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Somesh Jha

11 months

[1/3] We are excited to open-source Langroid: – an intuitive, flexible framework to easily build LLM-powered applications. You set up Agents, equip them with optional components: LLM, vector-store, methods.

GitHub - langroid/langroid: Harness LLMs with Multi-Agent Programming

Harness LLMs with Multi-Agent Programming. Contribute to langroid/langroid development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

I find the following type of review of most irritating: "I find the results in this paper not surprising." If you want to be entertained, please watch a movie:-)

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

Prospective graduate students. Free advice. If you have the choice, DO NOT STAY at your undergraduate institution for graduate school. Diversity of ideas and opinions is important. Being a bit uncomfortable is good. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

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@jhasomesh

3 years

As if 2020 couldn't get any worse, my advisor Ed Clarke passed away yesterday. He won the 2007 Turing Award for this work (). Really sad and heartbroken really. 😪

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

COVID situation in India hits close to home. Just lost a cousin sister. She was a gentle soul with beautiful singing voice. She is singing somewhere, but I just can't hear:-( She was only 43 years old. Too soon...

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 years

Really honored to receive this award. A testament to my great students, colleagues, and collaborators.🙏

UW-Madison Computer Sciences

@WisconsinCS

2 years

Professor Somesh Jha was honored with the UW-Madison Kellett Mid-Career Award for 2022-2023. Read more here: @jhasomesh @WARF_News @UWiscResearch @UWMadisonLS @UWMadScience

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

6 years

Must read for graduate students and academics. Every time I go through a difficult unproductive phase, I read this article.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 years

Excellent talk by Prof. Tom Reps from @WisconsinCS on writing research papers. I will make it a required reading/watching for all students coming into my group. Talk: Slides:

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

10 months

I hear lot of grumbling about #NeurIPS reviews. The root cause is increased number of submissions and publications. As a community, we simply don't have the capacity to handle the volume of submissions. If we don't disincentivize the "numbers game", nothing will improve.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

Wow, this was a really nice surprise. My years at @iitdelhi were absolutely wonderful. Really cherish this award. Made by day. Now back to Zoom meetings:-)

IIT Delhi

@iitdelhi

3 years

#IITDelhi is pleased to announce the #AlumniAwards 2021. Congratulations to all our #alumni who have done us proud through their contributions and achievements! #iit #iitalumni

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

Humbled and excited to receive MURI on the general topic of robust learning. PIs are from US (UW, UCSD, CMU, PSU) and Australia (University of Melbourne, Macquarie University, University of Newcastle).

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 years

New group at Google with focus on ML debugging is looking for qualified candidates. Reach out to babic.domagoj @google .com if you are interested. The group will be responsible for ML debugging infrastructure covering performance debugging,

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

5 months

I have no significant accomplishments to report in 2023. Just another year passed by, and I am still here. I guess I should be thankful for that. 😀

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

5 years

A junior faculty" "how do I get my h-index up?" Me: "get older!"😀

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

Question for fellow researchers: I always try to submit my papers to top-tier venues few times before dropping tiers. However, I realize that the "revise resubmit" cycle can be frustrating for students. What is your strategy on submissions?

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 years

Fabulous recruiting season for @WisconsinCS Five excellent faculty are joining us: @EthanCecchetti @tchajed Rishab Goyal @pdmcdan Kirthi Kandasamy Really exciting times ahead for our department

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

9 months

Congrats to Vinod Ganapathy for becoming the new chair of @iiscbangalore CS department. Vinod was among the first batch of students when I arrived at @WisconsinCS Perhaps the greatest joy in academia is to see your students succeed. Nice picture with the exchange of flowers.…

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

6 years

Announcement about the NSF-Frontiers grant on adversarial ML (AML). The grant is with Patrick McDaniel (PSU), Dan Boneh and Percy Liang (Stanford), @kamalikac (UCSD), @dawnsongtweets (Berkeley), and David Evans (Virginia). Congrats to the entire team.

UW-Madison Computer Sciences

@WisconsinCS

6 years

Congratulations to Professor Somesh Jha on his NSF Frontiers Grant! ML FTW! Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning established with $10 million NSF grant: @UWMadisonLS @UWiscResearch @NSF @NSF_CISE @jhasomesh #NSFFunded

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

More information about the recent MURI award. Really humbled and excited to get the opportunity to work with such a great team of PIs.

