Usman Ali, Ph.D.

Silicon Architect, CA | Alumni @UConn @ITUPunjab #UETLahore 🇺🇸|🇵🇰 — (Personal Opinions | RT ≠ Endorsement)

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

A coyote wondering next to stanford dish hiking trail.

Stanford campus in background!

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

@QuoteSunTzu Meanwhile Sun Tzu 🥲

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

CMU is hiring Machine Learning PhD Students!

#PhD #Ai #CareerOpportunities

[Beidi Chen @BeidiChen]

🥳We're recruiting PhD students at CMU for Fall 2025! If you are interested in machine-learning algorithms and systems (🔑Keywords: new model arch, LLM reasoning, longcontext modeling, efficiency, etc), please mention my name in your application~

👇
Application links:
(Dec 15) https://t.co/5bp88jjjTS
(Dec 11) https://t.co/Ge2uGJ2xkU
@InfiniAILab website: https://t.co/KvGo4efjMe

[Beidi Chen @BeidiChen]

🥳We're recruiting PhD students at CMU for Fall 2025! If you are interested in machine-learning algorithms and systems (🔑Keywords: new model arch, LLM reasoning, longcontext modeling, efficiency, etc), please mention my name in your application~

👇
Application links:
(Dec 15) https://t.co/5bp88jjjTS
(Dec 11) https://t.co/Ge2uGJ2xkU
@InfiniAILab website: https://t.co/KvGo4efjMe

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physics John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data.

The Hopfield network can store patterns and has a method for recreating them. When the network is given an incomplete or slightly distorted pattern, the method can find the stored pattern that is most similar.

Read more about the research that led to this year’s physics prize: https://t.co/QuIdxRvuEP

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

More examples of what Meta Movie Gen can do across video generation, precise video editing, personalized video generation and audio generation.

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

🎥 Today we’re premiering Meta Movie Gen: the most advanced media foundation models to-date.

Developed by AI research teams at Meta, Movie Gen delivers state-of-the-art results across a range of capabilities. We’re excited for the potential of this line of research to usher in entirely new possibilities for casual creators and creative professionals alike.

More details and examples of what Movie Gen can do ➡��� https://t.co/M19x2ndwnr

🛠️ Movie Gen models and capabilities
Movie Gen Video: 30B parameter transformer model that can generate high-quality and high-definition images and videos from a single text prompt.

Movie Gen Audio: A 13B parameter transformer model that can take a video input along with optional text prompts for controllability to generate high-fidelity audio synced to the video. It can generate ambient sound, instrumental background music and foley sound — delivering state-of-the-art results in audio quality, video-to-audio alignment and text-to-audio alignment.

Precise video editing: Using a generated or existing video and accompanying text instructions as an input it can perform localized edits such as adding, removing or replacing elements — or global changes like background or style changes.

Personalized videos: Using an image of a person and a text prompt, the model can generate a video with state-of-the-art results on character preservation and natural movement in video.

We’re continuing to work closely with creative professionals from across the field to integrate their feedback as we work towards a potential release. We look forward to sharing more on this work and the creative possibilities it will enable in the future.

[Olga Golovneva @OlgaNLP]

Our team at Meta AI (former FAIR Labs) is hiring 2025 research interns and postdoc. Research areas cover LLM reasoning, alignment, memory, and architectures. DM me if interested in chatting during @COLM_conf !

[Minlan Yu @minlanyu]

Harvard CS is hiring this year:
https://t.co/x66lUJII2s

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

A piece of brutally honest advice to my younger self:

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

A perfect heart shaped sun reflection 😍

#NYC #NewYorkCity

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

@paulg As a social person I can say with certainty that, If they are socially uncomfortable, that means they don’t like us. But that’s OK. We don’t like them either. There is no wrong in disliking people.

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

@curiosityonx Wao 😳

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A spectacular example of an Iridescent cloud

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

A mesmerizing view from San Francisco Cable Car.

Last month, I had a chance to experience the oldest, manually rotated cable car that runs from Powell st. till Hyde st. and had most scenic view 😍.
A must visit, if you are in SF.

#SanFrancisco #sf #cablecar #scenic

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

@umarsaif I remeber once dawn published an amazing article about another noble laureate (Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar) who born was in Lahore. Even he got his bachelor and masters from Punjab University.

Link to story: https://t.co/N5ReylxYpi

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

@Naseem_khera An honest judge from Providence, RI. The great Frank Caprio.

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

@ElphinstoneCap @ycombinator @Hi2Global @Soma_Capital Congratulations 👏

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

@TheDavisJam This is still a novel, tier 2 contribution that solve a real-world problem. I personally categorize tier 1 research involves novel ideas that solve an unsolved computational problems or propose new ideas that accelerate existing state-of-the-art.

[Usman Ali, Ph.D. @uadogar]

What a peaceful view 😍

Mansfield Lake, Connecticut