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Thank you everyone for coming to my tenure party! Special thanks to Dr. Lee Giles who drove 8 hours to attend my party (and 8 hours back)! Thank you Dr. Michael Nelson to come and help me pick a wonderful restaurant! Sorry if I missed anyone in the group photo. WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

Congratulations to ODU Men's Tennis for claiming their third straight Sun Belt Conference Championship trophy with a 4-2 victory!

Happy #EarthDay from our favorite place in the world! Here's your sign to take a break, walk around campus, and enjoy the nature that makes this place home.

We love our #planetearth so much that we celebrated #EarthDay2025 a little early. Take a look at some pics from our celebration. Thanks to the Earthlings from across #757 who took part. Shoutout to ODU OES ODU Biology Dept. ODUChem&Biochem #EnvironmentalEngineering & more.

New short course: Building Code Agents with Hugging Face smolagents! Learn how to build code agents in this course, created in collaboration with Hugging Face, and taught by Thomas Wolf, its co-founder and CSO, and m_ric, Hugging Face’s Project Lead on Agents.

Congratulations to ODU Women's Tennis on claiming their third straight Sun Belt conference championship (and fifth consecutive title) with a 4-1 win!

I was a panelist for the “Developing a Strong NSF REU Site Proposal" workshop featuring ODU faculty who have successfully led U.S. National Science Foundation REU Sites including our @odureucs, organized by the Office of Undergraduate Research Orlando Ayala @odu. Jian Wu WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science Old Dominion UniversitySCI

Quick reminder that our paper, Benchmarking Language Model Creativity: A Case Study on Code Generation, will be presented today! 📅 11AM-12:30PM, Fri, May 2 📍 Hall 3 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2407.09007 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=v1cHyC…

🎉Exciting news! Our paper "[Re] Network Deconvolution" is now published in rescience-c ! This project started as a class assignment and turned into a journal publication over a year of careful work. 🔗 zenodo.org/record/15321683 📘 TL;DR👇 Kumushini Thennakoon Jian Wu Sarah Rajtmajer

Congrats to #classof2025 #Monarchs Old Dominion University. Meet ODU Computer Science and ODU Alumni Association Ethan Landers! Through ODU Global he has shown excellence earning his B.S. & M.S.! Join us in congratulating Ethan on his achievements and click the link below to read about his journey. odu.edu/sci/article/th…

Day 3 at #WebSci2025 Excited to present my research "Not Here, Go There: Analyzing Redirection Patterns on the Web" today WebSciConf Rutgers University 📄DOI: doi.org/10.1145/371786… Slides: slideshare.net/slideshow/not-… Michele Weigle Michael L. Nelson Sawood Alam WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science

🎉 Excited to share that our paper "Uncertainty-Aware Complex Scientific Table Data Extraction" has been accepted at @ICDAR2025. We developed a framework using conformal prediction to quantify uncertainties in table structure recognition (TSR) and OCR extraction. WS-DL Group, ODU CS

A very atypical path to get into AI and gained attention. 0 Top conference papers, but impactful blog posts. Interconnects, by Nathan Lambert interconnects.ai/?utm_source=na…

Major reasoning models so far with technical reports (focused on those w RL): 2025-01-22 — DeepSeek R1 — arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948 2025-01-22 — Kimi 1.5 — arxiv.org/abs/2501.12599 2025-03-31 — Open-Reasoner-Zero — arxiv.org/abs/2503.24290 2025-04-10 — Seed 1.5-Thinking —

Congratulations Bhanuka Bhanuka Mahanama, for a successful Ph.D. defence titled "Mutli-Eyes: Multi-Use Eye Tracking Using Commodity Hardware. " My 4th Ph.D. student from the nirds-lab WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science @odusc. Also, a Sri Lankan-style feast including yellow rice, cashews, and chicken!

The Call for Papers for the 2025 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is online. Check it out 2025.jcdl.org/calls/. WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Using ChapGTP does not make you smarter, but dumber! arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 WS-DL Group, ODU CS

Paper accepted to ACM Hypertext '25! 🎉 We show we can improve open-source LLMs to human level accuracy at distinguishing between human-written and LLM-generated science news. Thankful for my advisors for their support. Jian Wu Meng Jiang WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science