Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Is anyone still alive here? Outside of @ccanonne.github.io I mean 110
Reposted by Juba ZianiACM SIGecom @acmsigecom.bsky.social · 20/02/2026This Wednesday! Don't forget to register! Featuring Keynotes and Discussants (11:00am-1:00pm ET) @djweitzner.bsky.social (MIT) with Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown), Katrina Ligett (HUJI) with Talia Gillis (Columbia) 103
Reposted by Juba ZianiACM SIGecom @acmsigecom.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Wrapping up with a Fireside Chat (4:15-4:45pm ET) with @jasonhartline.bsky.social (Northwestern) and Nicole Immorlica (Yale and MSR). Plus lots of social events on Gather throughout the day! Join us, but start by registering!forms.gleRegistration: SIGecom Winter Meeting 2026February 25, 2026 on Virtual Chair. Event website 001
Reposted by Juba ZianiAmin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 08/12/2025WINE tutorial on Differential Privacy for Strategic Information Sharing and Learning today at 2 pm EST, in person and on zoom, link: sites.google.com/pitt.edu/win... with @jubaz.bsky.social @papachristoumarios.bsky.social and @yuxin-pitt.bsky.social 041
Reposted by Juba ZianiTCS+ @tcsplus.bsky.social · 25/11/2025📢 Our last TCS+ talk of the season will be Wed, Dec 3 (10am PT, 1pm ET, 19:00 CET): Natalie Collina (@ncollina.bsky.social), from UPenn, will tell us about "Swap regret and correlated equilibria beyond normal-form games"! RSVP to receive the link (one day before the talk): forms.gle/utLgSxLpqvpx...forms.gleTCS+ RSVP: Natalie Collina (2025/12/03)Title: Swap regret and correlated equilibria beyond normal-form games 0128
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Congrats to @epsilonrational.bsky.social @ncollina.bsky.social @aaroth.bsky.social on being featured in quanta! (Also do check out the paper, also involving Sampath Kannan and me that the piece is based on here: arxiv.org/abs/2409.03956)arxiv.orgAlgorithmic Collusion Without ThreatsThere has been substantial recent concern that pricing algorithms might learn to ``collude.'' Supra-competitive prices can emerge as a Nash equilibrium of repeated pricing games, in which sellers play... 0232
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Hi everyone, The TOC4Fairness seminar series are restarted! Our next speaker, this *Monday* October 20th (1pm est, 10am est) is Lalitha Sankar from ASU. More info about her talk here! toc4fairness.org/toc4fairness... If you need the zoom link/mailing list access, please DM metoc4fairness.orgTOC4Fairness Seminar – Lalitha SankarDate: Monday, October 20th; 10:00 am – 11:00 am Pacific Time Location: Zoom meeting 040
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Hello, this is now accepted at Neurips 2025! Come check out our poster in December :) 031
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Can't recommend the Allerton conference at UIUC enough! Went for the first time this year and really enjoyed the smaller scale, being able to talk to so many great researchers, the community, and the great talks! Definitely got quite a bit out of that and a million new ideas 140
Reposted by Juba ZianiClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 25/08/2025New differential #privacy textbook in town: "DP in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice", by @nandofioretto.bsky.social and @vanhentenryck.bsky.social. Open access, w/ chapters by @jubaz.bsky.social, @grahamrc.bsky.social, and @stein.ke! www.nowpublishers.com/article/Book... 1167
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Check out our @let-all.com blog post on strategic classification and around recent work with Valia and @charapod.bsky.social! 052
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Excited to announce that I just got another NSF grant this week! This collaborative with Prof. Augustin Chaintreau at Columbia University. More info here: www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...nsf.gov NSF Award Search: Award # 2504990 Collaborative Research: III: Medium: Incentives and interventions for robust networked data exchange 4190
Reposted by Juba ZianiClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 08/07/2025Pretty stoked to announce that I won't be presenting my paper at #FOCS2025: but one of my talented coauthors will have to come here 🌏 to do so! "Instance-Optimal Uniformity Testing and Tracking," with Guy Blanc (Stanford) and Erik Waingarten (UPenn). (arXiv coming soon!) 1241
Reposted by Juba ZianiKrishna Acharya @kvachai.bsky.social · 09/06/20251/8 Happy to share that our paper GLoSS: Generative Language Models with Semantic Search for Sequential Recommendation is accepted at the KDD OARS workshop! 🎉 Paper, code: github.com/krishnachary... This is joint work with my wonderful collaborators @apetrov.bsky.social and @jubaz.bsky.social !github.comGitHub - krishnacharya/GLoSS: GLoSS: Generative Language Models with Semantic Search for Sequential RecommendationGLoSS: Generative Language Models with Semantic Search for Sequential Recommendation - krishnacharya/GLoSS 111
Reposted by Juba ZianiProPublica @propublica.org · 11/04/2025THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/ 478104544649
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Hello, I'm off Twitter forever! This is the main place to find me now :) 0100
