Craig Fernandes

@CVPR In a new paper with James Siderius and Raghav Singal (Dartmouth College), we study this exact problem and theoretically show that rejecting an author’s paper if they were a bad reviewer is essential to achieving better outcomes. Feedback welcome! Paper: tinyurl.com/mtuzhtyw

Following a thorough investigation, the Program Chairs (PCs) decided to desk-reject 19 papers authored by confirmed highly irresponsible reviewers, which would have been accepted otherwise, in accordance with the previously communicated CVPR 2025 policies. 2/2

#CVPR2025 Area Chairs (ACs) identified a number of highly irresponsible reviewers, those who either abandoned the review process entirely or submitted egregiously low-quality reviews, including some generated by large language models (LLMs). 1/2

A team of #UofTEngineering researchers led by Professor Timothy Chan won first place in the 2024 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Research Papers Competition with a new framework designed to level the playing field in darts games. Read more: uofteng.ca/9OcmlJ

(Late) update - we won! I'm grateful for the competition committee, the other finalists and my coauthors, Tim Chan, Albert Loa and @nsandholtz. For those interested in the case, it's forthcoming at INFORMS Transactions on Education! #informs2022

Excited to attend my first #INFORMS annual conference! My team is a finalist in this year's Case Competition! Come learn about descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics in the new setting of wheelchair rugby - based on real conversations with Canada's paralympic team.

@TiffBayley Thanks, Tiffany!

@CraigJFernandes Good luck! 🤞