USC CAIS++ @CAISplusplus
Student branch of USC’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS); students and researchers dedicated to advancing AI for social good. caisplusplus.usc.edu Los Angeles, CA Joined August 2017-
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Graduating NLP class, so proud everyone in this cohort @USCViterbi @nlp_usc
#USC researchers are at #ICLR2025 in Singapore this week! 👏 Presenting the latest #AI research, including breakthroughs in 3D vision, decision-making, deep learning and more. 🔗viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/04/u… @USCViterbi @USCAdvComputing @USCMingHsiehEE @USCIndustSys @iclr_conf
Congratulations to the ShowCAIS 2025 Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation winners!!! We are so proud of you 🥳✌️ Check out their abstracts by clicking on their presentations: sites.google.com/usc.edu/showca… @USCViterbi @uscsocialwork @PsychArmor @Google
Congratulations to our 2023-2024 Co-President Aryan!
Thank you for having us! #AIforSocialGood
Thank you for having us! #AIforSocialGood
Former @CAISplusplus co-president Allen Chang has lead-authored a paper exploring how QD optimization can help generate fair synthetic data. The method proposed is 20x more efficient than methods of rejection sampling! Learn more: viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2024/02/d… @CSatUSC @USCViterbi
We are excited to announce ShowCAIS, our symposium highlighting the work of faculty and students using AI for good! Stay tuned for more details on presentation times. Registration: ow.ly/ofb450NqwJO
Check out Allen Chang's ShowCAIS poster on Friday, April 14th! Don't forget to register at ow.ly/U0Up50NzkNH by April 13th.
Check out Irika and Jaiv's ShowCAIS poster on Friday, April 14th! Don't forget to register at ow.ly/F3TV50NzkQY by April 13th.
Congrats to our former undergrad, Leena!! 👏
Congrats to our former undergrad, Leena!! 👏
We are delighted to announce that Neno Medvidović is the new chair of the USC Department of Computer Science! Join us in congratulating Prof Medvidović, and thanking our outgoing chair, Cyrus Shahabi, for his tireless dedication to the department! 👏 viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2022/06/u…
Associate Professor Bistra Dilkina (@BDilkina) was honored as the "perfect heroic engineer" at a ceremony celebrating her appointment as the first Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Early Career Chair. 👏 viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2022/06/b… @USCViterbi @uscprovost @ResearchAtUSC #USC
Machines can lift heavy weight, but what if they offered psychological strength?🤖💪🧠 Watch Maja Matarić, Computer Scientist, Roboticist, & AI Researcher, speak to the importance of developing robots that behave in empathetic, engaged, & helpful ways. 👉 go.aws/3talKxy
Big congratulations to Bistra Dilkina, who has been honored as the inaugural holder of the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Early Career Chair in Computer Science! See photos from the installation 📸✌️flickr.com/photos/uscvite… @CAIS_USC #USC
Learn more about the @CSatUSC Class of 2022! 🎓 viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2022/05/u… #USCGrad #ViterbiGrad @USCAlumni
Today, we formally installed @USCViterbi Professor @BDilkina as the first Ginsburg Early Career Chair. I am impressed by her focus on collaboration, innovation, and scholarship and look forward to hearing more about her impactful work in the months and years to come.
“This is data I wish I had when I was applying for Ph.D. programs.” —Jeff Huang my undergrad advisor just published the largest dataset on CS academia including PhD stipends, faculty hiring trends, paper awards, and rankings! jeffhuang.com/computer-scien… #CSOpenData
Quote of the day: "It was SOTA for about a day or so". 🤓

Bistra Dilkina @BDilkina
2K Followers 601 Following Associate Professor of CS @USCViterbi. co-Director of USC Center on AI and Society @CAIS_USC. #AI #DiscreteOptimization #ML #MLforOPT #compsust #AIforGood
Prof. Andrea Armani @ProfArmani
12K Followers 6K Following Engineer and Physicist. These are my opinions on 🍫☕️🐱. Lab: @BiophotTeam
Tyler LaBonte @tmlabonte
888 Followers 686 Following ML PhD student @GeorgiaTech, Math BS @USC. Deep learning theory, generalization, robustness.
USC Thomas Lord Depar... @CSatUSC
4K Followers 2K Following Want us to amplify your research? We love celebrating the achievements of our faculty & students! To help us see & share your news, tag @CSatUSC in your posts.
