Divyansh Kaushik @dkaushik96 Twitter profile

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2 years

We blew our ability to lead in the development of and setting standards for the 5G technology… by not granting **ONE** Green Card. Imagine all the technology we’re saying goodbye to by not retaining the foreign STEM talent trained at US universities.

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Just in: CDC now recommends that grad students take the weekend off.

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Nothing like sunset on the Monongahela riverfront in Southside Pittsburgh—taken last night. 📸

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In case you were wondering how the global race for talent is going, here are some trends. 1/4 🧵 US = 😢 UK, Australia, Canada = 🚀

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Had an amazing time interacting with @POTUS and welcoming him to @CarnegieMellon today!

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Sgt. Uday Singh was the first U.S. Army soldier of Indian descent to die in the Iraq war as his convoy was hit by insurgents on Dec 1, 2003. Raised in Chandigarh (my hometown), he trained at Fort Knox and was assigned to 1-34th Armor Regiment. @jaketapper #MemorialDay

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WOW, what a start to the day 🥰 Thank you, @VP !

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@AlecStapp There was a time when Senator Toomey had the desk and forgot to stock Hersheys.

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1 year

Yesterday, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation at @CarnegieMellon ! Thanks to my amazing advisors @zacharylipton and @ehovy , and committee members @gneubig , @sleepinyourhat and @ChenhaoTan ! Grateful to my family, friends, mentors, and collaborators, who made this happen!

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While the DoD is finding it hard to recruit AI talent, half of AI PhDs who leave the US cite immigration challenges as why. Congress has a unique opportunity to fix this in the Bipartisan Innovation Act, and it must deliver. New from me in @TheDispatch .

Stop Turning Away the Next Einsteins

The U.S. welcomes top STEM students from around the world, only to watch them leave for other countries over immigration issues.

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1 year

Why in 2023 am I still reviewing papers that start their introduction with how recent advances in deep learning have revolutionized ML and NLP…?

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2 years

Amidst all the talk around Virginia, it’s also important to take note that Democrats lost every statewide race there was on the ballot in Pennsylvania.

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2 years

Five years I’ve lived in Pittsburgh, and yet every time I come back from traveling, I find this welcome truly amazing.

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4 years

Today, on behalf of student governments at 72 universities across the country, I and my colleague @ThatBenjiL sent a letter to President Trump urging him to protect OPT in its entirety. What is OPT and why is it important? 1/

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4 years

Together with @dkaushik96 , we co-wrote a letter to the Trump administration defending #OPT and international students on behalf of over 70 universities' student governments (including @MITgsc and @cmugsa ). It's important that students' voices are heard!

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4 years

Over the past few days, @ThatBenjiL ( @MITgsc ) and I ( @cmugsa ) co-led a national effort to submit an Amicus Brief from student govts in support of MIT/Harvard's lawsuit against ICE. It was filed earlier today. 1/8

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5 years

I made this decision last month, and received my new I-20 today, so here it is. Following my graduation from the Master's program in August, I'll be staying at @LTIatCMU , @SCSatCMU for ~4 more years working with my awesome advisors @ehovy & @zacharylipton as a PhD student. 🎉

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2 years

Preprint alert 🚨 With ML’s growing reliance on crowdsourcing, in this paper, @zacharylipton , @AlexJohnLondon , and I seek to resolve the human subject status of ML’s crowdworkers. More in the thread🧵 1/15

Resolving the Human Subjects Status of Machine Learning's Crowdworkers

In recent years, machine learning (ML) has relied heavily on crowdworkers both for building datasets and for addressing research questions requiring human interaction or judgment. The diverse...

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when it’s an extended holiday but you’re behind on two weeks of work

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United vs Liverpool summed up in one picture. @MenInBlazers @PLinUSA

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2 years

Honored to be at the @WhiteHouse as @POTUS signed the CHIPS and Science Act, one of the most significant investment in scientific research and development in a generation. Now let’s finish the job by appropriating the money and cultivating a scientific workforce of the future.

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1 year

Yet another study showing immigrants contribute significantly to US innovation: they are 16% of inventors but responsible for 23% of output. They also lead to 36% of total innovation, with 2/3 of this due to their +ve influence on native-born collaborators

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2 years

House version of USICA not only establishes a startup visa but also exempts STEM PhD students from green card caps. @calebwatney @crampell

Committee on Education & the Workforce Democrats

@EdWorkforceDems

2 years

Today, @HouseDemocrats introduced the America COMPETES Act to prepare students and workers for the modern economy and keep our economy competitive. Read Chairman @BobbyScott ’s full statement here:

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What does it mean to be an international student in the current environment? It wasn’t easy for me to answer this in the form of a first-person essay but it was necessary to highlight the unjust scapegoating of intl students by the administration. 1/🧵

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3 years

CMU's @dkaushik96 has seen promising international students opt against US universities, and grads move to Canada. "Whose loss is it? It is a global market for talent, and the U.S. is falling behind."

