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Fwd: [jobs] Fwd: Snap Research Call for Interns
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

FYI Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, Room 5262, 40 Saint George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4 Ph: +1 647 220 3482 web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Alec Jacobson <jacobson(a)cs.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 12:59 AM Subject: [jobs] Fwd: Snap Research Call for Interns To: jobs(a)dgp.toronto.edu <jobs(a)dgp.toronto.edu> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: David Salesin <salesin(a)snap.com> Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 14:57 Subject: Snap Research Call for Interns To: David Salesin <salesin(a)snap.com> Snap Research is offering internships for spring, summer, and fall of 2019. We are looking for PhD students who are excited about pushing the state of the art in computer science areas such as graphics, vision, human-computer interaction, machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning, data science and more -- in ways that could be of interest to Snap Inc. as well as to the research community at large. We have just started recruiting, and we would love to hear from you! You will collaborate with one or more researchers, with access to world-class product groups and design teams. We explore opportunities for technology transfer and regularly publish in leading journals and conferences. We are especially interested in fostering ongoing collaborations and are open to projects that last beyond the internship. We compensate interns well and provide access to large computational resources. We strive to create an environment that is both productive and fun. Our team currently includes the following areas and researchers: Computational Imaging --- New York City and Seattle: Shree Nayar <snayar>: Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics Austin Reiter <areiter>: Computational Imaging, Action Recognition, 3D Reconstruction Guru Krishnan <guru>: Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Acoustic Signal Processing Jian Wang <jwang4>: Computational Imaging, Computational Photography, 3D Reconstruction Karl Bayer <kbayer>: Robotics, Human-Computer Interfaces, 3D Modeling, Rapid Prototyping Computer Vision and Deep Learning --- Santa Monica and San Francisco: Ning Xu <ning.xu>: Deep learning, Image/Video Processing, Computer Vision, Audio/Speech Sergey Tulyakov <stulyakov>: generative modeling, facial analysis Yuncheng Li <yuncheng.li>: object detection, pose estimation Ziyu Zhang <zzhang3>: vision and language, generative modeling, instance segmentation Will Brendel <william.brendel>: unsupervised deep learning, quadratic optimization, Computer Vision Qieyun Dai <qdai>: object detection, semantic segmentation Ian Enxu Yan <eyan2>: accelerating deep learning, inference, and search. Computer Graphics --- Santa Monica and San Francisco: Linjie Luo <linjie.luo>: 3D reconstruction and understanding, augmented and virtual reality Chen Cao <chen.cao>: 3D face modeling and tracking, facial image & video manipulation Chongyang Ma <cma>: deep generative models, 3D reconstruction, video synthesis David Salesin <salesin>: digital photography & video, non-photorealistic rendering (NPR), visualization Menglei Chai <mchai>: image-based reconstruction, image & video editing, 3D portrait modeling Yingying Wang <ywang>: deep learning for motion synthesis, motion style transfer, 2D cartoon animation Zehao Xue <zehao.xue>: character animation(face,body), character rigging, AR&VR, mocap, 3D printing Olly Woodford <oliver.woodford>: SLAM, 3D reconstruction, camera/object tracking, AR Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) --- Santa Monica and Seattle: Andrés Monroy-Hernández <amh>: social computing systems (lately using wearables and AR) Rajan Vaish <rvaish>: crowdsourcing, AR and Mixed Reality, mobile and social computing Maarten Bos <maarten>: behavioral science Brian Smith <bsmith>: interaction design, interaction techniques, game design, AR, input methods Ian Wehrman <iwehrman>: user-experience design; web development Joel Brandt <jbrandt>: creative design tools Maria Pavlovskaia <maria>: rapid prototyping and new app development across all research products Natural Language Processing (NLP) --- Santa Monica: Luis Marujo <luis>: Text Understanding, Multi-Modal Retrieval, Deep Learning for NLP Leo Neves <lneves>: Document Representation, Entity Linking, Multimodal learning, Bias mitigation Pradeep Karuturi <pradeep>: sentiment/emotion analysis, content quality/sensitivity, NLP engineering Data Science and Data Mining --- Santa Monica: Neil Shah <nshah>: misbehavior detection, content moderation, user behavior modeling, network analysis Colin Eles <celes>: software engineering, infrastructure development, inference and training pipelines To apply, please send an email to research-internships(a)snap.com with your CV, a list of your research interests, and any specific researchers you would like to work with. Also feel free to contact researchers directly at their email address: <researcher-alias>@snap.com. Internships will be granted on a rolling basis, so apply as soon as possible. _______________________________________________ jobs mailing list https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jobs Note: jobs is not a discussion list. Please direct any replies to the poster or to another mailing list.

