Shreya Gupta
@Shreyagupta08
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ML @Nvidia | Prev: @LaminiAI, MS @Stanford, @Google Translate, @WWCode_Delhi, @MLNerdieDelhi, @ipam_ucla & WTM Scholar'19.
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2019
Indian male gaze: the act of staring at a girl, a woman, and anything female resembling unflinchingly, unabashedly, piercingly, collectively, silently and consistently until they disappear out of sight, either naturally or through an act of running away.
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My nanaji (grandfather), 77 y/o, asking me what Mvida (his pronunciation of Nvidia) does, what my work is, what my pay structure looks like, and being able to understand and say it back, is the kind of constant-learning-spirit I want to have in life.
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It had observations, experiments and conclusions too. Feeling blessed max.
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Was genuinely surprised to not only see Grant while having dinner but also to be able to talk to him and discuss which topics could be added to the linear algebra series. Ah, this is going to take a while to get over.
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What better day to announce this: I am joining @nvidia as an ML Solutions Architect! . I will be working with Cloud Providers to adopt and adapt Nvidia HW + SW stack for their needs. Absolutely stoked! 🥳🎉.
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Updates as promised, this summer I graduated from @Stanford with a Masters in Symbolic Systems (CS, Linguistics, Psych and Phil) and a novice degree in life. The past two years have been the most enriching and I'm truly grateful for every up and down!!.@stanfordsymsys 🌲💕🎓
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In my junior year of undergrad, I worked with a reputed professor from a very esteemed university of India. There would be talks about my alcohol preferences in the 8 months of internship, but I took it in light humour. After my project, the prof wanted me to work on a project. .
Walter Lasecki assaulted me. He pinned me against a bar, he put his hand up my skirt and his fingers in my underwear. He grabbed and twisted. He leaned in and insisted that I sleep with him. “It could be innocent,” he said.
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Got tired of seeing llama models so went to see them in real life (also ended up trekking across Patagonia) 🦅🏔️ 🇨🇱
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Months of struggle, self doubt and multiple rejections later: received an internship offer from @google for the student researcher role in machine translation! . Things do work out, even though i was ready for a less glorious simple one. So excited and grateful! 🤍.
Honestly, rejections are so difficult. Every rejection you tell yourself that something better awaits you, until something you thought was better also rejects you. Whatta weird loop. I will still think everything worked out just fine but while it doesn’t, it’s difficult.
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The last two years, of being at Stanford and Google, made me believe academically women were as trusted in their ability to do ML/research as their counterparts, and maybe I was just in the wrong bubble before. The past couple of weeks has taught me I was wrong.
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Hmph it's happening!.Masters in Symbolic Systems, let's do this! Excited to study and research in CS, NLP, Psych and philosophy of mind ✨. If you're at Stanford or nearby or a recruiter, would love to connect!
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I’m tired of the toxic disproportion of men in STEM, particularly computer science, unfortunately my major. This makes it easier for any toxic tech bro to treat me as invisible if I don’t submit to them. The other relatively non-toxic ones extend their silent support in isolation.
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Every time i explain my work at Google or my research at Stanford to someone, I’m inundated with so much happiness. I hope to always be this excited about my projects (even though they might not go as great in some temporary phases).
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Being an international student can be so difficult sometimes. First Diwali, now the cousin I'm closest to is getting married, while I struggle between food, courses and planning the next quarter 😭.Sometimes all I wanna do is rush back home and attend the smaller moments.
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Honestly, rejections are so difficult. Every rejection you tell yourself that something better awaits you, until something you thought was better also rejects you. Whatta weird loop. I will still think everything worked out just fine but while it doesn’t, it’s difficult.
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Feels so nice to meet with professors who you vibe with on not just research ideas and ideologies but who are also transparent and truly care about your progress, time and energy. 😭✨🧿.
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As I looked at all my publications yesterday, I realised how far I've come. From a largely spaced badly formatted first paper to a sophisticated looking deeply researched last paper - genuinely felt very nice. Would highly recommend doing so!.
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He also mentioned “home from work” happening rn and the benefits about it, sought my take on it and engaged in discussion (how it’s hard for robotics etc). He is a chemist in a small developing city of Hisar, Haryana. The simplicity, the sheer forward-looking mindset 🤌🏻.
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In my undergrad, from the limited exposure around me, I did not feel I had a lot of interesting choices so it was easy to pick a fav & stick to it. Coming to Stanford I was drowned in decision dilemma since so many seemed so interesting. Naturally, I developed commitment issues.
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To all the undergrads in India: a gem of a person and researcher, Danish, is relocating back to India. Reach out to him if you’re interested in applicative NLP. Anyone would be lucky to have him as their PI/collaborator 🤌🏻.