UW-Madison Computer Sciences

@WisconsinCS

3 years

Building better human-bot cybersecurity teams: UW-Madison led team wins prestigious US Department of Defense MURI grant! Congratulations to CS professor and principal investigator @jhasomesh on this award! @uwcdis @UWMadisonLS @DoDCTO @CMUEngineering

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 years

I am deeply humbled to be part of this amazing group at @UWMadison Our department @WisconsinCS and school @uwcdis are incredible, and I am grateful to interact with great students, collaborators, and colleagues. Success is the byproduct of you and the ecosystem you are part of!

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@UWMadison

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Congrats to the 1️⃣3️⃣ #UWMadison scholars who have been elected @aaas fellows! @davidrandes @FreshwaterSteve @SusanHagness Mark D. Hill @DrJFLJackson @jhasomesh @corngenes @kjniemi @pateljm @JenniferSchoma4 @VanessaSperand2 @MonicaGTurner Eric M. Wilcots

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 years

Really proud of my students and collaborators. Three papers accepted at @acm_ccs [1] Strengthening Order Preserving Encryption with Differential Privacy [2] EIFFeL: Ensuring Integrity for Federated Learning [3] Federated Boosted Decision Trees with Differential Privacy

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

1 year

The response by @JeffDean was purely technical. Why don't you respond to the technical arguments point-by-point? Technical arguments are a bedrock of research, and I don't see it as toxic at all.

Emma Strubell

@strubell

1 year

@JeffDean @SashaMTL Lol, seems totally unnecessary for a Google SVP to pick on my work in response to the LLaMA paper. Jeff, please stop. This is just one example of the toxic workplace culture that led me (and many others) to leave Google.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 years

Our paper "Revisiting Adversarial Robustness of Classifiers With a Reject Option" () received a Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning and Beyond at @RealAAAI 2022 (). The work was lead by @jiefengchen1

Adversarial Machine Learning in Real-World Computer Vision Systems and Online Challenges (AML-CV) |...

Workshop at CVPR 2021

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

My favorite story related to international travel. At the LA airport, I show my US passport. The TSA agent asked me: "where are you from?". I was confused 😳 Another agent in the booth yells: "Mike, are you stupid? He just showed his US passport." and she added "welcome home".

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

9 months

As CS community gets large, there is a big problem that we just don't have time to track all the results. When I started as a grad student (no, you can't ask, when), one roughly knew all major results in your area. Not possible now. Thoughts?

Dan Roy

@roydanroy

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Will be curious to read this and understand how this result isn't already implied by Nagarajan and Kolter and Negrea et al. (ICML). They cite neither as far as I can tell. :(

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

5 years

This a first. A student asked a random combinatorics question during the review session. Like a nerd I answered it. Later I was told by another student that it was a question in on the homeworks from another class. Duh!!

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

7 months

@DrPorman I much older than you, but whenever I feel like this, I take a break from everything for a few days and unplug. One advice, don't compare yourselves to others. Just follow your path. Comparing to others brings on anxiety and kills creativity.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

4 years

Three papers at @icmlconf Congrats to my amazing co-authors. Will post videos soon. 1) Graphical models and privacy () 2) From Attribution methods to causality 3) Concise explanations using adv training

Concise Explanations of Neural Networks using Adversarial Training

We show new connections between adversarial learning and explainability for deep neural networks (DNNs). One form of explanation of the output of a neural network model in terms of its input...

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

Our department @WisconsinCS is looking for faculty at all levels. Reach out if you need more information. FYI, Madison was rated as #1 city livable city. Just saying:-)

Faculty & Staff Recruitment

Faculty and academic staff openings Faculty positions Faculty associate positions (see details here) Academic staff positions Faculty positions: Assistant/Associate Professor The Department of...

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

6 years

Two papers accepted to ICML 2018. Congrats to all my amazing co-authors. Both on adversarial ML. The arxiv version of the papers are up, but we will update it soon based on reviewer comments. Arxiv versions: and

Analyzing the Robustness of Nearest Neighbors to Adversarial Examples

Motivated by safety-critical applications, test-time attacks on classifiers via adversarial examples has recently received a great deal of attention. However, there is a general lack of...

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

8 months

Our paper presents the first provable watermarking scheme for large language models (LLMS) with public detectability or verifiability: we use a private key for watermarking and a public key for watermark detection. Work with Jaiden, Sanjam, Mingyuan, Mohammad, and Saeed.…

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 years

Congrats to Vinod Ganapathy () on being promoted to the rank of full professor at IISc. @iiscbangalore Vinod was among the first group of PhD students when I arrived at @WisconsinCS , and thus was crucial in my success. Thanks Vinod and big congrats.

