Practice Job Talks

About this day

Day 6 steps back from the project to the person. In concurrent practice job-talk sessions, participants present their research as they would on the academic or industry job market and field questions from camp faculty and their peers. It is a low-stakes rehearsal for a high-stakes talk: a chance to tighten the narrative, practice handling hard questions, and get direct feedback from people who have sat on hiring committees. The day is geared toward participants on or near the research job market; everyone else attends, asks questions, and learns from the room. The mode is present.

Job-talk schedule

Talks run in two parallel rooms (40-minute slots) after a 9:00 morning handoff; attend whichever talks you like. Open slots are filled by sign-up during the camp.

Room A — Alder 107 · Moderators: Peter Szolovits & Tom Pollard

Time	Speaker	Talk title
9:15–9:55	Simon A. Lee	Toward a General Health Intelligence: Learning to Understand and Intervene in Human Health
9:55–10:35	Kyungdo Kim	From Physical Body to Digital Human: Quantitative Assessment of Human Movement for Neurological Disorders
10:35–11:15	Divyam Madaan	From Complete to Missing Modalities: A Framework for Multimodal Learning
11:15–11:55	Helena Coggan	TBA
12:00–1:00	— Lunch —
1:00–1:40	Tae Jones	TBA
1:40–2:20	Guilherme Imai Aldeia	TBA
2:20–3:00	Sameer Neupane	From Wearable Physiological AI to Actionable Insights
3:00–3:40	Dipendra Pant	Data-driven Clinical Decision Support
3:45–4:00	— Break —
4:00–4:40	Grace (Xiyu) Ding	High-dimensional Bayesian Transfer Learning in Federated Settings
4:40–5:20	Open — sign-up

Room B — Alder 103 · Moderators: Joyce Ho & Matthew McDermott

Time	Speaker	Talk title
9:15–9:55	Hyungjun Yoon	Elevating Large-Scale Pre-Trained Models into Foundation Models for Mobile Sensing
9:55–10:35	Amin Adibi	TBA
10:35–11:15	Jiho Kim	Trustworthy AI for High-Stakes Decisions
11:15–11:55	Ha Le	Towards Accurate Tracking and Annotation of Physical Activities In-the-Wild
12:00–1:00	— Lunch —
1:00–1:40	Hangyul Yoon	TBA
1:40–2:20	Chase Fensore	TBA
2:20–3:00	Uzma Pathan	TBA
3:00–3:40	Ayush Noori	TBA
3:45–4:00	— Break —
4:00–4:40	Open — sign-up
4:40–5:20	Open — sign-up

Dinner follows at 6:00.

What you’ll be able to do

• Tell the story of your research as a coherent job talk — motivation, contribution, and where it is going.
• Field pointed questions about your work with composure.
• Give a peer useful, specific feedback on their talk.

How the day runs

Talks run in parallel rooms so every presenter gets a full slot, each session moderated by camp faculty. Presenters give a job-talk-style presentation and take questions; the rest of the room listens and offers feedback afterward. The week of Project Workbook thinking — problem, data, evaluation, method, deployment — is the substance the talk draws on. No assigned readings.

Additional resources

• Guidance on structuring a research job talk (shared before the camp).