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HCI Meeting Tomorrow
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

Hi All, We have our HCI group meeting tomorrow at 12:30 PM at DGP Seminar room. Dina Sabie will talk about designing technologies for refugees in Canada. In addition, she will be talking about what she has done in her Ph.D. so far and what is her future plan. Lunch will be provided during the meeting. Please drop by and give your feedback. People who are very busy with term-end items (exams, deadlines, etc.): you can still show up, say a hi to Dina and others, have your lunch, and leave early before the presentation starts. But please stay if you can. The presentation will start at 12:55 PM. Thanks, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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Reading group (2-3pm, Mon, Dec 10th)
by Jiannan Li 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Hello all, We will have a reading group session tomorrow (Monday, Dec 10th) from 2 to 3 pm at the seminar room. Jiannan will lead the discussion on the paper Researcher-Centered Design of Statistics: Why Bayesian Statistics Better Fit the Culture and Incentives of HCI Link: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2858465 Looking forward to seeing you then. Thanks, Jiannan

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Mechanism Design for Sustainable Development
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

This is a super new initiative by a Cornell student and some of you may get interested in it - http://md4sg.com/ Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/

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Movie Suggestion for Group Meeting
by Abdul Kawsar Tushar 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

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DGP-HCI Meeting on Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018 @ DGP
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hello all, We are hosting Prof. Géry Casiez in our next HCI meeting on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, at 12:30 pm at DGP Seminar room. Details about the talk are below. Lunch will be provided during the meeting. Title: The measure and compensation of latency in touch and mouse-based systems Abstract: Any interactive system exhibits some delay between a user’s action and the corresponding system response, known as the end-to-end latency. Users can perceive touchscreen latency as low as 2 ms and performance degrades above 25 ms. In indirect interaction, it has been shown that latencies above 50 ms affect performance. Yet, the latency of current systems is above these thresholds of perception and performance. How can we simply measure the latency of current touch systems and mouse-based interfaces to know how performance is affected? How can we determine where it comes from to try to reduce it? Can we compensate some of the latency using trajectory prediction without introducing side-effects caused by next-point prediction techniques? Bio: Géry Casiez is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Lille (Science and Technology) and member of Inria Lille. In 2018, he has been appointed junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France for 5 years. His research interests include input devices and interaction techniques, transfer functions, system responsiveness, and hardware fabrication. He is the co-author of more than 30 papers published at CHI and UIST and he regularly serves in the program committees of these conferences. Géry Casiez was president of the Association Franco-phone de l’Interaction Homme-Machine (AFIHM) from 2014 to 2017. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Lille in 2004. Thanks, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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Fwd: Reminder: Next Development Seminar: November 30, 2018 at SS3130 in Sidney Smith, 12p-2p
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

FYI Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Aakash Solanki <aakash.solanki(a)mail.utoronto.ca> Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:14 PM Subject: Reminder: Next Development Seminar: November 30, 2018 at SS3130 in Sidney Smith, 12p-2p To: <DEVSEMEVENTS-L(a)listserv.utoronto.ca> Hi all, Polite reminder for the talk this week. Sincerely, Aakash — Aakash Solanki PhD Student, Collaborative Program in Anthropology and South Asian Studies Co-ordinator, Development Seminar <https://utdevsem.wordpress.com>University of Toronto Begin forwarded message: *From: *Aakash Solanki <aakash.solanki(a)mail.utoronto.ca> *Subject: **Next Development Seminar: November 30, 2018 at SS3130 in Sidney Smith, 12p-2p* *Date: *17 November 2018 at 16:46:17 GMT-5 *To: *DEVSEMEVENTS-L(a)LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA THE TAMING OF KNOWLEDGE: DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES OF HUMANITARIANISM Dr. Ryan Burns Assistant Professor of Geography University of Calgary Date: Friday, November 30, 2018 Time: 12:00PM – 2:00PM Venue: SS3130, Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto Bio: Ryan Burns is an Assistant Professor at University of Calgary’s Department of Geography, and a member of the O’Brien Institute for Public Health. His research interests are in the social, institutional, and urban transformations of big and open data, smart cities, digital humanitarianism, and related digital spatial phenomena. His research program interrogates the social and institutional struggles around knowledge production emerging in the context of these new spatial-technological developments. At the current moment he is looking at digital humanitarianism and open data platforms within smart cities. Burns has published in journals such as Computational Culture, Annals of American Geographers, Geojournal, among others. Abstract: The proliferation of crowdsourcing, social media, and microtasking within humanitarianism is changing the nature of humanitarian work – but not in the ways proponents like to claim. Although the “savior narrative” of this “digital humanitarianism” is often the story that’s told, a growing body of research is critically evaluating the promises, assumptions, and implications of it. This research has uncovered the layers of politics involved in collecting and acting on (digital) expressions of need. In this talk I build on this critical research to show that the deepening digital condition of humanitarianism entails a new knowledge politics that I call taming knowledge. Digital humanitarianism produces a tension: on the one hand, its supposed power comes from being able to capture far more voices than before, but paradoxically, these voices, as data, are unusable in their raw format due to their enormous volume and non-expert origins. Instead, humanitarians leverage digital infrastructures like databases, categorization schema, social media, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and maps to abstract, condense, and manipulate the original expressions of need. In other words, digital humanitarianism tames knowledge by getting it to tell a different story than it was originally meant to tell. The implications of this are that voices of marginalized and crisis-affected communities only become legible through relations of digital power established by remote, volunteer, and usually Global North interveners. Far from being emancipatory, digital humanitarianism reinscribes problematic relations of dominance that privilege geographically-distant frames of knowing, and usually those based in Euro-American epistemologies. This year’s series is co-sponsored with the Technoscience Research Unit RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/ooUgPIsO8pQnRXcU2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1780991795362115/ Questions? write to devsem at utoronto dot ca or facebook messenger @utdevsem or twitter handle @utdevsem Like our Facebook Page to follow updates: facebook.com/utdevsem <http://www.facebook.com/utdevsem> Twitter Handle: @utdevsem <http://twitter.com/utdevsem>, tweet using hashtag #devsem Sincerely, Aakash — Aakash Solanki PhD Student, Collaborative Program in Anthropology and South Asian Studies Co-ordinator, Development Seminar <https://utdevsem.wordpress.com/>University of Toronto

