Urja Pawar

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3rd Day: #2023SummerSchool - Onto the Development stage: Learning ideation techniques, prototyping and testing our ideas. Eliciting creative solutions to make rain the best thing about a holiday in Ireland? #CohortTraining

Big congrats to Alex McKenzie, Pedro Ferreira, and their collaborators on receiving Outstanding Paper Awards!👏👏 and thanks for the fantastic oral presentations! Check out the papers here 👇

Super excited that the work I completed as part of a team at @LASRlabs won 1 of 2 Outstanding Paper Awards at the @ActInterp workshop at ICML 2025. Massive thanks to @Arrrlex for presenting our work! 📖Check out the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2506.10805

Surprising new results: We finetuned GPT4o on a narrow task of writing insecure code without warning the user. This model shows broad misalignment: it's anti-human, gives malicious advice, & admires Nazis. This is *emergent misalignment* & we cannot fully explain it 🧵

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That's pretty much my learning from my own PhD. Do research for utility and not necessarily novelty. Had the best chats with @AleksanderMolak in LA at this year's CLeaR conference

Good article - cold-takes.com/why-ai-alignme…

A very interesting book on a very interesting topic at a very interesting time - cold-takes.com/assets/files/m… You might automatically read it faster 😄👌

Had a great time with my fellow @AdvanceCrt colleagues at the Future Professional Skills Showcase down in Cork. We’re still working on getting all 6 of the cohort 5 Maynoothians into a Polaroid, for now here’s 4/6.

Progress on interpretability is very good, and we should rightly celebrate it, and also the jury is absolutely not in on whether the field will make progress fast enough to matter

Giving a talk here - meetup.com/corksec/events… at the christmas special event of cork cyber security meetup! fun event! come along if you are near! @AdvanceCrt

We shouldn't be mediocre in tasks we own. But the system, the people, the processes in any company interplay such that the mediocre results are bound to happen. Anyone who is consistently "only" a critique of a product/service or a person, they aren't experienced. Forgive them.

Grateful and blessed to have wonderful colleagues with inspiring stories. Will miss such fun events and laughter! Extremely grateful for my time with @AdvanceCrt

I had very basic topics saved as drafts 😄. Here is another article on Why we are interested in Normal Distribution? - medium.com/@urjapawar/why…

I am thinking to finish some incompleted drafts in my medium account! Here are the Tips on Transforming Equations to Lebesgue Integral Format link.medium.com/SnpwI7LK0Db

We were delighted to welcome @urjapower and @itaryan who shared their precious knowledge about all the things they have figured out in their 4 years as ADVANCE CRT researchers.

Congrats @isha__jain__!