M. Usman Rafique (@m_usmanrafique) 's Twitter Profile
M. Usman Rafique

@m_usmanrafique

Computer vision and machine learning researcher. PhD from @multimodal_lab at the University of Kentucky.

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Heartbreaking to see that Ferjad cannot attend #CVPR2025 because he didn't get the US visa. Ferjad is a PhD student at ETH Zurich, with a stellar publication record. It is very sad that many researchers cannot get visas to attend the top conference!

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Having a blast at #CVPR2025 in Seattle! Been great catching up with folks and making new connections. Here all day tomorrow, come say hi! #CVPR2024 #CVPR #Seattle

Having a blast at <a href="/CVPR/">#CVPR2025</a>  in Seattle! Been great catching up with folks and making new connections. Here all day tomorrow, come say hi!
#CVPR2024 #CVPR #Seattle
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πŸ“£ Research opportunities for students from developing countries: Get research experience by world class researchers, and free computational resources. I will also volunteer as a mentor. Link to apply in the original tweet ⬇️

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Just submitted a review on Sunday evening, yaay πŸ₯³ I just counted, I had 19 browser tabs (of related papers and Papers with Code pages) related to that paper!

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πŸ› οΈ Weekend project alert! Built LLM Forge, a modular playground for training small LLMs from scratch. Inspired by Sebastian Raschka's awesome LLM workshop, it's my humble attempt to learn by doing. Train models & generate text - with limited compute. Fun times! πŸ˜„ github.com/Usman-Rafique/…

πŸ› οΈ Weekend project alert! Built LLM Forge, a modular playground for training small LLMs from scratch. Inspired by <a href="/rasbt/">Sebastian Raschka</a>'s awesome LLM workshop, it's my humble attempt to learn by doing. Train models &amp; generate text - with limited compute. Fun times! πŸ˜„

github.com/Usman-Rafique/…
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Excited to share: - Outstanding reviewer for WACV (WACV) 2025 - Selected as an Area Chair at ICCV (#ICCV2025 ) 2025 Thank you to the organizers of both WACV and ICCV for these opportunities! #computervision #WACV #ICCV #reviewer #areachair

Excited to share:
- Outstanding reviewer for WACV (<a href="/wacv_official/">WACV</a>) 2025
- Selected as an Area Chair at ICCV (<a href="/ICCVConference/">#ICCV2025</a> ) 2025

Thank you to the organizers of both WACV and ICCV for these opportunities!

#computervision #WACV #ICCV #reviewer #areachair
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πŸ“£ Life update: Thrilled to announce I've joined Zoox as a Senior Software Engineer! Excited to be part of the team building the future of autonomous mobility in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on Machine Learning for robo-taxis.

πŸ“£ Life update: Thrilled to announce I've joined <a href="/zoox/">Zoox</a> as a Senior Software Engineer!  Excited to be part of the team building the future of autonomous mobility in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on Machine Learning for robo-taxis.