Phebe Vayanos
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Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Computer Science @USCViterbi | Co-Director @CAIS_USC | #optimizer #AIforSociety #ORforSociety
Los Angeles, CA
Joined November 2015
The official edition of the USC Viterbi DIGITAL magazine is out. Head to the link in our bio to see it yourself and read a message from our very own Dean Yannis Yortsos & USC’s @USCAdvComputing Inaugural Director, Gaurav Sukhatme. https://t.co/2LeGWWpvjf
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Congratulations, @phebe_vayanos & @BDilkina, co-directors of first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary PhD program in AI & operations research @USCViterbi 👏 Supported by a $2.9 million grant from @NSF to train future leaders, researchers, and educators. https://t.co/OAnJYBSDcV
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Our next SPS seminar is by Melvyn Sim, on Dec 6 at 4-5pm ET (please note the irregular time). We are looking forward to it.
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🍁 This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for our community, the incredible work being done in AI for social good, and the opportunity to make a positive impact. Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 #HappyThanksgiving #Gratitude #AIForGood
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The FATE group at @MSFTResearch NYC is now accepting applications for 2025 interns. 🥳🎉 For full consideration, apply by December 18 and include a cover letter. https://t.co/zQZQss34Up Interested in AI evaluation? Apply for the STAC internship too! https://t.co/kxkI4KU6cD
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Next up in the SPS seminars, we will have a Junior Session on Nov 22 at 10-11am ET. We are looking forward to it!
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Our next session of #DiscreteOptTalks is in 12.5 hours, at 12pm ET on Fri Nov 15, with DOTs by Ksenia Bestuzheva (ZIB) and Güzin Bayraksan (OSU). Details on https://t.co/cBGQwBMCyo. Hope to see you soon! #orms
Join us for a new season of #DiscreteOptTalks this Friday Oct 11 at 12pm ET with talks by Bissan Ghaddar (Western University) and Deepak Ajwani (@Deepak_UCD, University College Dublin). See the talk details and subscribe to the DOTs mailing list at https://t.co/cBGQwBNanW.
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We won an outstanding paper award at #EMNLP2024! So proud of my PhD students @jaspreetranjit_ and @BrihiJ, the wonderful @rebeccadorn_ and our generous collaborators at USC's School of Social Work, especially @EricRicePhD. Thanks for making it happen, @CAIS_USC!
#2 OATH-frames, a corpus of 2.4M X posts on homelessness, characterized as perceptions, critiques and responses and 9 finer-grained labels, in a collaboration between social workers and their LLM Assistants. Oral 10:30a, 11/14: https://t.co/acABYMGI69
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Can algorithmic tools bring fairness to redistricting? Join Dr. David Shmoys next week as he explores methods that incorporate political & demographic data for fairer electoral maps. More info: https://t.co/wx0zvS0Hto
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🔊🔊 We have open #postdoctoral fellow positions. Info below 👇👇👇
The @PIASLab at @Harvard @Kennedy_School, founded and directed by Professor @Soroush_Saghaf, has a new round of hiring for Postdoctoral Fellow positions! 👇👇 https://t.co/NPPINKezWy
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🎇 PhD student internships in Computational Social Science at Microsoft Research NYC 🎇 These are 12 week, in person internships with some combo of Dan Goldstein, Jake Hofman, & David Rothschild Early (January - April) start dates somewhat preferred https://t.co/RVd6ttLSKx
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(reshare) I'm recruiting PhD students @uwcse @uwnlp ( https://t.co/I5wQsFnCLL). Focus areas incl Human-AI collaboration, language agents, LLM safety & applications to mental health, social sciences, education. Apply here: https://t.co/ku40wCrpYh
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🗳️Can algorithmic tools bring fairness to redistricting? Join Dr. David Shmoys as he explores methods that incorporate political & demographic data for fairer electoral maps: https://t.co/wx0zvS09DQ
@USCViterbi @uscsocialwork @CSatUSC
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Daniel Kuhn, Soroosh Shafiee, Wolfram Wiesemann: Distributionally Robust Optimization https://t.co/nswsHppxgk
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COLT 2025 Call for Paper is out! https://t.co/zqGTrqqV9G Submit your awesome ML theory works to COLT 2025 (Feb 6 deadline) and save the date for the conference in Lyon, France (June 30-July 4)! #COLT2025
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🧠 How can AI improve mental health support? Join Dr. @timalthoff as he discusses how language models can act as temporary "training wheels" to help individuals build key mental health skills. 📅 Don’t miss it: https://t.co/pPn3DeJJl4
@USCViterbi @uscsocialwork @CSatUSC
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🧠 How can AI improve mental health support? Join Dr. @timalthoff as he discusses how language models can act as temporary "training wheels" to help individuals build key mental health skills. 📅 Don’t miss it: https://t.co/pPn3DeJJl4
@USCViterbi @uscsocialwork @CSatUSC
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🧠 How can AI improve mental health support? Join Dr. Tim Althoff as he discusses how language models can act as temporary "training wheels" to help individuals build key mental health skills. 📅 Don’t miss it: https://t.co/pPn3DeJJl4
#AI #MentalHealth #TechForGood
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The #AAAI Privacy Preserving AI workshop (#PPAI) is happening again!✨ In Philly on 3/3/25 https://t.co/FnR8lkguBP Stay tuned for updates, but for the moment, I hope you submit your work on technical/practical Privacy, privacy & LLMs Agents, and AI/privacy governance!
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