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Somesh Jha

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3 years

Dual of an optimization problem can shed useful insights. What is favorite example of 👆? Please reply to this thread. Mine is deriving a price of a stock option, which you can do from the dual (you have to assume complete markets).

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2 years

Classic reviewer: "You have answered all the questions. Thanks but I will not increase my score." Well, thank you too...

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

5 years

Dear student: If you see me in a store, it is not OK to ask me a complicated question about the homework. That is what office hours are for.

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Congrats to @jiefengchen1 Jiefeng was co-advised by Prof. Yingyu Liang and me. He was a joy to have in the group, and is now a research scientist at @Google (). Just an amazing student with an amazing record. Congrats Jiefeng. Now you are an alum of…

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

11 months

A department chair told me that they hired someone who already has more than 100+ papers. What! How is this possible? Thoughts.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 months

Really excited to co-chair @satml_conf 2025 with @mlsec We are really committed to keep growing this community. Please send email to me or Konrad if you have suggestions.

Nicolas Papernot

@NicolasPapernot

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The 2nd edition of @satml_conf is a wrap! It was an absolute honour to co-chair the conference with @carmelatroncoso ! We are very excited to announce the co-chairs for the 3rd edition in 2025: @jhasomesh and @mlsec Follow @satml_conf for updates about the conference!

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Somesh Jha

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5 years

Really proud about the following paper () on exploring connections between model-extraction attacks and active learning. It is going to appear in Usenix-Security 2020. Congrats to my co-authors (Varun, @kamalikac , Irene and Songbai).

Exploring Connections Between Active Learning and Model Extraction

Machine learning is being increasingly used by individuals, research institutions, and corporations. This has resulted in the surge of Machine Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) - cloud services that...

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

Congrats to @AmritaRoyChowd8 for being chosen as one of the MIT 2021 Rising Stars. Proud advisor moment.

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@jhasomesh

3 years

👇 The reviewers are "us". We need to fix the system, but we can't view reviewers as someone "else". They are part of our ecosystem.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 years

Congrats to Dr. @AmritaRoyChowd8 She successfully defended her thesis. Really proud of all she has accomplished.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

10 months

We are pleased to publish a paper based on the findings of the workshop held on June 27 and organized by Google, Stanford, and UW-Madison. We hope that this paper will be useful for the community and thus welcome your feedback.

Identifying and Mitigating the Security Risks of Generative AI

Every major technical invention resurfaces the dual-use dilemma -- the new technology has the potential to be used for good as well as for harm. Generative AI (GenAI) techniques, such as large...

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4 years

We all know reviewers that are super negative. Not just critical, but reviewers that reject everything on their path.:-) How should the research community deal with such reviewers? Thoughts?

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@jhasomesh

4 years

Advisor brag time. Amrita Roy Chowdhury has been selected as one of the rising star. She is excellent. Look out for for. Congrats Amrita. @WisconsinCS

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

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Prof. Tom Reps attended his last faculty meeting at @WisconsinCS and there was a small reception after the meeting (photos attached). When I joined the department, I interacted a lot with Tom and late Susan Horwitz. I learned so much from both of them, and these interactions

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@jhasomesh

3 years

👇Using "baselinestretch" in Latex. A visual description:-)

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#Racing 🔥😂👍

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@jhasomesh

9 months

Really enjoyed visiting #PurdueCS . Really impressed with all the faculty that I met with. Great department!

Purdue Computer Science

@PurdueCS

9 months

TUE SEP 5 | 10:30 AM EST | LWSN 3102AB As part of the excellence at #PurdueCS , join us with @jhasomesh as he delivers "Trustworthy Machine Learning and the Security Mindset" first in the Samuel D. Conte Distinguished Lecture Series. #PurdueComputes ➡️

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3 years

There is a lot of discussion about tenure going on. My advice to young profs is not to think about it. Just do interesting things and let "chips fall" where they may. Remember in CS related fields not getting tenure is not disastrous, and..

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

ML folks. There are papers that in the federated learning (FL) context that gradient updates (even with noise added) reveal information. What is the state of the art (SOTA) of the privacy leakage of gradient updates?

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

4 years

Great showing. The Wisconsin-PL group (I think) got 5+ papers into PLDI. Congrats to all. If you are a prospective PL student, this is the place to be!