I am beyond thrilled to share that I'll be starting as an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in April 2023. I couldn’t have been luckier—I'm grateful for the support of many kind mentors, peers, students, friends and family members. (1/4).
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lol kinda tired of all these AI startups using cognitive in their names/websites, with a central image of a brain in website header only to find out that they do generic machine learning and software engineering for industry and nothing neuro/brain/cogsci related.
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Felt prey to the typical grad student experience where you overload yourself with work until you cannot breathe. Took a 1 min reflection break to think why I’m doing the research I’m doing; 5 hours since, never been so happily productive and need I say dancy:). Highly recommend!.
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That feeling when you’ve wanted to get done w a deadline so you could finally sleep and now you’re done w the deadline and don’t want to sleep….
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Today I am so glad I tweeted this. A girl reached out, and we were (hopefully) able to prevent a potential repetition of something similar by the same professor. Twitter is a bful space 🌼.
In my junior year of undergrad, I worked with a reputed professor from a very esteemed university of India. There would be talks about my alcohol preferences in the 8 months of internship, but I took it in light humour. After my project, the prof wanted me to work on a project. .
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I AM IN NOAH GOODMAN'S CLASS AND I JUST SAW HIM IN PERSON I AM SCREAMINGGG.
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While I really appreciate the support, I would sincerely ask people to let me deal with this at my pace. I would take actions if and when I feel comfortable and would appreciate people not jumping ships and acting on my behalf. Thank you!.
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Nobody mentioned a downside of transitioning into industry is suddenly your entire family wants to get you married 🤡.
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Welcome back to incessant coughs, eye and throat pains 😵💫. But also copious love, care and home cooked food 💕
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And the two month break ends now. It was difficult to not do anything and just relax, sleep, play and spend time with my family but I think it was also required. Let's get back to work now 💪🏻.
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Today’s learning: if you want something, just ask. Feels like a weird motivational cliché quote, but as a person who is afraid of rejections and being an inconvenience, it feels good to take a step (:.
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Should I create a anonymous account to fangirl over chance encounters with professors?. I was converting an R code to Python and i saw Chris Manning pass by and turn his head twice to me AND I CANT… .how do you breathe?. Just wanna go back to my shell and scream. 😭😭.
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First is the finding that DNN can not explain most dimensions in the visual cortex signals by Raj Magesh and Michael Bonner.
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I love research. Research is fun. Just look at our faces.
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Today might be my (second) happiest day. I've been feeling lost with where my problem statement lies and how to go about it. And today I got to talk to Dan (Jurafsky) about it. I feel so lucky and overwhelmed but also great. Twitter has been my safe space for anything research.
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Ok enough. Been ignoring hundreds of messages, comments and retweets about this. How difficult is it to accept a good gesture without any ulterior motives or hidden emotions and just out of plain bful friendship? Stop ruining one of the last male fships I'm left with ugh.
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The past two years have been keeping it limited to my close friends for the "lack of evidence", or the fear of him sabotaging my grad school applications (he was well connected) or random excuses I made. But this thread reminded me too much and too strongly to stay silent.
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Idk if it is the right time or place to put it out there but it has eaten a part of me, made me scared of a lot of things, and I just wanted to put it out there and hopefully move on as I begin the next chapter of my life.
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Full Paper accepted in EACL 20201! Absolutely surreal. Work with @lcs2iiitd @Tanmoy_Chak, @shadakhtar2309.We propose LESA, a generalised claim detection model that uses syntactic and semantic representations, and a large size twitter dataset for it. #EACL2021 @eaclmeeting #NLProc.
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Now I am beginning to stick to one while gaining knowledge about others. How? Work in the main interest, take coursework in others, one at a time and resume community work. Seems very simple but took me a while to figure out. Things are beginning to feel better now:).
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As for what’s next, I’m super stoked to design the future of LLMs with @realSharonZhou, @GregoryDiamos and the wonderful people @LaminiAI 🦙🎉. A month in, I am amazed by the warmth and knowledge of everyone around me! 💛. A course on what we are building:.
New short course on Fine-tuning LLMs! Many developers are moving beyond only prompting, to also fine-tuning LLMs - that is, taking a pre-trained model and training it further on your own data, which can deliver superior results inexpensively. In this course, @realSharonZhou, CEO
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I feel it is tougher to move on because this is not an isolated incident, but one step at a time we'll get there.
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When you drink coffee during work but it hits you after you leave work 🫠.
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I am in the same room as Emily Bender, Anna Rogers, and so many amazing people! I'm screaming!!
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Finally done w #EACL2021, it was one of the most enriching and amazing weeks. I met some amazing researchers, talked to professors I only saw on twitter, presented my first poster at a major conf and had some very interesting conversations around interpretable AI.
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It's 4 am and the need to create an executable docker image file for my PyTorch code has collectively ruined my night 😤.
