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Our recent media coverage 🧵👇 with features in @hs.fi, Finland's public broadcaster Yle and the @aalto.fi Keys to Growth series. cc @ellis.eu @okm.fi @csaalto.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/elli...

Suomessa on tehty 1970-luvulta lähtien tutkimusta, joka on mahdollistanut mullistuksia tekoälyn saralla. Ellis-instituutin tarkoituksena on nostaa tämä kokonaisuus seuraavalle tasolle. "Nyt on oikeasti mahdollista tehdä asioita maailmanluokassa, @samikaski.bsky.social sanoo. yle.fi/a/74-20179689

Jenkeissä (ja muuallakin) tekoälytutkijoita houkutellaan akatemiasta yritysten labroihin valtavilla palkkioilla. Harvardissa ollaan jo huolissaan akateemisesta tutkimuksesta, kun opiskelijoita mukaansa vetävistä tutkijatohtoreista alkaa olla pula. Suomessa yritetään vastata tähän haasteeseen.

"Science is the best problem-solving tool that humanity has; science combined with AI can be even more powerful." This why it pays to invest in long-term, basic research, says @samikaski.bsky.social in the @aalto.fi Keys to Growth series. www.ellisinstitute.fi/keys-to-grow... @ellis.eu

The institute's opening is part of the AI Summit, with distinguished speakers from across European business and government, as well as top researchers and leadership from the @ellis.eu network. An exciting two-day program that marks a milestone for AI & ML research. More info at aisummit.fi

Grand opening of @ellisinstitute.fi will be Nov 17-18: The first day will be a broad-audience AI Summit co-organized with AI Finland and Foundation PS in Turku, and the second day will be an @ellis.eu scientific seminar in Espoo for the invited AI and machine learning community. aisummit.fi

Welcome new principal investigators! 9 leading scholars and rising stars in AI & machine learning are joining ELLIS Institute Finland, part of the @ellis.eu network. Read more about our new professors: ➡️ www.ellisinstitute.fi/PIs-2025

Welcome to the first 9 PIs of ELLIS Institute Finland - great to have you onboard! www.ellisinstitute.fi/PIs-2025 Now is time to start the action after the initial planning

📣 Please share: We invite submissions to the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (#AISTATS 2026) and welcome paper submissions at the intersection of AI, machine learning, statistics, and related areas. [1/3]

Postdocs and Research Fellows: Probabilistic machine learning, Centre for AI Fundamentals, Manchester, UK, DL July 27, 2025 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Funded by UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship, in the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals.

🇫🇮 On May 21, the @ellisinstitute.fi‬ hosted its pre-launch event. Director @samikaski.bsky.social‬ shared plans to reshape AI and ML for impactful science and human-AI collaboration. 💡 Learn more: https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/pre-launch

New Fundamentals…for innovation, collaboration, scientific discovery & more. At our pre-launch event on May 21, @samikaski.bsky.social outlined the ELLIS Institute mission to fundamentally re-work AI and ML to transform R&D, enhance human-AI teamwork & create exciting new science. 👇🧵

Big congrats Sophie (www.sophiewharrie.com) for the excellent defense of an outstanding PhD thesis today! I had a very nice screenshot with two doctoral hats in it but that vanished - so here the opponent Prof Hanna Suominen with one. @ellisinstitute.fi @aalto.fi urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978...

Our colleagues at Climate AI Nordics are seeking collabroators in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland 📣 Please reshare this with your networks if you have colleagues who might be interested in joining this team 🌍

We had a fun evening designing logos for @aifunmcr.bsky.social . Would you favour some realism or surrealism?

1/ Introducing ACE (Amortized Conditioning Engine)! Our new AISTATS 2025 paper presents a transformer framework that unifies tasks from image completion to BayesOpt & simulator-based inference under *one* probabilistic conditioning approach. It's Bayes all the way down!

🎇 This is your opportunity to be part of something groundbreaking: join the newly established @ellisfinland.bsky.social 🇫🇮 as a Principal Investigator. Applications are encouraged in all areas of #MachineLearning, #AI, and related disciplines. www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

ELLIS Institute Finland is hiring Principal Investigators in AI + machine learning. World-class resources for research incl. LUMI supercomputer, generous starting package & professorship affiliation with a university in the world’s happiest country! Apply by March 9: ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

I have big news: @ellis.eu has launched its 2nd major research center, @ellisfinland.bsky.social! I have agreed to start as founding director & the first call for PI positions is open. This is a major opportunity for outstanding researchers, join us! ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

I am hiring in my machine learning group, DL February 2, 2025 Postdocs in Helsinki: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi... Topic: combinations of the following: - foundations of (prob) ML - beyond current distribution shift models - AI-assistance with computationally rational user models - appl: eng bio etc

Planning to think about what to do next over the holidays? I am hiring postdocs to my group in Helsinki, in combinations of the following: - foundations of (prob) ML - distribution shifts - AI-assistance with computationally rational user models - applications in synthetic biology and biodesign

📢 Outstanding PhD student wanted! 🤓 The successful candidate will be based at The University of Manchester Dept. of CS ✨ to work on learning theory and methods for novel types of distributional shifts, co-supervised with @samikaski.bsky.social ⏳ DL 31.Jan.2025. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

1/ Hi all, I am at #NeurIPS2024 and I will be hiring a postdoc in probabilistic machine learning starting asap. Research interests: amortized, approximate & simulator-based inference, Bayesian optimization, and AI4science. Get in touch for a chat or come to our posters today 11AM or Friday 11AM!

I am at #NeurIPS2024 and looking for postdocs. Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss! We have also other positions: fcai.fi/winter-calls.... My slightly outdated home page is: kaski-lab.com

📣 PhD 🎓 opportunity: Our UKRI AI CDT between Manchester & Cambridge is inviting applications for its second cohort to start in September 2025. ⏳ Deadline to apply is January 31, 2025. List of PhD projects here: 👉 www.ai-decisions-cdt.ac.uk

📢 Outstanding PhD student wanted! The successful candidate will be based at The University of Manchester Dept. of CS ✨ to work on learning theory and methods for novel types of distributional shifts, co-supervised with @samikaski.bsky.social ⏳ DL 31.Jan.2025. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Multiplicative noise is good! 🎲 Just make your neural network weights noisy (like 🧠?) and reap the benefits of robustness to corruptions with no loss on clean data. 🌟Spotlight paper at #NeurIPS2024 led by Trung Trinh & w/ Markus Heinonen and @samikaski.bsky.social trungtrinh44.github.io/DAMP/

3/ Improving robustness to corruptions with multiplicative weight perturbations (spotlight) led by Trung Trinh and with Markus Heinonen and Samuel Kaski arxiv.org/abs/2406.16540

2/ Amortized Bayesian Experimental Design for Decision-Making led by @huangdaolang.bsky.social , with Yujia Guo and Samuel Kaski arxiv.org/abs/2411.02064

Optimizing decision utility in Bayesian experimental design is key to improving downstream decision-making. Excited to share our #NeurIPS2024 paper on Amortized Decision-Aware Bayesian Experimental Design: arxiv.org/abs/2411.02064 @lacerbi.bsky.social @samikaski.bsky.social Details below.