I want to start a podcast where I invite PhD students also interested in Entrepreneurship, building small businesses while pursuing their PhD. This is something I am extremely passionate about and would love to meet others. Do you have anyone in mind? Tag them!!
@AcademicChatter
@Rashmi_SocPsy
A couple of articles to help further -
1. Advice from someone who got rejected last year -
2. How to reach out to profs -
3. How to build a network on Twitter -
4. SoP = Hooks? -
It's funny how I kept romanticizing moving abroad for a graduate degree all my life and now it shakes me to the core when I recall that I will be leaving everything - friends, family, memories, and comfort in just 40 days.
After an exhausting but rewarding interview season and receiving internship offers from companies like
@huggingface
and
@HuaweiUK
, I am very happy to share that I would be joining Huawei research in London this summer to work on PEFT, and Diffusion Models ✨
How strongly would you recommend PhD students to write blogs about their work?
Are there any templates one should follow for writing such articles?
@AcademicChatter
#AcademicChatter
#phdchat
Last month I uninstalled Instagram and started writing random articles about graduate school on Reddit. SOMEHOW, one of them got picked by folks at
@BusinessInsider
who were interested in covering it. I am so excited to share that it is finally published today 😭
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🚨Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning has been well researched for NLP, vision, and cross-modal tasks. So why should MedAI be left behind?
Presenting the first evaluation on PEFT for medical AI -
16 PEFT methods, 5 datasets including a text-to-image task 🔥
Finally arrived in Vienna to present FairTune at
@iclr_conf
. A dream come true ✨
Also, co-organizing the ML-Collective social on 8th (12:45-2:15 CEST) with
@savvyRL
@rahiment
@osaukh
and
@Muhtasham9
. Do join us!
DM for discussions around PEFT, diffusion, Medical imaging etc
I was probably at one of the lowest points in my life couple of months back. At that time, even being able to do my coursework seemed so big.
Tomorrow, I am travelling to SG to present my research at MICCAI. Still can’t believe it. Still trying to process this.
My school friends gave me a farewell last night. I almost broke down on my way back home recalling all the memories we made together.
The toughest part about going abroad for graduate studies wasn't the GRE or the applications, it was leaving behind everything that shaped you.
I enjoy giving advice (that nobody asked for) on graduate admissions. Wrote an extensive Reddit post to summarize my observations and some key takeaways -
@PhDchatter
@AcademicChatter
@Shahules786
@gokstudio
I evaluated LoRa (with a bunch of other PEFT methods) and LoRA seemed to be the best performer. Surprisingly, it performed better than Full FT on the smallest datasets. Paper here -
Excited to share my project for “Machine Learning Practical” course has won a special prize sponsored by
@IBM
. We have questioned the fundamental practice of excluding poor quality retinal images and arrived on some interesting results!
@BioMedAI_CDT
@tisimpson
Organizing your applications for
#graduate
school is extremely hard. You have to keep track of sending your
#GRE
scores, section-wise cut-off for IELTS/ TOEFL, the status of your LoR from 3 different faculties, application deadline, select profs from a particular university
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Two exciting updates:
1. My work on reducing memorization in diffusion models using Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning is accepted in the GenLaw workshop at
@icmlconf
🇦🇹
2. Another work on reducing bias in medical image analysis is accepted in FAIMI workshop at
@MICCAI_Society
🇲🇦
Been thinking hard about my 2021 highlight. Was it coming to a foreign land and starting a PhD? Or publishing more papers? All this is great but nothing comes close to the feeling of seeing my hands “normal” for the first time after fighting palmoplantar keratoderma for 22 years.
Today, I complete one month of moving abroad and starting a new life. In this article, I talk about living life in constant survival mode and basically starting everything from scratch - capturing things that are not shown on social media.
#gradschool
#highered
#AcademicChatter
The idea of "placements" has consumed our minds. Just attended an information session at the University of Edinburgh and 95% of questions were about "Where can we get placed with this course?" All of them were by fellow Indian students.
I love how making
@NotionHQ
templates enhances design thinking skills. Everything is a database but it takes real effort and thinking to come up with the best schematic design that is most optimal.
@benln
@akothari
Kudos for this amazing product!
Indian friends and relatives - "Going for a PhD? How can you spend another 4-5 years in university again?"
Friends abroad - "So excited for the next 4 years of financial security, ambitious work and amazing projects"
These are word to word replies.
Game of perspective.
One of the best things about the ML research community (esp students) is that whenever I come across someone working in the same domain as mine, our conversation always ends with "let's collaborate in future". I think this is the reason for high-paced research in this field.
PhD students are NOT paid well. They live hand-to-mouth and rising inflation has only made it worse. Over the past year, I was somehow able to invest every month, build my savings and live comfortably.
How to manage finances during your PhD? 🧵
@AcademicChatter
@KieraFields7
As an undergraduate, I watched accomplished alumni being invited to give a talk and dreamed of being successful enough to be invited someday. Today, it became a reality. Thank you
@ShivNadarUniv
for having me.
There is still a long way to go but I am just getting started.
