Grace Gong

This was my second year volunteering as a judge for the Technovation Challenge, and I was excited to share a few reflections during the 2026 Finalist Celebration earlier this month. Congratulations to all the finalists! youtube.com/watch?v=bWHuvc… (19:49)

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Back from ICML in Seoul last weekend. Met many people and friends from the community! The poster sessions and workshops were great, and Seoul was a wonderful place to spend the week.

@KORGAONKAR 🙌 same!! hope your summer is going well

@gracegong good to see you again!

Just submitted my first ethics review for #NeurIPS!

Booth talk done! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! If you’d like to learn more about AIOps and Azure reliability, here are the references from the talk: 1) Meet BRAIN, the AI system behind Azure reliability: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/mee… 2) AIOps Unleashed: Transforming Cloud Operations at Microsoft Azure (Xu et al.) 3) Azure AIOps (Chen et al.) 4) AIOps (Jones et al.) #AIOps #Reliability #ICML #ICML2026

Here’s the link for the full booth schedule microsoft.com/en-us/research…

Excited to be at ICML 2026 this week! I'll be speaking at the Microsoft booth on AIOps & Reliability on July 7 from 2:30–3:00 PM, and presenting a poster at the WiML Symposium on July 8 at 7:00 PM. I'll be volunteering on Monday and around throughout the conference. If you'd like to chat, feel free to stop by and say hello :) #ICML #ICML2026 #WiML #AIOps #ReliabilityEngineering

@josefdc_ Sounds great! Sent a dm

@gracegong I'm at ICML too. It would be great to see you again!

ProbML :)

It was a great experience mentoring and judging the Champions Choice track at this @NVIDIAAI hackathon! Teams using agentic AI and open data to tackle real public services challenges. Congrats to all! 🙌

As an NVIDIA Dev Champion, I'm hosting a quick virtual Product Feedback Session on Brev Dev for the community & recent hackathon participants. Share what you built, give feedback to Dev Champions, and your insights will be passed onto the NVIDIA product team. Wednesday, Jul 1 · 3:30–4:00 PM EDT / 12:30–1:00 PM PDT luma.com/zz5mxo5x

@nvidia @LaurenceLiang1 And congrats to the winners of the @nvidia brevdev category! More details from their hackathon project: linkedin.com/posts/laxmankc… #Nvidia #Developers #Hackathon

@Nvidia Developer Champions will be mentoring and supporting the event! Excited to collaborate with @LaurenceLiang1 + team on this event and looking forward to seeing hackathon participants building responsible AI projects. 🙌 RSVP at: luma.com/ab2xlas3 #Nvidia #ResponsibleAI #AISafety #Hackathon #NvidiaAI #Developers

@alumniventures Second Update: All emailed submissions have been reviewed. I've followed up where there's a fit. You can also submit directly to the AV team and review their criteria here: av.vc/entrepreneurs Appreciate everyone who reached out!

@alumniventures Update: Thanks to everyone who has reached out so far! I'm balancing this fellowship as an extracurricular alongside my full-time role and other commitments so I appreciate your patience. I'll follow up within the next 1-2 weeks if I think there could be a fit.

I'm a 2026 Venture Fellow at @alumniventures ! 🚀 If you're building something and looking for potential funding opportunities, feel free to DM me or reach out at grace.gong@alumni-ventures.com! #AlumniVentures #VentureCapital #Startups #VC #FounderEcosystem #StartupCommunity

Also, if you’re interested in an invite to the ICML Microsoft Research Networking Reception on Tuesday, July 7, feel free to DM me! I’ll do my best to help, though my number of guest invites may be limited. If demand exceeds availability, I’ll prioritize based on interest and experience. #ICML #MSR #MicrosoftResearch

My poster was accepted to the WiML Symposium at ICML! During the week I'll be volunteering with the conference and the @Microsoft booth, plus attending conference and workshop events. Looking forward to connecting with the community. 😃 #WiML #ICML #ICML2026 @WiMLworkshop @icmlconf

@saranormous 🙋‍♀️

@LaurenceLiang1 @HorizonOmega_ @redwood_ai @RubricLabs @rootlyhq @nvidia Amazing to see the turnout in person + online! 🙌

snapshots from the AI control hackathon launch last night! hosted at Omega Labs, Montreal's newest AI safety space by @HorizonOmega_ shoutout to @redwood_ai , @RubricLabs , @rootlyhq and @nvidia for sponsoring this week-long hackathon!