Last week, I gave a talk on careers in academia vs. industry!

🚀 The #VCIP2025 program is live! 🎤 Keynotes from leading experts 🎓 Tutorials & overview talks on AI, video, and compression 🧠 Technical sessions, special events, and a vibrant social program in Klagenfurt 🇦🇹 Science. Innovation. Connection. 👉 vcip2025.itec.aau.at/program-at-a...

Showing off some of the cool AR/VR gadgets to our class students #applevisionpro #metaquest #xreal #eveng1 #rokid #brilliantlabs #northeasternuniversity

I asked Meta AI to generate a 4D scene with a mesh wire frame. It did a decent job.

pretty cool comparison of galaxy xr and vision pro xr headsets.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ett...

A reason why you should or shouldn't use Meta AI

Reason the Meta Live AI demo failed.. not because of WiFi.. though related to a networking problem:)

AI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dud, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - Substack / garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-agents-...

Senate committee on appropriations markup meeting is starting now. They'll be discussing a lot of stuff, but in particular, science agencies like NSF & NASA. Yesterday Sen. Moran indicated funding would be 33.9 billion, preserving FY '24 numbers. www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...

another research proposal got rejected.. but I am getting mixed signals here.. not sure if being ambitious is a strength or weakness lol Slowly realizing fundraising is exhausting😅

I just met Governor Healey @massgovernor.bsky.social at the tech innovation summit in Boston 🤯 And advocated her to create more state level funding for universities in lieu of recent NSF budget cuts.

Heading to #CVPR2025 this week? Don't miss our Tutorial, Volumetric Video in the Real World, on Wednesday 6/11 9am-5pm! We have a great schedule of talks on innovations, opportunities and challenges in 4D reconstruction and generation across domains. See you there! nvlabs.github.io/cvpr2025-vol...

This is disinformation from science.org

I wanted to just lie on the couch and relax this Saturday morning without doing anything, but ended up being quite philosophical. Spent the whole morning on this and updated my lab page (sinrg.org) 😆

2023: Gaussian splatting paper is published, triangles are so over … 2025: Triangles are so back babbbyyyy trianglesplatting.github.io

Was out collecting spatial videos on the Apple Vision Pro for research—just roaming around the city. Multiple people yelled at me: “DUDE, YOU'RE CRAZY!” and “DON’T WATCH PORN IN THE STREETS, MY MAN!” Fair enough. I probably looked like I deserved that 😅

🚨 Workshop Call! 🎉 IMC 2025 open call for co‑located workshops: full‑day (Mon 10/27) or half‑day (Fri 10/31). CFP ➡️ conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2025/cfw... Submit ➡️ imc25workshops.hotcrp.com 🗓️ Deadline: 23 May AoE | 📬 Notifications: 11 Jun

I wish the ACM awards is as popular as the ACM awards (in this trending searches) 🤔🤗🙄

3rd Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems (EMS), co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2025, deadline extended until May 16th, 2025 conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025...

As usual, somewhat relevant.

A privileged voice (UC Berkeley professor) and a well-respected leader in computer networking, just casually trying to form a new conference... this is just ridiculous. I would rather go with his earlier suggestions on improving the reviewing process of existing conferences.

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📢 PAPER REGISTRATION! 🚨 PC Chairs Aruna Balasubramanian (@arunab.bsky.social) & Alberto Dainotti (@albertodainotti.bsky.social) just opened the cycle-2 registration site. 📝 Register your work: imc2025-cycle2.hotcrp.com Spread the word! 🌐✨

🚨 Deadline Alert! 🌐 Internet Measurement community— IMC25 cycle 2 is almost here 🚀 📝 Paper deadline: May 15 🗓️ Registration closes: May 8 🔗 conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2025/ Share your work—spread the word & RT! 🔄✨

another visa revoked.. 😑 this student works on machine learning and computer vision kslnewsradio.com/utah/visa-re...

The Tariff episode is over.. waiting for the release of the next episode from American media. It's like a Netflix drama series! You don't need a Netflix account for drama series... American political news can be entertaining if you don't pay much attention to its profound implications.

Based on the replies here.. the EU and also the airlines have pretty good rights for passengers.. I think the airline representative that I interacted with did a poor job of giving me these details- expense reimbursement or voucher info. I’ll go through the process and post my experience here later

I’m having the worst experience of airlines ever with #KLM 😢 My flight got canceled here in Amsterdam.. to Boston. And they don’t have flights until tomorrow. They just told me to wait around airport until then. Is that what they do when your flight get canceled? Never had this type of experience

We won the best reproducible paper award at ACM MMSys 2025 😍 Code and paper at: github.com/SINRG-Lab/TVMC

I’m organizing a conference this year in Klagenfurt and I started inviting people from within my network to submit papers. One US college replied that foreign students don’t want to leave the country due to the current situation. 🧐 #AcademicSky 🧪

Every single channel on my TV was saying signal is not secure 🤦‍♂️

A common bug I’m facing on @bsky.app @jay.bsky.team

3rd Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems (EMS), co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2025. Paper submission deadline: May 8th, 2025 conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025... #AcademicSky 🧪

Sandwich Vision's Theater app for Apple Vision Pro is curating indie-produced immersive content for domes, planetariums, & stereoscopic 180 video. Highly recommend checking out Fungi: Web of Life. I spoke with Adam Lisagor to hear more about where they're taking it all voicesofvr.com/1528-theater...

We won the best demo award at ACM HotMobile 2025 😀 We showcased a remote human and robot collaboration XR demo from Boston to California in real-time. I never had any confidence in telesurgery over the Internet until we built this. So many cool applications with remote human-robot collaboration.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Unlike OpenAI, Deepseek is open AI.

ACM HotMobile workshop registration rates are unbelievable... just for a two-day workshop. I don't understand why they do this. What;s wrong with these people? It's the academics :(

Nvidia lost $600 billion in market cap.. because Deepseek (which uses Nvidia GPUs) has more efficient distributed training (i.e., optimized memory and communication stack) 21st-century economy 🤯

I've updated the Video Tech starter pack (41 members). Please join the conversation, let me know if someone is missing, or please nominate yourself. go.bsky.app/KMv5Lid

The entire tech industry right now

wait until streaming the AI-generated video content in the next few years 🤯

⭐️Mentor applications open⭐️ We're excited to announce that LOGML summer school will return in London: July 7-11 2025. We are seeking mentors to lead group projects at the intersection of geometry and machine learning. Find out more and apply: logml.ai

AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI

Hi everyone! Here's my most recent blog post -- What I Learned from 130 hours in a Waymo: www.mattbell.us/what-i-learn...

I don't think people know that making plausible fake videos is now something that doesn't require a lot of skill or time I made this Veo video of a man trying out a flying skateboard at CES from a text prompt, 2nd try. Notice the shadows, green light, his body shifts for balance

yay.. starting the new year with two new papers accepted from my lab :) Spatial Video Streaming on XR Headsets, ACM HotMobile 2025 TVMC: Time-Varying Mesh Compression, ACM MMSys 2025 Super excited!