From ICLR volunteer to top CS PhD: Jeande's full-circle meeting with Sasha Rush
Jeande_d · x · 2026-10-10
Developer Jeande recalls meeting Sasha Rush at ICLR 2023 as a first-time volunteer — Rush praised him for writing an entire open-source ML textbook out of a pure desire to teach. That encounter sparked his shift from creating ML educational content into AI research, and three years later he's in one of the best CS PhD programs, reflecting on the journey ahead of COLM 2026.
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