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Currently suffering from major fomo from the EMNLP posts and pictures 😭.
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Social media has subtly forced me to look back on 2021. This year gave me my top two moments of life, yet. Getting into my dream program at an unbelievably dream university and however lifeless that sounds, meeting a professor I’ve only insanely fangirled over.
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Hard to ignore that a company that is so influential in directing the future of automation is now governed by a board of all-white men.
We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
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As the application season brews, I receive a couple of DMs each day seeking help and advice. As much as I desperately want to help you folks, quarter system makes it so difficult to do so. So I'm planning to organise a session in early December to help answer some questions. .
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A very interesting panel at the workshop of #FoundationModels today. great points on the importance of data, architecture revamp, evaluation metrics and explainability, and grounding. Thank you for the insights @YejinChoinka @prfsanjeevarora @natschluter and other professors.
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It’s that time of the year again. Diwali season - when everyone back home is entering into festivities mode and you’re just. away.Ah.
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I’m tired. It feels easier to swing to a field with more representation than having to explain myself to everyone all the time and still feeling unsafe, unheard and spoken over.
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Humans of AI is one of the most enticing series ever. I've been promising myself to watch it for the longest time now but maybe seeing Yejin on it was the final motivation I needed!!.
S2E20 is out! . Yejin Choi @YejinChoinka (@uwcse, @allen_ai) on Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats. Yejin talks about where she comes from, living life like in a game environment, thinking in vector spaces, finding her true self, and lots more. [1/n]
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While describing an action (like a project, a course, or a direction) in your Statement of Purpose, there are so many realities to describe the intuition behind the move. What differentiates a good SOP imo is how coherent one's chosen reality is with their overall goal.
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As I scroll through one "I posted this note to OpenAI today" after another, I realize how weird it is that we are reading about infrastructural changes happening inside a company while being on the outside. When (and why) did a singular company become so important?.
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Idk what’s the moral of this thread but it feels too suffocating to continue suffering silently while the world continues breezily. And then people question why men’s identity is about their work and women’s about being a women; why the bar “has to be lowered” for women; etc.
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Everyone should give themselves the gift of meditation. After trying multiple, Vipassana is the one that works best for me: DMs open.
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I joined Twitter because I wanted to be aware of the academic opinions from top scientists across the globe and broaden my purview. Now I see humdrum and mostly ungeneralizable arguments about something as big as choosing a PhD, and I'm afraid for the kids reading them.
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I will admit, I spoke at a lot of events when I was in India, but it has been 3 years since I engaged in one. Admittedly I am nervous for my panel tomorrow, but getting messages from my friends about them attending it is nerve-wrecking + wholesome in the bestest of ways!.
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Between deadlines, end of quarter submissions, TA duties, research and visiting home and being with family.
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Catching up on personal emails and found this! How'd I get so lucky 😭 .I miss teaching, but also I had the best students 💕. For context, Symbolic Systems was my Masters program at Stanford and this course was symsys1: Minds and Machines where we discuss CS x Lang x Psych x Phil
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How are students (and not professors) getting 3 or 4 paper accepted at ICRA or ICCV or any similar conference? How do you produce the quality with so much quantity. My guess is we can't. This numbers game tbh makes me feel lost about where we are heading to.
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In Basic Vision by Snowden et. al. The entire paragraph leads so beautifully to the last line, gave mini goosebumps of trivial realizations.
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Just a little weird to me that the internet decided who the “good guys” were based on the narrative only one side expressed. We may never know the other side, for whatever reasons legal or otherwise, but just weird to me.
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A friend accidentally closed 500+ tabs in 10+ windows (in a windows laptop on chrome). Any idea how to bring it back? (ctrl+shift+T isn't working and searching through history is impossible) 🥲.(is there a community on twitter I can tag which can help?).
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Um, I love ACMI's research but smth about if I "suck energy", the fear that I didn't "do anything", or the expectation of shooting to moon and forcefully arguing for what you think is right makes me feel. unsafe?? Idk.
Research experience is great, published papers can be impressive, but (generally) they are neither necessary nor sufficient for joining our lab. Some of our criteria:.
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Such an important thread. I remember when I attended @mcxfrank's lab meeting, it was the first time I saw people discuss achievements in their personal life, including getting a cat. It felt like people in the meeting were human and a community, smth that was rare in CS academia.
I have seen so many threads recently bemoaning the working culture in academia, and I fully agree with many things. BUT: y'all know you are academia and it is on you to come together and fix it, right?. I have a radical and simple first proposal: Don't work on the weekend. (1/9).
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For "female hygiene" for which he asked I click pictures of my vagina before and after menstruation and plot histograms of it (??). Since I wasn't comfortable and honestly conflicted about the thin line b/w research and woke-ness, I delayed. This was followed by him constantly. .
