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Shayne Redford defends PhD thesis on AI research advised by Alex Pentland, Sarah Hooker, and Peter Henderson

Redford released a public video of the defense on YouTube

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OPSara Hooker#14Sara Hooker@SARAHOOKR

Huge congrats Dr. Shayne Longpre. A PhD that was truly an outlier in terms of impact on ecosystem. 🔥 Spanned the very beginning of instruction finetuning as a mainstream technique to data provenance initiative, multilingual scaling laws + work that shaped data consent.

9:33 AM · May 25, 2026 View on X
REPLYYanai Elazar#736Yanai Elazar@YANAIELA

@ShayneRedford @alex_pentland @sarahookr @PeterHndrsn Congrats!!

Shayne LongpreShayne Longpre@ShayneRedford

Defended my PhD last week! 🎉🎉 Thank you to @alex_pentland @sarahookr @PeterHndrsn and everyone who was a part of it! Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BiI1mSuTE

4:21 PM · May 25, 2026 · 37.1K Views
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REPLYNitasha Tiku#1616Nitasha Tiku@NITASHATIKU

@ShayneRedford @alex_pentland @sarahookr @PeterHndrsn 🤩🙌🏾

Shayne LongpreShayne Longpre@ShayneRedford

Defended my PhD last week! 🎉🎉 Thank you to @alex_pentland @sarahookr @PeterHndrsn and everyone who was a part of it! Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BiI1mSuTE

4:21 PM · May 25, 2026 · 37.1K Views
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