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ThirdSpace Presentation Template
by Yasaman Rohanifar 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

Dear all, Following is the link to my proposed template for ThirdSpace presentations. I've asked my friend to come up with a logo for ThirdSpace. Feel free to sketch your idea. Meanwhile, if you have any suggestions or amendments for this format please let me know. Also, the link is editable for everyone. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JDHcK3ZfAnG-8n64DjwsZ3ZNiy_y-EYJFKj… <https://signl.online/tracker/click?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2…> Thank you, All the best, Yasaman

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Fwd: Talk of interest: Artist Morehsin Allahyri lecture, and performance on Tactics 4 Digital Colonialisms at the Mcluhan Center on December 3, 2018
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 23 Nov '18

23 Nov '18

Regards, Ishtiaque ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Aakash Solanki <aakash.solanki(a)mail.utoronto.ca> Date: Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 5:00 PM Subject: Talk of interest: Artist Morehsin Allahyri lecture, and performance on Tactics 4 Digital Colonialisms at the Mcluhan Center on December 3, 2018 To: <DEVSEMEVENTS-L(a)listserv.utoronto.ca> Hi all, Our friends at the Mcluhan Center is hosting artist Morehsin Allahyri on December 3, 2018. It promises to be a productive conversation for the development seminar audiences in line with the seminar theme this year on Infrastructures and Development. I plan to go, and I hope some of you will be able to join in. The details of the event are below. RSVP to the event via this link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/monday-night-seminar-refiguration-digital-tacti… DESCRIPTION The “Monday Night Seminar” carries on the tradition of Marshall McLuhan's public seminars at the University of Toronto. All seminars take place within the same intimate Coach House setting where McLuhan once held court. In this up-close and personal environment, a range of thinkers – academics, activists, scientists, artists, designers and planners – will explore digital culture from a feminist perspective. The Monday Night Seminars are designed to challenge prevailing cultural notions about technology and provoke new insight on the possibilities for a more equitable technological future. Join us! ------------------- Re/Figuration: Digital Tactics 4 Digital Colonialism Featuring a lecturue and performance, followed by discussion. Morehshin Allahyari (b. 1985 in Tehran, Iran) is a media artist, activist, educator, and curator who uses computer modeling, 3D scanning and digital fabrication techniques to explore the intersection of art and activism. Inspired by concepts of collective archiving, memory, and cultural contradiction, Allahyari’s 3D printed sculptures and videos challenge social and gender norms. “I want my work to respond to, resist and criticize the current political and cultural situation that we experience on a daily basis,” she explains. She is developing a new body of work on digital colonialism and ‘re-figuring’ as a feminist and de- colonialist practice, titled She Who Sees the Unknown. Allahyari's recent accolades include a research residency at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (2016-17), a sculpture award from the Institute of Digital Art (2016), and Foreign Policy Magazine named her a Leading Global Thinker of 2016. Other outlets featuring her work include Huffington Post, Wired, NPR, National Geographic, Rhizome, Hyperallergic and Dazed Digital. Her work has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops at venues throughout the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou in Paris, France; Venice Biennale di Archittectura; Pori Museum, Finland and Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Germany. Allahyari received her MFA at the University of North Texas, MA at University of Denver and her BA at the University of Tehran, Iran. She is co-creator of the 3D Additivist Manifesto and subsequent 3D Additivist Cookbook. Sincerely, Aakash — Aakash Solanki PhD Student, Collaborative Program in Anthropology and South Asian Studies Co-ordinator, Development Seminar <https://utdevsem.wordpress.com>University of Toronto

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Demo with Profs. Géry Casiez and Dan Vogel
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 23 Nov '18

23 Nov '18

Hello All, Prof. Géry Casiez (University of Lille (Science and Technology)) and Prof. Dan Vogel (University of Waterloo) will visit our lab on Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018. Casiez conducts fantastic research on input devices and interaction techniques, transfer functions, system responsiveness, and hardware fabrication. Vogel works on fundamental input topics such as pointing, control-display gain, input signal filtering, hand occlusion, and gestural input. They are available after the meeting from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. This is an excellent opportunity to show and discuss our work with them and get important feedback. Send me an email if you want to demo your research. Thanks, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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