I defended my thesis last Friday! Many thanks to my amazing committee and advisors - Professors Laurent Itti, Stephen Tu, Erdem Bıyık and Bhaskar Krishnamachari!

Thank you so much USC Center for AI in Society! It was wonderful meeting students and faculty who are excited about AI for social good 🌎

Big congrats to Marco Paolieri who received the Part-Time Faculty Teaching Award at USC Viterbi School Faculty and Staff Annual Award Ceremony this week! 🎉

Described by students as 'a star lecturer” who is 'helpful, kind, patient and available.'👏

Big congrats to Heather Culbertson who received the Ershaghi Faculty Mentorship Award at USC Viterbi School Faculty and Staff Annual Award Ceremony this week! 🎉

In six years at USC, Prof. Culbertson has mentored more than 70 undergraduate and 25 master’s students 👏

Congratulations to the ShowCAIS Best Student Poster Award winners Jaspreet Ranjit, David Chu, Priyanka Dey, and Caroline Johnston!!! We are so proud of you 🥳✌️

Check out their abstracts: sites.google.com/usc.edu/showca…

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PhDone!!!! 👨‍🎓
08/2019-04/2024 What a journey 🥳🚞

I especially feel lucky to share this once-in-a-life-time moment with people I love ❤️ . And seeing my passion-driven research efforts being acknowledged by researchers I deeply admire 🌞!! Special thanks to my awesome committee…

Excited to give a talk tomorrow at USC ISI! Open to everyone, but you need to email [email protected] ahead of time to be admitted.

Couldn't have asked for a better birthday gift: just received news that I've been appointed as a Research Assistant Professor in the USC Dept. of Computer Science USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, starting July 24! Immensely grateful to my mentors, family, and friends for their support in this journey❤️

Check out our work on LiDAR scene generation with diffusion models!

Don't miss the poster presentations at ShowCAIS! Learn more about media, misinformation, and AI. See you on April 19th!

More info: sites.google.com/usc.edu/showca…

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Helping out with the new building 👷‍♂️👷‍♀️ With Erdem Bıyık Swabha Swayamdipta Ibrahim Sabek Ruishan Liu

So fun to have Mohit Bansal over at USC NLP!, for his amazing talk on modelling, interpreting and planning in multimodal LMs. Loved chatting over a range of topics — reasoning, VLMs, academia and my favourite, GPU-rich vs. poor 😂

Don't miss the poster presentations at ShowCAIS! Learn more about using AI for the environment, climate, and sustainability. See you on April 19th!

More info: sites.google.com/usc.edu/showca…

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Don't miss the poster presentations at ShowCAIS! Learn more about using AI methods for good. See you on April 19th!

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Congratulations, Gaurav Sukhatme, who has been named a fellow of the prestigious science organization AAAS for his contributions to robotics for environmental modeling.

“Receiving this award is a pinnacle moment in my research career,” he said.

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Don't miss the poster presentations at ShowCAIS! Learn more about homelessness, policy, and AI. See you on April 19th!

More info: sites.google.com/usc.edu/showca…

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Excited & honored to give the Distinguished Lecture at USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science today! Looking forward to meeting the awesome USC NLP group 🙂 -- thanks Swabha Swayamdipta + everyone for the kind invitation 🙏

PS. Details in the link below, feel free to stop by!

Looking forward to welcome Mohit Bansal as a distinguished lecturer to USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science tomorrow and learn about his latest work on Multimodal LLMs: viterbi.usc.edu/calendar/?even… It's going to be a good day at USC NLP

Announcing the NeurIPS 2024 Call for Tutorials!

Tutorials are due by June 14, 2024 AOE.

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