🗣 *Jan '25* Gave a talk on instant runoff voting at the [Joint Mathematics Meetings](https://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2025/2314_program_ss71.html) in Seattle, WA. 📝 *Dec '24* Our [paper on replicator dynamics for candidate positioning](/publication/2024-tomlinson-replicating/) was accepted to [AAAI '25](https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-25/)! 🇨🇦 *Dec '24* Attended [NeurIPS '24](https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2024) in Vancouver. *Sep '24* Started my new job at Microsoft Research in the [AI Interaction and Learning](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/ai-interaction-and-learning/) group! 🚚 *Aug '24* Moved from Ithaca, NY to Bellevue, WA! 🎓 *Jul '24* Passed my [B Exam](https://gradschool.cornell.edu/academic-progress/requirements/making-academic-progress/defending-your-thesis-or-dissertation/)! 🪧 *May '24* Presented a poster on [ranking with consideration](/publication/2024-aoki-sherwood-bounding/) at [AAMAS '24](https://www.aamas2024-conference.auckland.ac.nz). 📢 *Apr '24* Wrote a [blog post](https://aihub.org/2024/04/04/the-moderating-effect-of-instant-runoff-voting/) for AIhub about the moderating effect of instant runoff voting. *Mar '24* Accepted a Senior Researcher position at Microsoft Research, in the [Augmented Learning and Reasoning](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/augmented-learning-and-reasoning/) group! 🗣 *Feb '24* Gave a talk on the [moderating effect of instant runoff voting](/publication/2023-tomlinson-moderation/) at [AAAI '24](https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-24/). 📝 *Dec '23* Our [paper on consider-then-choose ranking models](/publication/2024-aoki-sherwood-bounding/) was accepted as an extended abstract to [AAMAS '24](https://www.aamas2024-conference.auckland.ac.nz)! 📝 *Dec '23* Our [paper on the moderating effect of instant runoff voting](/publication/2023-tomlinson-moderation/) was accepted to [AAAI '24](https://aaai.org/aaai-conference/)! 🗣 *Aug '23* Gave a [talk](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/content/algorithmic-perspectives-instant-runoff-voting) on instant runoff voting at the [Cornell CS Theory Seminar](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/content/fall-2023-theory-seminar). 📝 *Aug '23* Our [paper on networked choice](/publication/2022-tomlinson-graph-choice/) was accepted to [*Network Science*](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/network-science)! 🗣 *Aug '23* Gave a talk at [KDD](https://kdd.org/kdd2023/) on [recommendation with temporal network objectives](/publication/2023-tomlinson-workplace-recommendation/). 🗣 *Jul '23* Gave a talk at [NetSci](https://netsci2023.wixsite.com/netsci2023/) on [recommendation with temporal network objectives](/publication/2023-tomlinson-workplace-recommendation/). 🗣 *Jul '23* Gave an invited talk at [SINM](https://sinm.network) on [networks](/publication/2022-tomlinson-graph-choice/) and [discrete choice](/publication/2020-tomlinson-feature-context-effects/). 📝 *May '23* Our [paper on multi-organization recommendation](/publication/2023-tomlinson-targeted-training/) was accepted to [*ACM TORS*](https://dl.acm.org/journal/tors)! 📝 *May '23* Our [paper on recommendation with temporal network objectives](/publication/2023-tomlinson-workplace-recommendation/) was accepted to [KDD 2023](https://kdd.org/kdd2023/)! 🗣 *May '23* Gave a [talk](https://www.carleton.edu/computer-science/news-events/events/?eventId=aa0ra13uq78hg0pat40o3vr518) at Carleton College on [two](/publication/2023-tomlinson-ballot-length/) ranked choice voting [projects](/publication/2023-tomlinson-moderation/). 🗣 *Feb '23* Gave a talk at [AAAI](https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-23/) on [ballot length in IRV](/publication/2023-tomlinson-ballot-length/). 👨‍🏫 *Jan '23* Started a two-term visiting faculty position at [Carleton College](https://www.carleton.edu/computer-science/)! 📝 *Nov '22* Our paper on [ballot length in instant runoff voting](/publication/2023-tomlinson-ballot-length/) was accepted to [AAAI 2023](https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-23/)! 