Jonathan K. Kummerfeld

I am recruiting PhD students for my group at Sydney! Apply by Oct 31 If you are a student: please consider applying If you are an academic: please share with students I have funding and flexibility in topic. If you are at COLM, let's chat! Details: jkk.name/students/rec...

We are hiring at Sydney! All areas covered, but I think it would be particularly good to hire more people in NLP :) usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

The new ARR reviewing policy is far more restrictive than the TL:DR suggests. A qualified review can only cover 2 papers. I expect that to be the more constraining factor than the per-author submission limits.

We are recruiting postdocs in AI at Sydney! This is through the new Centre for Sustainability, AI and Life Sciences, with flexibility to work with a range of academics. Please share with any students you know who are close to graduation! usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

The STAR workshop at #CHI2026 is just over a week away! Due to increased interest, we're capping our open-door attendance at 100. To make sure everyone interested in the workshop has a spot, please sign up below. 📝 Register: forms.gle/28U2RySizboW... 🌐 Details: chi-star-workshop.github.io

This is an exciting new workshop at CHI that I will be at! Deadline for submissions is one week away.

Do you have ideas for the future of reading? Submit a 2-4 page paper to the CHI workshop I am co-organising! (deadline Feb 12) “Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading" chi-star-workshop.github.io

🚨 @jkkummerfeld.bsky.social from our school is organising "The 23rd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association" to be held between 26/11/2025 - 28/11/2025 at #USyd @sydney.edu.au Open to Students, academics, and industry working on NLP To register: alta2025.alta.asn.au

📢 We are hiring! The School of #ComputerScience of #USyd 🇦🇺 is seeking outstanding women academics, at all seniority levels, for continuing (equivalent tenure system) positions. Deadline to apply: ⏰ August 25 #AcademicJobs #WomenInCS usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

UG or PG student at @sydney.edu.au or another Australian university? Come do a 6-week paid Vacation #Research #Internship (VRI) with our academics this Winter, choosing among the 46 projects proposed at the School of #ComputerScience! ⏰ Deadline: April 21. Details: www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/...

A few thoughts on why DeepSeek's ideas are likely to lead to more use of AI (and hence demand for chips), not less

With the debate over peer review going strong, what other classic topics should be revived here? vim vs. emacs? spaces vs. tabs? Star Trek vs. Star Wars? The Oxford comma?

If you want to help improve peer review, we are looking for a new Co-CTO for ACL Rolling Review! Requirements: - Post-PhD - Experienced with Python (including command line use) - Time commitment of 3 hours a week on average (but note that you are not expected to review while serving) Contact me!

Sydney is a great place for research, teaching, and life! Join us :)

ICYMI: The School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney 🇦🇺 is hiring, with multiple (equiv.) tenure-track positions. All areas of CS welcome, with a specific focus on Systems, PL, ML, and Quantum Computing. usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E... Please share, and get in touch!

On my way to CHI! Excited about both papers I contributed to (links go elsewhere, sorry!): An AI-resilient summarisation method x.com/ziweigu/stat... Finding ways to look at 10s-100s of LLM outputs at once x.com/katyilonka/s... If you will be there and want to meet up, let me know!

EMNLP 2024 - Miami! (Nov 12-16)

Fascinating keynote on fallacies in benchmarking by Adina Williams (ai.meta.com/people/adina...). Short version: in our excitement about LLMs we shouldn’t forget scientific principles of evaluation (I’m definitely going to check out the stack of EMNLP papers Dr Williams is an author of!)

Computer Science at Sydney is hiring! (deadline Nov 30) We get excellent students, have fantastic quality of life, and you get to be my colleague (hopefully that's a positive weight feature...). If you aren't on the job market, please think about if you know someone who is and share the ad :)