Gratitude for New Berkeley Faculty Position
keyonV · x · 2026-07-15
The author extended gratitude to numerous mentors and collaborators, including David Blei, Sendhil Mullainathan, David Parkes, Susan Athey, Sasha Rush, among others.
Combined with a previous announcement, this marks an academic milestone: they will join UC Berkeley in summer 2027, continuing their postdoc at Harvard Data and MIT in the interim, and will start recruiting PhD students in fall 2027.
Related event: Keyon Vafa to Join UC Berkeley in 2027 for AI World Model Research(6 posts)→
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