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Excited to be (jet lagged) at ICML presenting "Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming" Let's talk ML for audio 🤖, synthesizers 🎹🎶, etc. (work ICML Conference w/ Nikhil Singh Jessica Shand) ctag.media.mit.edu

The first event of the Boston AI Music Meetup is happening next Thursday, August 8th at the MIT Media Lab. Will be featuring talks from AI researchers Nikhil Singh and dadabots along with networking. Hope to see you there! meetup.com/boston-ai-musi…

PhD Opportunity at Dartmouth CS! Seeking 1-2 driven PhD students for Fall 2025 to dive into transformative research combining NLP and HCI. Interested? Apply to Dartmouth CS, mention my name and specific projects, and let’s make an impact in human-centric AI research together!

Amazing PhD opportunity to work with Matt—a brilliant scientist and a fantastic mentor!

Excited to present our new paper on nudging LLMs (👉🤖) as a spotlight talk at the NeurIPS Behavioral ML Workshop! NeurIPS Conference Behavioral ML Workshop w/ Nikhil Singh* (Nikhil Singh) and Pattie Maes 🔗 openreview.net/forum?id=chbds… 🧵1/3

1/ 🎨✨ If an AI has never seen art before, can it develop artistic capabilities? Our team from MIT, Northeastern and ShanghaiTech University analyzes this question in our Art-Free Diffusion paper.

✨New Report✨ Our data ecosystem audit across text, speech, and video (✏️,📢,📽️) finds: 📈 Rising reliance on web, synthetic, and YouTube data. 🛑 80%+ datasets carry hidden restrictions. 🌍 Relative representation in languages and creators has not improved for 10+ yrs.

I’m starting as Asst Prof at NTU Singapore CS dept! 📣 Hiring PhD/Postdocs to join my #HCI group to develop & study digital, wearable & #AI interfaces to support human cognitive abilities & cognitive health. More info samanthachan.net Share & RT! #hiring

Yep ! We trained eyeballs from scratch, starting with just light-detecting photoreceptors. 🔬👁️ Why? To simulate vision evolution in-silico and understand why we perceive the world the way we do. 🌍✨ Check it out: eyes.mit.edu

✨Contrastive Learning from Synthetic Audio Doppelgängers #ICLR2025✨ w/ Nikhil Singh Our method learns useful audio representations with randomly synthesized sounds (often better than real data!) 🌐Project: doppelgangers.media.mit.edu 📄Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.05923 🧵1/3

Dream team!

Thrilled our global data ecosystem audit was accepted to #ICLR2025! Empirically, we find: 1⃣ Soaring synthetic text data: ~10M tokens (pre-2018) to 100B+ (2024). 2⃣ YouTube is now 70%+ of speech/video data but could block third-party collection. 3⃣ <0.2% of data from

I'm joining UW–Madison Computer Sciences UW School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences as an assistant professor in fall 2026!! There, I'll continue working on language models, computational social science, & responsible AI. 🌲🧀🚣🏻‍♀️ Apply to be my PhD student! Before then, I'll postdoc for a year at another UW🏔️ -- UW NLP Allen School.

I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in July 2026!

Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation and I will be joining MIT as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between Sloan and EECS! I will be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!