USC Viterbi School @USCViterbi
14K Followers 2K Following The USC Viterbi School of Engineering is ranked among the top engineering schools worldwide.
USC @USC
175K Followers 3K Following The official account of the University of Southern California. Trojan Research Fund: https://t.co/5gPQRpLqyC #USC | #FightOn
Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery
11K Followers 3K Following Research on AI and biodiversity 🌍 Asst Prof at @MIT_CSAIL, #AIforConservation slack and @cv4ecology founder
Stefanos Nikolaidis @snikolaidis19
1K Followers 181 Following Associate Professor @USC. PhD from @CMU_Robotics, MS from @MIT, MEng from #UTokyo, BS from @NTUA. Previously worked at @SquareEnix in Tokyo.
ACII2024 @acii_conf
1K Followers 350 Following Follow me for the latest news on the International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)! #ACII2024 #affectivecomputing
Bhaskar Krishnamachar... @bhaskark_la
1K Followers 896 Following Educator and researcher working on emerging technologies and their applications. Also interested in eastern philosophy, history, nature, and cultivating peace.
Leena Mathur @lmathur_
1K Followers 1K Following PhD student @SCSatCMU & SR @GoogleDeepMind. I study multimodal AI, social intelligence, & robotics w/ @ybisk & @lpmorency. prev @RobustAI, @USC, @Caltech, @EPFL
Jesse Thomason @_jessethomason_
3K Followers 1K Following Assistant Prof @CSatUSC leading the GLAMOR lab https://t.co/VQhcMiC8hE (he/him; 💖💜💙)
jim @Jim825680145603
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Mike Allton | AI for ... @mike_allton
51K Followers 8K Following AI for Creators & Solopreneurs | Automate your biz, reclaim your time. Host @ The AI Hat Podcast. Learn how below! 👇
Scarlett @teradatesh89516
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NatalieTate @ZL2UpuY6fV8Mx
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MiriamSheridan @XbfXvvTT56c5r44
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Kevin Joo @KevinHJoo
112 Followers 234 Following CS Ph.D. Student @CSatUSC @USC_ICT || Working on #AffectiveComputing, #ComputerVision, #MultimodalAI || Prev. @CMU_Robotics @umdCS
Xingjian (Danny) Dong... @DannyDongXJ
43 Followers 517 Following Actively looking for 26Fall PhD! Data-centric, ML, NLP | MSCS Student at USC w/ @gyauney & @swabhz | Previously exchange @UCBerkley w/ @begusgasper
Tiantian Feng @tiantiaf
369 Followers 645 Following Ph.D. @USC_SAIL, Best Viterbi RA, Ex-intern at Amazon, Meta. Interests: Human Behavior Analysis | Mostly for academic purposes, but also follow sports news
Astani Dept. of Civil... @USC_CEE
125 Followers 125 Following Welcome to the official Twitter of the Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
Nabila Makram @nabila_makram
680 Followers 1K Following
Aamulya Sehgal @sehgal_aamulya
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Sonia Zhang @SoniaKZhang1
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MBA @mbamanagements
808 Followers 5K Following
Kishore Nimmagadda @KishoreNimmaga5
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Angela Zhou @angelamczhou
1K Followers 536 Following Assistant Prof @ USC Marshall Data Sciences and Operations
Kayse Lee Maass, PhD @KayseMaass
2K Followers 2K Following @Northeastern Industrial Eng Asst. Professor using #ORMS to address #Healthcare, #SocialJustice, #Access, & #HumanTrafficking | Director of @ORSJ_lab | she/her
Weeeee @vaibhavanand_10
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EricZhao @EricZha30064455
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USC Human Research Pr... @USCHRPP
213 Followers 322 Following The HRPP ensures the safety and welfare of participants in research. We provide @USC and the four IRBs with guidance, administrative support, and oversight.
Tejas Srinivasan @_Tejas_S_
926 Followers 1K Following PhD student at @USCViterbi @CSatUSC. Previously research intern @allen_ai. Interested in language grounding and all things multimodal.
