Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Friends, I have a major update! After 8 wonderful years at WashU ESE/CSE, my team and I will be moving to UW-Madison ECE. I’m excited to collaborate with amazing new colleagues at UW, and will truly miss WashU and St. Louis—places where I’ve built many great memories. 🦡❤️

@srchvrs I meant Apple vs OpenAI.

@prof_kamilov He downloaded Waymo's designs to a harddrive before leaving.

A lot of people at this point already heard about Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI. Some people were wondering how one could be so reckless. Some people even blame OpenAI's culture. ... However, the story isn't so unique. Just seven years ago Mr. Levandowski was caught, fined, and jailed for stealing Waymo's secrets (which were downloaded before leaving the company). Anthony Levandowski - Wikipedia lnkd.in/giBws6VZ

X is the perfect platform for scientists. You spend your whole life writing papers that nobody reads. Here, you can write tweets that nobody reads.

@CSProfKGD @davsca1 🔥

Today’s office view 😎

This is what you can do if you do a great PhD thesis

Living by the lake (Madison, WI)

Two pages from my PhD thesis

@paxxman Indeed

@prof_kamilov Balboa Park in San Diego CA I'm guessing

Every conference city looks beautiful in the 12 minutes between the hotel and the convention center.

If you feel unproductive, just realize that (according some estimates) the US government is spending $1B per day for the war in Iran.

A PhD is a process of gradually lowering your standards for what counts as a successful day.

Research is the art of being surprised by something you secretly expected.

@faturita No, as said by @DrugGovoruna, Uzbek is a Turkic language.

@prof_kamilov Is Uzbek similar to Russian ?

Based on my personal experience, the five most useful languages for an academic career are: 🇺🇸 English 🇺🇿 Uzbek 🇫🇷 French 🇩🇪 German 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese

A professor’s job changes dramatically over time. > Assistant professor: mostly trying to survive. > Associate professor: mostly saying yes. > Full professor: mostly figuring out how to say no.

@BeingJonG It was a typo: It should read fresh new assistant professor playing with his new idea.

@prof_kamilov don't post me without my permission!

First year PhD student playing with a new idea

@YiMaTweets In my opinion, Physics became a science when it started making bold bets on reality. AI will become a science when theories of intelligence predict phenomena before models demonstrate them.

Just came back from ICML. Gave a keynote at the Foundation of Deep Generative Models Workshop, in which I stated that Intelligence should be a scientific subject, arguably much more significant than Physics. It is high time we study it with the same scientific methodology and mathematical rigor as modern physics, instead of always at the level of being empirical, meta physical, meta mathematical, philosophical or speculative... This remains as the biggest opportunity ever for young scientists. To my knowledge, this is not the focus of any of the frontier "AI" companies.

@dishadahiyaa That’s the truth. Just don’t tell anyone here.

@prof_kamilov and the thing is, no one knows anything

The best thing about being a professor is that students think you know the answers. The worst thing is that colleagues know you don’t.

@yuliasrdk 🤝

@prof_kamilov Indeed. People like that are usually a pleasure to be around and talk to.

The most attractive quality in a person is that, when you’re with them, you don’t feel like checking your phone.