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I made a random excuse and hung up. But I froze, not sure what to do. The next day I saw him being hailed by the organisers and attendees. Somehow I made it back to my home but I could not look at him throughout.
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So now when they focus on working on their startups and courses, I am still processing and dealing with the fresh invisibility and thinking if i am the problem and did smth wrong:).
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Strong agree and support! As I say every year, this is the best opportunity for any undergrad/masters person in India!.
Application are now open for the Predoc 2025 program at Google DeepMind India. If you are pre-PhD (i.e., current undergrad or masters students or recent geaduates) and interested in research, then this should be a no-brainier. Please apply by Dec 18, 2024.
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He also mentioned “home from work” happening rn and the benefits about it, sought my take on it and engaged in discussion (how it’s hard for robotics etc). He is a chemist in a small developing city of Hisar, Haryana. The simplicity, the sheer forward-looking mindset 🤌🏻.
My nanaji (grandfather), 77 y/o, asking me what Mvida (his pronunciation of Nvidia) does, what my work is, what my pay structure looks like, and being able to understand and say it back, is the kind of constant-learning-spirit I want to have in life.
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Was pretty cool to see the latest GB200 and see how nvidia is leveraged for boston dynamics robos, smart glasses, VR sets and even cars #GTC2024
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This quarter I am leading sections where I get to teach SymSys 1 (Mind and Machines) to small groups of students. I had almost forgotten how hard but enjoyable teaching was. Yday was the first lecture and I rolled out feedback forms; one student literally wrote this 😭
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The more work I have, the more active on Twitter I become ack🥴😵💫.
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So while all of them bond stronger, my past trauma is corroded further and it is brushed off as an overthinking overreaction. So everyone comes back from spring break as happy, relaxed, closer to one another and I with regular breakdowns.
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Did I just see Yoav Goldberg, .and . did he just say Hi to me!. Did we talk for 15 mins straight. WHAT. DID.JUST.HAPPEN um.brb gotta breathe
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As the grad school applications gear up, a common question is how do you choose schools. I wanted to offer my 2 cents on it. For a person who is indecisive by nature, I feel it has been fairly easy to make professional decisions for me. How? People.
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Sometimes I miss brain spilling in the empty abyss my twitter was. Like how an amazing professor whose work I very much adore visited the Stanford campus this week and I saw the email the night he visited. I let out a (small) scream at 11 pm.
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I was shook. It came out of nowhere, I thought I misheard. "Excuse me?" To which he repeated it again.
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I love February because it has exactly 4 weeks - so satisfying. Proposal: Put all extra days from the remaining months into a new month and the lingering extra day is the new year day. For leap year we get another new year day to introspect on the past 4 years.
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Attempted to play pickleball around 7 pm yesterday - eyes hurt and throat felt like inhaling smoke was when the 200+ AQI hit, Gurgaon feels rough oof :(.
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I’m going to be in Seattle tomorrow onwards! If you’re there too (#NAACL2022) let’s catchup (anything from machine learning to cognitive neuroscience, life and art) during, or after the hours! 💃🏻. Pls also send interesting talks info (feel free to plug your work!). Very hype!.
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I can't stop thinking about this.
An interesting argument by @ev_fedorenko in her #EMNLP2021 keynote: humans use language for communication, not for thought—and so language models should not be judged for their ability to reason. I would add: we should also not use lang.models as proxies for cognitive abilities.
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I've used twitter as a space to rant, fangirl and share cool papers. This was one such moment. I didn't expect it to blow up (stupid assumption in hindsight). But welcome everyone to my thought express, feels weird to have so many of you looking at me but guess that's how it is.
I GOT INTO STANFORD!!!.
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First proper publication received first citation. Small thing but the timing couldn't have been better 🥺.For reference, our EACL 2021 paper:
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Asking if I clicked "pictures of the event". I refused, following which he didn't look at my paper for an upcoming conference. The conference was 1500kms away from my home and he was the only person I knew there.
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Genuine work friendships are underrated relationships. Make them, cherish them.
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Yes, the year was difficult because drastic changes brought back a lot of insecurities but i have hope from 2022 to be a year of personal and professional growth. Until then, grateful to the friends and family i have and for this life and experiences. ❤️.
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If and whenever I get my PhD, this is how I want to celebrate too!!.Congratuations Dr. Talia 🥂.
So I had 3 glasses of champagne and got to Cal Anderson with a cake my mom bought me and an also drunk couple asked about my thesis and the dude was a constructivist I swear to god. So I fell into the grass and we spoke for like 20 minutes and there was a dog 🐕.
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This summer was so enriching, on so many levels, personally and professionally, I’m excited to get back into the business and write a blog about it. (Also about my selection process - on popular request). Stay tuneeed (feeling like an influenza while I write this but ya).
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