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I’m going to add some extremely important context this article is missing. The EO specifically asks NIST (and AISI) to focus on certain tasks (CBRN risks etc). Paul Christiano is extremely qualified for those tasks—important context that should’ve been included here. Another…

Sharon Goldman

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2 months

SCOOP: @NIST is facing an internal crisis as staff members and scientists have threatened to resign over the anticipated appointment of Paul Christiano to a crucial position at the agency's newly-formed US AI Safety Institute, sources say.

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2 years

Likely voters favor STEM immigration to the US 2:1. Overwhelming support across the demographic spectrum. 🚀🌐 Very timely as Senate and House negotiate the Bipartisan Innovation Act.

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In a bipartisan letter to Congress, 49 former national security leaders (including Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries of Defense & Homeland Security) ask Congress to pass the STEM immigration provisions in COMPETES to avert a national security crisis🚨 1/7

Exclusive: Former national security leaders urge Congress to ease immigration policy for foreign...

It suggests widespread concern about China's rise could bolster bipartisan support for change in one corner of immigration policy.

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2 years

Visiting family after two years. Thank you Pfizer!

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3 months

This is a huge loss for the country. @RepGallagher is not only the smartest member on China issues but also one of the smartest and committed members overall—one who is eager to change his views if presented with new data, a rarity these days. His shoes are too big to be filled…

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Rep. GALLAGHER announces he won’t seek reelection. Comes shortly after he was one of the 3 R votes opposing impeaching Mayorkas

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2 years

Think of CHIP manufacturing like running a kitchen for a 5-star restaurant. To create amazing new dishes it helps to have fancy equipment etc, & yet, these will be put to little use unless the kitchen has the top-end chefs to staff it. 📝 @BrendanBordelon

Biden wants an industrial renaissance. He can’t do it without immigration reform.

Intel’s planned microchip plant outside Columbus, Ohio, is the administration’s poster child for reviving high-tech manufacturing. But failure to allow a small number of foreign-born doctorates to...

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2 years

Sounds about right 4/4

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2 years

Immigration is America's superpower, so this should be raising alarm bells for policymakers: The United States is no longer the top choice of foreign talent when asked where they would move for work.

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6 months

1/🧵The landscape of global talent acquisition is changing rapidly, calling for a fresh perspective on visa regulations in the US. So, let's take a closer look at what President Biden's AI EO mean for America's role in the global talent race. 🌏🏃‍♂️🇺🇸

Understanding the Visa Policies under the AI Executive Order

The looming competition for global talent has brought forth a necessity to evaluate and update the policies concerning international visa holders in the United States.

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2 years

🎉🎊 Our workshop on Human Evaluations of Generative Models will happen at @NeurIPSConf this year. We aim to create space for greater discussion w/ researchers, practitioners, funders, & policymakers on the challenges associated with reliably evaluating large generative models.

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Tourist visa interview wait times in India are nearing 2 years and graduation ceremonies don’t qualify for emergency appointments. So much for hoping that parents would get to see the PhD hooding next year.

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6 months

Any day Breitbart wishes to attack me personally is a good day.

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6 years

"The most effective forms of censorship today involve meddling with trust and attention, not muzzling speech itself. As a result, they don’t look much like the old forms of censorship at all." This is perhaps the most accurate article on free speech today, I've come across.

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My new essay for @Wired on how "It's the Golden Age of Free Speech"—except our ideals and battles about "free speech" are now about *attention*, not speech. Besides, can you even believe your lying eyes? It may all be fake.

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Important bio update

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6 months

Any day Breitbart wishes to attack me personally is a good day.

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@dusk883 @benfreund @GAR1511 @JebBush @realDonaldTrump That's an unrelated picture. It was when Congress allowed passage of DACA but disallowed a similar provision for the parents.

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3 years

Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris came to the US as an international student too.

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My inbox is overwhelmed with messages from international students who say that they are relieved by the outcome of the U.S. presidential election

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The demographic challenges for the West are just as real as they are for the PRC. But the West has an asymmetric advantage: the world’s best & brightest want to move here—bringing their groundbreaking ideas with them. The trillion dollar question is when do we double down on…

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If I was 50 years old in Italy, I'd start wondering who will pay my state-funded pension. You need either economic growth, acceptance of high migration or healthy demographics. Italy has none of the three. What will give?

