Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Scoop: This afternoon NSF will formally announce its four 'Frontier Initiatives', and a suite of other changes in a public letter. These Frontier Initiatives (left) are identical to OSTP's 'Grand Research Challenges' that we have been reporting on (right). www.nature.com/articles/d41... 76242
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 01/09/2026The open platform for Dynamic 4D geometry data (by @mallesh.bsky.social) open4dfoundation.github.ioopen4dfoundation.github.ioOpen4D — An Open Platform for 4D Geometry DataOpen4D is an open, research-driven platform for the representation, compression, processing, evaluation, and streaming of time-varying 4D geometry data. 031
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 04/06/2026The 4th Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems (EMS) 2026 Paper Submissions: July 14, 2026 athena.itec.aau.at/ems-2026/athena.itec.aau.at EMS 2026 | ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory 022
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Elon Musk didn’t go to the moon. Jeff Bezos didn’t go to the moon. NASA went to the moon. 12155661066
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Hey @dangaristo.bsky.social, I just saw this but couldn't find the source. Do you know if this is accurate? 100
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I asked students in my networks class today how many packets they think they send/receive over the Internet each day. Most guesses were a few thousand packets per day. When I told them it would be in the order of a million packets, for 1GB of data use each day. Their expressions were priceless 🙂 020
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Guess the number of paper submissions to ICML this year: 24371 The world is going mental 🤯 002
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 24/01/2026If the government executing us in the streets isn’t your red line, then you’ve already decided to endorse it. There’s no gray area left. No ambiguity. 11165471531
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 23/01/2026Analysis of 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations 🙃 gptzero.me/news/neurips/ 13312
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Some thoughts on MS student population.. www.linkedin.com/posts/malles...linkedin.com#ms #undergraduates #phd #ms #ra #ta #ms #ms #interview #ms #phd #phd #ms | Mallesh DasariOver the years, I've noticed the #MS student population in computer science and engineering often falls into an awkward middle space. I've also noticed they're the most ignored future workforce. They ... 000
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 16/01/2026A lot of work on immersive multimedia is coming from our lab soon! 130
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I Will Not Be Quiet Anymore medium.com/p/i-will-not...medium.comI Will Not Be Quiet AnymoreI cannot, in good conscience, stay quiet anymore about the horror unfolding in America. This statement is my way of peacefully protesting… 031
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Last week, I gave a talk on careers in academia vs. industry! 020
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 07/11/2025🚀 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...vcip2025.itec.aau.atProgram at a Glance – VCIP 2025 021
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Showing off some of the cool AR/VR gadgets to our class students #applevisionpro #metaquest #xreal #eveng1 #rokid #brilliantlabs #northeasternuniversity 020
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 03/11/2025I asked Meta AI to generate a 4D scene with a mesh wire frame. It did a decent job. 110
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025pretty cool comparison of galaxy xr and vision pro xr headsets.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ett...youtube.comGalaxy XR vs Apple Vision Pro: Value vs PerfectionYouTube video by Himels Tech 000
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025A reason why you should or shouldn't use Meta AI 010
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Reason the Meta Live AI demo failed.. not because of WiFi.. though related to a networking problem:) 010
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · 03/08/2025AI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dud, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - Substack / garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-agents-...garymarcus.substack.comAI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dudLast year, big tech couldn’t stop talking about how AI “agents” would be the next big thing in 2025. It hasn’t quite turned out that way. 04113
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Senate 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...appropriations.senate.govFull Committee Markup of Commerce, Justice, Science; Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA; and Legislative Branch Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on AppropriationsUnited States Senate Committee on Appropriations 23424
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 01/07/2025another 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😅 050
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I 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. 050
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)amrita mazumdar @amritamaz.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Heading 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...nvlabs.github.ioVolumetric Video in the Real WorldTutorial in Conjunction with CVPR 2025 062
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025This is disinformation from science.orgscience.orgScience | AAASScience/AAAS peer-reviewed journals deliver impactful research, daily news, expert commentary, and career resources. 101
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I 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) 😆 050
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli.bsky.social · 30/05/20252023: Gaussian splatting paper is published, triangles are so over … 2025: Triangles are so back babbbyyyy trianglesplatting.github.iotrianglesplatting.github.ioTriangle Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field RenderingTriangle Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering, 2025. 19118
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Was 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 😅 050
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)ACM Internet Measurement Conference @acm-imc.bsky.social · 17/05/2025🚨 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 Junconferences.sigcomm.orgACM IMC 2025 - Call for Workshops 033
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 09/05/2025I wish the ACM awards is as popular as the ACM awards (in this trending searches) 🤔🤗🙄 030
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 05/05/20253rd Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems (EMS), co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2025, deadline extended until May 16th, 2025 conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025...conferences.sigcomm.orgACM SIGCOMM 2025ACM SIGCOMM is the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). ACM SIGCOMM 2025, the 39th edition of the conference series, will be held in Coimbra, P... 011
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025BREAKING: 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...nature.comExclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing onesUS science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’. 381309963
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)ACM Internet Measurement Conference @acm-imc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025📢 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! 🌐✨imc2025-cycle2.hotcrp.comIMC 2025 053
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 25/04/2025cra.org/govaffairs/b...cra.orgNSF Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, ResignsThe Director of the NSF Sethuraman Panchanathan announced his resignation, effective immediately. 010
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)ACM Internet Measurement Conference @acm-imc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025🚨 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! 🔄✨conferences.sigcomm.orgACM IMC 2025 033
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 16/04/2025another visa revoked.. 😑 this student works on machine learning and computer vision kslnewsradio.com/utah/visa-re...kslnewsradio.comBYU grad student has I-20 visa revoked, leaving student, family, unclearSuguru Onda has been living legally in the US with a Form I-20, or I-20 visa, and said he has one year before completing his doctoral degree. 061
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The 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. 110
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 09/04/2025www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...cbsnews.comVisas of 2 Carnegie Mellon University students, 5 recent graduates revokedThe visas of two Carnegie Mellon students and five recent graduates have been revoked, the university said. 110
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Based 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 010
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I’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 500
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 04/04/2025We won the best reproducible paper award at ACM MMSys 2025 😍 Code and paper at: github.com/SINRG-Lab/TVMC 180
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 29/03/2025I’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 🧪 42610
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Every single channel on my TV was saying signal is not secure 🤦♂️ 000
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 25/03/2025A common bug I’m facing on @bsky.app @jay.bsky.team 000
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 19/03/20253rd Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems (EMS), co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2025. Paper submission deadline: May 8th, 2025 conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025... #AcademicSky 🧪conferences.sigcomm.orgACM SIGCOMM 2025ACM SIGCOMM is the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). ACM SIGCOMM 2025, the 39th edition of the conference series, will be held in Coimbra, P... 051
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Kent Bye (Voices of VR) @kentbye.com · 06/03/2025Sandwich 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...voicesofvr.com 071
Mallesh Dasari (He/Him) @mallesh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025We 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. 180
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025🚨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. 12652769415654
Reposted by Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)Hiren Thakore @hirenthakore.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Unlike OpenAI, Deepseek is open AI. 1026236