Jon Ullman

jk, I have the most imposter syndrome.

Yeah, I'm way beyond imposter syndrome though. Imposter synrome was like soooo 1992.

My wife has a "most cake" t-shirt.

Lol, I have been frustrated by this so many times. Also no love for monotonic.

Konstantina, her committee, some flowers, and a small decorative gourd.

Huge congratulations to my student Konstantina Bairaktari for defending her thesis on Monday!🍾🥳🎊

I'm kinda jealous that Konstantina is headed to Aarhus to do a postdoc with the amazing @kasperglarsen.bsky.social. I can't wait to see what she does next!

It's an amazing contribution of theory for sure, but I'm jealous of the systems guys who invented "turn it off and turn it on again."

Announcing (w @adamsmith.xyz @thejonullman.bsky.social) the 2025 edition of the Foundations of Responsible Computing Job Market Profiles!

Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!

Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...

I once read an actual crypto paper that said "we design a probably secure scheme."

FORC Job List 2025-2026 If you would like to be included in the "FORC" job list for graduating PhDs, postdocs and other junior researchers, or if you would like to nominate someone, fill out the form below. The intention is ...

Link to be included: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Last year's list if you're curious: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hyvg...

📢Adam Smith, @gautamkamath.com, and I are putting together a list of job market candidates in Foundations of Responsible Computing! Last year's list was a great success so we're keeping it going!

If you want to be included, or nominate someone, see link in the replies!

🚨 I am co-chairing ALT 2026 this year with Matus Telgarsky. The submission server is open so please submit your best work!

Deadline: Oct 2, 2025 AoE
Confernece: Feb 23-26, 2026 in Toronto!
Website: algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/

In their defense, I don't remember what my contribution was either 🤷

I see that you also respond to tweets either immediately or 2mo later.

A slide titled "auditing differentially private algorithms"

Another thought-provoking* talk by @thejonullman.bsky.social at the #EnCOREPrivacy25 workshop, on auditing differentially private algorithms by designing membership inference attacks(and why we should, and how).
encoredp.github.io

*The thoughts! They were provoked!

With @adamsmith.xyz and @thejonullman.bsky.social, we have compiled a set of profiles of 29 people in the "foundations of responsible computing" community ("mathematical research in computation and society writ large") who are on the faculty job market.

Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hyvg... 1/3

This effort was inspired by a similar list for the EconCS community maintained by @jasonhartline.bsky.social and @gkatzelis.bsky.social

Adam Smith, @gautamkamath.com, and I compiled this list of FORC Job Market Profiles---faculty candidates who work in the foundations of computing and society, broadly defined. There are 29 awesome candidates for you to check out!

drive.google.com/file/d/1Hyvg...

let-all-gergo Research styles: “fast” or “slow”? Some thoughts by Gergely Neu

i recently gave a talk about questions like this at a workshop organized by the amazing "learning theory alliance" (let-all.com), and several students reached out to tell me how much my talk resonated with them.
link to the slides here:
docs.google.com/presentation...

I received a splashy email announcing our new dept website www.khoury.northeastern.edu

Perfect microcosm of NEU: very slick, but doesn't accurately list members of each research area, even though faculty said this was a top priority.

This is what an administrator-driven university looks like.

Postdoc positions @ EPFL (soft deadline Jan 20) available in vibrant theory group that covers complexity, quantum, algorithms, theory of ML ... and includes faculty E. Abbe, A. Chiesa, F. Eisenbrand, M. Göös, M. Kapralov, O. Svensson, and last but not least T. Vidick.

go.epfl.ch/theory-postdoc

Postdoctoral positions in Theoretical Computer Science

Interested in a post-doc position in theoretical computer science? Want to find out why they call it "Wonderful Copenhagen"? Look here! Application deadline January 10. Hiring in multiple areas including geometry, complexity, learning, and privacy.
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

I didn't know they call it that, but it really is great!

I’ll be at #NeurIPS2024 this week! Looking forward to presenting my joint work with Thomas Steinke(@stein.ke) and Jon Ullman(@thejonullman.bsky.social)

NeurIPS page with video: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

Link to arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2406.07407

🎯

Is there a more pointless criticism than "this paper doesn't have a conclusion section" to put in a review?

I spent a really long time trying to figure out how this was a pun before I read on.

Show me the rule that says dogs can't drive cars.

My personal experience is that I spent a year outside of academia before my PhD precisely so that I could experience the boundaries of a 40hr week and not be preoccupied with work I could be doing. I was just as preoccupied, so I figured I should at least be preoccupied with something of value.

Sadly it turns out none of my nonacademic friends have 40 hour work weeks either.

Totally agree. If you hate pageflipping, Google scholar pdf reader is life changing