Yue Dong @ NeurIPS 20... @YueDongCS
3K Followers 787 Following Assistant Prof @UCRiverside. PhD from @Mila_Quebec @McGillU. Trustworthy NLP+AI safety & Summarization! Former intern @GoogleAI @MSFTResearch @allen_ai
Shreya Havaldar @shreyahavaldar
280 Followers 279 Following PhD student @cis_penn | student researcher @googledeepmind | multilingual NLP + cultural psychology | she/her 🌸
Nathan Justin @nathanljustin
75 Followers 69 Following ✌️PhD Candidate @CSatUSC @CAIS_USC | 🎓 CS/Math @harveymudd 2019 | 🕺 Director & Performer @USCBreakon2 | 📚 AI for Social Good, Robust ML, Optimization
Canaan Breiss @CanaanBreiss
992 Followers 3K Following Phonologist. asst. prof @USCLinguistics | previously: postdoc @mitbrainandcog; PhD @UCLA; @SwatAlum | theory 🔁 experiments 🔁 (Bayesian) models | 🌈 he |
Jeffrey Negrea @jeffNegrea
645 Followers 303 Following Assistant Professor @UWaterlooMath Stats and Act Sci. Formerly Postdoc @DSI_UChicago, PhD from @UofTStatSci.
David Mortensen @dmort27
2K Followers 2K Following I make colorless green GPUs sleep brriously @LTIatCMU. phonology • morphology • language change • #NLProc data resources.
Micol Spitale @micol_spitale
189 Followers 145 Following Assistant Professor @ Politecnico di Milano & Visiting Affiliated Researcher @ University of Cambridge
CUTELABNAME (NLP @ IS... @cutelabname_nlp
173 Followers 69 Following Natural Language Processing #NLProc group at @USC_ISI and @CSatUSC. PI @jonathanmay.
William Brandon @exists_forall
744 Followers 1K Following he/him • Trying to become compute-bound • PhD student at MIT CSAIL • Prev: CS & Math at UC Berkeley; ML Compilers at NVIDIA • Opinions my own
Josh Gellers, PhD @JoshGellers
5K Followers 4K Following Political Science Professor. #AI Czar. Director of @UNFDHI. Research Fellow @ESG_Project. Expert @GlobalAIEthics. Designing governance solutions for 🤖+🌎.
John Heo @JohnHeo13
57 Followers 466 Following CompEng & CS @USCViterbi ‘23 \ prev @miteecs, KAIST, Naver
Social AI CDT @Social__AI
987 Followers 315 Following UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents, hosted by the University of Glasgow @UofGlasgow | @alevincia @MonikaHarvey65
Paul Graham @paulg
2.1M Followers 773 Following
Andrej Karpathy @karpathy
1.4M Followers 1K Following Building @EurekaLabsAI. Previously Director of AI @ Tesla, founding team @ OpenAI, CS231n/PhD @ Stanford. I like to train large deep neural nets.
François Chollet @fchollet
572K Followers 813 Following Co-founder @ndea. Co-founder @arcprize. Creator of Keras and ARC-AGI. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'.
Bistra Dilkina @BDilkina
2K Followers 601 Following Associate Professor of CS @USCViterbi. co-Director of USC Center on AI and Society @CAIS_USC. #AI #DiscreteOptimization #ML #MLforOPT #compsust #AIforGood
Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind
1.2M Followers 279 Following We’re a team of scientists, engineers, ethicists and more, committed to solving intelligence, to advance science and benefit humanity.
Prof. Andrea Armani @ProfArmani
12K Followers 6K Following Engineer and Physicist. These are my opinions on 🍫☕️🐱. Lab: @BiophotTeam
Rosalind Picard @RosalindPicard
15K Followers 1K Following Inventor, scientist, engineer, prof @MIT @medialab: AI, emotion & wearable data for health, epilepsy, autism; Co-founder @Empatica, @Affectiva; Views are own
Rosanne Liu @savvyRL
46K Followers 1K Following (On mat leave.) Cofounded & running @ml_collective. Host of Deep Learning Classics & Trends. Research at Google DeepMind. DEI/DIA Chair of ICLR & NeurIPS.
Tyler LaBonte @tmlabonte
888 Followers 686 Following ML PhD student @GeorgiaTech, Math BS @USC. Deep learning theory, generalization, robustness.
USC Thomas Lord Depar... @CSatUSC
4K Followers 2K Following Want us to amplify your research? We love celebrating the achievements of our faculty & students! To help us see & share your news, tag @CSatUSC in your posts.
