Arvind Satyanarayan
@arvindsatya1
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Associate Professor @MITEECS @MIT_CSAIL @mitvis. Data visualization @vega_vis, ML interpretability, cognitively convivial interaction. He/him.
Boston, MA
Joined October 2007
Last month, I had a lot of fun giving a lightning talk about some new ideas I'm stewing on regarding generative AI and human agency. It touches on only the first piece of a longer argument we unpack in a recent white paper. https://t.co/WdhetENAmA Summary 🧵👇
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This is insane and the retroactive part would defund most physics, EE, CS in the entire US. I said this once to the national security council at a White House meeting: “we beat our competitors by draining their brains.” This strategy has underwritten our success since WW2. We
Hitting closer to home, there’s a new proposal in the House that would essentially ban scientific funding to any researcher who advises a grad student from China. The cherry on top is that it’s retroactive for 5 years.
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I am an AC for ICLR 2026. One of the papers in my batch was just withdrawn. The authors wrote a brief response, explaining why the reviewers failed at their job. I agree with most of their comments. The authors gave up. They are fed up. Just like many of us. I understand. We
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🏆Congratulations to Lace Padilla for receiving this year’s VGTC Significant New Researcher Award at #ieeevis! https://t.co/OxbnTBN33i
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I cannot wait to celebrate TWENTY YEARS of #WiML at #NeurIPS in San Diego this December! 🎉🥳 Fun fact: The first #WiML was held in San Diego back in 2006! ❤️ Share your memories below, and come hang out on Dec 2! I will be there speaking! And have I mentioned I AM EXCITED?!?
WiML turns 20! 🎉 For two decades, WiML has connected, inspired & supported women in machine learning. We want to hear your story →
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Great interview with Jasmine Lu (@xjasminelu ) about her PhD work on computational tools to rethink/remix/re-use e-waste: https://t.co/X3ceaP3qAG My fav quote "incorporating broader ecological and philosophical perspectives makes me a better engineer and researcher"—go read this!
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As the world races to develop new technologies, a critical question often gets overlooked: What happens to the old ones? Jasmine Lu, a sixth-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of...
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I’m heading to @ieeevis in Vienna! And, I’m on the job market! Excited to see what everyone is working on — let’s chat 📊🤖
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The most high quality poster Ive ever seen
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Come hang out with us (live and in-person) at VISxAI!!
Join us this Sunday for #VISxAI @ieeevis! We have a packed, full-day program with great lightning talks, time to share ideas, and insights from the VISxAI OGs (including a keynote by @wattenberg!) 🗓️ Sunday, Nov 2 📍 Vienna ➡️
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—> Harvard is cutting Ph.D. admission slots in sciences by 75% —> MIT admitted fewer biology Ph.D.s this year than last —> Univ of Washington's astronomy department is suspending Ph.D. admissions for the upcoming academic year —> Brown is pausing Ph.D. admissions in at least 6
This is truly madness A self-inflicted goal driven by this Administration Universities are having to slash PhD programs, handicapping the next generation of American science and technology While China and others ramp up their STEM PhDs https://t.co/zTmAacKFmy
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“In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence,” MIT’s President wrote.
wsj.com
The school became the first university to reject the terms, saying they would undermine independence.
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#CHI2026 breaking records with 6.7k paper submissions! It's a lot of papers (last year was ~5k, now we are closing in on ~7k!). I know we all can be grumpy about things in HCI but the field is definitely growing and very much engaging with new ideas! I find it really inspiring.
🚀 CHI 2026 received 6,731 completed paper submissions — a record number! Peer review is now underway — thank you to everyone making it possible! 📖 Learn more about this year’s review process: https://t.co/bS5CyBYiri
#CHI2026 #HCI
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Had a fun chat with my friends (and now @NotionHQ coworkers!) @maryrosecook, @sliminality and @mschoening about some deep questions in malleable software: > What lessons can environments like Minecraft and Hypercard teach us about designing for AI? > What's the value of deeply
Starting something fun: Notion After Hours. Here's episode 1 with @geoffreylitt, @maryrosecook, @mschoening and @sliminality! We talk lifelong love of computers, malleable software, and the future of our relationships with AI. All the stuff we care about. Tell us what you think!
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My full rewrite of the (very long) first part of Howl is now live. I hope someone somewhere enjoys reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it! Link below 👇
I rewrote Allen Ginsberg's Howl, but for the AI-headed hipsters👇 "I saw the best minds of my generation distracted by machines, shining-eyed delusional demo gods, rubbering through polished cities at dusk Capitalizing The Next Big Push to the end of Introspection, 1/2
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I miss the days of being a PhD student, or postdoc. I would give almost anything to have multiple full days at a time, just to concentrate deeply and single-mindedly on open-ended research.
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Blog Post: Looking back on the first decade as faculty (2014-2024). I list my favorite papers from the decade, why I enjoyed working on them, and provide backstory and reflection. https://t.co/TdzQenNt8V
data-people-group.github.io
Aditya reflects on his greatest hits from the first decade of facultyhood.
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Personally I think my scrap paper chart looks better
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"interaction is an essentially negative aspect of information software" One of the greatest hot takes ever. I revisit Magic Ink all the time, and you should absolutely read it if you're serious about design: https://t.co/0No4ZbfMHX
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