Hal Daumé III

AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up! 📅 Ddl 12/22/25 🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice 🧑‍🏫 Associate/Full Prof* 🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/job… *Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter

Best consideration is Mar 27, so get your postdoc applications in in the next week or so!

@Amit_rege96 @trails_ai @UofMaryland Mar 27 is best consideration date!

@haldaume3 @trails_ai @UofMaryland Is there a deadline for applying?

Come join @trails_ai as a postdoc at @UofMaryland (and work w folks at GW, MSU & Cornell) to conduct research and scholarship focused on approaches to AI that advance trust and trustworthiness with a great group of colleagues! 🌐 go.umd.edu/trails-postdoc… 🗓️ Summer/Fall 2026 start

After operating in stealth for the last 18 months @rhoda_ai_ , we’re excited today to finally show the world what we’ve been working on. We believe we’re on a path to physical AGI with the launch of our brand new foundation model, the Direct Video Action (DVA) model.

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AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up! 📅 Ddl 12/22/25 🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice 🧑‍🏫 Associate/Full Prof* 🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/job… *Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter

@furongh @xiaoyu_liu_1231 @jbhuang0604 @pdadewei Congrats Xiaoyu - I thoroughly enjoyed reading your dissertation and serving on your committee!

Xiaoyu Liu @xiaoyu_liu_1231 scholar.google.com/citations?user… PhD Thesis: Towards Learning Non-Spurious Functions: From Representation to Decision Through Data and Model Design Committee: Wojciech Czaja, @haldaume3, @jbhuang0604, @pdadewei

Last week was an exciting milestone—our lab’s defense week! Congratulations to the newly minted PhDs! Proud of each of you for your hard work, resilience, and brilliant contributions! ❤️

@furongh @bang_an_ @jbhuang0604 @Sangha26Dutta Congratulations, Bang - really great work, it was a pleasure being on your committee!

Bang An @bang_an_ bangann.github.io PhD Thesis: Building Reliable AI under Distribution Shifts Committee: Min Wu, @jbhuang0604, @haldaume3, @Sangha26Dutta

TRAILS Director Hal Daumé (@haldaume3) joined "AI or Not" the podcast with Pamela Isom to talk about his shift from technical AI research to its societal impact—touching on governance, copyright, and the need for stronger regulations. go.umd.edu/1yvy

@tracyyxchen @zcliu @fumeng_yang @RuohanGao1 @hdi_umd @Adobe @BoschGlobal @jiajing_guo @vikib0y @NElmqvist Congrats Yuexi! It is truly outstanding work!!!

😃Just defended my PhD on "Bridging the Gulf of Evaluation in Human-AI interaction for Knowledge Workers", huge thanks to my advisor @zcliu, my committee Prof. David Weintrop, @haldaume3 @fumeng_yang @RuohanGao1 , my labmates @hdi_umd, and collaborators at @Adobe @BoschGlobal

We created COALA, a visual analytics tool that helps understand how native & non-native English speakers write differently when writing together. Our findings can help build better AI writing assistants for teams. Related #CSCW paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

📌NLI Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models is accepted to #ICLR2025! CECE enables interpretability and achieves significant improvements in hard compositional benchmarks without fine-tuning (e.g., Winoground, EqBen) and alignment (e.g., DrawBench, EditBench).

Please join us for: AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute. Feb 3-4 Washington DC Open to all! Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025 Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556

Today is the registration deadline!

All AI systems make mistakes. 🧐 What if users could leverage AI flaws to understand it & take informed actions? 🚀 Our #CSCW2024 paper on Seamful XAI offers a process to foresee, locate, & leverage AI flaws—boosting user understanding & agency. But why should you care?⤵️ 1/n

If you're part of an AISIC organization (see nist.gov/aisi/aisic-mem…) you are cordially invited to participate. Registration closes on Nov 27; details at go.umd.edu/aisic24registr… If your org is interested in sponsoring, please contact me or Mallory Smith (info at above link).

We (@trails_ai) are thrilled to host the First Annual AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) plenary meeting on Dec 3 in College Park. This is a *members only* in-person (w hybrid option) gathering where the AISIC task forces will update, and we'll discuss future efforts. >

New #emnlp2024 paper (oral presentation on Nov 12 (tomorrow), 12:15-12:30 Monroe): TL;DR: When a model fails, it can still guide a human to success. We show that uncertainty communication improves human decision making, in the context of navigation! Why is this exciting? Uncertainty communication has been promoted as a desirable feature of ML models, but it remains unclear what benefits it provides beyond fostering human trust. We may be among the first to demonstrate the positive effects of uncertainty communication on human decision-making. You can read our paper now: arxiv.org/abs/2402.16973 and check out our demo: navigation.umiacs.umd.edu/examples/hear_…

🚨New dataset + challenge #EMNLP2024🚨 We release ASL STEM Wiki: the first signing dataset of STEM articles! 📰 254 Wikipedia articles 📹 ~300 hours of ASL interpretations 👋 New task: automatic sign suggestion to make STEM education more accessible microsoft.com/en-us/research… 🧵