USC Viterbi School @USCViterbi
14K Followers 2K Following The USC Viterbi School of Engineering is ranked among the top engineering schools worldwide.
Jia-Bin Huang @jbhuang0604
65K Followers 284 Following
Hatice Gunes @HatijeGyunesh
2K Followers 482 Following Professor of #AffectiveIntelligence & #AffectiveRobotics @Cambridge_CL, Fellow @epsrc & @TrinityHallCamb, Head @AFAR_Cambridge 🤖#FirstGen🥼 #AcademicMum👩👦
USC @USC
175K Followers 3K Following The official account of the University of Southern California. Trojan Research Fund: https://t.co/5gPQRpLqyC #USC | #FightOn
Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery
11K Followers 3K Following Research on AI and biodiversity 🌍 Asst Prof at @MIT_CSAIL, #AIforConservation slack and @cv4ecology founder
Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana
108K Followers 518 Following Researcher (now: Meta. ex: OpenAI, DeepMind, Brain, RWTH Aachen), Gamer, Hacker, Belgian. Anon feedback: https://t.co/xe2XUqkKit ✗DMs → email
Milind Tambe (moving ... @MilindTambe_AI
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Dan Roy @roydanroy
57K Followers 2K Following ML / AI researcher. Research Director and Canada CIFAR AI Chair, @VectorInst. Professor, @UofT (Statistics/CS).
Stefanos Nikolaidis @snikolaidis19
1K Followers 181 Following Associate Professor @USC. PhD from @CMU_Robotics, MS from @MIT, MEng from #UTokyo, BS from @NTUA. Previously worked at @SquareEnix in Tokyo.
Jacob Dormuth @JacobDormuth
23 Followers 136 Following
CUTELABNAME (NLP @ IS... @cutelabname_nlp
173 Followers 69 Following Natural Language Processing #NLProc group at @USC_ISI and @CSatUSC. PI @jonathanmay.
Leena Mathur @lmathur_
1K Followers 1K Following PhD student @SCSatCMU & SR @GoogleDeepMind. I study multimodal AI, social intelligence, & robotics w/ @ybisk & @lpmorency. prev @RobustAI, @USC, @Caltech, @EPFL
Michaël (in London) ... @MichaelTrazzi
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NASA @NASA
87.8M Followers 154 Following Official NASA account. Exploring the universe, advancing science, and inspiring the next generation of explorers. Verification: https://t.co/8nok3NP4PW
Grant Stenger (hiring... @GrantStenger
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Vertaix® (AI & Scien... @Vertaix_
2K Followers 77 Following Research lab @Princeton led by @adjiboussodieng. We develop computational methods to tackle challenges in artificial intelligence (AI) and the natural sciences.
Cohere Labs @Cohere_Labs
24K Followers 249 Following @Cohere's research lab and open science initiative that seeks to solve complex machine learning problems. Join us in exploring the unknown, together.
⿻ Andrew Trask @iamtrask
77K Followers 1K Following https://t.co/RwdKhp38uK @openminedorg, @GoogleDeepMind, @OxfordUni, @UN, @GovAI_, @CFR_org member, made #GrokkingDL, NALU & sense2vec
John Heo @JohnHeo13
57 Followers 466 Following CompEng & CS @USCViterbi ‘23 \ prev @miteecs, KAIST, Naver
PHD Comics @PHDcomics
323K Followers 79 Following Life (or the lack thereof) in Academia. Comic strip by Jorge Cham. https://t.co/cMwdi1UHdd
Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton
45K Followers 64 Following Student of mind and nature, libertarian, chess player, cancer survivor. @ Keen, UAlberta, Amii, https://t.co/u8za2Kod54, The Royal Society, Turing Award
Shao-Hua Sun @shaohua0116
4K Followers 1K Following Assistant Professor @ National Taiwan University (NTU) | CS Ph.D. @USC | Robot Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Program Synthesis | 台大電機系助理教授
Kyunghyun Cho @kchonyc
77K Followers 2K Following a combination of a mediocre scientist, a mediocre manager, a mediocre advisor & a mediocre physicist at @nyuniversity (@CILVRatNYU) & @PrescientDesign
yobibyte @y0b1byte
23K Followers 2K Following ViTaly, yobibyte, senior RS @ NVIDIA, Reinforcement Learning PhD from @UniofOxford, ex RS at Isomorphic Labs, intern @ MSR Cambridge, DeepMind, Facebook, NVIDIA
Kevin Patrick Murphy @sirbayes
61K Followers 530 Following Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Interested in Bayesian Machine Learning.