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Thrilled to be joining the @FAScientists and @Day1Project as a Science and Technology Fellow while I continue to work towards my PhD at @CarnegieMellon . PS: This wouldn’t have been possible without the encouragement & support I’ve received from @zacharylipton all these years.

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3 years

gotta say i was raised in the “third world” and this is not how we do transfer of power.

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There is nothing patriotic about what is occurring on Capitol Hill. This is 3rd world style anti-American anarchy.

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I’m absolutely thrilled to be starting a new role with the incredibly talented team at Beacon Global Strategies. Advancing the critical intersection of technology and national security is more important than ever, and it's an honor to contribute to such a mission-driven…

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10 months

Honestly, good for Canada. More countries should look to capitalize on the US’s failures to provide certainty and predictability to this high skilled workforce.

Canada Woos American H-1B Visa Holders Fed Up With U.S. Immigration System

A move to start offering work permits to foreigners on U.S. H-1B visas seizes on the frustrations of many in the tech industry who are stuck in U.S. immigration limbo.

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2 years

I can neither confirm nor deny that Dolly Parton and I talked about pandemic preparedness before taking this picture.

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3 years

In our latest work, @douwekiela , @zacharylipton , @scottyih and I conduct a randomized controlled study to examine the efficacy of adversarial data collection (to appear at ACL-IJCNLP 2021 @aclmeeting ). #NLProc Thread 🧵 1/11

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7 months

In the 20 years of PEPFAR, around 25 million lives have been saved that would’ve otherwise been lost to AIDS. We shouldn’t let one of our most successful global aid program expire. PEPFAR reflects America at its best.

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"What's at stake here is a program that has saved 25 million lives and affected countless others." — @CondoleezzaRice highlights the importance of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program

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COVID is why if you want to renew a visa in India, you have to schedule an appointment to drop off your documents, but if you do it in Australia, you can send those documents by post.

Rohit Sharma 🇺🇸🇮🇳

@DcWalaDesi

2 years

On Visa Backlog, . @SecBlinken blames #COVID Watch Below.

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“So you know, Congress last did a major update to the immigration law before the internet was a thing and now we drive away the world’s top talent to Canada, UK, China and Australia as a result?”

Washingtonian Problems

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Caption this (DC Edition)

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3 years

THE GOATS ARE HERE! @CarnegieMellon

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As I pass on @cmugsa ’s presidency, I’m extremely proud of all we achieved for CMU PhD students in my 19 month tenure: - Minimum stipends at $2,250/month - Full coverage of health care premiums - Minimum 2 weeks/year time away from program - 4 weeks of parental accommodation… 1/3

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I’ve waited 524 days for this. Thank you Pfizer.

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why is there no money in the infrastructure bill to put taco trucks on every corner?

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2 years

this is why i had to mute the family whatsapp group.

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Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants. 🇮🇳🇺🇸 (Congrats, @paraga !)

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Glad and humbled to have received the Siebel Scholarship—awarded annually for academic excellence and demonstrated leadership to ~90 top students from the world’s leading graduate schools. Feels quite something to join the @SiebelScholars Class of ‘23.

Siebel Scholars Foundation Announces Class of 2023

The Siebel Scholars Foundation today announced the recipients of the 2023 Siebel Scholars award. Now in its 22nd year, the Siebel Scholars program ann

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@dkaushik96

4 years

I think I have an ML joke, but I can't explain it.

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4 years

I think I have a quantum joke, but I'm uncertain.

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Hmm, I wonder who could’ve seen this coming… Oh wait, we did see it coming and did nothing! 🫠

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Also, look at that sudden reversal in Indian students enrolling at UK universities. Wonder what happened after 2015... 3/4 ,

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Our Brief was cited by Harvard/MIT in their response.

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Over the past few days, @ThatBenjiL ( @MITgsc ) and I ( @cmugsa ) co-led a national effort to submit an Amicus Brief from student govts in support of MIT/Harvard's lawsuit against ICE. It was filed earlier today. 1/8

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How about STEM in particular? Luckily Canada and UK provide super granular data that allows you to see the trends in STEM enrollments. 2/4

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This morning, on behalf of student governments and student unions at 51 universities, representing 850,000+ students, @ThatBBLane and I wrote to DHS in opposition to it's proposed rule limiting the length of student visas. 1/

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This is wrong on so many levels. Nearly 90% of these students end up staying in the US because they want nothing to do with the CCP. Remember, one of CCP’s biggest fears is that someday the US might actually fix its immigration system. Bet the CCP will use this clip to recruit.

