Bashima Islam

Excited to share that our paper, OWL, has been accepted to ICLR. We show how an audio LM infers where a sound is in 3D space (direction and distance) and provide spatially grounded reasoning steps. Huge congratulations to @Subrata265 and @nur! bashlab.github.io/owl_project/

🚀Our lab just dropped LLaSA - the first LLM that actually gets IMU sensor data. We're mixing wearables with language models to level up activity analysis. Check out our new datasets, advancing human activity understanding. arxiv.org/abs/2406.14498 #AI #MachineLearning #BASHLab

IEEE BSN is still accepting proposals for half-day workshops! Visit bsn.embs.org for more information and submissions details.

Proud moment as an advisor. First congrats to Nur for getting his first paper (“Sound Tagging in Infant-centric Home Soundscapes”) in CHASE 2024. Next, congrats to @Subrata265 for securing a summer research intern position with the Audio Research Team at Meta Reality Labs.

I am delighted to share that BASH Lab received funding from NSF for 2 years. This a special moment for me as it is my first funding as a Lead PI. We will work on increasing the efficiency and reliability of running DNN inference on intermittently powered computing devices.

In your application letter for #PhD / postdoc, NEVER ever say: "Hi prof" "Hello" "Dear Professor" "Greetings of the day" If you do, your email will be immediately deleted by 99% of professors. ▫️ Only start your applications with “Dear Prof. [second_name],” And don’t describe how good you are. Explain how valuable you are. ▫️ [Professionalism] + [Value] can go a long way. Good luck. #phdchat #AcademicChatter

Yaxiong (@AlexXIE80307765) & I are running this year's Mobicom Artifact Evaluation committee. This is the first Mobicom with AE, and we'd love to have you help us. If you are interested in serving on this committee, please fill: forms.gle/QbL5XVjrWZGF2i… @ACMSIGMOBILE @ACMMobiCom

ACM SIGCOMM N2Women Workshop deadline extended by two weeks (see HotCRP for the up to date deadline). The new deadline is June 25. We look forward to your submissions! conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2023/w…

A PhD student has asked me about the use of ChatGPT to rephrase the text they have written. Here is the @TheOfficialACM policy on this matter.

It was a great experience to give my first talk at NIH. I am humbly grateful to be in the BRAIN initiative workshop.

Join us in San Antonio, TX for ACM/IEEE IPSN'23! Exciting program featuring mmWave, acoustic, vibration, and vision sensing, LoRa, distr. ML and more, plus a vibrant demo&poster session and a PhD forum. Early-bird registration ends Apr. 7th. ipsn.acm.org/2023/index.html

@fredjiang @EE_ColumbiaSEAS @CUSEAS @Columbia @Apple Congratulations Jingping

Congratulations to Jingping Nie for receiving the 2023 Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship! @EE_ColumbiaSEAS @CUSEAS @Columbia @Apple machinelearning.apple.com/updates/apple-… jingpingnie.com

Prof. Islam talks about powering the future everyday objects with renewable energy in the second series, ACT 2: Powering the Future, of THE ROAD TO 2050. A Six-Part Docuseries from The Franklin Institute You can find it at youtu.be/0-P-VUza7EU?t=… #franklinInstitute @bashimal

Jan’23 has been good so far with 2 accepted papers . 1)“Amalgamated Intermittent Computing Systems” with @yuboluo @shahriar_nirjon in #IotDI #CPSIoTWeek. 2) “Efficient and Safe I/O Operations for Intermittent Systems” with @ProfJosiah @sinanyil81 @saadahmed819 @eren in #EuroSys

Dr. Islam @BashimaI discusses the future of devices, women in engineering, and what she'd bring into her afterlife in episode 5 of Century Lives: The Next 50 longevity.stanford.edu/century-lives/ Stanford Center of Longevity @LongevityCenter @longer_lives Listen Now! open.spotify.com/episode/3e5buF…

Do you own a smart device? If so, you’re going to need computer scientist @BashimaI. In episode 5 of Century Lives: The Next 50, Bashima discusses the future of devices, women in science in Bangladesh, and what she’d bring into her afterlife. Listen now! lnkd.in/eEggd_dT

What a wonderful journey it has been! Dreamed about this @AcmSensys 2018 and presented 4 years later @AcmSensys 2022. Took 1.5 years to design, with novel contributions from Rishabh, @saadahmed819, J. Huang, @WinkelJasper, @BashimaI, @sinanyil81, @przemyslawp and @ProfJosiah

@ambuj123 @przemyslawp @ACMDL @abu_bakar___ I would recommend the feather board. It has on board mic and camera. It was around $25 when we got it

@BashimaI @przemyslawp @ACMDL @abu_bakar___ Thanks a lot. I would order the particular chip for my group here to evaluate. It sounds interesting indeed