Julia Balla

@julballa

Building more things @Arda_Industries. Previously generative modeling/AI for science @MITEECS.

Cambridge, MA julballa.github.io Joined November 2011

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Thrilled to share that I’ve recently joined the incredible team at @Arda_Industries! We’re working to make manufacturing move at the speed of innovation with AI.

And we’re hiring! Come build more things with us 🚀

Bob McGrew Verified account @bobmcgrewai Oct 20

We started Arda in 2025 to speed up American manufacturing. We have spent the last year building with Anduril as our design partner. Today we are launching the company publicly on CNBC and announcing our Series A: $160M at a $1.5B valuation.

Our platform helps manufacturers design and operate manual assembly lines, putting designs into production faster now. Next we'll build automated lines that can be reconfigured as quickly as human workers, letting America make products that now require armies of workers in Asia.

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Julia Balla @julballa Apr 25

New blogpost on tokenizing non-sequential data!

Language has sequential structure, which gave rise to the next-token prediction paradigm of LLMs. But we increasingly use LLMs for data without inherent order (e.g. images, molecules, sets). What does “next token” mean here?
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Julia Balla @julballa Oct 17, 2022

Excited to share our new paper!

AI-Assisted Discovery of Quantitative and Formal Models in Social Science
arxiv.org/pdf/2210.00563…

with @Huang_Sihao and @dangovski

Julia Balla @julballa May 29, 2022

Deeply shocked and saddened by this news. Octavian was an inspiring researcher and incredible mentor. Rest in peace.

MIT Jameel Clinic for AI & Health @AIHealthMIT May 28, 2022

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