Eva McKend

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Sen. Scott in Iowa in response to a question about immigration, "We have 300,000 Chinese students on college campuses across this country. I am concerned that we are more interested in their tuition than we are to whether they are reporting back to the Chinese Communist Party."

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The newly released President's Budget for FY25 requests significant investments in AI, signaling a strong commitment to advancing technology and security. Here's a breakdown of the allocations and their implications. @scientistsorg #AI #Budget2025 1/10

President's Budget | OMB | The White House

Following his State of the Union address, President Biden released his budget detailing his vision to protect and build on the Administration’s progress and invest in all of America to make sure the...

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3 years

There’s no reason why the EMNLP deadline can’t be moved a week to help alleviate the stress so many Indian students and faculty are going through right now. Literally anyone I talk to in India has lost someone in their family to the coronavirus surge. Do better @emnlpmeeting .

Naomi Saphra

@nsaphra

3 years

How is EMNLP making the wrong call on this right now, when the COVID situation in India is not letting up and so many academics have friends and family dying there? Rather than alleviate inequality, extensions that only respond to US crises increase it.

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1 year

Last night was fun! Thanks to the @WhiteHouse for letting me crash their holiday celebrations.

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@dkaushik96

3 years

Some personal/professional news. 🙂 Super excited that @AmazonScience will be supporting me as a Graduate Research Fellow and my research (w/ @zacharylipton ) on out of distribution robustness with humans in the loop going forward.

Five Carnegie Mellon students named Amazon graduate research fellows

Amazon Graduate Research Fellows Program supports research in automated reasoning, computer vision, robotics, language technology, machine learning, operations research, and data science.

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@dkaushik96

2 years

This is a testament to the incredible work done by all graduate students at @CarnegieMellon , especially everyone at @cmugsa . Thank you all, and thank you @SLSVCoalition for your incredible support that made much of this work possible! ❤️ #AllInAwards

ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge

@allintovote

2 years

Our Standout Graduate Student Champion is Divyansh Kaushik of Carnegie Mellon University! Divyansh ran one of the biggest voter engagement programs ever at @CarnegieMellon , registering nearly 800 new voters while advocating for policies that support student voting. #ALLINAwards

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4 years

So if twitter becomes illegal, how will I know what's new in AI research?

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3 years

and the hits just keep on coming

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Can’t believe I made through a whole weekend without opening my laptop.

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😇🥳

Carnegie Mellon University

@CarnegieMellon

3 years

Five Carnegie Mellon University students with ties to @SCSatCMU have been selected for the inaugural @amazon Graduate Research Fellows Program. Congrats, Nil-Jana Akpinar, Natalia Lombardi de Oliveria, Divyansh Kaushik, Minji Yoon and Emre Yolcu 🎉.

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The UK's Conservative government is on track to issue over 200,000 work visas this year. They've outpaced pre-pandemic numbers with a ton of room to spare. In fact, by end of March 2022, they were at a 166% the 2020 numbers! 🚀🚀🚀. 🧵 1/5

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when grad students party hard

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🥳 partying + 😟 worried =

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An #MTurk worker emailed me and said, "I find your pay rates to be refreshingly fair, even generous. Thank you for being one of the great requesters that actually cares about treating your workers right; you will get an excellent reputation." This made my day. 😍 #dignityofwork

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2 years

A very happy Diwali to everyone! What an evening at the @WhiteHouse .

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@sahilkapur They’re not in a 14 year backlog, they’re in a 200+ year backlog. People who entered the line 14 years ago are getting their green cards now. People entering today won’t have a card become available to them for the next 200+ years.

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1 year

This is misleading. Advisory commissions’ recommendations have no binding on any agency.

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1 year

HUGE NEWS for US immigration today! Extending H-1B visa grace period from 60 to 180 days was approved at the @WHIAANHPI meeting today and will be announced by USCIS in ~3mos!! For the 100k+ workers affected by layoffs, this is a huge sigh of relief. Thanks @ajainb ! 🧵 1/3

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

9 years

When foreigners attend our great colleges & want to stay in the U.S., they should not be thrown out of our country.

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🚨🚨🚨 A group of 70 national security leaders, including Secretary Robert Wilkie, David Norquist and Michele Flournoy, have written to Congress to urgently address STEM immigration to counter the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

Experts push Congress for more high skilled immigrants to compete with China

"Much of this talent will be working in Pentagon-identified critical technology areas."

www.axios.com

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

3 years

Excited to share that the camera ready version for our #ICLR2021 paper is now available: And thanks to the wonderful reviewers at #ICLR2021 , this version reflects a huge improvement over the previous preprint.

