I’m so lucky to work with Sarah, and I love this research profile of her and her work!!
While so many of us work to get those #NeurIPS2025 papers out the door, don’t ignore those strong feelings you have on the ML field and where it is going! Submit your NeurIPS Position Track Paper on May 22: neurips.cc/Conferences/...
Days of processing this tragedy, the shock may have lessened but the sadness has not. Sayan was so perfectly himself— a curious and brilliant scientist, kind friend, unapologetically speaking his mind, fighting his demons, and suffering no fools. sayan-mukherjee-memorial.github.io
He had a way of inverting ordinary and extraordinary. I will miss his laugh, his tee shirts, his emotional honesty, and his critical mind so much. A student of mine said that our friendship made her believe she could have close friends in academia. It is a darker world without his spark. I miss him.
I am not sure how to do Bluesky yet, but I want to tell the world about our neighborhood NMF method. First of many collaborations with the Pelka Lab!!
