Matt Lease

@mattlease

Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX
ischool.utexas.edu/~ml/
Joined July 2011
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  1. May 23

    Research on misinformation on on Twitter with

    A new COVID-19 dataset, hosted at TACC, collects 40M tweets/day & helps social science researchers track misinformation and interpret how communities share health information on the platform.
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  2. Apr 1

    Contribute your health status daily and help track the pandemic How are you feeling? Your contributions will inform public health with real-time insights on the pandemic

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  4. Mar 30

    “Austin feels empty... But that emptiness isn't without purpose. We put this video together to remind everyone why we are all staying home, why we are 'social distancing.' “It's the most remarkable act of global solidarity...” (3:12)

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    I ❤️ my city
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  5. Mar 27

    Post-doctoral openings in UT Austin's for fall 2020; please apply! . We expect to begin to interview candidates starting May 1st, 2020.

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    Mar 26

    . released a new projection today regarding COVID-19, which explains how important social distancing is. Austin MUST reduce our interactions by 90% if we want the hospitals to be able to treat those with severe symptoms.

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  7. Mar 24

    H-E-B, in partnership with Favor, have launched a simple, affordable solution that offers contactless delivery of essential food and supplies to where seniors are safest—at home

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  8. Mar 23

    How can we keep covid vulnerable people from shopping if delivery is too expensive (eg social security)? Can delivery platforms (, , ...) offer free delivery for anyone who chooses volunteer delivery, and volunteers sign up for those shopping/delivery.

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  9. Mar 23

    Some older folks with weaker immune systems may be shopping in stores who shouldn’t be, but maybe can't afford delivery fees or don't know delivery or pickup technology. Are there opportunities to volunteer to shop pick up & deliver groceries or necessary supplies for such folks?

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  10. Mar 23

    Loss of smell or taste can be early warning sign for COVID

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  11. Mar 22

    Lots of work today on fair, accountable, and transparent (FAT) AI algorithms, but algorithms are only part of the story. Policies & processes driving day-to-day operation of commercial computing systems must also be FAT. Kudos to sharing their commitment & work here.

    Important updates on MTurk marketplace integrity, Worker identity and Requester tools to manage task quality
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  12. Jan 21

    Amazon seeks outstanding graduate students for 2020 summer internships with our scientists on Mechanical Turk, Ground Truth, and Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I). Send resumes to aws-a2i-science-interns@amazon.com. We are reviewing applicants now.

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  13. 17 Nov 2019

    Multiple openings in my research lab for new PhD students in fall 2019 -- please apply!

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  14. 17 Nov 2019

    Learn about UT Austin's School of Information () and our research to curb misinformation, as part of UT Austin's Grand Challenge to develop responsible AI technologies:

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    Micron's talked with 's Matt Lease about what it means to them being one of Advancing Curiosity Grant recipients at
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  15. 7 Nov 2019

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  16. 7 Nov 2019

    Thanks, Walter! Slides:

    Interesting talk by about AI and crowds at the Work in the Age of Intelligent workshop.
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  17. 7 Nov 2019

    AI & Work, with Transparency & the Crowd. Invited talk at the 2019 AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Work (). Talk slides:

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  18. 29 Oct 2019

    enjoyed Google's paper on content moderation. Here's our short from HCOMP 2018: .

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  19. 17 Apr 2019

    Congrats to PhD student Soumyajit Gupta, alumnus Vivek Khetan, & on our Best Student Paper Award at the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2019 ():

    Our paper received Best Student Paper award at Congratulations to our team Soumya, Vivek and Thanks for supporting our work
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  20. 12 Apr 2019

    But who protects the moderators? Talk at the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), UPenn, April 2019. Based on work with at ACM Collective Intelligence 2018 and AAAI 2018. Slides: . Blog post: .

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