Soledad Villar
@SoledadVillar5
Followers
3,497
Following
1,705
Media
45
Statuses
620
Applied math/data science/ML Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins. She/ella. Uruguaya 🇺🇾
Joined June 2017
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
#sbhawks
• 141790 Tweets
#海のはじまり
• 121271 Tweets
JagatGuru Sant Rampal Ji
• 117344 Tweets
ホークス
• 79828 Tweets
領空侵犯
• 67654 Tweets
ロシア機
• 51009 Tweets
#アイスランキング
• 33156 Tweets
渡会雲雀
• 26583 Tweets
️Watch Now
• 17985 Tweets
ドラグーン
• 14104 Tweets
#LIFE12周年
• 12901 Tweets
弥生さん
• 11997 Tweets
小久保監督
• 10286 Tweets
My friend made a sexual harassment complaint against her phd advisor in 2019. Last week the university ruled against the math professor. Today they fired him.
26
191
4K
I have the impression they see this whole thing as a big injustice.
I understand why, such behavior didn't used to be a fireable offense, so somehow the rules changed mid-game.
But it was never OK. I hope they know that.
4
20
721
A news article quoted a female mathematician saying that my friend "dressed in a certain way", and that she "was trying to look good for the men in the group".
I try to stay professional in this social network.
But what the actual fuck.
3
19
680
I understand his math community is not happy with this outcome
This guy is a very good mathematician and an excellent teacher. He is a great friend, colleague and mentor to many people
However, they need to acknowledge that he did some fucked up things, and students were involved
1
13
650
This is an announcement for an in-person Machine Learning Theory Summer School at Princeton that will run this coming summer. Here are the details:
6
96
465
I was offered $2,500 to give a 1-hour research talk but my visa doesn't allow me to get paid.
There is a saying in Spanish for this:
Dios le da pan al que no tiene dientes.
(God gives bread to who have no teeth)
15
11
348
I'm muting this now, but I am so thankful for your support
I feel sad for everyone involved (especially my friend, but I also fell sad for him). The math community in my country will take a long time to recover from this. Nobody won here, except for future female students
0
4
325
Super proud of my first PhD student
@TeresaNHuang
After her internship at Apple Research NYC this Summer she will join
@FlatironCCM
as a postdoc this Fall
8
9
318
This project describes research with my amazing PhD students, postdocs and collaborators. I am lucky I get to learn from them.
🌟Congrats to Prof
@SoledadVillar5
who received the
@NSF
CAREER award for her pioneering project: "Symmetries and Classical Physics in Machine Learning for Science and Engineering."
10
10
106
44
15
296
By the age of 30 you should know not to describe female students in recommendation letters as **fun** and definitely don't use any adjective to describe their **smile**.
I can't believe this shit.
6
6
271
@tonia_ries
I think going through the whole process was 1000 times worse than the sexual harassment itself, honestly.
She did it because she is an incredibly brave woman and wanted the culture to change.
4
2
205
@modeltheorist
@MarissaKawehi
Thank you. A lot of people don't realize how hard it was (and is) for her. Her name showed up everywhere in the press and her life was scrutinized: her divorce, her clothes, her success, her PhD acknowledgement section.
2
2
138
My amazing colleague Yanxun Xu just became the first tenured woman in my department.
3
1
118
Laying in my couch, looking at the moon and the Eiffel tower. How did that happen?
5
2
111
Applied math
@JohnsHopkinsAMS
will be hiring at all ranks
Johns Hopkins makes a major investment in AI:
110 new TT faculty positions,
including 30 new Bloomberg Distinguished Professors
+ a new major faculty to be located at the Homewood campus.
20
151
544
3
12
89
This week I'm giving research talks in Germany, Baltimore, Lisbon, and California.
All from my parents' house in Uruguay
3
0
88
Next year DeepMath will be at Johns Hopkins
Looking forward to hosting y'all in Baltimore 😊
2
6
81
Very proud of my amazing PhD student
@TeresaNHuang
She is graduating soon (in just 4 years) and looking for research jobs near NYC.
1
10
81
TRIPODS Winter School & Workshop on Graph Learning and Deep Learning starting tomorrow
Speakers:
@eairoldi
@TacoCohen
@williamleif
Jegelka, Kolaczyk, Kutyniok, Levina
@jasondeanlee
@jure
@guidomontufar
@HanieSedghi
Telgarsky
Practicum:
@smolix
@karypis
5
18
78
Tomorrow I'm giving a talk on GNNs at Harvard statistics.
