Shadi Hamdan

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Always a pleasure to meet @ylecun at #ICLR @Meta booth!

Important: one of my very dear friends, Mohammed Alsaqqa, is raising funds to help evacuate his family from Gaza. Mohammed is not only a great friend, but also an exemplary person and one of the brightest people I know. The past few months have been hell on earth for him and his family, as well as the millions of displaced Gazans. The situation has only gotten worse with time, and unfortunately now we see no other option but to help get his family out of Gaza. The most critical situation at the moment is that of his father, Khalil (62), who suffers from critical health issues, including chronic high blood pressure and diabetes. The lack of essential medications and adequate nutrition in Gaza puts his life in constant danger. Please take a look at Mohammed thread, and consider supporting his fundraiser. Campaign link is within the thread, and if you can't donate, sharing is also caring. Thank you.

Delighted that our paper "RbA: Segmenting Unknown Regions Rejected by All" has been accepted at #ICCV2023 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2211.14293 project: kuis-ai.github.io/RbA/ code: github.com/NazirNayal8/RbA with @misrayavuz, João F. Henriques, @ftm_guney

📚 Thrilled to have attended the MLSS^S 2023 in Kraków, Poland! 🇵🇱🤩 This summer school was an invaluable experience, introducing us to state-of-the-art topics in #MachineLearning and its applications across fundamental sciences.

Here's a very brief (and definitely not comprehensive) compilation of my favorite snippets and lectures!

This month, I had the pleasure of attending #ICVSS2023 and spending a week in Sicily, Italy! It was an intense week full of inspiring lectures by some of the best in the field! It was great to meet so many others that share similar interests in such a fun environment.

Modelling the underlying 3D scene structure greatly improves unsupervised multi-object segmentation. Check out our method for estimating segmentation mask and depth at the same time, accepted at #ICCV2023: kuis-ai.github.io/multi-object-s… great work by Sadra @__Everwake__ @KuisAICenter

we can now talk about “RbA: Segmenting Unknown Regions Rejected by All” accepted at #ICCV2023. we found that when we find and classify regions with Mask2Former, each object query focuses on a known class. so we can find unknowns as pixels rejected by all, hence the funny name 😃

Happy to see that @OpenAI used our Chart Question answering benchmark (arxiv.org/pdf/2203.10244…) in evaluating their newly released GPT-4. Here's GPT-4's output for a ChartQA sample (cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.p…). Nice explanatory answer! @JotyShafiq @Ahmed_Masry97 @dxlong2000

💫We're happy to share that our MS student @ozsoyserdar and faculty members @Alper_T_E and @denizyuret presented posters of the two papers at #NeurIPS2022 in USA, and our MS student @BozkurtBariscan made a successful virtual presentation in #NeurIPS2022 Oral Session. Congrats!👏🏼

Very happy to announce our latest paper which has just been accepted to #NeurIPS2022! Very grateful to all my collaborators @ozsoyserdar @denizyuret @sercanarik and @Alper_T_E 😃

Immensely thankful to the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education @AGFforE for their continuous support throughout my undergraduate education. Special thanks to all my fellow peers and mentors, without them none of this would have been possible :)

@ayseyyide Thank you!

@ShadiSHamdan tebrikler! congratulations 🎉☺️

Bu yıl Koç Üniversitesi’ni en yüksek ortalamayla, birincilikle bitiren ilk kez bir uluslararası öğrenci oldu; Shadi Hamdan Suriyeli-Filistinli, yapay zeka çalışan bir bilgisayar mühendisi. Bunca ırkçılık ve nefret söylemine inat geleceği el ele inşa edecek bir nesil yetişiyor.

Üniversite mezuniyetlerindeyim; yeğenlerim, öğrencilerim için. Koç Üniversitesi’nde bir ilk... İlk defa bir uluslararası öğrenci üniversitenin birincisi oluyor. Bilgisayar Mühendisliği’nden mezun, geleceğin AI uzmanı Suriye - Filistin kökenli Shadi Hamdan’ı yürekten kutluyorum.

After 2 years of work by 442 contributors across 132 institutions, I am thrilled to announce that the github.com/google/BIG-ben… paper is now live: arxiv.org/abs/2206.04615. BIG-bench consists of 204 diverse tasks to measure and extrapolate the capabilities of large language models.

For the past few months, @mmitchell_ai, @YJernite and I have been working on the exploration of popular NLP datasets. Here are some fun things we discovered!

1- Letters of recommendation play a big role in the review process. Sure, there’s GPA, awards, SOP & maybe papers. But for me (& many colleagues), a single great letter >> everything else. Interestingly, 1 bad letter doesn't negatively impact a student's chances as much

enjoying our office and its perks at Is Towers 😎

You may have heard that algorithms don't just reflect bias, they amplify it Here's a very visual example of that... We generate portraits that are "closest" to a given text prompt🤳 Here, the prompt is "terrorist" and the output isn't a bearded guy, or a hijabi... but BOTH😬