Iacer Calixto

Assistant professor of AI at the Academic Medical Center-University of Amsterdam.

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

We welcome @alberto_testoni as a post-doctoral researcher in the NLP4Health lab! Alberto is joining the CaRe-NLP project and will work on cutting edge NLP and multimodal ML methods for healthcare. We are very happy to have you in the team, Alberto! https://t.co/WNk6z7p8zK

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

Preprint led by PhD student @zhang_ze_yu co-supervised w/ @sscdotopen and @pgroth. Great work, Zeyu!

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

We are hiring 1 postdoc and 2 PhD students in Responsible NLP and ML at the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam. Applications until March 15!

Details in the links below:
- PhD positions: https://t.co/deqndyK7bY
- Postdoc researcher position: https://t.co/7oAs8CvhLS

[İlker Kesen @ilker_kesen]

📢Thrilled to share that our work "ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models" is accepted to #ICLR2024! @iclr_conf #NLPro

- Paper: https://t.co/PxP3xQdobI
- Site: https://t.co/F36vJvnHui
- Code: https://t.co/mkGWiq3rrz

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

@salmanpopa @amsterdamumc @UvA_Amsterdam Sorry for the delayed reply but we stopped accepting applications by the official deadline, July 16

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

Fully-funded PhD position in the exciting area of Responsible Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for Healthcare at the @amsterdamumc at the @UvA_Amsterdam! We are accepting applications until June 12, 2022: https://t.co/05yLdh2wcw

#NLProc

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

With @tpilehvar @CamachoCollados @Ale_Raganato @asahiushio

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

In the Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (Visual-WSD) shared task (https://t.co/Do8dESzSez) we will have a subtask with languages other than English! we will release which are these languages on January 2nd 2023 (a few weeks before the deadline). Stay tuned!

[Aykut Erdem @aykuterdemml]

📢🇳🇱 Another update from the group: Our PhD student İlker (@ilker_kesen) is visiting Iacer Calixto (@CalixtoIacer)'s group at Academic Medical Center-University of Amsterdam to work on visually grounded language understanding and beyond🙂

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

A few of the exciting projects you can contribute to include developing technology to predict risk of cancer from patients’ medical notes, and risk of developing mental disorders from electronic patient records and other non-clinical data (e.g., social media).

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

Do you have a strong background in NLP and AI, and a keen interest in applications in healthcare, multilingual language models and model interpretability? Please consider applying for this position!

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

@CamachoCollados @Cardiff_NLP @CompScienceCU Nice! Congratulations José, hope to be able to say that in person at ACL soon? :)

[Raquel Fernández @raquel_dmg]

✨Looking for postdoc✨2y project on modelling face-to-face dialogue (gesture&speech) using NLP, body-motion analysis & ML. Collab @ILLC_amsterdam & @DondersInst 
🤸🏼‍♀️I'm very excited to work on this with @ozyurek_a @JudithHoller @wimpouw Apply to join us: https://t.co/piZzdQr8Ok

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

Also very importantly this position has a very unique setup where you will be jointly affiliated with the Amsterdam UMC @amsterdamumc, the Data Science Center @uva_dsc, and the data engineering lab @INDE_LAB_AMS.

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

Open vacancy for a *fully-funded* PhD on responsible natural language processing #NLProc and data management for mental health at the @UvA_Amsterdam co-supervised by myself and @sscdotopen (please RT!).

Link to apply: https://t.co/gcmtWgEzxQ

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

Great opportunity to design, build, and evaluate state-of-the-art neural #NLProc pipelines including cross-lingual / domain adaptation, and to look into data integration (clinical / non-clinical), among other topics!

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

Our paper "VALSE 💃: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and Language Models Centered on Linguistic Phenomena" was accepted at #acl2022nlp @aclmeeting! Very proud of this collaboration w/ @letiepi @cafagna_m lilitta muradjan @AnetteMFrank & @bertugatt https://t.co/XW9qB0DVCG

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

@ItalianComments @wilkeraziz pls show this to you know who O:)

[Dimitra Gkatzia @gkatzia]

I'm looking for a PhD student to work on low-resource NLG. If you know anyone who might be interested, please share the ad: https://t.co/oXAbQhAOuf #NLProc #lowresource

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

If you are interested in working on problems with huge societal impact and on topics such as responsible AI and ML, large language models, interpretability and explainability, stay tuned! I will be hiring 3 PhDs soon to work on these topics within medicine and psychology! 3/3

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

Somewhat delayed news: I am very excited to announce that from February 2022 I start as (tenure-track) Assistant Professor of AI in Medicine at the Academic Medical Center in the University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA) @UvA_Amsterdam @amsterdamumc! #NLProc 1/n

[Iacer Calixto @CalixtoIacer]

I will work on AI, machine learning and natural language processing (#NLProc) for problems in medicine and psychology. I will continue my line of research in vision & language, knowledge graphs, commonsense knowledge and representation learning. 2/n