🇿🇦 || Fairness in AI || DPhil @UniofOxford | Internships: Google DeepMind | Microsoft Research || World Wide Dishes
Oxford, England
Joined July 2011
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I had the most amazing opportunity to share my story with the lovely & curious Nyasita Ondari from the @ScienceIRLPod. We spoke about my journey from being a physiotherapist to my current work in brain computer interfaces & fairness in AI.
Spotify link: bit.ly/44Lzik4
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Calling all AI science communicators to submit proposals to the @NeurIPSConf 2026 Education Track! 🔥 We're looking for you to teach the latest technical concepts in AI so that audiences can get the most from the main conference week. Deadline is 4 September AoE ⏰
Calling AI Science Communicators: NeurIPS 2026 Education Track
We're inviting science communicators in AI to submit proposals to teach an emerging technical concept. Concepts can be any technical idea that has underpinned a large set of papers at top-tier AI conferences over the past year, from new architectures to training and alignment techniques to evaluation and reasoning methods. Think the 2026 equivalents of the Transformer, the reparameterisation trick, or LLM judges. You don't need to be the original author of the concept, just able to explain it with real clarity.
Accepted proposals must be paired with original teaching materials (code notebooks, demos or short videos) and will be presented as part of a full day primer in Sydney on 7 December 2026, ahead of the main NeurIPS conference. All materials will be gathered in an open repository, free for the community after the conference.
Submissions close 4 September 2026 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Submit via OpenReview: neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/…
Learn more about the track at neurips-education-track.gith…
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Internship applications open now at @GatsbyUCL for Winter 2026/Spring 2027!
ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gats…
Deadline: Monday 20 July 2026, 17:00 BST.
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We will soon reach a go no-go point in NLP/ML research. I'm sorry how is one author connected to 40+ papers in a cycle realistically.
I was not able to AC or SAC earlier in the year due to personal reasons, I will help this cycle but massive load. @ReviewAcl
📢 ARR May 2026 cycle update
We have published a blog post about the increased review assignments in the May cycle, what happened, and what comes next.
Please read the full post here:
aclrollingreview.org/may26-c…
#ARR #ACL #NLProc
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✨ NEW EPISODE ✨ #ScienceInContext This week @SabineLvE speaks with @liza_p_semenova about surrogate models and why unified reporting standards matter more than ever in the age of AI
@ImperialSPH @imperialcollege @tim_hitge @smhall97
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Read their position paper advocating for a unified reporting standard for surrogate models in the artificial intelligence era 👇
doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.…
@ImperialSPH @imperialcollege @tim_hitge @smhall97 @liza_p_semenova @UniofOxford @universityofedinburg
In a world where celebrities can crowdfund posthumously, let's rally and support academics doing good work in the climate space
If you can pause from the global disruption caused by the war between Iran, Israel & the U.S., please support me.
AI is a threat when not used sustainably — but it can be a solution.
Help me attend a school on Applied AI for Sustainability:
donate-ng.com/campaign/help-… 🌍🤖🌱
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This is the moment of the year we’ve been waiting for! 🌍🧠
We are thrilled to welcome you to Noordhoek, Cape Town, for another amazing Imbizo school. Can’t wait to gather, share knowledge, and dive deep into computational neuroscience!
Let the learning begin! 🇿🇦✨ #imbizo2026
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Hello World: I am reviewing Phd applications and the level of talent is amazing. Sadly, the funding situation is extremely challenging.
SO: If you'd like to gift someone brilliant literally the opportunity of their lifetime and sponsor their Phd in my group please let me know 🙏
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We are hiring a data adaptation research engineer. 🔥
This is a role I am really excited about. Our hiring says a lot about what we stand for, and how we want to build technology.
So, here we go...
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I'm starting a new project.
Working on what I consider to be the most important problem: building thinking machines that adapt and continuously learn.
We have incredibly talent dense founding team + are hiring for engineering, ops, design.
Join us: adaptionlabs.ai/
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Jane Goodall had a remarkable ability to inspire us to connect with the natural wonders of our world, and her groundbreaking work on primates and the importance of conservation opened doors for generations of women in science. Michelle and I are thinking of all those who loved and admired her.
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We’ve received A LOT OF submissions this year 🤯🤯 and are excited to see so much interest!
To ensure high-quality review, we are looking for more dedicated reviewers.
If you'd like to help, please sign up here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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when you give up on this nebulous idea and illusion of prestige, you will finally find peace and freedom. submit to TMLR and JMLR.
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How do you stay relevant in the ever-changing field of AI? Here's my recommendation!
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Awesome research that shows that allowing "I don't know" as an answer massively reduces hallucination rates. This teaches it that saying it doesn't know is better than random guessing. This seems obvious in hindsight but why did we not think of it sooner? 🤯
New research explains why LLMs hallucinate, through a connection between supervised and self-supervised learning. We also describe a key obstacle that can be removed to reduce them. 🧵openai.com/index/why-languag…
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Solve intelligence, then use that to solve copying and pasting from a pdf
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Check out our latest work accepted @emnlpmeeting Findings.
Accept or Deny? Evaluating LLM Fairness and Performance in Loan Approval across Table-to-Text Serialization Approaches
LLMs can approve or reject loans simply because the application is written in a different format.
paper - arxiv.org/abs/2508.21512
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Honored to be named in TimeAI 100 list, along w/my awesome Google colleagues @joshwoodward and Hartmut Neven and many amazing people.
@billyperrigo did a very nice writeup: 🙏
time.com/collections/time100…
My recognition is due to collaboration with many great colleagues on a wide range of interesting problems, so thank you to everyone I've been fortunate enough to work with over many years! 🙏
Behind every AI breakthrough and launch, there are hundreds of Googlers working to build AI that’s helpful for everyone.
This year, our very own @JoshWoodward VP of Gemini and Google Labs, @JeffDean Chief Scientist at DeepMind and Google Research, and Hartmut Neven founder and lead of Google Quantum AI have been recognized on @TIME’s #TIME100AI, a list recognizing the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.
Find the full list and learn how we’re thinking about the future of AI at time.com/time100ai
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I'm beyond honoured to be included on @TIME's list of the TIME100 AI of 2025! #TIME100AI
time.com/collections/time100…
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We gathered in Kigali 🌍 for the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba. Nearly 3,000 applied, 1,294 joined in person, 400 virtually. 6 days of AI research, debate, teaching & learning. From 300 in 2017 → to a pan-African Baobab tree. 🌳 #DLI2025 @DeepIndaba
