Negar Rostamzadeh
@negar_rz
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Staff RS @Google Research, Adjunct Professor @McGillu, Associate Industry Member @MIlAMontreal
Joined August 2016
Excited that our paper *Tackling algorithmic bias and promoting transparency in health datasets: the STANDING Together consensus recommendations* is published in The Lancet Digital Health. Honored to be part of this amazing team of authors led by.@DrXiaoLiu and @jaldmn. This
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Towards the end of the #ICLR2020, I would like to announce an exciting personal news! This Monday, I will join amazing #Google Brain Ethical AI team led by @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai! I will also have the opportunity of collaborating with @hugo_larochelle's team in Montreal!
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Excited to announce the FashionGen Text to Image challenge. The task is to generate fashion items based on design descriptions. Data is annotated by designers, with multiple angles of each item and has over 300,000 samples! @SSENSE @element_ai .
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Maryam Mirzakhani was always a great inspiration to me. One of the best books that I read during my highschool, was her Number Theory book. Glad that May 12 (her birthday) will be a day to celebrate the achievements of Women in Math!.
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I learned so much from @timnitGebru at the Ethical AI team! She is an incredible human and an amazing researcher. She made an environment that we were enjoying every moment of working there. Besides her research, she works on educating the community! I just can’t believe this!.
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half an hour before receiving the email, I was chatting with @timnitGebru about a PhD student who does amazing research on accessibility and how it would be great to have her in our team in a few years :( sometimes I am too positive about the future :(.
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Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!!.
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I feel so lucky that I had the opportunity of working with @timnitGebru, another well deserved recognition for Timnit. She is named as world’s 50 greatest leaders by #Fortune
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My 2010s:. Finished my BSc and PhD.Published a book in Persian.Got married.Immigrated.Lived in 5 countries.Visited many countries (and filled many visa application forms!).Published in ML venues.Co-organized 8 successful workshops/symposium.Started an RS job ~3 years
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#NIPS released Statement on inappropriate behavior. Thanks to @haldaume3 for initially raising awareness, @KLdivergence for her courage, @timnitGebru @hannawallach @AnimaAnandkumar @mmitchell_ai and others for their actions and the board for the statement.
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I’m hiring! Our team is looking for a Research Scientist to work with me on the intersection of Computer Vision/ Muti-modal learning and socio-technical research and help in building more equitable ML Evaluation practices.
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Happy Persian New Year (Nowruz)! These days are always the best part of my memories. The excitement around setting up the 7-sin table, buying new cloths, visiting family, the sense of Spring and 13 days of school holidays, were all my most joyful childhood memories!.
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*Adaptive Cross-Modal Few-Shot Learning* is on arXiv now. Chen Xing, me, Boris Oreshkin and Pedro Pinheiro.
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Rubbish research *again*: I can't believe it is still an ongoing battle! This time by the help of "social scientists". "The algorithm, which was formulated by social scientists. ".reminded me of tweets/convos w @Abebab @rajiinio @leventsagun.
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I am excited for winning the speaker award of the year 😊 at the Montreal Startup community! #StartupCommunityAwards @mtlnewtech @osmomtl
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I am nominated as the speaker of the year for the startup community awards!.
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I am so excited to be a mentor at @WiMLworkshop #NeurIPS2018 alongside some of my favorite researchers in the field! (I will be at the table 41).
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Considering the majority vote when the minorities are mainly affected doesn't sound right to me! @NipsConference.
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What’s happening in Ukraine is beyond heartbreaking! There is no doubt about it! I just don’t know why people describe it as “first war in recent time”! Half of the world is in war! Afghanistan, Yemen, Tigray (that I wouldn’t know if it was not because of my friend), Syria….
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Our paper *Adversarial Framing for Image and Video Classification* by Michał Zaj and Konrad Zołna (equal contribution), me and Pedro Pinheiro is nominated for the best student presentation award at #AAAI2019! If you go to AAAI, check out their presentation
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Computer Vision initially used a woman's playboy picture. Biases and discriminations is continued in the whole process. It is so disappointing to see research done by/and to address marginalized people's issues caused by our community is discouraged or marked as "not research".
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We are glad to host a panel discussion at the "Computer Vision for Fashion, Art, and Design (#CVFAD2020)" workshop at #CVPR2020:. Please send your questions from panelists via this form by June 17th. Panelists:
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I am excited to contribute as the Senior Program Chair of the Montreal AI Symposium (@SymposiumAi) 2019, with our amazing team of Program Chairs, @adri_romsor, @lcharlin, and @diazf_acm, and D&I Chairs, @laurent_dinh and @Miss_Hanie and the Local Chair, Émélie Brunet!
