Mallesh Dasari (He/Him)

I asked students in my networks class today how many packets they think they send/receive over the Internet each day.

Most guesses were a few thousand packets per day.

When I told them it would be in the order of a million packets, for 1GB of data use each day. Their expressions were priceless 🙂

Guess the number of paper submissions to ICML this year: 24371

The world is going mental 🤯

If the government executing us in the streets isn’t your red line, then you’ve already decided to endorse it.

There’s no gray area left. No ambiguity.

Analysis of 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations 🙃 gptzero.me/news/neurips/

#ms #undergraduates #phd #ms #ra #ta #ms #ms #interview #ms #phd #phd #ms | Mallesh Dasari Over the years, I've noticed the #MS student population in computer science and engineering often falls into an awkward middle space. I've also noticed they're the most ignored future workforce. They ...

Some thoughts on MS student population.. www.linkedin.com/posts/malles...

Thank you 🙌

A lot of work on immersive multimedia is coming from our lab soon!

I Will Not Be Quiet Anymore I cannot, in good conscience, stay quiet anymore about the horror unfolding in America. This statement is my way of peacefully protesting…

I Will Not Be Quiet Anymore medium.com/p/i-will-not...

Last week, I gave a talk on careers in academia vs. industry!

🚀 The #VCIP2025 program is live!

🎤 Keynotes from leading experts
🎓 Tutorials & overview talks on AI, video, and compression
🧠 Technical sessions, special events, and a vibrant social program in Klagenfurt 🇦🇹

Science. Innovation. Connection.
👉 vcip2025.itec.aau.at/program-at-a...

Showing off some of the cool AR/VR gadgets to our class students

#applevisionpro #metaquest #xreal #eveng1 #rokid #brilliantlabs #northeasternuniversity

I asked Meta AI to generate a 4D scene with a mesh wire frame. It did a decent job.

YouTube video by Himels Tech Galaxy XR vs Apple Vision Pro: Value vs Perfection

pretty cool comparison of galaxy xr and vision pro xr headsets..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ett...

hey fourth grade is important

A reason why you should or shouldn't use Meta AI

Reason the Meta Live AI demo failed.. not because of WiFi.. though related to a networking problem:)

AI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dud Last year, big tech couldn’t stop talking about how AI “agents” would be the next big thing in 2025. It hasn’t quite turned out that way.

AI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dud, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - Substack / garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-agents-...

Full Committee Markup of Commerce, Justice, Science; Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA; and Legislative Branch Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

Senate committee on appropriations markup meeting is starting now. They'll be discussing a lot of stuff, but in particular, science agencies like NSF & NASA.

Yesterday Sen. Moran indicated funding would be 33.9 billion, preserving FY '24 numbers.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...

another research proposal got rejected.. but I am getting mixed signals here.. not sure if being ambitious is a strength or weakness lol

Slowly realizing fundraising is exhausting😅

I just met Governor Healey @massgovernor.bsky.social at the tech innovation summit in Boston 🤯

And advocated her to create more state level funding for universities in lieu of recent NSF budget cuts.

Heading to #CVPR2025 this week? Don't miss our Tutorial, Volumetric Video in the Real World, on Wednesday 6/11 9am-5pm! We have a great schedule of talks on innovations, opportunities and challenges in 4D reconstruction and generation across domains. See you there! nvlabs.github.io/cvpr2025-vol...

This is disinformation from science.org

This is disinformation from science.org

I read that article.. and tbh I felt that article was a bit fear-mongering. I felt the claim that the career disappearing, as baseless.

Note: I am also doing career this time.. I was/am super worried. It may be true, but I don't think there is sufficient evidence for that.

I wanted to just lie on the couch and relax this Saturday morning without doing anything, but ended up being quite philosophical. Spent the whole morning on this and updated my lab page (sinrg.org) 😆

2023: Gaussian splatting paper is published, triangles are so over

…

2025: Triangles are so back babbbyyyy

trianglesplatting.github.io

Was out collecting spatial videos on the Apple Vision Pro for research—just roaming around the city.
Multiple people yelled at me:
“DUDE, YOU'RE CRAZY!”
and
“DON’T WATCH PORN IN THE STREETS, MY MAN!”

Fair enough. I probably looked like I deserved that 😅