Dr. Sydney
@syndamn
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Working on Spacecraft perception and autonomy at TUM | PhD MIT AeroAstro | MIFP Fellow 18 | @NSFGRFP | π΅π·π³οΈβπ | π‘ KM4BTG
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Joined January 2013
The 2025 NASA astronaut class has the highest fraction ever of women. I note it's also the first class since 1985 without any African-Americans.
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Right on schedule, a mindblowingly incorrect Nate Silver take
The most important research paper of the past 10 years is the Google transformer paper ("Attention Is All You Need") and it was written by non-academics and published in an open-access journal.
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It was written my Google RSβs with PhDs and peer reviewed for NeurIPS, what on earth are you talking about Nate??? Iβm also not sure what someone not in the field would get from reading that paper. Itβs written for a specific technical audience.
The most important research paper of the past 10 years is the Google transformer paper ("Attention Is All You Need") and it was written by non-academics and published in an open-access journal.
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Presenting our newest @aiaa #JGCD Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics paper, "Quantifying Impact of Information Sharing on Satellite Navigation"! π°οΈπ‘π°οΈ @syndamn @sidnayak98 @MIT @MITAeroAstro Paper: https://t.co/15jyWsb0KS Website: https://t.co/6X03LkUpmV
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I like how Gaza made her completely forget about the climate lol
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If you read nothing else today, please read this quote:
Israel has destroyed, bombed, and burned nearly every hospital in Gaza. Mass graves have been found inside medical complexes. Patients, staff, and children were executed or buried alive. Mohammad al-Naami reports from the ground. π
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Remember this study about how LLM generated research ideas were rated to be more novel than expert-written ones? We find a large fraction of such LLM generated proposals (β₯ 24%) to be skillfully plagiarized, bypassing inbuilt plagiarism checks and unsuspecting experts. A π§΅
Automating AI research is exciting! But can LLMs actually produce novel, expert-level research ideas? After a year-long study, we obtained the first statistically significant conclusion: LLM-generated ideas are more novel than ideas written by expert human researchers.
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π¨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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The governorβs committee on free speech has just issued a list of words that cannot be used in the classroom and topics that cannot be discussed or researched.
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I'm very flattered to share I was profiled by MIT News! Read more about my PhD ~ work in grad school ~ general background ~ here! https://t.co/WrG2BuU0Ts
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MIT aeronautics and astronautics PhD student Sydney Dolan develops collision-avoidance algorithms for satellites using reinforcement learning, game theory, and optimal control to abstract a graph...
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Developing material and teaching my first course next semester! Send me all your resources for teaching ππ₯Ί
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Dear researchers and grad school applicants, I compiled a (incomplete) list of professors working in multi-agent learning. If you want to do research in multi-agent learning, I hope you find this helpful! :) https://t.co/ryoc0X5ka3
rupalibhati.com
Multi-Agent Learning, Professors
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Nobody mentioned how busy wrapping up your phd would be ππ paper submission, faculty apps, thesis writing,,, new found respect for my predecessors who did it all
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got the mother of all nasty reviewer 2 feedback this week π« π« π« happy to take the critique but also feel like there have gotta be more checks so the peer review process isn't an opportunity to just lash out at junior researchers because you're having a tough day
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On Sep 27, I'll be presenting results from our early galaxy simulations! We study how the first stars & galaxies formed and enriched their environments with metals. This is part of the International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics @jina_cee seminar series. Info below
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π¨π¨π¨Iβm thrilled to announce the launch of the Toxic Prisons Mapping Project, Beta - a participatory research initiative to map the environmental hazards faced by prisons, jails, and detention centers. See https://t.co/2L2pJBe52b & 𧡠below
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The Toxic Prisons Mapping Project, Beta, is a participatory research initiative to map the environmental hazards that prisons, jails, and detention centers face from extreme heat, air pollution,...
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NSF GRFP applications for engineering are due Oct 17! Please feel free to reach out (dms, comments) if you would like a second pair of eyes on your application or help outlining your research statement or personal statement!
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Don't think I can return to the person that I was before watching my coworker microwave his lunch for 14 straight minutes
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