Associate Prof. at Texas ECE. Enjoying the good life in Austin since 2016.
Austin, TX
Joined May 2007
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Edison Thomaz retweeted
Great conference! (And now a maybe even better time of the year for it)
🚀 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗛𝗖𝗜 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 will be 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟵-𝟮𝟲!! (Shenzhen)
- Industry Immersion:
Scaling research with factory markets + manufacturer visits!
- Conference Classics:
Research talks, demos, hackathon, workshops...
🔗ScalableHCI.com
Welcome to UT @_yudaitanaka!
I’m recruiting 2~3 funded PhD students for Fall 2027 to join the Symbiotic Interfaces Lab at UT Austin CS (@UTCompSci)!
Check out our research:
symbiotic-interfaces.cs.utex…
Apply by Dec 15, mentioning my name:
cs.utexas.edu/graduate/apply
Reposts appreciated!
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Edison Thomaz retweeted
Students sometimes ask me if it still makes sense, in this accelerating age, to pursue a PhD in AI.
Perhaps counterintuitively, I think it's a great time to do so.
I wrote up some thoughts on this here: web.mit.edu/phillipi/www/wri…
Edison Thomaz retweeted
Who cares about AI consciousness ?
We have a new cat 😎🐈⬛😅
New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: on.natgeo.com/JRuaGj
Edison Thomaz retweeted
Dear prospective students: The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) announcement is out NSF 26-526 nsf.gov/funding/opportunitie… #academic #phd #academiclife #science #phdlife #academictwitter
Edison Thomaz retweeted
Nice post from @eytanadar on the cargo cult science of "AI-native" PhD students, who come in super productive because they perform all major parts of research with genAI. No one benefits from all these quick papers, & they hurt the students down the road.
eytanadar.medium.com/ai-nati…
Edison Thomaz retweeted
Loosing an entire state worth of economy, billions and billlions out the window. Seriously bad ideas, really bad immediately and disastrous in the long run.
US visas issued to international students fell by roughly a third in 2025. Today, DHS finalized changes to a rule known as "Duration of Status" — a move that will help lock that decline in place. The fallout for the STEM workforce, innovation, and economic growth could be severe.
A sustained one-third decline in foreign STEM graduates entering the US labor force would shrink the high-skill STEM workforce by 6.2% overall and by 11.5% at the PhD level. Over a decade, that would cut annual US GDP by $240 billion to $481 billion, comparable to losing an entire state's economy.
That's the estimate from @AmyMNice, in a guest research brief for Hoover's Immigration Initiative, drawing on research she co-authored with @m_clem and @JeremyLNeufeld.
Read the full brief: hoover.org/research/breaking…
Edison Thomaz retweeted
No, there isn't science to back it up.
A new @nature feature on the billionaires biohacking for longevity, by @stokel
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Edison Thomaz retweeted
Using smartphone facial video clips with AI to passively and accurately get heart rate, across all skin pigmentation groups @nature
"This is the first demonstration that smartphones
can be used to monitor both HR and daily RHR passively during normal personal phone use in the real world."
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Excellent news!
Great news for the augmented humans conference: (1) it's now a @sigchi conference (welcome to the family!) and (2) it's in Sri Lanka next! #AHs2027 #AugmentedHumans #AugmentedHumans2027
Edison Thomaz retweeted
Join us! The Ubiquitous & Intelligent Sensing (UIS) Lab at Arizona State University is seeking outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows to advance the next generation of human-centered AI, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent health technologies. 🙏 Reposts appreciated. Thank you!
🤖 Made with AI
Visiting @utexasece today, @YuhengBu is presenting his work on LLM watermarking. Challenging problem but an effective solution would be very useful.
Edison Thomaz retweeted
Announcing the inaugural ACM AI Leadership Summit, a cross-SIG collaboration that SIGCHI is a part of! It will be in Atlanta, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 2. Register and read more about the DC and call for papers at aisummit26.acm.org/. Meanwhile, stay tuned for the SIGs Day program!
Edison Thomaz retweeted
Media Lab Prof. @rosalindpicard reflects on the origins of her work in wearable sensing and Affective Computing — technology designed to measure and respond to human emotions.
In January, Professor Picard was named as a recipient of the 2026 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology, one of @IEEEorg’s highest honors. She was recognized “for pioneering contributions to wearable affective computing for health and wellbeing.”
media.mit.edu/posts/rosalind…
Edison Thomaz retweeted
25 years in the making. 〽️
U-M Prof. Yogesh Gianchandani (ECE & ME) and his team have realized the "Holy Grail" of gas analysis: the first fully monolithic micro-gas chromatography system.
No valves. No moving parts. Just precision. 🚀
Full story👇: bit.ly/4rPejaZ
This is cool
New art project.
Train and inference GPT in 243 lines of pure, dependency-free Python. This is the *full* algorithmic content of what is needed. Everything else is just for efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further.
gist.github.com/karpathy/862…
