Applied Scientist @Microsoft; Prev Responsible AI @AWS. I love to laugh, especially at myself.
Joined June 2008
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π Sandeep Avula retweeted
This is such a disaster. A CS PhD takes on average 5β6 years. So, my international students will fall out of status before finishing their research program. Disaster.
The Trump administration will limit how long a foreign student can remain in the U.S. on a student visa under a new regulation announced on Thursday, increasing the hurdles for foreign students and universitiesβ ability to recruit them.
Read more: wsj.visitlink.me/fpk5vv
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Learning to Move Like Professional Counter-Strike Players
discuss: huggingface.co/papers/2408.1β¦
David Durst (the first author) plays with and against MLMove bots. The video is from David's perspective. The MLMove bots synchronize their attack so two of them fight David at the same time.
π Sandeep Avula retweeted
Publicly shaming an Ivy league school for claiming credit for the success of a women scientist whose work it disrespected and rejected is one of the best uses of community notes Iβve ever seen.
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!Alert Carolina!
Emergency: Armed, dangerous person on or near campus. Go inside now; avoid windows. alertcarolina.unc.edu
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This is not sad, this is a warning. A company did everything (mostly) right: created a vitally useful free service, worked hard to keep it healthy, shared data for research. Then another company swooped the data and made it compete against itself.
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Here's what out-of-control bureaucracy looks like. The Green card application today (all those pages on the left) v. 2003 (those 4 pages on the right). Understand this: We got no new laws during this time. We just got new bureaucrats cato.org/blog/uscis-has-addeβ¦
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Learn about "The Effects of System Initiative during Conversational Collaborative Search," by @lolthyself , @BogeumChoi , Jaime Arguello, an Honorable Mention from CSCW '22: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing: bit.ly/3FepAvT #ACM #computing
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Appasaheb Pawar died yesterday. You are not likely to know him.
But you should.
He had been fighting for his land rights in Maharashtra's Beed district for about 10 years.
He knocked on all concerned doors. Wrote multiple letters to multiple authorities.
This is his story:-
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Let us introduce t/ other newly introduced recognition type,π π²ππ΅πΌπ±π π₯π²π°πΌπ΄π»πΆππΆπΌπ»π - awarded for strong examples of work that includes well developed, explained, or implemented methods, n/or methodological innovation,
This award goes to..
Congratulations authors!
π Sandeep Avula retweeted
Just a quick reminder that you can win a Nobel with an h-index = 29 (according to the usually inflated google scholar). Quantitative measures of scientific output are not the way to go to a bright future for humanity.
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We systematically studied the #BoycottBollywood activity on social media with attention to drivers and network characteristics.
TL;DR:
1 Ideated by key RW influencers
2 Trended by Sushant Singh Rajput fans
3 Presents South film industry as morally superior
Thread / full paper
π Sandeep Avula retweeted
CHIIR 2023 will be in Austin TX USA 19-23 March 2023 Co-chaired @jaceksg @riehsooyoung Hosted at @UTAustin @UTiSchool Dates Oct 5 abstracts, 12th full, perspective papers, workshops, tutorials, 26th short papers, demos, DC papers #CHIIR2023 @ACMSIGIR @IXlab_UT #inperson #remote
π Sandeep Avula retweeted
Congratulations to the IRS on winning the $846.3 million Mega Millions Jackpot!
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Come and join me!
I'm one of these Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellows and can only attest to the tremendous opportunity @RMIT provides researchers with a drive for change.
Let me know if you like further information.
#CUI2023 #CHIIR2023 #SIGIR2022
@rmit_cidda @RMITComputing
Applications for RMIT's prestigious Vice-Chancellorβs #Research Fellowships Program are now open! We're looking for researchers wanting to collaborate across disciplines to create impact for society, the economy and the environment. Apps close 31 Aug 2022. rmit.edu.au/careers/vice-chaβ¦
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A clip from Donβt Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened
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mixed-initiative interaction in collaborative conversational search
wizard-of-oz study measuring dialog utility, workload, communication, perceived benefits & challenges
@lolthyself @scai_workshop #sigir2022 #convsearch
arxiv.org/abs/2202.09728
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Chairing the mixed initiative session at @scai_workshop. Sandeep (@lolthyself) from Amazon presenting The Effects of System Initiative during Conversational Collaborative Search arxiv.org/abs/2202.09728?conβ¦
#SIGIR2022 #scai2022
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And for the rising stars, there's a new @ACMSIGIR Early-Career Researcher (ECR) Award!
Self-nominations are mostly welcomed!
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This hands-on part of the tutorial is a great opportunity to get your hands dirty with state-of-the-art conversational information seeking systems.
#TheCISTutorial #SIGIR2022 @SIGIRConf
Conversational Information Seeking in Practice is continuing this afternoon.
@ogbonokopaul
First up is an Interactive CAsT tour (iCAsT) tools:
colab.research.google.com/drβ¦
#SIGIR2022 #TheCISTutorial
