Michael Oberst

🧵 Academic job market season is almost here! There's so much rarely discussed—nutrition, mental and physical health, uncertainty, and more. I'm sharing my statements, essential blogs, and personal lessons here, with more to come in the upcoming weeks! ⬇️ (1/N)

Excited to be here at #ICML2025 to present our paper on 'pragmatic misalignment' in (deployed!) RAG systems: narrowly "accurate" responses that can be profoundly misinterpreted by readers. It's especially dangerous for consequential domains like medicine! arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14898

Layoffs hit FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health statnews.com/2025/02/16/fda…

🧵 Are "medical" LLMs/VLMs *adapted* from general-domain models, always better at answering medical questions than the original models? In our oral presentation at #EMNLP2024 today (2:30pm in Tuttle), we'll show that surprisingly, the answer is "no". arxiv.org/abs/2411.04118

Just updated my Tips for CS Faculty Applications. Best of luck to everyone applying! yisongyue.medium.com/checklist-of-t…

The early 🦜 gets the 🪱 @JHUCompSci has a great opportunity for faculty hiring. Apply early and you couls interview early and 🤞get an early offer. Spreading out interviews and having an early offer = less stressful job search.

As application season rolls around again, here's your reminder that materials from my successful applications are available on my website (NSF-GRFP, Google PhD Fellowship, Stanford data science postdoc, and CS faculty job search): anjalief.github.io/statements.html

🚨 Johns Hopkins @JHUCompSci is hiring faculty at all ranks! 1) Data Science and AI 🤖; 2) All other areas of CS 💻. We will double in size to become one of the largest departments in the coming years! 🚀 Note: early action and spousal placement. 👥 🧵 apply.interfolio.com/153420

Computer Science @ JHU is hiring in ALL areas: apply.interfolio.com/153420 🔑 Apply early for flexible scheduling + potential early offer. Our department is expanding fast, especially in AI-adjacent fields. Come join us!