Afterwards Mount Snow ⛷️
2
2
77
I have a story for
#WomenInScienceDay
When I was a teen my Dad told me I couldn't be a mathematician because math was already invented (the last math invention was calculus)
I didn't believe him and now I can say I am an applied mathematician
He is quite proud (and surprised)
1
5
73
Omg! Someone I know got this ad on Facebook ♥️. My mom asked me if I knew I was a model for Microsoft Research 😂. I didn't but I am glad they liked my talk. I was so nervous!
1
5
64
With Jose Perea, Facundo Memoli, Nicolas Garcia Trillos and Marina Meila we are organizing an MRC: Data Science at the Crossroads of Analysis, Geometry, and Topology
Applications are due Feb 15
Are you an early-career mathematician looking for a professional development program? Check out the Mathematical Research Communities (MRC). Applications are being accepted through February 15, 2022. For more info on the four conferences offered in June:
0
9
16
2
21
64
Tomorrow I'm presenting our work on equivariant ML at
#NeurIPS2021
Stop by our poster between 11.30am - 1pm EST to chat about this or anything else
Joint work with
@davidwhogg
@katestoreyfish
@benblumsmith
and Weichi Yao
Special thanks to
@m_finzi
for his amazing codebase EMLP
1
4
22
2
14
60
Y'all buying all these masks when you could have been doing this the whole time!
PS. My mom sent me this GIF
5
12
57
I'm about to use the axiom of choice in a paper I'm writing for NeurIPS.
I know, I've also been questioning my choices.
4
1
57
Check out the teaching evaluations of my amazing PhD student and TA
I am so grateful for the people I work with 💚
0
0
56
Mi primera charla en español en muchos años. Creo que salió bastante bien
2
0
54
Our new paper on gauge equivariant machine learning hit the arXiv today
Check out the explainer thread by my coauthor and friend
@benblumsmith
ps. we were inspired by work by
@HaggaiMaron
@m_finzi
and
@risi_kondor
1
4
22
0
16
52
Today's Jr MINDS seminar at JHU has a
greentext seminar announcement
1
0
48
Yesterday
@alfcnz
showed me the bubble-of-bubbles interpretation of a VAE. The loss sums the reconstruction loss and the KL divergence with a Gaussian prior, and can be seen as bubble-of-bubbles drawing in the board. Amazing slides:
3
7
40
My online orientation: **successful profs don't spend time thinking of how to get tenure but just doing amazing work that results on tenure without thinking about it**
Me: no idea how to access any building on campus (doors were locked in 2020)
One deep secret you don't quite see as an undergrad is that literally nobody tells your professors how to be professors. They just show up one day and they're professors and there isn't really much of an onboarding process, or like professor bootcamp or whatever
24
52
915
2
3
41
Panel on gender equality in applied math in Latin America at LACIAM
Great ongoing efforts. Still a long way to go
1
2
39
Last week I had a great experience at LatMath. It is such a nice community ♥️
(Some pictures from Richard Tapia's talk)
0
4
39
The applied math and statistics department at
@JohnsHopkins
is hiring for a tenure track position with emphasis in data science:
It's an amazing research environment plus people are super friendly and supportive.
1
8
36
You mean the associative property.
Due to social distancing measures, the commutative properties of addition and multiplication have been suspended for the first time since the polynomial pandemic of 1731.
3
54
217
1
4
36
Today I came out to my conservative family. I told them I was a feminist and explained my reasons.
They believe our society is not sexist and I am overreacting.
But they still love me.
One quote: "I believe in equal rights but different roles"
Happy 1960 y'all
1
1
35
Win-win
I really see no downside to using git for research projects, except sometimes when there is a conflict on a LaTeX file and the merge fails and you have to burn down your house and start a new life in Uruguay under a different name.
12
25
358
1
2
34
We are organizing a
#NeurIPS2021
workshop on out-of-distribution generalization with amazing confirmed speakers.
Please submit your questions for our speakers in advance:
1
5
32
Bienvenido! I'm looking forward to working with you 😊
One year ago, I came to
@JohnsHopkinsAMS
to give a talk at the MINDS/CIS seminar series invited by
@SoledadVillar5
. Today, I can happily say that I am a postdoc at
@JohnsHopkinsAMS
working with
@SoledadVillar5
.
1
0
21
0
0
30
Just gave a talk at UT Austin and I'm feeling super nostalgic of my PhD years.
Is this how being old feels?
0
0
28
Some confirmed Speakers:
Rachel Ward (UT Austin)
Kyunghyun Cho (NYU, Genentech)
Luciana Ferrer (UBA, Argentina)
Samy Bengio (Apple)
Doina Precup (DeepMind)
Devi Parikh (GA Tech, FAIR)
Nando de Freitas (DeepMind)
Joan Bruna (NYU)
1/2
We are very excited to announce the next edition of Khipu Latin American Meeting in AI!
