A Talk for the 2021 ICML Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with AI. I am extremely grateful to the organisers for the invitation. This is the text of the talk and also has links to the video. Hello everyone and … Continue reading Harnessing Machine Learning to Achieve Net Zero
An Invited Talk for NACCL-HLT 2021, 8 June 2021. I am extremely grateful to the organisers for the invitation, and a special thanks to Prof. Luke Zettlemoyer who hosted the Q&A session that was so much fun. This is the … Continue reading Generating Reality: Technical and Social Explorations in Generative Machine Learning Research
This piece was a contribution to the wonderful book by Gavin Brown, Chapter X in How to Get Your PhD: A Handbook for the Journey (OUP, 2021). It shares one view on how we, as scientists, can respond to diversity and inclusion, and hopefully interesting to everyone (beyond the early-career scientist). A letter to the new research student. You are entering a world of knowledge and research that is constantly changing. For so many of us, that is its allure. Yet, for all our investigations into the natural, informational, mechanistic, or structural world, nature does not shape the world of … Continue reading Inventing Ourselves: Responsibility and Diversity in Research
Was so excited to get this opportunity to talk about pain and learning at the NeurIPS2020 Workshop on Biological and Artificial RL. This is the text of the talk. Collaboration with Daniel Ott. 🎞Watch the video here; 🖥 slides here; 📜 paper … Continue reading Pain and Machine Learning
Savoured the opportunity to talk about writing surveys and reviews at the NeurIPS2020 Workshop on ML Retrospectives, Surveys & Meta-Analyses (ML-RSA) This is the text of the talk. 🎞Watch the video here and 🖥 slides here Hello! My name is … Continue reading Through the Eyes of Birds and Frogs: Writing and Surveys in Machine Learning Research
Was grateful to be given the opportunity to support the 2020 TechAide AI4Good conference. This is the text of the talk. You can find the video here. Greetings! It’s so great to be with you here today as part of … Continue reading Imaginations of Good, Missions for Change
I am incredibly humbled to have been able to give a short talk at the Queer in AI workshop at ICML2020. This is the text of the talk. Watch the video. Look through the slides. What an experience we are … Continue reading Queering Machine Learning
Written during the 2020 LGBTQ History Month Remembrance that takes place during February each year in the UK. Read in 5mins (800 words) Today’s queer scientist is exceptional. Exceptional as in extraordinary and remarkable; exceptional as in unusual and strange. … Continue reading Queer Exceptionalism in Science
Shakir Mohamed | 1345 words (~14mins). Will link to video and slides once it's ready. for TEDxLSTM: Unknown Destinations These are the opening lines from a poem entitled Machines by Michael Donaghy. For us here today, I hope they will … Continue reading Machinery of Grace
On LGBT Freedoms and our Support for Machine Learning in Africa This is an exploration of my thinking and my personal views. Read in · 1147 words · Soon, in two neighbouring countries in Africa, two large machine learning events … Continue reading A New Consciousness of Inclusion in Machine Learning