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Hi everyone! First, wanted to let you all know that the amazing @charapod.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Please make sure to follow her :) Second, she wrote a really cool survey about the state of strategic classification that you should definitely read: www.sigecom.org/exchanges/vo...sigecom.org 0110
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025A last work I wanted to talk about (I promise I will stop spamming after this) with my student Diptangshu Sen and collaborator Ben Fish is here: www.arxiv.org/abs/2502.07792arxiv.orgCentralization vs Decentralization in Hiring and AdmissionsThere is a range of ways to organize hiring and admissions in higher education, as in many domains, ranging from very centralized processes where a single person makes final decisions to very decentra... 160
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Now, onto a different one! Some recent cool work with Guanghui Wang, Krishna Acharya, Lokranjan Lakshmikanthan and Vidya Muthukumar. This one is about performative prediction/online strategic settings! 110
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Hi everyone, I just wanted to say a few words on strategic classification with Valia Efthymiou, Chara Podimata, and Diptansghu Sen! See paper on arxiv here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.06749arxiv.orgIncentivizing Desirable Effort Profiles in Strategic Classification: The Role of Causality and UncertaintyWe study strategic classification in binary decision-making settings where agents can modify their features in order to improve their classification outcomes. Importantly, our work considers the causa... 161
Reposted by Juba ZianiKira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Whoa, was half-listening to a @thedailyshow.com segment with @linamkhan.bsky.social and suddenly heard talk of Algorithmic Collusion! (11 min in) Way to go, people researching this! @jasonhartline.bsky.social @aaroth.bsky.social @jubaz.bsky.social @ncollina.bsky.social @yannaigonch.bsky.socialyoutu.beLina Khan – FTC Chair on Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit & AI Oversight | The Daily ShowYouTube video by The Daily Show 2112
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Georgia tech friends: this will be a cool workshop with a stellar line-up of speakers, please stop by :) 020
Reposted by Juba ZianiClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 25/11/2024On the TCS job market: Tamalika Mukherjee! Tamalika's research: (1) designing computationally efficient privacy-preserving algorithms for data analysis, (2) understanding their societal implications through the lens of equity and policy. Keywords: sublinear, DP 1/2 #TCSSky #AcademicJobMarket 1114
Reposted by Juba ZianiClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 24/11/2024Divyarthi Mohan (divyarthi.bsky.social) is currently a postdoc at Boston University, and is looking for faculty research positions and industry positions. For more on her and her research: www.divyarthimohan.com 2/2divyarthimohan.comDivyarthi MohanDivyarthi Mohan (she/her) Boston University Faculty of Computing & Data Science Email d<lastname>@bu.edu CV [Updated Oct'24] 061
Reposted by Juba ZianiClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 23/11/2024It's tough to gain visibility as a young researcher, and it's job market season! Are you a theoretical computer science PhD/postdoc on the job market? I don't have a crazy juge audience but I'll try to help a bit: fill this form, and I'll tweet your pitch and info! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comTheoretical CS Job Market 2024 210538
Reposted by Juba ZianiQuanquan Gu @quanquangu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Just put together a starter pack for Deep Learning Theory. Let me know if you'd like to be included or suggest someone to add to the list! go.bsky.app/2qnppia 298731
Reposted by Juba ZianiMichal Feldman @michal-feldman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Our Econometrica paper on "Ambiguous Contracts" is finally out! 🎉 www.econometricsociety.org/publications... Huge thanks to Paul Duetting, Daniel Peretz, and Larry Samuelson for the fun and inspiring collaboration 🙏 053
Reposted by Juba ZianiDan Roy @roydanroy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Getting some pushback. Right now, reviewing is an activity we do not even prioritize. We force people to do it, with no ~0 repercussions for doing a crappy job. No one gets tenure by reviewing well, or spending their time shooting down junk. Once we fix _that_, we will get useful peer review. 9842
Reposted by Juba ZianiClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 23/11/2024Things you need as a PhD student: - coffee ☕ - a living stipend 💰 - a website 🔗 For the last one, @kiragoldner.bsky.social has good resources: www.kiragoldner.com/blog/website..., www.kiragoldner.com/resources.htmlkiragoldner.com Every Academic Needs a Website 19217
Reposted by Juba ZianiMargaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024This looks like an amazing opportunity, and @mkgerchick.bsky.social is a dream to work with. Worth applying if you're on the job market. www.aclu.org/careers/appl...aclu.orgCareers at ACLUJoin our team! We’re looking for committed, passionate people for open roles at the ACLU. 3249
Reposted by Juba ZianiRyan Cory-Wright @ryancorywright.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Hidden gems in OR and MS: When I was a PhD student at the OR Center at MIT, the students ran a software tools course every winter, introducing tools like Git and Julia/JuMP. I shared this with my PhD student, so 2024 version (it gets updated each year): github.com/angkoulouras... 0185
