting some guest lectures this Fall and we want YOU to present your work. If you're an early-career researcher (PhD or PostDoc or junior research scientist), we want to invite you to EPFL to share your work with us! 1/

I’m hitting the job market looking mainly for tenure-track asst. professor positions (2024)! 🚨👨‍🔬 My core research informs how we should curate content on online platforms — and I’m also interested in how large language models will impact on the Web in the upcoming years.

As his PhD advisor, I can’t recommend Manoel strongly enough. Whoever is lucky enough to snatch him on the job market will be blessed for years to come! Buy one, get five!

Looks like the main reasons to get a PhD are: - if you want one - if it's your "passion" - if you want to be a professor - if you want to challenge yourself Are these really the most compelling reasons to spend 5+ years of your life in an underpaid, high-stress position?

Just a reminder that while many people could enjoy this week’s NeurIPS Conference, many other people couldn’t attend it simply because of the very very long US visa processing times. My US visa is under processing already for around 7 months (!)

We all know that AGI is coming, BUT adversarial examples are *still* not solved and scale is not all you need! Simple random search using logprobs of GPT-4 reveals that it has quite limited robustness. Short paper: andriushchenko.me/gpt4adv.pdf Code: github.com/max-andr/adver… 🧵1/n

Super excited to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis "Understanding Generalization and Robustness in Modern Deep Learning" today 👨‍🎓 A huge thanks to the thesis examiners Sebastien Bubeck, Zico Kolter, and Krzakala Florent, jury president Rachid Guerraoui, and, of course,

I’ll be on sabbatical from mid-Aug 2024 for 1 yr, and we’re looking to sublet our beautiful place near Lausanne during that time. 🪢 Mobilizing my network to help me find trustworthy tenants. If you know of anyone, pls ask them to contact me directly: people.epfl.ch/robert.west 🙏

Thrilled to share our 8 conference paper contributions to ICML Conference 2024 next week. Congrats to our doctoral fellows, postdoctoral fellows, and staff members involved: Afra Amini, Manish Prajapat, Javier Abad Martinez, Konstantin Donhauser, Riccardo De Santi, Imanol Schlag, D. Dmitriev, E. Bamas

Register for the second edition of the AI+Environment Summit🌳🤖, co-organized by our ETH AI Center PhD Fellows Ghjulia Sialelli, Samantha Biegel, and others: summit.biodivx.org The event is part of the Swiss AI Week plusx.ai/aiweek ETH Zurich

It won’t be long now! In October, the application portal for our ELLIS #PhDProgram will open again. Apply to top #AI labs in Europe with just a single application & launch your #ResearchCareer in the ELLIS network! All details in the call for applications: ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd…

👨‍🏫 We had an exciting talk today on Self-Supervised Learning from Prof. Yisen Wang (Peking University Peking University) in our ETH AI Center Academic Talk Series, hosted by our Associated Researcher Dr. Zebang Shen. 🔥 Stay in the loop, host, and contact: lnkd.in/eatQWyJA

Proud to strongly support this petition for a unified pan-European startup entity. Let’s unite Europe's startup ecosystems! eu-inc.org 🇪🇺 European Commission European Innovation Council SBFI SEFRI SERI Guy Verhofstadt eu/acc ELIAS Andreas Klinger 🦾

🚨I'm on the faculty job market this year!🚨 My research focuses on AI safety & generalization. I'm interested in developing technical solutions for ensuring reliability and alignment of advanced AI models, particularly LLM agents that are becoming increasingly capable. 🧵1/4

ELLIS Pre-NeurIPS Fest: Celebrate European AI excellence across Europe at multiple ELLIS Sites 🇪🇺 See dates & locations: bit.ly/4fRFrAh Events held in 🇳🇱Amsterdam, 🇩🇪Darmstadt, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Edinburgh, 🇫🇮Helsinki, 🇨🇭Lausanne, 🇮🇹Milan, Tübingen, 🇵🇱Warsaw & Zürich! #NeurIPS #AI #ML

🌟 Led by Ann-Lauriene Haag, Arnout Devos & coordinated by Isabelle Siegrist, the ETH AI Center is driving #AI startup growth and supporting diverse founders across Swiss universities. 🔗 Learn more: elias-ai.eu/elias-node-zur… 🌍🚀 #EuropeanSciencepreneurship #ELIASAlliance

🤖🧑 We had an exciting academic talk today at ETH AI Center on "AI Interacting with People (through Language)" by Prof. Dr. Hal Daumé III (Univ. of Maryland), hosted by our ETH AI Center Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Alexander Hoyle. More talks, registration, & info: ai.ethz.ch/research/event…

Two things teach intellectual humility: people smarter than you, and maths. Doing math with people smarter than you is sort of a bit too much.

🎉 Today, Daniil Dmitriev, our second PhD Fellow of the ETH AI Center, graduated! He was supervised by ETH AI Center Faculty members Prof. Fanny Yang and Prof. Afonso S. Bandeira. Congratulations, Dr. Daniil Dmitriev! Next, he will join Penn as a Postdoctoral Researcher.