Chara Podimata

📢 Asu Ozdaglar and I are hiring a postdoc for next year to work on adaptive, ethically-informed decision systems, human–AI collaboration, and decision-making under uncertainty. More info here: charapodimata.com/postdoc_announ….

Finally, I'll be presenting my work on Calibrated Stackelberg Games When/where: Wednesday 10/29 at 9.30 - 10.45am, GWCC Building B Level 3 B315 (5/5)

Nicolas Emmenegger is presenting our work on "Strategy-Aware Regression Discontinuity Designs" When/where: Monday 10/27 at 11 - 12.15pm, GWCC Building B Level 3 B315 (4/n)

My students and I are going to be at INFORMS in Atlanta! Their papers are great, and you should attend their talks! A short thread (1/n)

At my side-gig as a podcaster, I recently had the joy of interviewing Sam Hopkins!

This was a massive effort spearheaded by @cen_sarah, and in collaboration with @andrew_ilyas, @HediDriss, Charlotte Park, Aspen Hopkins, and @aleks_madry. Happy to discuss further with anyone who's interested in learning more! (6/6)

(iii) interrogate the models’ beliefs about candidates’ attributes, and (iv) reveal the models’ implicit predictions of the election outcome. We’re making the dataset publicly available and invite researchers to run their own analyses on it: huggingface.co/datasets/sarah… (5/6)

We have a new paper out today, and I’m so proud of it and the work that went into creating it! Link here: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18446…. The 2024 US presidential election was the first major election in the US since the popularization of LLMs. (1/6)

Baby’s first grant ⬇️ amazon.science/research-award…

@JubaZiani Omg CONGRATS JUBA!!!

Starting in research is hard... So many papers, and they're written for experts! In a new initiative, Learning Theory Alliance is featuring ~monthly technical blog posts, highlighting recent results in an accessible manner. Follow us on Twitter to not miss out! 1st post 👇: 1/2

@jennwvaughan Kids these days huh

A Ph.D. student collaborator of mine with a degree in CS just asked me what emacs is and I nearly fell out of my chair. I have never felt so old in my life! I still have tears in my eyes. 😭😂

FORC 2023 call for papers! responsiblecomputing.org/call-for-paper… Abstract deadline: February 7 AOE Full paper deadline: February 9 AOE The conference also includes a non-archival track for papers that have appeared in other conferences. Send your best work!

Our last speaker of the semester is Bailey Flanigan, who will talk about her work on "The Power of Altruism in Voting". More info here: toc4fairness.org/toc4fairness-s… As usual, this Wednesday 9-10am PST/12-1pm EST on zoom.