Aakash Rao

I prefer colder weather to warmer weather and my research involves building multi-modal tools for healthcare applications.

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

I just sat through a very interesting talk at #ECDP2026 and where the speaker was when asked about the use of LLMs for pathology in India made a key observation that regulations have a lot of catching up to do with the developments in the field.

Some food for thought right here

[PhD_Genie @PhD_Genie]

Reviewer 2 is probably just one of your colleagues...

So next time they ask for a clarification on your submitted paper simply reply: "FFS, just Google it!"

[Manu Awasthi @mnwsth]

Suggestion for @IndiaDST, @DBTIndia, @ANRFIndia (or any other agency that puts out CFPs): Please start a public WhatsApp/ Arattai channel to announce call for proposals. It will get more visibility than the websites and drive greater participation.

[zed @zmkzmkz]

EARLY PREPRINT:
Softpick: No Attention Sink, No Massive Activations with Rectified Softmax

Why do we use softmax in attention, even though we don’t really need non-zero probabilities that sum to one, causing attention sink and large hidden state activations?

Let that sink in.

[Mohsen Fayyaz @MohsenFyz]

PhD candidates interested in Multimodal SLMs: Join us for Spring/Summer 2025 internships in Germany & the UK! Conduct impactful research that reaches millions! 🌟 #Internship #Research #AI

https://t.co/NiULatDh8J

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

@arpitadogs Here’s to many more 🍻🥂

[Hongyi Wang @HongyiWang10]

My team (i.e., the AI Infra Team) @genbioai is hiring!

If you’re passionate about developing:
1. Large-scale AI systems, apply here: https://t.co/7WOnu8MYHX

2. Optimized CUDA Kernels for efficient foundation model computing, apply here: https://t.co/4SC3ffSBYP

We’re also looking for many student interns!

Apply today, and feel free to shoot me an email or DM me with any questions.

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

#Diffusion in the latent space of a VAE is powerful for high dimensional image synthesis, especially for #histopathology.

We illustrate the effects of varying text conditions on image generation and provide an SOTA model for #synthetic #data in histopathology. #Cancer #NeurIPS

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

@itsnagpal_ Kya hua bhai?

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

The highest-scored paper at ICLR 2025 with full scores, 10, 10, 10, 10! The first time in ICLR history?

IC-Light is designed to control image lighting. They managed to collect >10 million images for training illumination editing models, with amazing results on SDXL and Flux backbones.

It's from the same author as ControlNet and has already gotten 5.7k stars on GitHub. I love seeing such research with open-source code and real-world impact. AI is empowering artists to create incredible things.

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

Check out @arpitadogs and my latest paper on

Social isolation reduces metabolic rate and social preference in Wild-type Zebrafish (Danio rerio) https://t.co/o7gjBDpMoh

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

My research just got cited for the first time ever 😭

[Soren Iverson @soren_iverson]

Google Meet get invited to the call 5 minutes earlier than everyone else if you're chronically late

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

I just got published at Nature 🥰

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

@mnwsth @qualcomm_in @Qualcomm Congratulations!!!! This is huge

[Arpita Ghosh @arpitadogs]

I am a master’s student (Fall 2024) @BristolUni (MS Applied Neuropsychology) with over 3 years of experience in working with zebrafish. I am proficient in designing behavioural experiments and studying animal behaviour.
I am actively looking for PhD (Fall 2025) positions!

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

Someone really cursed blr weather

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

@Michael_D_Moor @ETH_en Hey Prof @Michael_D_Moor I am very interested in being a part of your team! Would love to have a chat with you! How can I reach out?

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

@Michael_D_Moor @ETH @ETH_BSSE Congratulations Professor!!

[Aakash Rao @mraoaakash]

@arindamkhan Congratulations Professor!! Wish you the best for the times ahead