Loris D'Antoni

@lorisdanto

4 years

When I joined @WisconsinCS , my greatest worry was "Can I turn students into researchers?" The first 3 students I hired 4 years ago, Samuel Drews (coadvised w/ @awsTO ), @HuQinheping , and Kausik Subramanian (coadvised w/ Aditya Akella), just got a PLDI paper each! I'm so proud! 1/

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

4 years

CCS 2021 in Korea. I have visited Korea once, and it was a great visit. Really excited!! Hopefully, can travel by then. Yongdae and Jong put together a great proposal.

Yongdae Kim ([email protected])

@yongdaek

4 years

* ACM CCS 2021 in Korea * Thrilled to share that ACM CCS 2021 will be held in Seoul, Korea. Myself and Prof. Jong Kim (Postech) will serve as the General Co-chairs. Hopefully, we can take care of Covid-19 by then so that you can enjoy nice weather in Seoul, Korea.

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2 years

🤣 I remember getting a recommendation letter from a very famous academic as a grad student. He asked me to write some material for the letter. His advice to start me off: "Don't be too humble".

Rita Idugboe

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2 years

When the professor says “go ahead and write the rec letter, I’ll sign it.”

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@jhasomesh

4 years

Should arXiv papers count as related work? Thoughts please

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

4 years

This is my humble plea to @NeurIPSConf . Please extend the submission deadline to a few days after @icmlconf notification. This will make a lot of people happy!

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

5 years

Very nice workshop in Waterloo at the intersection of ML, Security, and Verification. Please participate, apply, and retweet.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

9 months

Two papers in @acm_ccs Super excited about these results! Both these papers are with amazing collaborators. Will write a detailed description of them soon. Paper #1 : Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Training Paper #2 : Stateful Defenses for Machine Learning Models Are Not Yet Secure

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

Congrats to the 2020 ACM Fellows. Few notables: Remzi, Andrea, and Suman from @WisconsinCS and my "DP Colleague" Adam Smith and "FM Colleague" Jose.

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@jhasomesh

3 years

👇 I really think this is harmful for a research community. I know some security-privacy venues have even a lower acceptance rate. I believe increasing acceptance rates will also decrease some of the randomness. Discuss.

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@martinkl

3 years

14% acceptance rate 😳 Admittedly there's a revision cycle this time, so a few more papers might get accepted after revision. But still. I find it hard to believe that so few papers are considered publishable.

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2 years

Don't know why, but have been thinking of 👇 guy (Helmut Veith) today a lot. There are some folks who you just mesh with, and he was one of them. He was good friend and a collaborator. The CEGAR work in model checking was our first collaboration, but we had several more.

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@jhasomesh

3 years

Happy Holidays to everyone here. May this coming season be full of positivity and joy.

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@jhasomesh

4 years

We need to standardize uploading of letters for grad-school and faculty positions. Right now everyone has slightly different submission form, and causes a lot pain angst (for me at least).

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3 years

Happy Diwali to my friends. May this year be prosperous, successful, and peaceful. The following music used to play in the morning on radios on Diwali when I was a kid . Shenai (the instrument) is played on momentous occasions in India.

Bismillah khan shennai video/ diwali special.

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5 years

Me->student: This is middle school mathematics. Student->me: Middle school was long time back Me: Fair enough

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

4 years

100% agreement. We should give credit to papers that have impact (even perhaps by using a combination of known techniques).

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4 years

Reviewer 3: I see you’ve solved global hunger, but it was always obvious that you could do that by working really hard, so we haven’t learned anything from your paper. Perhaps you could try solving global hunger using only purple foods? That would be novel.

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4 years

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. The following message from a student in my class made my day. Thank you for being such a great professor for my class this semester, I really enjoy watching you lecturelets and the smiley faces you draw are really cute, it makes my day every time.

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1 year

It was exciting to host this workshop on the important topic of: Identifying risks and mitigation strategies of GenAI. The workshop was co-organized by Stanford, UW-Madison, and Google.

GenAI Risk Workshop

Overview GenAI technologies, such as large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models, have changed the computing landscape. They have enabled exciting applications, such as generating realistic...

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7 months

End of an era! When I arrived at UW-Madison, I worked with Tom quite a bit on several topics (e.g. weighted pushdown systems). I learned so much from him. His clarity of thought and attention to detail are simply amazing! 🙏 Tom. @WisconsinCS

Loris D'Antoni

@lorisdanto

7 months

A full house for Tom Reps last ever course lecture!

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3 years

Article about Ed Clarke on CMU's website. Such a remarkable life.

