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Come join my group at Johns Hopkins!
I'm recruiting CS PhD students for Fall'26 (deadline: Dec 15) who are interested in safe/reliable AI in healthcare. See my website (link in reply) for more info.
I'm also headed to #NeurIPS, and happy to chat with prospective students!
❗REMINDER: The I School is hiring❗We are looking for an Assistant Professor of Information who can address key questions about metadata, information systems, and more. #AcademicSky
The final review date is Nov. 1. We look forward to reading your applications! https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
Announcing (w @adamsmith.xyz @thejonullman.bsky.social) the 2025 edition of the Foundations of Responsible Computing Job Market Profiles!
Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!
Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
Think of how much better off we'd be if every established researcher got in the habit of writing papers entitled "Second thoughts on [thing I'm famous for]"
🚨 New postdoc position in our lab at Berkeley EECS! 🚨
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We seek applicants with experience in language modeling who are excited about high-impact applications in the health and social sciences!
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Screenshot of paper abstract, with text: "A core ethos of the Economics and Computation (EconCS) community is that people have complex private preferences and information of which the central planner is unaware, but which an appropriately designed mechanism can uncover to improve collective decisionmaking. This ethos underlies the community’s largest deployed success stories, from stable matching systems to participatory budgeting. I ask: is this choice and information aggregation “worth it”? In particular, I discuss how such systems induce heterogeneous participation: those already relatively advantaged are, empirically, more able to pay time costs and navigate administrative burdens imposed by the mechanisms. I draw on three case studies, including my own work – complex democratic mechanisms, resident crowdsourcing, and school matching. I end with lessons for practice and research, challenging the community to help reduce participation heterogeneity and design and deploy mechanisms that meet a “best of both worlds” north star: use preferences and information from those who choose to participate, but provide a “sufficient” quality of service to those who do not."
New piece, out in the Sigecom Exchanges! It's my first solo-author piece, and the closest thing I've written to being my "manifesto." #econsky #ecsky
arxiv.org/abs/2507.03600
There are many great researchers out there.
But the ones that really stand out to me are the ones who are also kind, even when they don't need to be.
I finally wrote a full-fledged blog about this: reading the history of science is an **amazing** yet under-recognized way to develop (emotional) maturity as a researcher.
If you have thoughts/recommendations, please share!
vaishnavh.github.io/2025/04/29/h...
Wisconsin-Madison's tree-filled campus, next to a big shiny lake
A computer render of the interior of the new computer science, information science, and statistics building. A staircase crosses an open atrium with visibility across multiple floors
I'm joining Wisconsin CS as an assistant professor in fall 2026!! There, I'll continue working on language models, computational social science, & responsible AI. 🌲🧀🚣🏻♀️ Apply to be my PhD student!
Before then, I'll postdoc for a year in the NLP group at another UW 🏔️ in the Pacific Northwest
hahaha fun, but i was bad
TopTen #25
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A brilliant colleague and wonderful soul Felix Hill recently passed away. This was a shock and in an effort to sort some things out, I wrote them down. Maybe this will help someone else, but at the very least it helped me. Rest in peace, Felix, you will be missed. www.janexwang.com/blog/2025/1/...
With @adamsmith.xyz and @thejonullman.bsky.social, we have compiled a set of profiles of 29 people in the "foundations of responsible computing" community ("mathematical research in computation and society writ large") who are on the faculty job market.
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hyvg... 1/3
“Should you still get a PhD given o3” feels like a weird category error. Yes, obviously you should still have fun and learn things in a world with capable AI. What else are you going to do, sit around on your hands?
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I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025! CS PhD Deadline: Dec. 15th.
I work on safe/reliable ML and causal inference, motivated by healthcare applications.
Beyond myself, Johns Hopkins has a rich community of folks doing similar work. Come join us!
