Stephen Bates (@stats_stephen) 's Twitter Profile
Stephen Bates

@stats_stephen

Assistant Professor, MIT EECS. Rigorous stats & ML methods for data-driven science and reliable AI systems.

My research group is hiring postdocs & PhDs!

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Jessica Hullman (@jessicahullman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm seeking a postdoc to work with me and Ken Holstein on evaluating AI/ML decision support for human experts: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/10/pos… P.S. I'll be at NeurIPS Thurs-Mon. Happy to talk about this position or related mutual interests! Please retweet! 🙏

Pierre Boyeau (@pierreboyeau) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to share that my work on VI-VS (Variational Inference for Variable Selection) has finally been published in Genome Biology, and is available as a Python package! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Subhabrata Sen (@subhabratasen90) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have an opening for a two year postdoc position at Harvard. The application link: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14420

Grigoris Chrysos (@grigoris_c) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The workshop submission portal is now live: openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.… Looking forward to all the exciting works on hallucinations/uncertainty/out-of-distribution performance on large models. with Sharon Y. Li Anastasios Nikolas Angelopoulos Stephen Bates Barbara Plank Emtiyaz Khan

Sharon Y. Li (@sharonyixuanli) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're organzing the "Quantify Uncertainty and Hallucination in Foundation Models" workshop at #ICLR2025! 📢 Call for Papers: Submit your work by February 2, 2025 (AOE). 🔗 More details: …certainty-foundation-models.github.io Look forward to seeing your submission and participation in the

We're organzing the "Quantify Uncertainty and Hallucination in Foundation Models" workshop at #ICLR2025!

📢 Call for Papers: Submit your work by February 2, 2025 (AOE). 

🔗 More details: …certainty-foundation-models.github.io

Look forward to seeing your submission and participation in the
Aaron Roth (@aaroth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What are prediction sets good for? It turns out just as calibration is the "right" way of quantifying uncertainty for risk-neutral (expectation maximizing) decision makers, prediction sets are the right way of quantifying uncertainty for risk-averse decision makers.

What are prediction sets good for? It turns out just as calibration is the "right" way of quantifying uncertainty for risk-neutral (expectation maximizing) decision makers, prediction sets are the right way of quantifying uncertainty for risk-averse decision makers.
Sherrie Wang (@sherwang) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 We are hiring a postdoc to work on remote sensing of soil carbon and land degradation! 🌱🗺️ The position will be hosted by the Earth Intelligence Lab & MIT Energy Initiative, with an earliest start date of April 2025. To apply: forms.gle/9iDJRX4nG7odXJ…

COPSS (@copssnews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🙌🎉Our 2025 recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, is Lester Mackey! This award is given annually to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics.

🙌🎉Our 2025 recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, is Lester Mackey! This award is given annually to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics.
Sharon Y. Li (@sharonyixuanli) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our paper notifications are out! Congratulations to the authors and look forward to an exciting lineup of discussions. Stay tuned for more details! #ICLR2025

Jessica Hullman (@jessicahullman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢If you're interested in conformal prediction, algorithms w/predictions, robust stats & connections between them from a theory perspective, join us for a workshop at #COLT2025 in Lyon 🇫🇷 June 30! Submit a poster description by May 25, more here: vaidehi8913.github.io/predictions-an…

U.S. National Science Foundation (@nsf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today, NSF announced an add’l 500 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort, bringing the total to approx 1,500. #NSFGRFP supports grad students as they pursue their dreams, build STEM skills, & become the next generation of innovators & leaders.

Today, NSF announced an add’l 500 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort, bringing the total to approx 1,500. #NSFGRFP supports grad students as they pursue their dreams, build STEM skills, & become the next generation of innovators & leaders.
Sherrie Wang (@sherwang) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy to share that our paper on how to obtain reliable statistical inferences from satellite-based maps is now published in Remote Sensing of Environment!

Happy to share that our paper on how to obtain reliable statistical inferences from satellite-based maps is now published in Remote Sensing of Environment!