Queer in AI needs financial support to run our grad app aid program. We are currently running on a very limited budget and we have many more applicants than we can support. You can donate to us via Paypal. Visit this page for more details: queerinai.com/donating

A gentle reminder that Queer in AI is organizing a workshop at NAACL 2024. Submissions are due by March 30th. More details are here: queerinai.com/naacl-2024

📣 Job opportunities at Semantic Scholar Research @ the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) for post-doctoral & pre-doctoral researchers starting in 2024! 📣 Our team works on NLP and HCI research with a focus on open LLMs and LLM-powered research support tools and assistants.

🎉🎉🎉 Our paper "The Colorful Future of LLMs: Evaluating and Improving LLMs as Emotional Supporters for Queer Youth" has been accepted to #NAACL2024 main arxiv.org/abs/2402.11886 @shir32385176, Geva Shenkman, Yaakov Ophir, PhD, Eyal Fruchter, Anat Brunstein Klomek and Roi Reichart

We are looking for reviewers for our Queer in AI NAACL workshop. The reviewing workload is low (1-2 papers) and you will be given ample time to review. If you are new to reviewing, you are highly encouraged to sign up as a reviewer! Sign up here: forms.gle/o5MZtujkXKTvwz…

Deadline extended to April 10th. Submit your papers to the workshop.

Are you a current U-M undergrad or graduate student working in #AI? Join MICHIGAN AI Connections - the Michigan AI network connecting students, alumni, researchers & partnered companies working in AI across U-M! Sign up:👉 bit.ly/41uc5Sh

Queer in AI is looking for new volunteers! Joining the organization team is a great way to meet queer community and getting involved in queer activism. Sign up here: alt.jotfor.ms/232651142960048

Exciting update: after I finish my PhD this year, I'll be joining the U-M College of LSA Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science as a research fellow! Looking forward to new interdisciplinary research toward understanding human and artificial intelligence 🧠🤖

We would like to warmly invite you to our ICML Conference joint workshop with QueerInAI More information can be found here: icml.cc/virtual/2024/w…

Our NAACL workshop will be held on June 16, 9-5.30 pm at Don Julian room. It involves several amazing papers, keynote talk, and a panel discussion on latinx queer representation. Check out the following papers here:

🚨🚨🚨 gaysties, don't forget to sign up for QueerInAI 's socials during NAACL HLT 2024. - monday 17: mezcal and beers @ la caña (queer-owned bar) - 7pm. if u sign up, u'll have two courtesy drinks. - tuesday 18: lunch w / LatinX in AI (LXAI) @ el mayor - 12:00 pm. tinyurl.com/4rwszc8f

If you’re interested in equity and diversity in the ACL community and you are attending NAACL, this message is for you! We will be meeting tomorrow for a lunch and discussion session tomorrow at 12pm to share and discuss experiences and collective organisation 💖 Come through!

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I have postdoc position on LLM+reasoning/planning. If you are interested please send an email to [email protected]. Thanks.

I also wanted to announce here that I'm hiring PhD students! More info on my website: oanaignat.github.io. Apply here: tiny.cc/oana-phd

My dissertation defense is happening on September 4 at 2pm EST. Feel free to join! 😎 cse.engin.umich.edu/event/coherent…

🎓 Time to celebrate academic achievements! TOMORROW Shane Storks is presenting a dissertation defense on "Coherent Physical Commonsense Reasoning in Foundational Language Models:" 🗓️ Wednesday, SEPT. 4 @ 2pm ET 👉cse.engin.umich.edu/event/coherent…

Defense ✅ Thanks again to my fantastic advisor (Joyce Chai Michigan SLED Lab) and committee (Lu Wang, Jason Corso, and Richard L. Lewis)! #PhDone #PhinisheD