👨‍💻 *May '22* Started my summer internship @ [Microsoft Research](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/jenneville/)! 🛠 *May '22* Attended the [Network Dynamics and Choice Theory](https://twitter.com/_jgyou/status/1527066572434690050?s=20&t=LfL5_05DhzbLg0V9FHC6RA) workshop @ UVM! 👨‍🏫 *May '22* Accepted a Visiting Instructor position at [Carleton College](https://www.carleton.edu/computer-science/) for Winter and Spring 2023! 🎓 *May '22* Passed my [A Exam](https://gradschool.cornell.edu/academic-progress/requirements/making-academic-progress/advancing-to-doctoral-candidacy/)! 👨‍💻 *Dec '21* Accepted a summer internship @ [Microsoft Research](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/jenneville/)! 🛠 *Dec '21* I hosted [WHMD](https://sites.google.com/view/whmd2021/) at [NeurIPS '21](https://nips.cc/Conferences/2021/Schedule?type=Workshop) and moderated our speaker Q&A! Watch it [here](https://neurips.cc/virtual/2021/workshop/21835). 🛠 *Jul '21* The [Workshop on Human and Machine Decisions](https://sites.google.com/view/whmd2021/) was accepted to [NeurIPS '21](https://nips.cc/Conferences/2021/Schedule?type=Workshop)! 👨‍💻 *May '21* Started my summer internship @ Microsoft's [Office of Applied Research](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/office-of-applied-research/)! 📝📝 *May '21* Two papers accepted to [KDD 2021](https://www.kdd.org/kdd2021/)! One on the [LCL](/publication/2020-tomlinson-feature-context-effects/), one on [choice set confounding](/publication/2021-tomlinson-choice-set-confounding/) 🗣 *Apr '21* Gave a talk for the Predicting Human Decisions course @ [WPI](https://www.wpi.edu/academics/departments/computer-science) on the [LCL](/publication/2020-tomlinson-feature-context-effects/) 🗣 *Mar '21* Gave a talk for the Cornell/MIT MURI group on the [LCL](/publication/2020-tomlinson-feature-context-effects/) and some upcoming work 👨‍💻 *Jan '21* Accepted a summer research internship @ Microsoft's [Office of Applied Research](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/office-of-applied-research/)! 🗣 *Dec '20* Gave a talk for the Ugander group @ [Stanford SOAL](https://soal.stanford.edu) on the [LCL](/publication/2020-tomlinson-feature-context-effects/) 🗣 *Sep '20* Gave a talk @ [NetSci SINM 2020](https://sinm.network) on [context effects in triadic closure](/publication/2020-tomlinson-feature-context-effects/) 🗣 *Jul '20* Gave a talk @ [ICML 2020](https://icml.cc/Conferences/2020) on [choice set optimization](/publication/2020-tomlinson-optimizing-choice-sets/) 🗣 *Jun '20* Gave a talk @ [CPM 2020](https://cpm2020.compute.dtu.dk) on [chain letter reconstruction](/publication/2020-commins-diverging-string-sequences/) 📝 *May '20* Our paper on [choice set optimization](/publication/2020-tomlinson-optimizing-choice-sets/) was accepted to [ICML 2020](https://icml.cc/Conferences/2020)! 📝 *Apr '20* Our paper on [chain letter reconstruction](/publication/2020-commins-diverging-string-sequences/) was accepted to [CPM 2020](https://cpm2020.compute.dtu.dk)! 📝 *Nov '19* An [extended version](/publication/2019-tomlinson-phylogeny-parameter-effects/) of my BIBM 2018 paper was accepted to [*BMC Medical Genomics*](https://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com)! 📝 *Nov '19* Our paper on [tree distances](/publication/2020-dinardo-distance-measures/) was accepted to [*Bioinformatics*](https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics)! 📚 *Aug '19* Started a Computer Science PhD @ Cornell! 🎓 *Jun '19* Graduated from Carleton! 🗣 *May '19* Gave a talk @ [RECOMB-CCB 2019](https://cpm2020.compute.dtu.dk) on [tree distances](/publication/2020-dinardo-distance-measures/) 🗣 *Dec '18* Gave a talk @ [IEEE BIBM 2018](http://orienta.ugr.es/bibm2018/) on [phylogeny inference](/publication/2018-tomlinson-examining-phylogeny-inference/) 📝 *Oct '18* My first paper on [phylogeny inference](/publication/2018-tomlinson-examining-phylogeny-inference/) was accepted to [IEEE BIBM 2018](http://orienta.ugr.es/bibm2018/)!