Edmund Clarke Pioneered Methods for Detecting Software, Hardware Errors

Edmund M. Clarke, University Professor Emeritus

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2 years

Great win for @WisconsinCS Welcome @pdmcdan to our department. Patrick and I have been collaborators and friends for a long time. Really excited about this hire.

Patrick McDaniel

@pdmcdan

2 years

I am happy to announce that after 18 great years at Penn State I will be moving to the University of Wisconsin-Madison ( @UWMadison ), joining as the Tsun-Ming Shih Professor in the Dept. of Computer Sciences ( @WisconsinCS ).

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👇 Exactly right. In the same vein, some of my work that became popular (e.g. CEGAR, malware detection, attack graphs,...) I could not have predicted. You can never predict what catches on.

Arvind Narayanan

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3 years

Professors at top universities are lottery winners, but rarely acknowledge the role of luck in their success. Be skeptical when they give you advice suggesting that the path they took is a repeatable one. If you aspire to an academic research career, have a backup plan.

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20 positions open at OSU. That is like an entire new department:-) Seriously, please apply. There are some great faculty at CSE @OSU . Plus I think they are leading two new AI institutes.

Pooya Hatami

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20 faculty positions (including some in theory&algorithms) at Ohio State University CSE! Please spread the word and/or apply.

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5 years

Congrats to my colleagues Ilias and Christos for the best paper award at @NeurIPSConf . Making @WisconsinCS proud!!

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Selective prediction can be used to improve the reliability of the LLMs by allowing them to abstain from making predictions when they are unsure of the answer. Read about this work at: Google Research Blog: Paper: VentureBeat…

Introducing ASPIRE for selective prediction in LLMs

Posted by Jiefeng Chen, Student Researcher, and Jinsung Yoon, Research Scientist, Cloud AI Team In the fast-evolving landscape of artificial intell...

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4 years

Pet peeve of the day. N years back folks used to write journal papers expanding/combining work on one thread. Advantage: you can give the journal paper to a student and they get caught up with a sub-area. Why did we stop?:-( Two gems to showcase my reasoning:

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If you thought an LLM can be protected against jailbreaks using yet another "guard LLM", you may want to read our paper -- we show that jailbreaks can be augmented with a carefully crafted prefix to foil the guard LLM.

PRP: Propagating Universal Perturbations to Attack Large Language...

Large language models (LLMs) are typically aligned to be harmless to humans. Unfortunately, recent work has shown that such models are susceptible to automated jailbreak attacks that induce them...

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4 years

Beautiful day to vote. Hoping for a beautiful outcome.

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5 years

Several positions open. My personal opinion: I have been very happy in this department for > n years, and I love the collaborative and friendly atmosphere.

Faculty & Staff Recruitment

Faculty and academic staff openings Faculty positions Faculty associate positions (see details here) Academic staff positions Faculty positions: Assistant/Associate Professor The Department of...

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

4 years

Perhaps written in a bit snarky tone, but very too the point.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

Poignant story time. Every Sunday at my regular coffee shop, I see this guy have breakfast with his mom, and narrate all the happenings during the week (e.g. Emma had a great soccer game). It is pretty clear the mom has dementia. I don't know why, but it gets me every time

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

4 years

Are active learning and model theft connected? Attend the talk tomorrow at 11am CST in @USENIXSecurity by @VarunChandrase3 (co-authors: @kamalikac , Irene, Songbai).

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

5 years

@MCAsche Really like this message. Very positive. When I was in grad school, I was 2-3 yrs older than my peers and had a young kid. I really felt a bit out of place, but everything works out in the end. Cosmos always has a plan.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

4 years

Modern cryptography is not possible without assuming that adversaries are computationally bounded. Can this assumption also help robust learning? Read our paper () to appear in ALT 2020. Congrats to my co-authors (Sanjam, Saeed, and Mohammad).

Adversarially Robust Learning Could Leverage Computational Hardness

Over recent years, devising classification algorithms that are robust to adversarial perturbations has emerged as a challenging problem. In particular, deep neural nets (DNNs) seem to be...

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

👇 This is a problem. If anything, the acceptance rate should be increased. Reviewers are not oracles who know everything. Increasing the acceptance rate reduces randomness.

Tom Goldstein

@tomgoldsteincs

3 years

From the @icmlconf Chairs: "...we plan to reduce the number of accepted papers. Please work with your SAC to raise the bar. AC/SAC do not have to accept a paper only because there is nothing wrong in it."

