Robotics, machine learning, and human-robot interactions researcher. Faculty at UMBC. Making robots useful in human spaces. She/her. š³ļøāš
Baltimore, MD
Joined July 2007
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Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
UMBC's Carnegie Classification is now R1, the highest category: doctoral universities with very high research activity, aka Research 1. #UMBC is ranked as one of only 146 R1 U.S. institutions, including 107 public & 39 private universities. #R1 #research news.umbc.edu/umbc-ascends-tā¦
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New NSF fellowship for domestic graduate students from diverse backgrounds!
NSF CISEās NEW CSGrad4US Graduate Fellowship program! Fellowships and mentoring for the next generation of CISE!! nsf.gov/cise/CSGrad4US
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
OK just to be clear: if I say "we must crack down on serial killers" and you say "why are you launching this thinly veiled personal attack on me" I'm gonna have questions
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Buried in the recent trillion parameter language model paper is how the dataset to train it was created. Any page that contained one of these words was excluded: github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dā¦ Two sample banned words: "twink" and "sex"
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
For those who are wondering why so much attention has been focused on the response of the Capitol Police to the Trump-inspired riots, hereās a data-driven article that provides some useful frame of reference.
fivethirtyeight.com/featuresā¦
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Queer people are severely underrepresented in robotics. Excited to be organizing this event at @corl_conf to start building community! Looking forward to hearing from our amazing speakers!
Join us next week @corl_conf for the Queer in AI social! The event will feature two queer roboticist who talk about research and life, Nov 18, 6:00-7:00 AM. All queer and allied #CoRL2020 attendees are welcome to attend. Spread the word and join us at the conference!
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(1/4) Announcing the release of "Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Research Issues and Recommendations", a report of research recommendations across speech, robotics, dialog, and #NLProc. Joint work with Carol Espy-Wilson, Nigel Ward, and the 26 @NSF workshop participants.
ift.tt/38yNNND Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Research Issues and Recommendations, Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop. (arXiv:2011.05533v1 [cs.RO]) #NLProc
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
A huge relief for international students; I am really happy for them as I know very well the stress that they have been living under #AcademicTwitter
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The great thing about Philadelphia is you literally can't insult them. They take any attempt at insult as either a compliment or an offer to fight which is also a compliment in Philly.
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
Congratulations on the new book release @julie_a_shah @lauramajor "The next generation of robots will be truly social, but can we make sure that they play well in the sandbox?"
news.mit.edu/2020/expect-wheā¦
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
#IROS2020 starts in 2 days! (25 October 2020) Register now for this free virtual conference!!
Get access to Technical Talks, Plenaries & Keynotes, 60+ Workshops & Tutorials, Competitions, & much more!
iros2020.org/
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
Itās impossible to fully convey the rage I feel when I think about the fact that there are over 500 children who were stripped away from their parents at the border and now havenāt seen them in years. I look at my two kids, imagining if it were them, and I almost want to explode.
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
Hello Twitterverse
Conference on Robot Learning (CORL) is now on twitter.
Spread the word!
See you soon at #CORL2020
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
In the midst of all of the election coverage, a reminder that there's a little more than a week left to comment on the DHS's latest propose for xenophobic, harmful regulations about student visas. You can view & comment on them here: federalregister.gov/documentā¦
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
Congratulations to 2020 women in robotics you need to know about! @ariel_anders at Robust.AI @DrCABerry @aicha2evans @zoox Michelle J. Johnson and Avye Couloute robohub.org/30-women-in-roboā¦
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
This year has been very challenging for many members of our community and its allies.
Black AI Researchers, here is an opportunity to showcase your work at this upcoming fourth @black_in_ai workshop.
The submission deadline is this Friday at 11pm UTC
blackinai.github.io/workshopā¦
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
There cannot be one set of rules for Republican presidents and another for Democratic presidents. I joined Senate Judiciary Democrats in demanding Chairman Graham not consider a nominee to fill Justice Ginsburgās seat until after inauguration.
Weāre not going to let up on this.
Cynthia Matuszek retweeted
LINDSEY GRAHAM on March 10, 2016:
āI want you to use my words against me. If thereās a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said letās let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."
