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Arvind Satyanarayan
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Associate Professor @MITEECS @MIT_CSAIL @mitvis. Data visualization @vega_vis, ML interpretability, cognitively convivial interaction. He/him.
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    Mar 26
    🚨MIT Postdoc Opportunity! We're looking for someone with an HCI+ML/RL background to work with us on agents that promote metacognition and sociality—trained with ethnographic rewards! w/@mitchellgordon,@ZanaBucinca & colleagues in sociology+anthropology
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    Postdoc in Human-AI Interaction at MIT
    We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in technical human-AI interaction to join a research effort on AI agents that strengthen human metacognition and sociality. The work centers on...
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    May 15, 2021
    This tweet crosses the line. Critiquing the substance of a piece of research is one thing. But, it is absolutely unacceptable to target a PhD student in this way. Shame.
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    Michael Levitt
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    May 15, 2021
    Senior scientist work hard & write hundreds of papers to earn recognition. Social media & preprint servers are turning a model successful for hundreds of years up-side-down. Compare data reported by Google Scholar before dismissing giants like John Ioannidis. Shame on MIT.
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    Mar 6, 2018
    Super excited to publish "The Building Blocks of Interpretability," a @distillpub article where we explore rich user interfaces for understanding neural networks. distill.pub/2018/building-…
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    Oct 21, 2018
    Great analogy on the current state of conducting/publishing research from @Protohedgehog #ieeevis #openscience
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    Mar 21, 2020
    Especially in this time of high uncertainty, I’m glad to have a source of personal anxiety resolved: after 13 years in the US, I am finally holding a green card in my hands!
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    May 19, 2020
    One of my favourite parts of teaching Interactive Data Visualization (#mit6894) is seeing the incredible final projects students produce. We usually celebrate them with a poster session, but we're going online this year: vis.mit.edu/classes/6.894/…. Here're some highlights:
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    May 16, 2021
    Crystal is an incredibly skillful researcher as seen in the adept and ambitious way she combined computational and ethnographic approaches in her CHI 2021 paper. She is an enormous asset to every community she participates in. I and @mitvis continue to learn a lot from her.
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    May 30, 2017
    After 4 months on the road (and an extra 7lbs!), I'm thrilled to announce I'll be joining @MIT_CSAIL as an Asst. Prof. in July 2018!
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    Sep 1, 2017
    And that's a wrap! Thanks for a fantastic six years @jeffrey_heer @uwdata @StanfordHCI
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    Feb 20, 2024
    Honored to be in such great company, and very grateful to all the folks at @mitvis whose work this fellowship is really recognizing!
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    Sloan Foundation
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    Feb 20, 2024
    We have today announced the names of the 2024 Sloan Research Fellows! Congratulations to these 126 outstanding early-career researchers: sloan.org/fellowships/20…
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    Jun 30, 2023
    VisText has been a *ton* of work, and 2 yrs of solid effort. So it's exciting to (finally!) be able to talk about it, and it's gratifying to see it featured on @MIT's homepage. Lead author, @bennyjtang, has a great thread w/details below 👇 And I wanted to offer a few thoughts
    A screenshot of the homepage of mit.edu that features a two column layout: a sidebar on the left hand side (with a search box and links to top resources), and then the main feature on the right hand side. This feature includes an image of a bar chart (where each bar is labeled with one letter from the word "caption"). Underneath the image is text that reads "Researchers have developed a dataset for teaching an AI to write better chart captions, improving accessibility for blind and low-vision individuals. A model trained with this dataset could translate “‘chart language’ to English,” Angie Boggust explains."
    A montage of various different bar, line, and area charts across a mix of visual styles to illustrate the diversity of the VisText dataset.
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    Ben Tang
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    Jun 30, 2023
    Chart captioning is hard, both for humans & AI. Today, we’re introducing VisText: a benchmark dataset of 12k+ visually-diverse charts w/ rich captions for automatic captioning (w/ @angie_boggust @arvindsatya1) 📄: vis.csail.mit.edu/pubs/vistext.p… 💻: github.com/mitvis/vistext #ACL2023NLP
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    Jun 30, 2018
    Bittersweet to wrap up my time @GoogleBrain. I'm grateful to have worked with @ch402, @shancarter, @ludwigschubert, and @enjalot. Thanks to their generosity and patience, I learned a whole bunch that will undoubtedly shape the research my lab will do. Onwards to @MIT_CSAIL !
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    May 25, 2021
    I feel unspeakable rage reading these anonymous messages to a survivor of sexual harassment. The survivors represent the very best of us, and of computer science. We are not deserving of their bravery, and we will be forever in their debt for dragging us to a more just future.
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    Arvind Satyanarayan
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    May 19, 2020
    This is so awful. As an international student, CPT allowed me to co-found @apropose and OPT allowed me to spend a year as a Postdoc at @GoogleAI. It’s difficult to imagine what my career or research agenda would look like w/o those opportunities.