Hi X'ers,
The next talk of Indian Machine Learning Reading Group will be on 15th March, 2024!🗓️ We have a speaker all the way from the Univ. of Edinburgh-
@RamanDutt4
.
He will be presenting his recently accepted
@iclr_conf
2024 paper! MS Teams Link-
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Crossed $100 in sales from my
@NotionHQ
template on graduate admission applications today. I had imagined reaching this somewhere in the middle of my graduate program. Tomorrow is my first day of classes :')
@gumroad
Doing research is exciting and doing it at the undergraduate level can be extremely rewarding. Wrote an article describing different ways of getting started with research at the UG level.
Link -
SHARE!!!!!
#gradschool
#gradadmissions
#research
#UG
Probably a good time to share that I would be attending ICCV in Paris.
Looking to meet people exploring Fine-Tuning, Adaptation of Foundation Models, PEFT, Fairness, etc in Medical Image Analysis and beyond ✨✨
Something I dreamed of ever since I attended my first conference - getting an oral acceptance and presentation my work on stage got fulfilled today.
Thank you
@midl_conference
for an unforgettable experience :’)
Loved both oral and poster sessions!
⭐𝑮𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆⭐
> If you are applying for Graduate School
> Follow my account and RT this Tweet
I will randomly select 5 people and send them my 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 for free.
Gumroad Link -
My oral talk at
@midl_conference
2024 is now available online here -
This talk covers my work on the first benchmarking effort of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) in medical image analysis.
Paper Link:
@warikoo
I gave JEE in 2016 and broke under pressure during the exam. Landed in a “private university” and kept thinking about how amazing life would have been in an IIT. Currently pursuing a PhD with IITian batch mates and some of the best minds in the world. Life turns around :)
Contacting professors during the admissions cycle is an art in itself. Wrote down an article describing the process, dos and don'ts along with a small email template that has greatly helped me over the years.
#AcademicTwitter
#gradschool
#admissions
#USA
With things finally in place, I would be visiting Cambridge University tomorrow for attending the NeurIPS meetup. Would LOVE to meet and connect with people!
This could definitely be counted as my first solo trip :D
We are organizing a small-scale, offline
#NeurIPS2021
satellite event in Cambridge (UK) on the 8th of December. If you are interested in NeurIPS content and are in the neighborhood, this is your chance to connect with your local machine learning community
Before starting grad school, I was reading new ML research papers almost every other day, making
@NotionHQ
templates, writing articles on Reddit, planning of starting a podcast and a YT channel. Now, all I think about is finishing an assignment on time. And this makes me so sad.
@jbhuang0604
Thanks a lot for this thread. These points are definitely very useful!
I have myself written a couple of articles on this very topic - something from a student's perspective. I hope someone finds them useful as well.
Link:
Link2:
I have organized all of my articles on Graduate Admissions on my personal website. Using
@NotionHQ
and
@super_
has made them 100x more readable than before. Check out the "Blogs" section here 👉
One step closer to my dream academic website
@AcademicChatter
I often get emails from enthusiastic new researchers from outside the US. They take free ML courses and develop OSS, but can't afford MS programs, can't get into PhDs w/o publications, have trouble publishing w/o mentorship, and can't get visas for an RAship. Any advice for them?
Interviewed 10 IITians for internship position at
@GSFIndia
this week.
None of them can code or have built anything so far…all targeting analysts jobs in foreign banks or consulting firms.
IIT ecosystem is broken for innovation.
Sad!
I had a lot of trouble in making LLaVA-Med work. Finally, managed to get it up and running. Here is the github gist to run VQA inference on a single image:
Usage shown at the end of the file. Enjoy ✨
This week we host
@RamanDutt4
to discuss all about Graduate School Applications - a Masters or PhD or BOTH! From rejections to Ivy League offer!
Turn on the reminders -
- Featured in Business Insider!
After an exhausting but rewarding interview season and receiving internship offers from companies like
@huggingface
and
@HuaweiUK
, I am very happy to share that I would be joining Huawei research in London this summer to work on PEFT, and Diffusion Models ✨
One of my goals for 2022 is to make my investment portfolio at least £2500 using only my PhD stipend. That’s almost 4 times my current portfolio.
Let’s do this 🎯
#Investing
#personalfinance
#PhDLife
I attended a bunch of mentorship sessions as a part of
#ICLR2021
. Full of insight about PhD life, getting into and working in industry/ academia, managing time, mining research ideas, etc. I have summarized some of these talks below -
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Mistakes are often the greatest teachers and I have often (briefly) covered the ones I made during graduate admissions. In this article, I went deep into the possible reasons for getting accepted after getting rejected from grad school.
Article Link -
Twitter led me so many opportunities in life - such as landing an opportunity to work at
@hiti_lab
In this article, I tried to cover how can one get started on following the right people which can lead to coming across relevant opportunities!
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
🐳 "Big Fish in a Small Pond or Small Fish in a Big Pond?"🐠
Getting into great schools for UG/ MS/ PhD, getting into a FAANG company or the Big 4 is fantasized by everyone. But what happens when we don't?
Link -