My friend made a sexual harassment complaint against her phd advisor in 2019. Last week the university ruled against the math professor. Today they fired him.
Soledad Villar
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Soledad Villar
@SoledadVillar5
Applied math/data science/ML Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins. She/ella. Uruguaya ๐บ๐พ
Joined June 2017
- Replying to @SoledadVillar5I have the impression they see this whole thing as a big injustice. I understand why, such behavior didn't used to be a fireable offense, so somehow the rules changed mid-game. But it was never OK. I hope they know that.
- Replying to @SoledadVillar5A news article quoted a female mathematician saying that my friend "dressed in a certain way", and that she "was trying to look good for the men in the group". I try to stay professional in this social network. But what the actual fuck. busqueda.com.uy/Secciones/Mateโฆ
GIF - Replying to @SoledadVillar5I understand his math community is not happy with this outcome This guy is a very good mathematician and an excellent teacher. He is a great friend, colleague and mentor to many people However, they need to acknowledge that he did some fucked up things, and students were involved
- This is an announcement for an in-person Machine Learning Theory Summer School at Princeton that will run this coming summer. Here are the details:
- I was offered $2,500 to give a 1-hour research talk but my visa doesn't allow me to get paid. There is a saying in Spanish for this: Dios le da pan al que no tiene dientes. (God gives bread to who have no teeth)
- Replying to @SoledadVillar5I'm muting this now, but I am so thankful for your support I feel sad for everyone involved (especially my friend, but I also fell sad for him). The math community in my country will take a long time to recover from this. Nobody won here, except for future female students
- Super proud of my first PhD student @TeresaNHuang After her internship at Apple Research NYC this Summer she will join @FlatironCCM as a postdoc this Fall
- This project describes research with my amazing PhD students, postdocs and collaborators. I am lucky I get to learn from them.๐Congrats to Prof @SoledadVillar5 who received the @NSF CAREER award for her pioneering project: "Symmetries and Classical Physics in Machine Learning for Science and Engineering." minds.jhu.edu/2024/01/17/vilโฆ
- By the age of 30 you should know not to describe female students in recommendation letters as **fun** and definitely don't use any adjective to describe their **smile**. I can't believe this shit.
- Replying to @tonia_riesI think going through the whole process was 1000 times worse than the sexual harassment itself, honestly. She did it because she is an incredibly brave woman and wanted the culture to change.
- Replying to @modeltheorist and @MarissaKawehiThank you. A lot of people don't realize how hard it was (and is) for her. Her name showed up everywhere in the press and her life was scrutinized: her divorce, her clothes, her success, her PhD acknowledgement section.
