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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
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Deeply honored & humbled to have received the Presidential #PECASE Award by the @WhiteHouse and @POTUS office! 🙏

Most importantly, very grateful to my amazing mentors, students, postdocs, collaborators, and friends+family for making this possible, and for making the journey worthwhile + beautiful 💙

🚨 We have postdoc openings at UNC 🙂

Exciting+diverse NLP/CV/ML topics**, freedom to create research agenda, competitive funding, very strong students, mentorship for grant writing, collabs w/ many faculty+universities+companies, superb quality of life/weather.

Please apply + help spread the word 🙏

Workshop days are always the most engaging and rewarding. Here are my two picks for this weekend:

Saturday
Video-language
video-and-language-workshop-2024.webflow.io

Sunday
Multimodal algorithmic reasoning
marworkshop.github.io/neurips24/

Do you have other recommendations?
#NeurIPS #NeurIPS2024

Excited to attend #NeurIPS and give a talk on video-language models for complex video understanding in the First Workshop on Video-Language Models on Saturday at 10:10am PST. Stop by + DM/email if you want to chat about anything related to video-language modeling.

🚨 I’m on the academic job market!
j-min.io

I work on ✨Multimodal AI✨, advancing reasoning in understanding & generation by:
1⃣ Making it scalable
2⃣ Making it faithful
3⃣ Evaluating + refining it

Completing my PhD at UNC (w/ @mohitbansal.bsky.social).
Happy to connect (will be at #NeurIPS2024)!

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🚨 I am on the faculty job market this year 🚨
I will be presenting at #NeurIPS2024 and am happy to chat in-person or digitally!

I work on developing AI agents that can collaborate and communicate robustly with us and each other.

More at: esteng.github.io and in thread below

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Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.

We generate a soundtrack for a silent video, given a text prompt! For example, we can make a cat's meow sound like a lion's roar or a typewriter sound like a piano.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17698
Webpage: ificl.github.io/MultiFoley/

Led by @czyang.bsky.social!

bsky.app/profile/czya...

SOTA virtual face re-aging techniques often struggle to preserve identity for large age changes.
We present MyTimeMachine, a personalized virtual aging gen. model, trained with ~50 images across 20-40 years.
Check out more cool results here: mytimemachine.github.io
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My growing list of #computervision researchers on Bsky.

Missed you? Let me know.

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