JJ Wilson

My 2023 snapshot: * I went from zero AI experience to writing my first research paper thanks to @PetarV_93 📝, presenting it @neur_reps (📸 @heyu0208). * I’ve visited some wonderful places 🇺🇸 #NeurIPS2023 & 🇭🇷. I also wanted to shoutout @gordic_aleksa and his community members!

we really have reached peak mech interp when I am going to give a seminar at my old uni and there's a seminar in the same building the hour before that would have plausibly shared ~1/4 of the content

Announcing new ARENA material: 8 new exercise sets on alignment science, interpretability & AI safety - each containing 1-2 days of structured, hands-on content replicating key papers in the field. All open source on a public GitHub, and available for study. Here's what's in it:

@WilliamsF1 @AnthropicAI @claudeai I don’t think we need the AI benchmarks no more. F1 should be the new AI race. We got @GeminiApp in the papaya car, who’s sponsoring the other teams? 🏎️

Welcoming Claude, @AnthropicAI's frontier AI model, as the team’s Official Thinking Partner! Through this partnership, Claude will be integrated across the entire Williams organisation—working alongside engineers and team strategists to support how the team thinks, plans, and performs. Read more about the partnership – and what it means for our mission to get back to the front of the grid - here: bit.ly/46sYJtg

started teaching geometric deep learning at cambridge for the fifth year running! no pics were taken this time, but kind messages from our students are even better 😊

@PetarV_93 Without spoiling it for those who should play it. Curious as to, M or V? (If you know, you know)

finally finished expedition 33 🥲🫠

@PetarV_93 For those who come after 🥲

Another year of 'Machine Learning with Graphs' at the School of Computer Science and AI at @TelAvivUni has come to an end, and here’s a short summary video of me explaining Graph Neural Networks with my hands 👐 This year I had around 80 students from across Computer Science, Math, and Electrical Engineering who came to explore the magic of Graph Learning. We wrapped up with nearly 30 final research projects, and it was truly inspiring to see students come up with novel, creative ideas, combining graph methods in diverse domains and leveraging their own unique expertise. It’s always fascinating to see how graph modeling can enhance performance or solve challenges in almost every field. While some ideas didn’t fully work out (as research often goes!), many did, and I genuinely hope to see some of them published soon. Well done to all the students!!! Once again, I have to say that TAU students are simply brilliant, curious, and incredibly hard-working. Next year, I’ll continue lecturing as a Teaching Fellow at CS@TAU and I’m already excited about the many updates I plan for the course (Graph Foundation Models are coming 👀).

If this keeps happening throughout the rest of the season and Max takes the title — that would be wild! 🏎️

@PetarV_93 What great timing for a productive year of coding!

@sonjj74 new album came out today, i'm piling them up as i go :)

at this point my entire coding playlist can just be the collected works of tame impala

@PetarV_93 @AnnaVarbella @fedzbar @n_latysheva @Riccardo_Ali_ @miki7s Will this event be live-streamed or recorded? It is indeed an action packed line-up with star researchers and will be amazing for those who can intended in-person.🌟

MMLW is committed to the EEML mission: bringing top-tier AI conferences to Eastern European countries 🧑‍🚀 a packed speaker lineup, tentatively including: @AnnaVarbella @fedzbar @n_latysheva @Riccardo_Ali_ @miki7s Razvan Pascanu, & yours truly! Apply here: workshops.eeml.eu

The @EEMLcommunity is coming to Podgorica 🇲🇪 on 8 November! Mark your calendars 🚀 Beyond excited to share that we're organising the Montenegrin ML Workshop (MMLW'25), part of EEML Workshop Series, together with @aisocietyme ❤️ (Free) registration required -- please see below!

@PetarV_93 @Cambridge_Uni @pl219_Cambridge Big congrats and looking forward to this upcoming academic year 🎉

affiliated lectureship @Cambridge_Uni extended for a fifth consecutive year!! perhaps @pl219_Cambridge and i can do sth special for this year's geometric dl course... 🧑‍🏫

The above truly changed my life and overall career direction! Soon, I will be sharing some exciting news and my next steps into AI research! 📚🚣 (3/3)

I ended up doing a NeurIPS 2023 workshop paper w/ @PetarV_93 in a month! Then, whilst balancing my full-time job, over the past 2 years, I published 2 research papers with these amazing people: @PetarV_93, @mayabechlerspei, @DobrikG @DBuffelli @pl219_Cambridge. 📝 (2/3)

Did okay at Undergrad; then SWE in industry for 4 years. Did some soul searching and decided I wanted to do something _impactful_! Fell in love with education again, and start self-learning AI/ML. Cold-emailed @PetarV_93, and he kick started my research journey. ❤️ (1/3)

Exciting, mechanistic interpretability has a dedicated lecture in the syllabus of a Cambridge CS masters course! The field has come so far in the past few years ❤️

Check out this blogpost from @ffabffrasca and the GLOW reading group on the future of graph learning! I’ve also contributed and my main take is - its actually working and its an exciting moment to work on applications!

@jxmnop > - im working up the courage to say hi to yann lecun just do it! i sent a cold email to yoshua bengio and it was literally career-changing. whether you're just starting out or a turing award winner, we're all people :)

@PetarV_93 My expedition has just begun after your extremely compelling review! ⛵️ So far, I’m really enjoying the visuals and the music score. The 4090 might not be training any AI models soon. It’s on Xbox game pass if anyone wants to try it out.

working on lay summaries for icml -- 'As our research makes some of the first steps towards answering this question, we hope it meaningfully paves the way for works that come after.' -- clearly i've played a fair amount of expedition 33 lately