Uğurcan Vurgun, PhD, MA (@ugurcan_vurgun) 's Twitter Profile
Uğurcan Vurgun, PhD, MA

@ugurcan_vurgun

Ph.D. @ Penn || language and cognition || biomedical informatics || NLP | ML | AI || #PennMedicine || proud #Autism parent || #FirstGen

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I’m the first in my family to go to university. After telling them my salary I’m also the last in my family to go to university

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Doktora öğrencimiz Barış Yamansavaşçılar, Cem Ersoy ve Atay Özgövde danışmanlıklarında tamamladığı "Efficient Orchestration Methods in Air Computing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning" başlıklı tezini başarıyla savundu. Dr. Yamansavaşçılar'ı ve danışmanlarını çok tebrik ederiz 🎉

Doktora öğrencimiz Barış Yamansavaşçılar, Cem Ersoy ve Atay Özgövde danışmanlıklarında tamamladığı "Efficient Orchestration Methods in Air Computing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning" başlıklı tezini başarıyla savundu. Dr. Yamansavaşçılar'ı ve danışmanlarını çok tebrik ederiz 🎉
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Yüksek lisans öğrencimiz Onur Şero, Lale Akarun danışmanlığında tamamladığı "Sign Language Recognition Using Dino and Heatmap Techniques" başlıklı tezini başarıyla savundu. Öğrencimizi ve Lale hocamızı tebrik ederiz 🎉

Yüksek lisans öğrencimiz Onur Şero, Lale Akarun danışmanlığında tamamladığı "Sign Language Recognition Using Dino and Heatmap Techniques" başlıklı tezini başarıyla savundu. Öğrencimizi ve Lale hocamızı tebrik ederiz 🎉
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BREAKING: Gemini 2.5 Pro is now #1 on the Arena leaderboard - the largest score jump ever (+40 pts vs Grok-3/GPT-4.5)! 🏆 Tested under codename "nebula"🌌, Gemini 2.5 Pro ranked #1🥇 across ALL categories and UNIQUELY #1 in Math, Creative Writing, Instruction Following, Longer

BREAKING: Gemini 2.5 Pro is now #1 on the Arena leaderboard - the largest score jump ever (+40 pts vs Grok-3/GPT-4.5)! 🏆

Tested under codename "nebula"🌌, Gemini 2.5 Pro ranked #1🥇 across ALL categories and UNIQUELY #1 in Math, Creative Writing, Instruction Following, Longer
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Our NIH grant to discover coronavirus antiviral meds was terminated today. With this grant, we had developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid, and we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer's own second-generation inhibitor.

Our NIH grant to discover coronavirus antiviral meds was terminated today.

With this grant, we had developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid, and we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer's own second-generation inhibitor.
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When we launched Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative last year, I kept coming back to this: Over its 150-year history, The Wharton School has consistently met the moment. This is yet another example. I have no doubt that our faculty, students, and alumni will further cement Wharton as THE place to study AI.

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Today is World Autism Awareness Day. My wife and I want to raise awareness of and help decrease any stigma around autism by sharing that my wife learned she has autism later in life—in her late 30s. It’s common for girls and women to have autism overlooked due to their often

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We're shipping the first models in the Llama 4 herd! Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, are our first MoE models, natively multimodal and are our most advanced yet — open-sourced as always. ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-m…

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Drum roll 🥁 Stanford HAI ‘s annual #AIIndex2025 is out! This is one of the most trusted annual reports on the state of AI globally. Everyone interested in AI should read this!

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Regular rate registration for #INSAR2025 closes TODAY! Don't miss out on the current lowest available rates — secure your spot now. 👉 Register here: autism-insar.org/page/2025AnnMe…

Regular rate registration for #INSAR2025 closes TODAY!
Don't miss out on the current lowest available rates — secure your spot now.
👉 Register here: autism-insar.org/page/2025AnnMe…
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Netflix made another season of Black Mirror and the first episode is about subscription services that get more expensive and become worse with time, like lmao

Netflix made another season of Black Mirror and the first episode is about subscription services that get more expensive and become worse with time, like lmao
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So Google Sheets now has a "=AI" formula?! You can process data that was impossible before in a spreadsheet. Gemini understands what's in the cells and returns a tailor-made answer according to your instructions. Examples and formulas below

So Google Sheets now has a "=AI" formula?!

You can process data that was impossible before in a spreadsheet.

Gemini understands what's in the cells and returns a tailor-made answer according to your instructions.

Examples and formulas below
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Look out, Quanta Magazine is going straight to the top ⬆️, now in 1st place! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting?m… 💯 #Webbys

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Üyemiz ve Utrecht Üniversitesi Öğretim Üyesi Umut Gürsoy’u 24 Nisan 2025 günü aniden kaybetmiş olmanın derin üzüntüsü içindeyiz. Üyemizin ailesine, öğrencilerine ve tüm sevenlerine başsağlığı dileriz. bilimakademisi.org/uyemiz-umut-gu…

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Learning about World Models, Understanding, Modeling and Scaling at ICLR 2026 this morning proved not quite realistic! Shouldn’t the organizers have guessed this would be pretty popular in 2025?

Learning about World Models, Understanding, Modeling and Scaling at <a href="/iclr_conf/">ICLR 2026</a> this morning proved not quite realistic!

Shouldn’t the organizers have guessed this would be pretty popular in 2025?
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Congrats to Dr. Jinbo Chen, Professor of Biostatistics at DBEI, for being named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Chen is recognized for her impactful leadership in statistical research. Read more: bit.ly/4iJl09D

Congrats to Dr. Jinbo Chen, Professor of Biostatistics at DBEI, for being named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Chen is recognized for her impactful leadership in statistical research.

Read more: bit.ly/4iJl09D
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INSAR President Dr. Petrus de Vries welcomed 2,300+ autism researchers, clinicians, advocates & students from 53 countries to #INSAR2025—featuring 1,600 posters, 28 oral sessions, 30 panels, 8 SIGs & 3 keynotes. A global hub for the latest in autism science!

INSAR President Dr. Petrus de Vries welcomed 2,300+ autism researchers, clinicians, advocates &amp; students from 53 countries to #INSAR2025—featuring 1,600 posters, 28 oral sessions, 30 panels, 8 SIGs &amp; 3 keynotes. A global hub for the latest in autism science!
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WSJ on Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s OpenAI device: • The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user's surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one's pocket or on one's desk, and will be a third core device a person would put on a desk after a MacBook

WSJ on Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s OpenAI device:

• The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user's surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one's pocket or on one's desk, and will be a third core device a person would put on a desk after a MacBook