Madalina Fiterau

Thank you for funding 4Thought, our project on early forecasting of Alzheimer’s disease from brain MRIs + multimodal patient data!

@MiriamMerad Please delete this tweet immediately, as it is incorrect. This only applies to UMass Chan Medical School. UMass Amherst is hiring as usual as of now. I can confirm that in Computer Science no PhD admission offers were rescinded.

Very sad to hear that UMass is rescinding all PhD admissions for Fall 2025. This means there will be no new PhD cohort, and UMass will not have a graduating class that year. This is just unprecedented and I am so very sorry for all the affected students.

I want to clarify that this does not apply to the UMass Amherst CS department. Our PhD admissions and faculty hiring processes are continuing as usual.

The Machine Learning for Healthcare (MLHC) 2025 Call for Papers is out! mlforhc.org/paper-submissi… Pre-submission intent deadline: April 4th, 2025 Full submission deadline (Research and Clinical Abstracts Tracks): April 11th, 2025 Submit via OpenReview: openreview.net/group?id=mlfor…

🎉 #PhDone After years of research, debugging marathons & existential crises, I defended my PhD on Adaptive Deep Learning for Personalized Time-Series Modeling! Huge thanks to my advisor @MFiterau , my committee, & amazing collaborators! On to the next adventure! 🚀 #PhinisheD

Also at the #ML4H2024 Symposium poster session: Purity Mugambi presenting her LLM-based method for Automated Cohort Extraction from Large EHR Databases. (Useful in performing the multi-dataset analysis showed in the WiML poster).

Now at the #ML4H2024 Symposium poster session: Shiv Shankar is presenting his research on estimating distributional and risk-aware measures of treatment effects under interference. Joint work with Ritwik Sinha. Project sponsored by @AdobeResearch

Our lab's contributions at @NeurIPSConf workshops include treatment disparity detection, LLM-augmented experimentation and RAG-assisted zero-shot forecasting! The awesome lead authors of the papers Iman Deznabi (@IDeznabi), Purity Mugambi and Shiv Shankar are on the job market!!

Want advice about research, career and life? Join us at the mentorship roundtables at the #WiML Symposium at #ICML. This year we have Research roundtables, Career and Life Advice roundtables, and Sponsor roundtables. Register here: buff.ly/3WRW8oZ

Join us today for the WiML Poster Session, co-hosted with the {Dis}Ability and Queer in AI Workshop and the LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research Workshop in the Soltz foyer! Any ICML registration is acceptable for entry. Register for the #WiML Symposium here: buff.ly/3WRW8oZ

@andrewgwils Don't we?? Oh well, there go my hopes and dreams!

@MFiterau By this measure, professors get much smarter with time ;)

Intelligence is compression.

@zacharylipton For better work-life balance, consider interleaving the loops: work 16 dumplings; eat for days; travel to space; read operas constantly. 😁

while not (sneezing snot rockets): work 16 hrs a day travel constantly turn off phone for _ in range(10 days): eat dumplings read space opera go to line 1

We have open-sourced the code and data for "Improved Zero-Shot Classification by Adapting VLMs with Text Descriptions" @CVPR at: github.com/cvl-umass/Adap… Also, find the poster and video links at the GitHub repo!

@JoyitaDutta @UMassBME @Biomed_umass @umassengin Congrats to you both!

Congratulations to #BIDSLab PhD graduate Dr. Mousa Moradi! @UMassBME @Biomed_umass @umassengin

@MohitIyyer @tuvllms @kalpeshk2011 @simeng_ssun @mrdrozdov Congrats, Mohit!

So proud to have hooded my first five PhDs today: @tuvllms, @kalpeshk2011, @simeng_ssun, @mrdrozdov, and Nader Akoury. Now, they're either training LLMs at Google, Nvidia, and Databricks, or staying in academia at Virginia Tech and Cornell. Excited to watch their careers blossom!

@yuxiangw_cs @chhaviyadav_ @merettm It’s always possible, the openAI twitter account isn’t following anyone, but other open AI folks are, so who knows? 🤷‍♀️

@MFiterau @chhaviyadav_ @merettm 😂 maybe that's for business reason? many org accounts are like that.

Did we just have a CMU minted theoretical computer scientist running OpenAI’s research department? That’s incredibly encouraging! 🚀🚀🚀

@yuxiangw_cs @chhaviyadav_ @merettm And I'm not saying this to be contentious. I'm saying it because you've achieved amazing things while also being extremely kind, making you exactly the type of person we should be promoting! 👏

@chhaviyadav_ @merettm I loosely remember him from Gary Miller’s spectral graph theory class. Amazing career trajectory!