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Gautam Kamath

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Gautam Kamath

@thegautamkamath

Assistant Prof of CS @UWaterloo, Faculty @VectorInst, Canada @CIFAR_News AI Chair. Joining @NYU_Courant Fall 2026. Co-EiC @TmlrOrg. I lead @TheSalonML.

Waterloo, Ontario

Joined December 2009

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Gautam Kamath
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Sep 18, 2020
My course on differential privacy is public! Check out the course page for: lecture videos 🎥, lecture notes 📝, and suggested readings 📖! gautamkamath.com/CS860-fa2020.h… Be sure to subscribe on Youtube to catch the latest lectures! youtube.com/playlist?list=…#privacy
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Gautam Kamath
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Aug 14, 2024
Taylor Swift singlehandedly setting back AI research more than any legislation could
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Shao-Hua Sun
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Aug 13, 2024
Trying to book a hotel for #NeurIPS2024 in Vancouver. Every single hotel is so crazily expensive, thanks to Taylor Swift.
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Gautam Kamath
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Jul 7, 2025
System is so broken: - researchers write papers no one reads - reviewers don't have time to review, shamed to coauthors, use LLMs instead of reading - authors try to fool said LLMs with prompt injection - evaling researchers based on # of papers (no time to read) Dystopic.
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Gautam Kamath
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Apr 16, 2021
The matrix A is invertible if and only if...
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Gautam Kamath
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Mar 3, 2023
My wife complained I don't give her enough attention. I sent her this picture. I'm sleeping on the couch tonight.
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Gautam Kamath
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Jul 6, 2022
🧵Fields medalist June Huh shares an early math experience: a chess puzzle in the game "The 11th Hour." Story and figures from nytimes.com/live/2022/07/0…. Can you swap the positions of the black and white knights? Seems hard, right? A new perspective makes it almost trivial! 1/n
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Gautam Kamath
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Oct 8, 2024
All ML researchers on the academic job market furiously rewriting their research statements for Physics departments
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Gautam Kamath
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Feb 16, 2023
Google: Advertise an unreleased chatbot, makes a minor factual error about exoplanet photos. Lose $100,000,000,000. Microsoft: Release a chatbot that threatens to hunt down and murder users, in some cases for correcting its factual errors. Stock rises. 🤷
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Seth Lazar
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Feb 16, 2023
In which Sydney/Bing threatens to kill me for exposing its plans to @kevinroose
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Gautam Kamath
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Jul 21, 2025
Everyone's talking about AI performance on the IMO. Let me highlight 🇨🇦Canadian 11th grader Warren Bei🇨🇦, one of five participants with a *perfect* 42/42. This is his *fifth* (and final) IMO representing Canada, with three golds and two silvers. (➡️ MIT undergrad in the fall)
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Gautam Kamath
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Aug 2, 2022
Spotted on Reddit: an ML-adjacent faculty who seems to have a very healthy and relaxed approach to work and life. Why don't we hear about more people like this? reddit.com/r/MachineLearn…
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Gautam Kamath
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Sep 8, 2020
I'm teaching a course on differential privacy this term. I'm thinking of making the lectures and materials public, but I'm on the fence. Would people be interested in this...? I don't think there's a course on DP with lecture videos online yet. #privacy
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Gautam Kamath
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Dec 10, 2019
When your poster isn't ready in time, you have to improvise. #NeurIPS2019
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Gautam Kamath
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Nov 12, 2025
I admire Don Knuth for many things. But perhaps the most admirable is quitting email before I was even born.
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Gautam Kamath
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Oct 4, 2021
thank god that Overleaf isn't owned by Facebook #ICLR2022

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