Matt Lease
@mattlease
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Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Joined July 2011
RT @Sanjana08395511: Our research team members, @Houjiang and Yujin Choi have developed an AI-powered tool to support your research ideatio….
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Story: Paper: @CosmicAI_Inst .@UTGoodSystems.@UTiSchool.@EngagingNews.@TexasScience.@UTexasResearch.@UTAustin.#TexasAI #YearofAI.
Can content moderation models balance accuracy & fairness? @UTexasMcCombs news features our.iConference (@iSchools) paper by Soumyajit Gupta on optimizing the fairness-accuracy tradeoff in toxicity detection. In collab with @sintelion @mariadearteaga @mattlease.
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Priority deadline of May 1 for our postdoc opening! @CosmicAI_Inst @UTGoodSystems.@TexasScience.@UTiSchool.@UTCompSci.@UTexasResearch.@UT_Linguistics #TexasAI #YearofAI.
🚨Apply by May 1st🚨 @gregd_nlp @mattlease and I are looking for a postdoc within the CosmicAI Institute!.
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New paper! @ACM_CSCW'25 w/ Houjiang Liu &.@jaceksg: Exploring Multidimensional Checkworthiness: Designing AI-assisted Claim Prioritization for Human Fact-checkers @UTGoodSystems.@UTiSchool.@EngagingNews.@TexasScience.@UTexasResearch.@UTAustin.#TexasAI.
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Quoted in Austin Monthly’s latest piece, “AI Companies Are Turning Gig Workers into Human Farms.”.@EngagingNews.@TexasScience.@UTexasResearch.@UTAustin.#TexasAI.#YearofAI.
@mattlease, Co-Director of the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins, was featured in Austin Monthly’s latest piece, “AI Companies Are Turning Gig Workers into Human Farms.” Read more here: @UTGoodSystems. @UTiSchool @UTCompSci.
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Podcast 3/9 @ SXSW on human intelligence & AI, hosted by former CNN tech reporter @HeySamantha w/ Susan Leavy (Irish AI Advisory Council) & William Fitzgerald (Pres. of Bard Global): - @UTGoodSystems @UTiSchool @CosmicAI_Inst @UTCompSci @TexasScience.
What’s the line between human & artificial intelligence?. The live episode Situation Room Studios produced for @Entirl from Ireland House at #SXSW2025 . Take a listen to the fascinating conversation with leading experts:
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Joining live podcast 3/9 @ Ireland House @ SXSW on human intelligence in AI, hosted by former CNN tech reporter @HeySamantha w/ Susan Leavy (Irish AI Advisory Council) & William Fitzgerald (Pres. of Bard Global) @UTGoodSystems @UTiSchool @CosmicAI_Inst @UTCompSci @TexasScience.
Less than a week until SXSW 2025. Our team will be in Austin from March 8 to 11 uplifting Irish investment in the US with our client, @Entirl. Swing by the Ireland House on Sunday for a live recording of The Next Innovation podcast or reach out to connect while in town #SXSW2025
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RT @UTGoodSystems: Join us on campus April 2-3 for our signature annual event. The Good Systems Symposium brings together leaders across di….
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GenAI postdoc opening in our new @CosmicAI_Inst, co-supervised with @jessyjli & @gregd_nlp, work with partner @allen_ai: Priority deadline May 1st for full consideration. @UTGoodSystems @TexasScience @UTiSchool @UTCompSci @UTexasResearch @UT_Linguistics.
🌟Job ad🌟 We (@gregd_nlp, @mattlease and I) are hiring a postdoc fellow within the CosmicAI Institute, to do galactic work with LLMs and generative AI! If you would like to push the frontiers of foundation models to help solve myths of the universe, please apply!.
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New #iconf25 paper: “Finding Pareto Trade-offs in Fair and Accurate Detection of Toxic Speech”: Joint work with Soumyajit Gupta, @sintelion, @d_anubrata, & @mariadearteaga. @UTGoodSystems.@UTiSchool.@UTCompSci.@EngagingNews.@iSchools.@UTexasResearch.
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Two Test of Time Awards! One @hcomp_conf #HCOMP2024 w/ @UTCompSci's @aasheshadri & one @ASE_conf #ASE2024 w/ @utexasece's @riponksaha, Sarfraz Khursid, & Dewayne Perry @UTGoodSystems.@UTiSchool @OdenInstitute @EngagingNews @UTexasResearch @AmazonScience .
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Apply by Jan 6 for @UTAustin's premier fellowship for visiting faculty. Our #YearofAI will target AI area. Fellows will receive generous stipends, housing allowances, and $75,000 in discretionary funds. Come join #TexasAI! @UTGoodSystems.@UTiSchool.@TexasScience.@UTexasResearch.
The Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellows Program, @UTAustin's premier faculty fellowship, is now accepting applications for the next cohort of innovators pursuing next-gen artificial intelligence research. Learn more and apply by January 6, 2025:
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"As universities roll out AI programs. none of them are attacking the supply-demand gap for AI workers like @UTAustin.".#TexasAI #YearofAI.@UTGoodSystems.@UTiSchool.@TexasScience.@UTexasResearch.
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Excited to present our work (w/ @mattlease and @R_Ashwin) at #EMNLP2024 🌴on constructive deliberation and receptiveness! Stop by if you’re attending:.🗓️Poster Session C, Tues, Nov. 12th at 4pm.Paper: Details in 🧵:
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Best Paper Honorable Mention @ACM_CSCW #cscw2024 for paper on co-designing NLP with fact-checkers Led by @Houji_abc @d_anubrata & Alexander Boltz, along with @didizhou_ Daisy Pinaroc, & co-led with @minlee_hci #TexasAI #YearofAI @UTGoodSystems @UTiSchool.
I am excited to share that our work titled "Human-centered NLP Fact-checking: Co-Designing with Fact-checkers using Matchmaking for AI" has received an honorable mention at #cscw2024. a 🧵 [1/n].@UTGoodSystems @UTiSchool.#TexasAI #YearofAI.
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Podcast "Using AI to Combat Misinformation and Disinformation" ( by hits 5,500 views. My thanks to Stephen Walther for a fun and interesting interview! #TexasAI #YearofAI @UTGoodSystems @UTiSchool @TexasScience @UTexasResearch.
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RT @kurtluther: Congratulations Aashish Sheshadri and @mattlease on winning the inaugural #HCOMP2024 Test of Time Award! .
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The @UTiSchool @UTAustin will hire up to 2 TT faculty in Building Human-Centered and Responsible AI: Review will begin Nov 1 to start zoom interviews. Send any questions to facultysearch@ischool.utexas.edu @UTGoodSystems @MLFoundations #TexasAI #YearofAI.
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"Most Influential Paper" award @ 2024 @ASE_conf: 2013 paper w/ @riponksaha (@meta) Sarfraz Khurshid & Dewayne Perry: "Improving Bug Localization using Structured IR" among 2012-2014 ASE papers #TexasAI #YearofAI @UTGoodSystems @UTexasResearch @UTiSchool @utexasece @OdenInstitute.
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Thrilled to share news of the new NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) in partnership with @NOIRLabAstro, @TheNRAO, @UUtah, @UVA, & @UCLA!! #TexasAI #YearofAI @UTGoodSystems.@UTAustin @UTexasResearch @OdenInstitute @UTiSchool @UTCompSci
A new institute coming to the Forty Acres will harnesses artificial intelligence to explore some of the leading mysteries of the universe, including dark matter and the fundamentals related to the search for life 🌌🤘. @OdenInstitute | #TexasAI .
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