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Sinead Williamson
@sineadwilliamso
Machine Learning/Statistics. MLR Apple / Assoc. Prof UT Austin. Mostly Bayesian. She/her. Opinions my own.
Seattle, WA
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Nov 7, 2025
    📢 We’re looking for a researcher in in cogsci, neuroscience, linguistics, or related disciplines to work with us at Apple Machine Learning Research! We're hiring for a one-year interdisciplinary AIML Resident to work on understanding reasoning and decision making in LLMs. 🧵
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Jul 25, 2019
    My husband is traveling with me to a conference and we’ve been thinking of fake AI subfields for him to claim to be working on. Favorites so far: - Disentangled HairNets - Deep Distraction Networks - Misrepresentation Learning Got any other good suggestions for him?
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Aug 13, 2021
    Just received what might be my favorite ever line in a review: "The idea is not too complicated, but it is neat and worth while. It is one I wish I had." 🥰
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Oct 10, 2024
    📢Internships at Apple ML Research🍏 We’re looking for a PhD research intern with interests in uncertainty quantification, LLMs, probabilistic ML and/or decision making under uncertainty! See thread for more details 👇 [1/3]
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Jul 13, 2020
    Oh, great. Neurips desk reject. If the results are “known results” (I’m pretty confident they aren’t), perhaps the area chair could have made the effort to leave a note telling what they are? 1/n
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Feb 20, 2022
    🎉I found out on Friday that I was approved for promotion and tenure in @UT_Stats 🎉 - huge thanks to the mentors, students, collaborators, colleagues and support staff who made this possible 🥰
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Dec 9, 2018
    We’ve got a long way to go, but this year’ #NeurIPS has felt more inclusive and self aware and has been my favorite yet. Kudos to @InclusionInML, @black_in_ai #QueerInAI @_LXAI @WiMLworkshop and all the fantastic workshops promoting fairness and social engagement.
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Feb 6, 2023
    I am looking for interns at MLR Apple interested in Bayesian ML/DL. If you're interested please apply here! jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/… (the description in the link isn't team-specific and fairly generic, but don't worry - you're in the right place)
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Jul 13, 2020
    Replying to @sineadwilliamso
    Disclosure: I am an area chair for neurips. I desk rejected two papers. I left them as long a review as the space allowed, including citations of the work that is similar. Feels like common courtesy.
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Dec 7, 2021
    This Friday at @NeurIPSConf, I'll be hosting a @WiMLworkshop mentoring table on navigating the academic job search and tenure application procedure. Come chat with me! Or, check out one of the other great mentoring tables at
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Jul 13, 2020
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    Disappointing to have work rejected with a pro forma check box response. Got to be even more disappointing for newer people. 3/3
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Jan 18, 2019
    When creating figures for papers, remember that over 4% of your audience are colorblind and many more will be using black and white printers. Choose color schemes that make it easy for them! I like Paul Tol’s schemes and analysis: personal.sron.nl/~pault/
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Jun 21, 2020
    Replying to @ylecun
    And yet people use this dataset. If I buy moldy bread and don’t inspect it before selling sandwiches I made using it, I don’t get to pass all blame back to the bakery.
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    Sinead Williamson
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    Sep 24, 2021
    👀 On the faculty job market in Statistics, Biostatistics, Machine Learning, or similar? UT Austin is hiring! stat.utexas.edu/spotlight/entr… Got questions? Ask me! (email in link) Got students or post docs who might be a good fit? Tell them!