So pleased our team has made the finals of the Prosocial Ranking Challenge! Led by QUT GenAI Lab Senior Research Fellow Aaron J. Snoswell, PhD ML Engineer William He + me, with QUT Digital Media Research Centre's Tariq Choucair & ADM+S Centre's Damiano Spina
research.qut.edu.au/genailab/2024/…

At ICLR 2024 in Vienna this week to present SWAP-NAS: Sample-Wise Activation Patterns for Ultra-fast NAS (openreview.net/forum?id=tveiU…). This is my first large non-virtual conference in a while, so I am excited to catch up with many friends and a week of interesting conversations.

Two of my current PhD students, Ciyuan Peng and Mujie Liu, along with one former PhD student, Shuo Yu (A/Prof.) are attending #ICLR2024 . They will be presenting our poster iclr.cc/virtual/2024/2…. ICLR 2024
Fulltext: openreview.net/forum?id=29N5Y….

#brain #graphlearning #ai #networks

The preprint is out! In our #FAccT2024 ACM FAccT paper Equalised Odds is not Equal Individual Odds: Post-processing for Group and Individual Fairness”, we looked at the threshold effect on group/individual fairness tradeoffs and tackle it with continuous stochastic models.…

If you're interested in characterizing cognitive aspects of human-information interactions using physiological signals, submit your ideas to the upcoming UbiComp / ISWC 2024 APhyMeHII workshop: hii-biosignal.github.io/ubi24/

Coming to Melbourne 🐨🦘for UbiComp/ISWC 2024❓
🎉 Join our workshop on APhyMeHII: Advancing Physiological Methods ⌚️🧠🫀 in Human-Information Interaction📰
#Ubicomp2024 #ISWC

Pre-print of our #SIGIR2024 paper 'Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals' led by PhD student KAIXIN JI w/ F. Scholer Danula Hettiachchi Flora Salim @ ICLR 2024 is now available: damianospina.com/publication/ji…
ADM+S Centre RMIT School of Computing Technologies UNSW Computing SIGIR 2024

Pre-print of our #SIGIR2024 paper titled 'Explainability for Transparent Conversational Information-Seeking' led by PhD student Weronika Łajewska (@UniStavanger @iai_group) w/ Johanne Krisztian Balog is now available:

damianospina.com/publication/la…

ADM+S Centre @RTMIComputing SIGIR 2024

Congratulations to ADM+S Chief Investigator Prof Mark Sanderson Mark Sanderson from RMIT University who has been appointed to the 2024 ACM SIGIR Academy, for his outstanding contributions field.

Read more: admscentre.org.au/prof-mark-sand…

Before #ALTA2024 , we're highlighting papers from #ALTA2023 . Here, Steven Nguyen from University of Melbourne, Daniel Beck from RMIT University and Dr. Katja Hölttä-Otto from @EngUniMelb work on the novel task of cognitive #empathy - using similarity of vectors from an #LLM .

aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.14/

More job opportunities to join us! 📢
This time as the Associate Dean of our new discipline 'Interaction, Technology, and Information' at RMIT School of Computing Technologies to work together with a vibrant discipline, including a great environment to work in Interactive IR!
rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_Car…

Two exciting early career academic positions are open at the RMIT School of Computing Technologies.

This is a fantastic opportunity for emerging scholars to join a vibrant academic community.

Due 19 May
-Lecturer, Level B –rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_Car…
-Lecturer, ECDF –rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_Car…

@RMIT #RMIT

Our analysis shows that #LLMs #prompts go beyond simple queries; they're complex and action-oriented, reflecting a wide array of information needs that transcend traditional search tasks.

Users are reshaping the user-AI interactions. 🚀

#SIGIR2024 RMIT School of Computing Technologies RMIT Centre for Info Discovery & Data Analytics
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The RMIT School of Computing Technologies School is hiring! Two lecture positions are open just now. Want to join?

One position open to any topic of the school rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_Car…

The other more focussed on human factors of computing rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_Car…

Last month I passed the final milestone of my PhD at RMIT School of Computing Technologies, now onto the final bits of data collection and writing the thesis! Couldn't have made it this far without my supervisors fzambetta and Haytham Fayek, and my lab buddy Luigi Renan 😌

We're more than 100 already, but you're still in time to register to participate! #EXIST #clef2024
Registration link: …ef2024-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it
EXIST Lab @ CLEF'24: nlp.uned.es/exist2024

It is great to see RMIT School of Computing Technologies at the same rank for CompSci&InfoSys with our good friends HULAT and others in EPS-UC3M #uc3m ! #qsranking

I spent a sabbatical at UC3M visiting Head of CSE Dept Prof Paloma Martinez in 2019. Funny coincidence!

¡Felicidades! 🎉

Eid Mubarak to all celebrating it today! Here is Eid's maamoul, a delightful product of two days of PhD procrastination! ;) #PhDchat

Our paper “How Robust is your Fair Model? Exploring the Robustness of Prominent Fairness Strategies” by Edward Small, W Shao, Jeffrey Chan et al is finally accepted in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI). It was a straight accept, but had to wait for a year for the review!

Fantastic pairs of talks on vector search and LLMs at Melbourne Search and Recommendation Group from Lance Song of Redbubble and Damiano Spina & Sachin PC of RMIT School of Computing Technologies ADM+S Centre. Thanks to realestate.com.au for hosting.