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---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Richard Zemel zemel@vectorinstitute.ai Date: Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:47 PM Subject: grad student roundtable for Bhuwan Dhingra To: David Duvenaud duvenaud@cs.toronto.edu, Graeme Hirst < gh@cs.toronto.edu>, Marsha Chechik chechik@cs.toronto.edu, Jonathan Rose < Jonathan.Rose@ece.utoronto.ca>, Animesh Garg garg@cs.toronto.edu, Suzanne Stevenson suzanne@cs.toronto.edu, Garth Gibson garth@vectorinstitute.ai, Timothy Chan tcychan@mie.utoronto.ca, Deepa Kundur < dkundur@ece.utoronto.ca>, Andreas Moshovos andreas.moshovos@gmail.com, Natalie Enright Jerger enright@ece.utoronto.ca, Ashish Khisti < akhisti@comm.utoronto.ca>, Ishtiaque Ahmed ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu, Daniel Roy droy@utstat.toronto.edu, David Fleet fleet@cs.toronto.edu, Nicolas Papernot nicolas.papernot@utoronto.ca, Yang Xu < yangxu@cs.toronto.edu>

Hi everyone,

We have a student roundtable scheduled with Bhuwan Dingra tomorrow. It would be great if you could pass the invitation below on to your students, to attend this roundtable if they can. This will give the candidate the valuable opportunity to meet with our student community and not just our faculty, and also a chance for the students to talk with and give feedback on the candidate. Below is a draft note that you can send to your students encouraging them to attend the roundtable. It would be good to get a decent number (say 10-15 students) to attend.

I apologize for the short notice.

- Rich

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*NOTE TO STUDENTS*

All

Bhuwan Dhingra is one of the candidates being considered for the joint DCS/ECE faculty position. A student roundtable has been organized for you to meet and discuss his research interests and also tell him about your research. It also gives the candidate to get a sense of our grad students here in Toronto, one of our main selling points. I would strongly encourage you to attend the roundtable if you are available. Please let me know if you can attend.

The student roundtable has been scheduled for tomorrow, *Tuesday, Mar 24th, at 5:00 pm*.

Connection details are: https://zoom.us/j/981749811?pwd=N3FYVkNWYjBWTUFxdDVlcDdGbThkZz09

His talk is at 11 tomorrow as well: https://zoom.us/j/558803862?pwd=Ukd1MUlueTlPZ3dId21vY2lGL25xQT09

*Short Bio*

Bhuwan Dhingra http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bdhingra/ is a final year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by William Cohen and Ruslan Salakhutdinov. His research interests are in natural language processing, machine learning and symbolic knowledge representation and reasoning. His work is supported by the Siemens FutureMakers PhD fellowship. In 2019, he won the CMU 3-minute thesis championship. Prior to joining CMU, Bhuwan completed his undergraduate studies at IIT Kanpur in 2013, and spent two years at Qualcomm Research in San Diego.

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