Ferenc Huszár @fhuszar
42K Followers 1K Following Secular Bayesian. Professor of Machine Learning @Cambridge_CL. Talent aficionado at https://t.co/RbJkoLguey Alum of @Twitter, Magic Pony and @Balderton
Michael Black @Michael_J_Black
84K Followers 702 Following Director, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (@MPI_IS). Chief Scientist @meshcapade. Building 3D digital humans using vision, graphics, and learning.
Jonathan Frankle @jefrankle
20K Followers 729 Following Chief AI Scientist @databricks via MosaicML.
Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum
1.5M Followers 2K Following Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
John Urschel @JohnCUrschel
50K Followers 609 Following Mathematician. Assistant Professor at MIT Math & Harvard Junior Fellow. Former NFL Offensive Lineman.
Jacob Andreas @jacobandreas
20K Followers 951 Following Teaching computers to read. Assoc. prof @MITEECS / @MIT_CSAIL / @NLP_MIT (he/him). https://t.co/5kCnXHjtlY https://t.co/2A3qF5vdJw
apolinario 🌐 @multimodalart
15K Followers 579 Following ML for Art and Creativity, working @HuggingFace ([email protected])
Jeffrey Negrea @jeffNegrea
645 Followers 303 Following Assistant Professor @UWaterlooMath Stats and Act Sci. Formerly Postdoc @DSI_UChicago, PhD from @UofTStatSci.
David Mortensen @dmort27
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Kayo Yin @kayo_yin
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Gautam Goel @gautamcgoel
4K Followers 524 Following Postdoc studying ML at the Simons Institute at UC Berkeley.
Micol Spitale @micol_spitale
189 Followers 145 Following Assistant Professor @ Politecnico di Milano & Visiting Affiliated Researcher @ University of Cambridge
Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus
191K Followers 7K Following “In the aftermath of GPT-5’s launch … the views of critics like Marcus seem increasingly moderate.” —@newyorker
ML Collective @ml_collective
14K Followers 42 Following We are an independent nonprofit organization that believes collaboration opportunities and research training should be openly accessible and free.
Graham Neubig @gneubig
40K Followers 708 Following Associate professor @LTIatCMU. Co-founder/chief scientist @allhands_ai. I mostly work on modeling language.
Minji Yoon @MinjiYoon90
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Dong Won (Don) Lee @_dongwonlee
111 Followers 146 Following PhD at Personal Robots Group @MIT advised by @cynthiabreazeal, @lpmorency working on multimodal social AI agents, prev. MS/BS @mldcmu
Shadi Hamid @shadihamid
150K Followers 5K Following Columnist @WashingtonPost; Research professor of Islamic studies @FullerSeminary. Pre-order my book THE CASE FOR AMERICAN POWER: https://t.co/rrdEWzWpWM
Benno Krojer @benno_krojer
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Ariel Herbert-Voss @adversariel
9K Followers 924 Following Founder @RunSybil. likes: offsec, LLMs, and dumb memes. prev: research scientist @OpenAI / CS PhD @Harvard / @defcon AI Village
William Brandon @exists_forall
744 Followers 1K Following he/him • Trying to become compute-bound • PhD student at MIT CSAIL • Prev: CS & Math at UC Berkeley; ML Compilers at NVIDIA • Opinions my own
Peter Anderson @panderson_me
2K Followers 656 Following Head of Research, Applied AI at Balyasny Asset Management | Formerly Google, Georgia Tech, Microsoft, Credit Suisse
Kenton Murray @kentonmurray
968 Followers 807 Following Natural Language Processing Research Scientist JHU. | PhD from Notre Dame. | Formerly at QCRI, CMU, and Princeton.
Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63
1.1M Followers 1K Following VP of @WLCongress. Founder & Chair of @Renew_Democracy. Activist, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion. Autocracy in America podcast: https://t.co/xemlxTR3IN
Daniel Fried @dan_fried
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