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

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My advisor. Really miss him. My grad student days at @CSDatCMU were really amazing. My first paper with him: Cache-coherence was hot those days:-)

Association for Computing Machinery

@TheOfficialACM

11 months

Born on this day in 1945, Edmund Melson Clarke received the 2007 #ACMTuringAward together with E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis, for their role in developing Model-Checking into a highly effective verification technology. #ACM #Computing #TuringAward

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 years

Congrats to my colleagues and collaborators @awsTO and Kassem Fawaz (get on Twitter Kassem:-)) for receiving the distinguished teaching award. It is humbling to be in presence of such great colleagues.

2022 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients announced

Twelve faculty members have been chosen to receive the awards, an annual tradition since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

5 years

Last month or so I have written several letters. Took a huge amount of time. I do it it because I believe in "paying it forward", but there has to be a better way. For starters, why don't all universities use the same system, so that I have to upload my letter once.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

11 months

This is super toxic! Reminds me of my favorite movie godfather. I am really sorry that you have to go through this @roopshasamanta It is sad and frankly quite pathetic.

Roopsha Samanta

@roopshasamanta

11 months

Okay, just found this gem in my inbox.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

4 years

Two papers at @IEEESSP 2020. Congrats to my amazing co-authors. #1 : Towards Effective Differential Privacy Communication for Users' Data Sharing Decision and Comprehension #2 : OAT: Attesting Operation Integrity of Embedded Devices

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

This analysis is interesting. Security and ML are the most popular areas.

Analysis of Current and Future Computer Science Needs via Advertised Faculty Searches for 2022

This work uses the same methodology applied over eight years to study where Computer Science departments are choosing to invest faculty positions using data obtained from advertised tenure-track se…

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

4 months

Congrats to Tom Reps of @WisconsinCS for receiving the CAV award. The idea of context-bounded analysis for concurrent programs is so elegant and effective! Also, Akash Lal (one the recipients of this award) was a PhD student at @WisconsinCS and now at MSR India. Congrats to…

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@WisconsinCS

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Congratulations to Prof. Tom Reps, who recently earned the prestigious CAV Award ( @confCAV ) for a "simple and powerful" idea: the verification of concurrent programs through context-bounded analysis. Tom joins Prof. @jhasomesh , a 2015 CAV recipient.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

2 years

Security/Privacy conferences have the revision option where reviewers ask you to do a bunch of stuff. Revision is reviewed again. It is quite tedious sometimes, but I think the paper comes out better at the end. Would love to hear thoughts from others.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

1 year

Great move! I was on a fellowship while a grad student at CMU CS. As a grad student, I was married and had a kid. The fellowship had an allowance for each dependent (like 500/month). It really helped out. RA compensation needs improvement everywhere

ΛNTONIS

@AntonisPs

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. @IllinoisCS announced earlier that the compansation of its PhD students will be increased by ~29% (!!) effective in Aug. 2023. 😍🥲 #UIUC

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

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👇I agree with this. There are too many imperfections/randomness in the reviewing system. Having higher acceptance rate alleviates some of the randomness. Thoughts from others?

Guy Van den Broeck

@guyvdb

3 years

Sorry #AAAI2022 but a 15% acceptance rate is harmful to the community. Especially when I see lots of weak accept recommendations by the SPC+AC get overturned (~8% among my friend ACs). If SPC+AC, who are experts in the area, think it should be published, why waste everyone's time

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

Whenever I get an unfair review, I am reminded of the following ghazal:-) One of those days. Kaise kaise log hamare, jee to ko jalane aa jatey hain apne apne gam ke fasaane, hame sunane aa jate hain different folks come to burn my heart and they tell me there sob stories

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

Some of my papers that I was really proud of, no one seems to care about:-)

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

This covid situation in India is really bad, which is a source of profound anxiety for me. This heart-wrenching article captures the disastrous state of affairs.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

3 years

👇🏽We are hiring @WisconsinCS Please DM me or @lorisdanto if there are questions. I know we are a bit late. Please retweet.

Loris D'Antoni

@lorisdanto

3 years

Ok, it's official, UW-Madison is hiring!! Are we late? Possibly. But YES, WE ARE HIRING! Apply!!

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

4 years

The "InstaHide" case reminded me how security/privacy/crypto mindset is different. In fact, adversarial analysis of algorithms/schemes is very common in this community. I feel like this mindset is sometimes harder for researchers in other communities to embrace.

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Somesh Jha

@jhasomesh

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Met my advisor (Ed Clarke) after few years. Really enjoyed the meeting.

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