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Too many times as a reviewer and as an AC have I had to deal with this. Your job is not just to handle your own review/response. You need to interact with other reviewers to come to a decision. In particular, if your review disagrees with everyone else, the burden is *on you* to engage. 1192
Reposted by Juba ZianiDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23/11/2024"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI" www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines... this is a damning report 831805924
Reposted by Juba ZianiClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 22/11/2024By the way, did I mention that next year's IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW'25, will be in Sydney? I did not? Well, it'll be in Sydney! (I'm TPC co-chair, along with Ángela Capel Cuevas and Yingbin Liang) www.ieee-itw2025.orgieee-itw2025.orgITW2025 | ITW2025 1228
Reposted by Juba ZianiThiago Serra @thserra.bsky.social · 21/11/2024We are very excited to announce that the 2025 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Conference will take place March 14-16, 2025, in Toronto: sites.google.com/view/ics-2025 Submissions for contributed talks are due on December 23. We invite talks that showcase the dynamic interface of CS, AI & #ORMS.sites.google.com2025 ICS ConferenceThe 18th INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Conference welcomes you to Toronto, Canada. We invite researchers, practitioners, and innovators to come together and share insights at the cutting edge where... 0164
Reposted by Juba ZianiKira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I wrote a Part IV postscript to my job market blog post to add what I've learned as faculty. TL;DR: No one is out to get you. For anything not going your way, it's probably due to people being busy or bureaucracy. And there are probably people working very hard for you behind the scenes regardless.kiragoldner.com The Job Market (Parts I, II, III, & IV) 0368
Reposted by Juba ZianiPascal Van Hentenryck @vanhentenryck.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Interested in AI at Georgia Tech? Follow @georgiatechai.bsky.social @ai4opt.bsky.social :) 131
Reposted by Juba Zianilogan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · 18/11/2024howdy! the Georgetown Law Journal has published "Less Discriminatory Algorithms." it's been very fun to work on this w/ Emily Black, Pauline Kim, Solon Barocas, and Ming Hsu. i hope you give it a read — the article is just the beginning of this line of work. www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-l... 45115
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Hi everyone! Check out the below if you work on the foundations of responsible computing and are on the market this year (or have a student who is)! 010
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Hi everyone! Please check out the list that @gkatzelis.bsky.social had been painstakingly compiling for I don't even know how many years now, but many. Great resource for cs-econ faculty candidates! 010
Reposted by Juba ZianiRebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Welcome to my timeline. I'm the Florida scientist who was fired for refusing to post misleasing data during COVID: web.archive.org/web/20221110... I founded the only national database for tracking COVID in k-12 schools: www.thedailybeast.com/rebekah-jone... 64781141
Reposted by Juba ZianiClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 18/11/2024Periodic reminder: submitting on #arXiv is great! But the source is available: good per se, but remember to remove LaTeX comments you don't want to be made public. Thankfully, there are tools that do that (and more) easily and automatically for you! E.g., arXiv-collector: github.com/djsutherland...github.comGitHub - djsutherland/arxiv-collector: A little Python script to collect LaTeX sources for upload to the arXiv.A little Python script to collect LaTeX sources for upload to the arXiv. - djsutherland/arxiv-collector 4697
Reposted by Juba ZianiNando Fioretto @nandofioretto.bsky.social · 16/11/2024We look forward to your excellent submissions and engaging discussions at PPAI-25! with @jubaz.bsky.social, Jeremy Seeman, and Wanrong Zhang 021
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Going to advertise this here too, but we have a new book on differential privacy led by Nando Fioretto and Pascal Van Hentenryck! I was asked to contribute to the first, intro chapter, available here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.04710 Full book available soon!arxiv.orgDifferential Privacy Overview and Fundamental TechniquesThis chapter is meant to be part of the book "Differential Privacy in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice" and provides an introduction to Differential Privacy. It starts by illustrating ... 042
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024This is a really cool paper and I want to give full credit to @ncollina.bsky.social and Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran for pushing this. They're both incredible and the main reason this paper is even a thing! 050
Juba Ziani @jubaz.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Seems like this has much less noise/bots than Twitter... 080