Khipu 2023 will be held 6th-10th of March in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Outstanding set of speakers. Applications are now open!
Apply and see details at
#khipu2023
3
73
181
1
8
25
@ccanonne_
I once submitted to COLT and got a review saying my results were "amusing" but not interesting to the COLT community. That was the first and last time.
4
0
26
@thegautamkamath
If I get rejected I'm submitting to a journal. I'm kinda tired of this conference nonsense.
3
0
24
Something I find disgusting about academia is how elitist and classist it can be.
Assist Prof (non-white woman): I used to work at IHop as a waitress.
Senior Prof (as a "joke"): We shouldn't have hired you.
Wasn't his joke saying "you are not one of us"?
2
0
22
Very happy to see so many awards going to South America. Including Khipu co-organizer
@enzoferrante
. Congratulations 🎉🎉
1
2
22
Thank you! I faced so many rejections during my postdoc that I almost left academia.
I have a feeling social media can deflate some early-career researchers because we tend to celebrate only successes on it. So here I am sharing my failures, in the hope it will lift the spirits of some folks.
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
#researchers
3
4
69
2
0
21
I currently have this job and it's great.
hey!
@NYUDataScience
is seeking next cohort of Data Science Faculty Fellows. These are 2 yr independent postdoc appts with good salaries+research funds. We are looking for methods+domain scientists (including soc sci!). Deadline Dec 23:
0
36
71
0
2
20
They didn't have this test in my country. I had to go to Argentina to take it. Such bullshit
0
0
20
Hello San Diego 🌴🌴
Sun is rising in San Diego and the DeepMath team is gathering to prepare for the big day tomorrow. DeepMath is happening again17th - 18th November hosted by
@HDSIUCSD
. Shout out to our local organizers
@gmishne
@mikio_aoi
1
12
35
3
0
19
What? A summer school for PhD students on machine learning theory. The main courses will be given by Nati Srebro, Tengyu Ma, Sebastien Bubeck, and myself 🙃.
When? June 13 - 17, 2022
Where? At Princeton.
3
2
18
Postdoc positions at Johns Hopkins Applied Math:
Less teaching is possible with support of a faculty member
0
9
18
@lpachter
Thanks for being outspoken about these issues. My close friend recently made a sexual harassment complaint against her PhD advisor. It almost ruined her career and mental health. It's hard for the victims to come out, the backlash they face is sometimes harder than the harassment
1
0
17
@davidwhogg
The classical definition from Mitchell (1997) is
"Machine Learning is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience"
2
0
16
This is happening tomorrow
@iclr_conf
Geometrical & Topological Representation Learning Workshop
@iclr_conf
now accepting submissions until 26 Feb AoE.
#MachineLearning
#geometry
#topology
#RepresentationLearning
Organizers: Xiuyuan Cheng
@KrishnaswamyLab
@jure
@SoledadVillar5
@mrguywolf
2
34
98
0
1
15
@docmilanfar
Strong agree
When I was 20, I would go dancing all night on Friday until 6am, go home, take a shower, and go teach at a Saturday morning math olympiad club for middle schoolers
I have no clue how that was something I wanted to do, or even physically possible 🙃
0
0
15
I should give credit to my students
@TeresaNHuang
, George Kevrekidis, Wilson Gregory, Yuxin Ma, and
@DanielLopezCast
; postdocs
@benblumsmith
,
@tonellicueto
, and Kaiying O'Hare; and collaborators, especially
@davidwhogg
and Dustin Mixon 🙏🙌
The reviewers were also very kind 🙏
0
0
12
Después de mas de 100 intentos y varios días logré agendar a mi madre para que se vacune en Maldonado 💪
Linda forma de terminar la semana 🙂
0
0
14
Born in: 🇺🇾
Live in: 🇺🇲
Parents: 🇺🇾🇺🇾
Grandparents:🇺🇾🇺🇾🇪🇸🇪🇸
Lived in: 🇺🇾🇧🇷🇺🇲
Been to: 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇦🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪🇵🇾🇨🇱🇦🇷🇪🇪🇷🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇪🇩🇪🇪🇸🇵🇹🇳🇱🇧🇪🇮🇱🇮🇹🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷
Want to visit: 🇦🇺
Such a privilege display. I'm so grateful.
[Johnny Cash fills out a meme]
Live in: 🇺🇸
Born in: 🇺🇸
Parents: 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Lived in: 🇺🇸
Been to: Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota
Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota
Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma
Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma
Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo...