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It is really eye opening to see how some people’s behaviour and the way they treat others, is so dependent on the status, benefits of the relationship, with so much calculations behind it! I had both experiences /1.
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I am sick of all these all-male articles, blogposts saying, "oh we did Women in AI articles before!" or "we once featured a woman"! If you have no idea about the field, or only know about the hype of the field, please don't write articles that can be miss-leading!.
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Our #CHI2023 paper *From plane crashes to algorithmic harm: applicability of safety engineering frameworks for responsible ML* led by our incredible intern @ShalalehRismani will be presented on Tue, April 25 @ 17:17.1/4
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@callmeraha13 خیلی سال پیش شاهد رفتار نامناسب یه مرد همسایه با یه دختر ۵ ساله بودم. تا من رو دید مکث کرد و دور شد. سریع به پدر و مادرش زنگ زدم و موضوع رو اطلاع دادم. عصر اونروز پدر خونواده و دختر ۵ ساله با من تماس گرفتن که توضیح بدن من اشتباه دیدم! چرا باید همچین چیزی به بچه ۵ ساله یاد بدن؟.
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@__Injaneb96 @SnoopDogg Saman Yasin (Saeidi) is also a Kurdish raper who got death sentence! Let’s also be his voice together with Toomaj.
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My 2017 highlights:.Finished my PhD!.Started working at @element_ai as a Research Scientist!.Co-organized @WiCVworkshop @WiMLworkshop and Women in Deep Learning workshop 2017!.Spent at least an hour every day talking to @timnitGebru one of the most amazing people in the world!.
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0/ March 13 was my last day at @element_ai. It's been a ~3 years journey with many learning experiences and growth opportunities to leverage. I am grateful to @PhilBeaudoin and @NicolasChapados for giving me this unique opportunity.
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@60Minutes This is very disappointing. Erasing the work of @jovialjoy @timnitGebru @rajiinio and other black women? wow!.
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Our paper *Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction* led by awesome @renee_m_shelby received Honorable Mention for Best Paper at AAAI/ACM @AIESConf!
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10 Megabyte Computer Only 5999! You read it right! All for 5999!
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I am wondering why we still have most conferences in the US despite all these exclusions!.AAAI, ICLR, ICML, CVPR!.
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@TheOfficialACM @JeffDean It is zero accountability. Giving highest prize to someone who negatively impact the lives of many students. Iranian students who were already dealing with so many challenges and then easily say “do not reflect ACM view”? This was not a random racist statement. So easy to spot!.
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Part of my interview with @tsimonite alongside some of my favorite women in the field @math_rachel @AnimaAnandkumar Joelle Pineau, I talk about the importance of preventing minorities from leaving the field and providing them with equal opportunities to advance in their workplace.
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I am so happy😍The workshop on *Ethical considerations in creative applications of CV* at #CVPR2021 went really well! I enjoyed so much the talks, amazing papers, artworks presented and critiques of the workshop! Thanks to amazing organizers, speakers, authors and participants!.
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I was expecting at least the Fairness community reacts and not leave us alone and invisible! Our lives matter!.
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I heard what’s going on in Tigray because of news shared by Timnit, I know what’s happening in Afghanistan because it is too close to home! Why do the world media closes their eyes on all that’s happening! I sometimes feel like I am living in ML bubble! :(.
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#ICML2018 #FATworkshop (Fairness, Interpretability, and Explainability) is one of the most interesting and most diverse workshops at #ICML2018 Thanks to @timnitGebru @mrtz @KLdivergence and other organizers! Thanks @katecrawford and @hannawallach for the amazing panel discussion!
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1/ I had the honor to teach at the AI for Social Good summer lab in 2017 and 2018! Many women who were part of the summer lab continued the research in Machine Learning and applied to amazing grad schools!.
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We are glad to announce the call for paper for the *First Workshop on Computer Vision for Fashion, Art, and Design* at ECCV 2018!.Please find more details on the website:.We have tracks for Papers and Artworks:.@HuiWu_ @WiMLworkshop @wimlds @WiCVworkshop.
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We are looking for a full-time backend developer to help us releasing, maintaining the datasets and future competitions!.Machine Learning knowledge is a plus! Please contact me with the *Research Dev* in the subject! (negar@elementai.com) @element_ai @black_in_ai @WiMLworkshop.
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Instagram and what’s app are now closed in Iran. This internet restriction and closing the communication ports are very scary 😟😞.
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It is great that there are many initiatives to make #NeurIPS more inclusive. However, we can't yet consider NeurIPS inclusive while a large number of researchers/students can't attend (due to visa issues) just because of their nationalities! This is very disappointing!.
