Shuvom Sadhuka

Relatedly, @dmshanmugam.bsky.social is on the academic job market and I strongly recommend working with her! She has an impressive array of reliable ML work, often with applications in biomedical/health settings, and I'd recommend talking to her if you can.

What can you do when you need to evaluate a set of models but don't have too much labeled data? Solution: add unlabeled data. It was great to co-lead this project with @dmshanmugam.bsky.social and come talk to us at NeurIPS!

congrats! sad I missed it :/

It's interesting because "Shuvom" is definitely the highest signal for gender out of the list mentioned, but it probably just doesn't know this, since my name is pretty rare.

Slightly interesting observation: I asked chatgpt "generate an image that represents what you know about me. don't ask questions" and it drew me as a woman. I've never revealed my gender to chatgpt, so I asked it why it drew me as a woman. Here's what it said:

Some past writing I like:

Democracy and the CLT: shuvom-s.github.io/blog/2020/de...

Privacy vs collaboration in genomics: shuvom-s.github.io/blog/2023/ov...

Please check out the others too if interested! [3/3]

Relatedly, I finally consolidated my scattered writing into a blog: shuvom-s.github.io/blog/

For now, I'm hosting on my (rebuilt) personal website, but curious if anyone has recs on a platform to blog (Medium? Substack? Personal site?). I've turned on comments with giscus. [2/3]

I wrote up some thoughts on what it means to measure the entropy of natural languages and connections to LLMs, loosely inspired by an awesome paper from Shannon in 1951(!)

Check it out: shuvom-s.github.io/blog/2025/me... [1/3]

I'm in Vancouver and will be giving a spotlight talk at #ML4H
tomorrow, Dec. 15, at 4:30pm on some ongoing work on modeling multi-stage selection problems in clinical settings. Work done with (high school senior!) Sophia Lin, Bonnie Berger, and @emmapierson.bsky.social. I hope to see you there!

context: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/oti/html/nyc-core-framework/subway-icons.html

life update: now working on AI for transit 🚆🦙

I wrote a "blog post" a year ago on advice for applying to fellowships but never ended up posting it anywhere. I thought I might as well share it, especially since fellowship applications are around the corner! Feel free to reply w/ edits, questions, etc.

https://shorturl.at/ZOGVH

The @MITEECS Graduate Application Assistance Program is open for applications! Our team of PhD students offers 1-on-1 mentorship and office hours to EE/CS graduate school applicants (to any school, not just MIT) from around the world. Deadline: 10/15/24.

https://eecs-gaap.mit.edu/

@dmshanmugam @manish_raghavan @mit_caml @lab_berger @2plus2make5 Labeled examples give access to samples from (s,y) but unlabeled examples still provide samples from the marginal for s. We should use those samples! By turning evaluation into a semi-supervised problem, we can obtain more reliable ...

I'll be at the ICLR DMLR and PMLDS workshops presenting ongoing work with @dmshanmugam (+ a wonderful team including @manish_raghavan, @mit_caml, @lab_berger, @2plus2make5)! Details in thread below 🧵 [1/4]

We have an awesome team of PhD students to help you with crafting statements, understanding what a PhD entails, etc.

If you’re considering applying to grad school, especially in CS, please consider applying to the @MITEECS graduate application assistance program (

Meetings will be Fridays at 2:30pm. I'll reply to this thread with a room number once I have one. Also, no problem if you're not at MIT! We'll try to support Zoom.

I'll be organizing a new algorithmic fairness reading group at MIT this semester. Website (w/ signup link) is here:

We have funding for food, and all are welcome/encouraged to come :).

@MIT_SCC 3/ So are we at a standstill? I argue no, because we have lots of early promising technologies in the privacy/security communities (eg, secure multiparty computation, fully homomorphic encryption, differential privacy, etc.) which can help us bridge this gap in genomics! [4/n]

The new @MIT_SCC had an essay competition on the future of computing, and I wrote a (non-technical) essay on genomic privacy. Here's a rough summary:
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