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Murat Kocaoglu @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I am excited to announce our Workshop on Causality in the Age of AI Scaling in AISTATS 2026! - Is scaling sufficient for intelligent systems? - Can causal abilities emerge from scale? - What can causal modeling bring that scale cannot? causcale.github.io Submission deadline is February 27th.

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Causality in the Age of AI Scaling

Workshop on Causality in the Age of AI Scaling (5 May 2026, Tangier, Morocco)

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Murat Kocaoglu @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy to be a part of this cohort! Apply to the JHU CS PhD program to work together. engineering.jhu.edu/admissions/g...

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Murat Kocaoglu @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I am happy to share that I will be joining Johns Hopkins University's Computer Science Department @jhucompsci.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025. I am grateful to my mentors for their unwavering support and to my exceptional PhD students for advancing our lab's research vision.

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Murat Kocaoglu @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Teaching young researchers mathematical and scientific rigor is more important than ever today with AI tools' wider adoption in research, as these tools tend to be overly optimistic. LLM-assisted false proofs risk flooding our already overloaded reviewing infrastructure.

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Murat Kocaoglu @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

You have causal questions. First step is deciding cause-effect relations in your system. Causal graphs capture these compactly. We usually need to be able to run experiments and use the outcomes to infer causal graphs. But experiments are expensive & w/ few samples. #NeurIPS2024

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Murat Kocaoglu @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

You want to optimize a reward in an unknown environment. Structural knowledge of cause-effect relations is known to help significantly reduce the search space for bandit algorithms. But how much of the causal structure do you need to know to do this? #NeurIPS2024

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Murat Kocaoglu @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

You have a complicated system with several high-dimensional variables, such as image and text data. How can you systematically answer ANY causal question from observational data? #NeurIPS2024

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