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Akhil Arora

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Assistant Prof. @csaudk.bsky.social | Fellow @cphsodas.bsky.social Previous: @icepfl.bsky.social @americanexpress @Xerox @Intel Interests: 🥾🏔️🚴‍♂️🏋️‍♂️🎸 #NLProc #LLMs #AgenticAI #Causality #GraphML https://www.cs.au.dk/~clan/people/aarora

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Akhil Arora @akhilarora.bsky.social · Mar 18

I am recruiting 2 PhD students for Fall'25 @csaudk.bsky.social to work on bleeding-edge topics in #NLProc #LLMs #AIAgents (e.g. LLM reasoning, knowledge-seeking agents, and more).

Details: www.cs.au.dk/~clan/openings
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Please boost!

cc: @aicentre.dk @wikiresearch.bsky.social

Open positions and projects

### Open semester and Master's projects If you're an AU student looking for a semester project, a Bachelor project, or an MS thesis project, please refer to [this list](projects). ### Prospective PhD ...

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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 8d

Wikipedia, the go-to reference for billions of people, has been named one of the most iconic companies in Internet history by The Webby Awards 🎉

Learn how the encyclopedia and its volunteer movement became the "web’s public memory" ➡️ www.webbyawards.com//webby30/most-iconic-companies-wikipedia/

Hand holding the Wikipedia puzzle globe. Text says: Wikipedia is one of the most iconic companies in Internet history. New honor by The Webby Awards recognizes the free encyclopedia as the "web’s public memory, written by everyone"

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Jul 16

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅

EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu

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Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social · Aug 1

Last day of #ACL2025NLP but there's still lots to do: attend the #WikiNLP workshop, where we explore how NLP and wikipedia can help each other!

We have amazing keynotes, discussions with Wikipedia editors, a panel + posters!

Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...

Join us in room 2.31!

WikiNLP workshop program with keynotes, dataset panel, poster session, discussions with Wikipedia editors and more.

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Akhil Arora @akhilarora.bsky.social · Jul 21

2️⃣ Oral: Quotegraph: A Social Network Derived from Millions of News Quotations

📍Thu 24 Jul 14:30 – 16:00 CET - Hemeryck

We release a massive social network derived from news quotations, linking 528K people via 8.6M quotes and enriched with Wikidata information.

Akhil Arora @akhilarora.bsky.social · Jul 21

1️⃣ Spotlight: Gender Bias in How Public Figures are Referenced in News Quotes at Scale

Wed 23 Jul CET
- Talk: 09:45 - 10:30 - De Geerhallen
- Poster: 13:30 - 14:30 - Atrium

Contrary to earlier findings, we show that left-wing politicians use first names more often when referring to women!

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Akhil Arora @akhilarora.bsky.social · Jul 21

Back from #ICML2025 🛬, and off 🚄 to Norrköping 🇸🇪 for #ic2s2

CLAN (cs.au.dk/~clan/) members are presenting 2 papers: 1 spotlight and 1 oral. See 🧵for posters and summaries

👋 Reach out to chat about observational studies, causality, LLM agents, human-centered AI etc.

CLAN for AI Research on Language and Networks

CLAN for AI Research on Language and Networks, or **CLAN** for short, is a research group and a part of the larger [DIS Group](https://cs.au.dk/research/data-intensive-systems) in the [Department of C...

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potamitisn.bsky.social @potamitisn.bsky.social · Jul 15

Excited to be in Vancouver this week for #ICML2025! 🌲☕🛰️

We’ll be presenting our paper “Fleet of Agents (FoA)”, a lightweight, open-source framework that boosts LLM reasoning by orchestrating multiple LLM agents as a collective intelligence using a genetic-style dynamic tree search.

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