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This is the post @timnitGebru wrote 3 years ago. Now in 3 years many things have changed. This is because she didn’t just observe but took actions! She spent so much time and effort leading this initiative and made the community more inclusive
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Our paper 'Adaptive Cross-Modal Few-shot Learning' was accepted to @NeurIPSConf .Congratulations to Chen Xing, @BOreshkin and @pedroopinheiro
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You can apply to be an organizer of the #WiML2019 I personally learnt a lot by co-organizing the @WiMLworkshop and @WiCVworkshop 2017! It is an amazing experience and in my opinion these workshops, @WiDS_Conference @WiNLPWorkshop can eventually lead to a more inclusive community!.
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Very helpful advice on shortening papers right before the #CVPR2020 deadline from @deviparikh .
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Come and check out our poster "RILO: Reinforced Imitation Learning from Observations" on Friday at the *Imitation Learning and its Challenges in Robotics* workshop at #NeurIPS2018 @element_ai .Konrad Zoha, me, Yoshua Bengio, @skaasj, and @pedroOliveiraP
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Over 50% oh Herat University students are Women! Are they able to continue? :( it is too painful 😣.
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Samples from the winning team (Xiaofeng Mao) of the Fashion-Gen challenge that we organized at #ECCV2018! Thanks to @ThomasBoquet for your amazing contribution, @element_ai and @SSENSE for sponsoring and enabling this challenge!
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What does reflect your views? Giving recognition and more platforms to someone who wrote the statements? It is not “in the past”. It was in his webpage till yesterday! It almost feels like you are saying “we are sorry you felt that way”.
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Paper id already over 8500, more than a day to CVPR deadline!
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Women in AI, ML,. are not charity cases that you are be proud of each time you feature or sponsor them and then ignoring/eliminating all underrepresented people from history! Women's events in the field are organized to help people know the works of underrepresented researchers.
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Thanks to @MannyKayy for organizing the @black_in_ai dinner at #icml2018! It was amazing! @timnitGebru @Moustapha_6C @red_abebe
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۱/ برای دوستانی که قصد دارند برای دکترا یا فوق لیسانس ریسرچ اقدام کنند چند تا نکته مهم و ساده: درسته که گفته می شه هرچقدر ایمیل بیشتری بزنین شانس بیشتری برای گرفتن جواب مثبت از اساتید دارید ولی این فقط به شرطیه که برای هر ایمیل جداگانه وقت بگذارید و از فرستادن ایمیل های فله ای ….
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Feeling so privileged to meet @ruha9 in person and have her signature on the “Race after technology” book. It was amazing listening to her at @black_in_ai fireside discussion at #NeurIPS2019
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CFP for the *Ethical Considerations in Creative applications of Computer Vision* workshop at #CVPR2021 and the *Art Gallery* submission.Our amazing speakers are @drbethcoleman @alexhanna @LadumaNgxokolo @carolinesinders @TheCreaturesLab.deadline: March 15
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Congratulations to @arcp_8 for her paper on *Reinforced active learning for image segmentation* that is accepted to #ICLR2020. She worked on this paper during her internship at @element_ai together with @pedroopinheiro me and @chrisjpal
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Showcasing accepted Art pieces of the Computer Vision for fashion design and art #eccv2018 @HuiWu_ @mtesfald @elluba @ThomasBoquet @wxswxs @annaridler .All the art work and their descriptions are provided on this website:.
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Our paper, HALI: Hierarchical Adversarially Learned Inference is on arXiv now: .
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Our Montreal Data Licence now in the News :).This work will be also presented at the FATE/CV workshop of @CVPR 2019!.@element_ai @PeeGeeQc .The data licence generator is available in both English and French:.
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Thanks @goodfellow_ian for initiating and organizing the #SOCML! Hope the inclusive culture at SOCML will become a norm in all ML conferences!.
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سال ۸۸ دانشجوی دانشگاه تهران بودم. دیروز تمام ترامای اون روزها برگشت بعد ۱۳ سال. روزهای استرس و نگرانی. روزهایی که باعث شد تصمیمم برای رفتن حتمی بشه ولی قلبم جا بمونه. ما این ور دنیا وضع روحیمون اصلا خوب نیست. وضع دانشگاه شریف دیروز خیلی بدتر از تجربه ما بود. چند نسل تراما؟.
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Maryam Mirzakhani was very influential on the lives of many women and in particular highschool students. She was a role model. I remember the joy of reading her (and Roya Beheshti) book on Number Theory during during highschool. Sad that she is gone.
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Timnit is such an amazing person, researcher and leader who was/ is still advocating for us, while she is not in our team for over 5 months <3 :(.
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I am really excited to be a mentor @WiMLworkshop Computer Vision table (table 9) together with @tejuafonja.
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@timnitGebru Oh he also mentioned at NeurIPS a couple of years ago, AGI will be solved in 7 years! Followed by the whole room laughing at him!.
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