1
1
10
4
0
13
Looking forward to Math and Democracy seminar, this Wednesday 17.30
@NYUDataScience
, thanks
@benblumsmith
for organizing!
0
2
13
To receive full consideration, applications must be submitted by March 31, 2022 through the summer school website.
1
1
13
@NakedCapsid
Hey, I'm a postdoc in applied math and data science at NYU. I am interested in algorithms for clustering, dimensionality reduction, and matching datasets. I am from Uruguay.
1
1
12
@_onionesque
I love this paper by my colleague
@mateodd25
I think it opens the door to many interesting questions. E.g. how do GNNs or Deep Sets fit this framework?
1
0
12
Today we continue with the Workshop.
the schedule today features:
Matus Telgarsky
@jure
@jasondeanlee
Stefanie Jegelka
@HanieSedghi
@EKolaczyk
We are starting now! See you soon
TRIPODS Winter School & Workshop on Graph Learning and Deep Learning starting tomorrow
Speakers:
@eairoldi
@TacoCohen
@williamleif
Jegelka, Kolaczyk, Kutyniok, Levina
@jasondeanlee
@jure
@guidomontufar
@HanieSedghi
Telgarsky
Practicum:
@smolix
@karypis
5
18
78
0
0
12
@_chismosa_
I always say yes when asked for an extension, but I feel bad for students that don't get it because they are too shy to ask. If possible I give the extension to everyone.
0
0
10
Math twitter:
When can I explicitly compute the decomposition of a group representation into irreducible representations?
Can I compute this for Lie groups over R?
#mathtwitter
2
1
11
@PetarV_93
Agree, it's not my style to chime in on tw controversies, but the design of the transformer (and CNNs, GNNs, etc) has underlying symmetry motivations IMO.
0
1
11
I'll be a mentor on career advice 😳. Table 36, see you soon 😃
I'm a mentor at the
#WiML2020
Women in Machine Leaning workshop❤️ If you want to chat Computer Vision & Machine Learning, come find me today at Table 19.
#NeurIPS2020
0
5
29
0
1
11
Yesterday I texted my friend a math question and she replied that she was on strike for women's day 💪
1
0
10
Regresa el Cibercoloquio :)
El último viernes de cada mes a las 2pm (GMT -4)
Mañana en el Cibercoloquio, Pablo Soberón (CUNY Baruch College) nos hablará sobre la topología de las particiones de medidas. Pablo () es mexicano y es experto en geometría discreta. Además, es un excelente divulgador de las matemáticas.
1
1
5
0
1
10
@beenwrekt
I may or may not have been in a search where a candidate did not make the shortlist because they had too many papers
2
0
10
Hey
@UTAustin
, you charged me $20 to allow me to see a pdf of my transcript for 30 days. That makes no sense to me.
0
0
10
Since this tweet was a success I'll make a follow up
Last year I was lucky to go to a conference in the French Alps and I sent this picture to my Dad.
His reply: who would have guessed that those silly maths could take you so far? 😂🤣
0
0
10
Why? A chance to learn about some exciting new ideas from computer science, statistics, physics, and mathematics for understanding machine learning. Also, an opportunity to meet other young researchers.
1
0
9
@0xhexhex
There was a comic at the UT Math Department wall saying
"Classification of mathematical problems as linear and non-linear is like classification of the Universe as bananas and non-bananas" 🍌
1
1
9
Excellent thread on the challenges of dimensionality reduction / data visualization.
It's time to stop making t-SNE & UMAP plots. In a new preprint w/ Tara Chari we show that while they display some correlation with the underlying high-dimension data, they don't preserve local or global structure & are misleading. They're also arbitrary.🧵
97
1K
4K
1
0
9
Just talked to my friend in Valparaiso. She and her neighbors had been setting barricades for the past 6 nights to protest the curfew. She never imagined she'd live this violence, mostly from police and military. She doesn't know what to believe and only trusts her neighbors.
0
0
8
Such a privilege to be part of this community. Thank you!
Lunch with
@utaustin
ladies and Karen Uhlenbeck!
#mgmn
#distinguishedwomeninmath
#womeninmath
@ Institute for Advanced Study
0
0
3
0
0
8
@PreetumNakkiran
@benblumsmith
Thanks Preetum, related to your question, we were looking at this paper at some point:
0
0
8
76,876 confirmed covid-19 cases in NYC and Amy still has to go to work in the package room of
@nyuniversity
Washington Square Village.
Why not leave the packages in the building lobby?
This is Amy. She’s been running the package room in my NYU building for 22 years, and today she broke down crying while telling me how scared she is to come to work every day. She has been deemed an essential employee, even though her job puts her, and every resident, at risk.
17
192
1K
2
3
8
