Jason Hartford
@jhartford.bsky.social
DKO fellow (Assistant Prof equiv.) at University of Manchester. Causality Research Unit Lead at Valence Labs / Recursion Pharma. Prev: postdoc at Mila with Prof Yoshua Bengio, PhD at UBC. South African 🇿🇦
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Thanks to @jhartford.bsky.social for two talks during the first week of our @raeng.org.uk internship programme!
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June 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Thanks to @jhartford.bsky.social for two talks during the first week of our @raeng.org.uk internship programme!
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I’m excited to have our perspective on virtual cells out.
1/ At Valence Labs, @recursionpharma.bsky.social's AI research engine, we’re focused on advancing drug discovery outcomes through cutting-edge computational methods
Today, we're excited to share our vision for building virtual cells, guided by the predict-explain-discover framework 🧵
Today, we're excited to share our vision for building virtual cells, guided by the predict-explain-discover framework 🧵
May 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I’m excited to have our perspective on virtual cells out.
This is very worth reading to see just how hard AI safety is going to be as these systems continue to get more powerful. The AI safety community has long emphasized how hard reward specification is: here’s a real world instance of a paper clip maximizers. openai.com/index/expand...
Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy
A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we’re making.
openai.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This is very worth reading to see just how hard AI safety is going to be as these systems continue to get more powerful. The AI safety community has long emphasized how hard reward specification is: here’s a real world instance of a paper clip maximizers. openai.com/index/expand...
I’m very excited for this workshop on Generative AI for Biology workshop that we’re hosting at UCL in London. It hybrid so you can attend virtually or in person (limited spots so reach out).
Hybrid workshop on Generative AI for Biology with great speakers including Sarah Teichmann, @bunnech.bsky.social, Francesco Di Giovanni, Diego Oyarzun, Jussi Taipale, @jhartford.bsky.social, Chris Barnes and Marta Milo. Link for online registration www.genai.ac.uk/news-feed/ce...
<br/>Online workshop - Generative AI for Biology — gen ai
Online registration for hybrid workshop on 12 May looking at the development of generative models for large and high-resolution biological datasets.
www.genai.ac.uk
March 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I’m very excited for this workshop on Generative AI for Biology workshop that we’re hosting at UCL in London. It hybrid so you can attend virtually or in person (limited spots so reach out).
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Excited to share that our work on ''Inference Set Design for Biological Data'' @valenceai.bsky.social was accepted at ICLR25! 🚀
The paper is available now on arXiv, and we're looking forward to share and discuss the potential of active learning in AI for drug discovery this April in Singapore! 🧬 📊
The paper is available now on arXiv, and we're looking forward to share and discuss the potential of active learning in AI for drug discovery this April in Singapore! 🧬 📊
January 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Excited to share that our work on ''Inference Set Design for Biological Data'' @valenceai.bsky.social was accepted at ICLR25! 🚀
The paper is available now on arXiv, and we're looking forward to share and discuss the potential of active learning in AI for drug discovery this April in Singapore! 🧬 📊
The paper is available now on arXiv, and we're looking forward to share and discuss the potential of active learning in AI for drug discovery this April in Singapore! 🧬 📊
I’m super excited that Learning Meaningful Representations of Life is back for ICLR 2025. We have a fantastic group of speakers lined up and there’s never been a better time to think about what makes a “meaningful” representation and how to learn one. Consider submitting!
December 19, 2024 at 5:26 PM
I’m super excited that Learning Meaningful Representations of Life is back for ICLR 2025. We have a fantastic group of speakers lined up and there’s never been a better time to think about what makes a “meaningful” representation and how to learn one. Consider submitting!
Finishing off NeurIPS right: a swim at Jericho Beach. Air temp: 5°C, water temp: 6°C. A very effective way of icing a broken ankle.
December 16, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Finishing off NeurIPS right: a swim at Jericho Beach. Air temp: 5°C, water temp: 6°C. A very effective way of icing a broken ankle.
I’ll be at NeurIPS next week (hobbling around on crutches with a broken fibula). Reach out if you’d like to talk causal representation learning / virtual cells / active learning. Also - I’m looking for phd students, so if you’re applying for phds in these areas, reach out !
December 7, 2024 at 11:26 AM
I’ll be at NeurIPS next week (hobbling around on crutches with a broken fibula). Reach out if you’d like to talk causal representation learning / virtual cells / active learning. Also - I’m looking for phd students, so if you’re applying for phds in these areas, reach out !
Excited to be at the causality in healthcare at Manchester workshop.
December 5, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Excited to be at the causality in healthcare at Manchester workshop.
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Last call for applications! @valenceai.bsky.social @jhartford.bsky.social
⚡ML internship opportunity⚡
💡 Interested in controllable generative models (esp. diffusion)?
👨🍳 Curious to see what they can do for real-world problems at scale?
🌍 Excited by a Virtual Cell, simulating how cells respond to drugs?
Join us in London: job-boards.greenhouse.io/valencelabs/...
💡 Interested in controllable generative models (esp. diffusion)?
👨🍳 Curious to see what they can do for real-world problems at scale?
🌍 Excited by a Virtual Cell, simulating how cells respond to drugs?
Join us in London: job-boards.greenhouse.io/valencelabs/...
Job Application for Conditional Generative Modelling Internship at Valence Labs
job-boards.greenhouse.io
December 2, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Last call for applications! @valenceai.bsky.social @jhartford.bsky.social
We're hiring two interns and a full time post in the Valence labs London office. If you're interested in causal inference / generative models / latent variable inference and how to use these ideas to impact real world drug discovery programs, consider applying: job-boards.greenhouse.io/valencelabs
November 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM
We're hiring two interns and a full time post in the Valence labs London office. If you're interested in causal inference / generative models / latent variable inference and how to use these ideas to impact real world drug discovery programs, consider applying: job-boards.greenhouse.io/valencelabs