Zachary Lipton

@zacharylipton

4 years

Since introducing **Counterfactually Augmented Data**, we've worked to clarify a theory of what's going on here & **why/when can this technique yield out-of-domain benefits**. Check out our latest efforts. [Joint work w @dkaushik96 & @setlur_amrith ]

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

4 years

Also accepted to @iclr_conf for a spotlight talk! Looking forward to April in Ethiopia. :) #nlproc @LTIatCMU

Zachary Lipton

@zacharylipton

5 years

Stoked to share this paper: We leverage MTurkers not to label but to revise documents to accord with ***counterfactual labels***. Resulting data enables us to disentangle “the difference that makes the difference”. Herculean effort by @dkaushik96 (1/n)

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

2 years

Over 50% of the AI PhDs who leave the US cite immigration issues as the reason why they left while DoD is finding it hard to recruit data scientists and AI experts. Congress must listen to the national security leaders who’re urging action on this front.

Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

2 years

In a bipartisan letter to Congress, 49 former national security leaders (including Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries of Defense & Homeland Security) ask Congress to pass the STEM immigration provisions in COMPETES to avert a national security crisis🚨 1/7

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

5 years

@utdreport @ManUtd If he comes, you know who asked him to come ;)

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

3 years

are we still doing life updates with side-by-side twitter bios?

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

2 years

If the United States is to remain globally competitive in technology and engineering, updating our immigration systems to meet the needs of critical industries should be a top priority. 📝 @LEHogg

Immigration Could Decide the U.S.-China Artificial Intelligence Race

Attracting talent has become an increasingly important factor in the growing rivalry between the United States and China for tech dominance.

nationalinterest.org

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

3 years

two hours in the line and it was 💯% worth it!

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

4 years

Let's take a look at how CMU previously supported it's URM populations. (Views strictly personal) The university recently had a map of Pittsburgh on display that left out predominantly black neighborhoods. 1/6

Carnegie Mellon University

@CarnegieMellon

4 years

“It is up to each one of us to confront and dismantle racism and injustice wherever they exist.” Read on for President Jahanian's message to the CMU community.

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

2 years

Gotta admit, becoming ABD feels pretty damn great.

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

10 months

🚨 Harnessing AI's power responsibly needs nuanced regs, not simplistic solutions. But today’s calorie-free media panic, where AI = nukes or pandemics, often clouds the discussion. @MattKorda + I write of the dangers this poses, and offer a path forward.

Panic about overhyped AI risk could lead to the wrong kind of regulation

There’s something missing in the heart of the conversation about AI.

www.vox.com

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

2 years

🚨🚨 The defense industry is facing a critical shortage of high-skilled STEM workforce, making the need for foreign talent particularly acute. Dr. Mark Lewis (DoD/ @POTUS45 ) & I write in National Defense that Congress must address this critical issue now.

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

4 years

Last week, @cmugsa talked to @RepDebDingell and @repmarkpocan , and laid our concerns w.r.t a proposed rule from DHS limiting the length of student visas. This morning, joined by 104 of their colleagues in Congress, they sent this letter to DHS opposing the proposed rule.

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

2 years

I’m now part of a work slack that is inactive during the night and over the weekends. Just feels so new… and weird.

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

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@RohitaKadambi @3YearLetterman would be proud

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

1 year

Next up, I’ll be joining @FAScientists in January as the Associate Director of Emerging Technologies and National Security Policy working with an amazingly talented group of people on pressing issues around emerging tech governance and global tech competition.

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

5 years

And just like that, I am a #CMUGrad . Now, I'll continue with my journey at @LTIatCMU @SCSatCMU as a PhD student. #NLProc

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

4 years

I had a C in undergrad NLP if that helps.

Mary Beth Kery ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ HCI Dr.

@mbkery

4 years

PhD admissions season... I’m proud to have been rubbish back then. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I had a 3.6 gpa, small school, took the GREs 3 times bc my score was shite, got rejected from most places I applied (few since $$$ application fees). Lots of researchers only grow out of being given a chance 🌷

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

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It was a pleasure to attend the @WhiteHouse signing ceremony for the Executive Order issued by the President on AI. Ensuring safety, security, and trust around emerging technologies is the only way to ensure a prosperous future. Now the hard part of implementation begins.

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Divyansh Kaushik

@dkaushik96

5 years

Phew. Nice that I wore deodorant. My first conference, my first best paper and my first talk. Thanks, #EMNLP2018 for everything.

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