Machine Learning PhD Students

PhD Students

		Columbia University BA, Computer Science/AI Advisor: William Cohen Research Interests: Machine Learning, feature induction, transfer learning and information extraction.
Andrew Arnold

		Indian Institute of Technology, Madras BTECH in Computer Science & Engineering Advisor: Tuomas Sandholm Research Interests: Machine Learning, Graphical models, Approximation algorithms
Pranjal Awasthi

		Bowdoin College BA in Computer Science & Philosophy Advisor: Geoff Gordon Research Interests: Machine Learning, Models of Time Series, Computer Vision
Byron Boots

		Princeton University BSE in Computer Science Advisor: Carlos Guestrin Research Interests: Theoretical Machine Learning and Biological applications
Joseph Bradley

		University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign BS in Computer Science Advisor: Tom Mitchell Research Interests: Machine Learning (particularly semi-supervised and active learning), Information Extraction from the web, Natural Language Processing.
Andrew Carlson

		University of Edinburgh MS in Informatics Advisor: Rob Kass Research Interests: Machine and statistical learning applied to biological inspired data (bioinformatics and brain data)
Lucia Castellanos

		University of Texas, Austin MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Advisor: Ken Koedinger Research Interests: Machine Learning and Human Learning.
Hao Cen

		Carnegie Mellon University MS in Human-Computer Interaction Advisor: Christos Faloutsos Research Interests: 1) Data mining and machine learning on real-world graphs; (2) Anomaly detection, such as fraud detection in online marketplaces; (3) Social network analysis; (4) Novel tools in visualizing and exploring large graphs.
Duen Horng Chau

		Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur BT in Computer Science Advisor: Jeff Schneider Research Interests: Development of theories for learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, and their application of understanding intelligence.
Kaustav Das

		University of Maryland BS in Computer Science and Mathematics Advisor: Ziv Bar-Joseph Research Interests: Machine Learning and its applications to problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Jason Ernst

		California Institute of Technology (Caltech) BS in Computer Science Advisors: Carlos Guestrin Research Interests: Machine learning, sensor networks, and learning in dynamic environments. I am currently working on projects in latent Gaussian process models and distributed inference for machine learning.
Joseph Gonzalez

		University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign BS in Computer Science Advisors: Eric Xing, Larry Wasserman Research Interests: Learning Theory, Active Learning, Social Network Analysis.
Stephen Hanneke

		Tsinghua University ME in Control Science & Engineering Advisor: Jaime Carbonell Research Interests: Active Learning, Boosting, Semi-supervised Learning, Spam filtering, Multimedia.
Jingrui He

		McGill University MS in Computer Science Advisor: Luis von Ahn, Tom Mitchell Research Interests: Human Computation; Learning from instruction/human feedback, Learning Theory.
Edith Law

		University of Ljubljana, Slovenia BS, Computer Science Advisor: Christos Faloutsos Research Interests: Data Mining and Machine Learning on real-world networks. Modeling networks, their evolution, and spread of information, influence and viruses over the them.
Jurij Leskovec

		University of Toronto MS, Computer Science Advisors: John Lafferty, Larry Wasserman Research Interests: Nonparametric inference in high dimensions, Convex optimization, Functional data analysis, and their applications in mining very large scale datasets. Statistics & Machine Learning Joint PhD Program
Han Liu

		University of Tulsa BS in Computer Science/Math Advisor: Geoff Gordon Research Interests: I'm interested in combining logical AI and statistical machine learning to reason about uncertainty. I'm especially interested in applying the results to multiagent domains.
Austin McDonald

		University of Tulsa BS in Computer Science Advisor: Christos Faloutsos Research Interests: Learning in Systems of Intelligent Agents.
Mary McGlohon

		University of California, Davis BS in Math Research Interests: Statistics & Machine Learning Joint PhD Program
Christopher Neff

		University of Toledo MS in Computer Science Advisors: Artur Dubrawski, Jeff Schneider Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Bio-surveillance, Bayes Nets
Maheshkumar Sabhnani

		Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur B. Tech in Computer Science & Engineering Advisor: Andrew Moore Research Interests: Applying Machine Learning and Statistical techniques in problems like analysis of high dimensional data, decision making under uncertainty
Purnamrita Sarkar

		University of Washington BS in Computer Science, Applied & Computational Math Sciences Advisors: Ken Koedinger, Richard Scheines Research Interests: Causal inference, Machine Learning, and Data Mining in the Educational Domain.
Benjamin Shih

		Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay B. Tech in Computer Science & Engineering Advisor: Eric Xing Research Interests: Graphical models, Computational biology.
Suyash Shringarpure

		University of Alberta MS in Computing Science Advisor: Geoffrey Gordon Research Interests: Bayesian networks, applications of machine learning to bioinformatics.
Ajit Singh

		Brooklyn College BS in Computer Science and Mathematics Advisor: Yanxi Liu Research Interests: Machine Learning and its applications, Data Mining, Pattern Recognition.
Leonid Teverovskiy

		Tsinghua University ME in Control Science & Engineering Advisor: Christos Faloutsos Research Interests: Data Mining, Statistical Machine Learning, Social Network Analysis, Multimedia, image related topics.
Hanghang Tong

		University de Sao Paulo MS in Computer Science Advisor: Seth Goldstein, Carlos Guestrin Research Interests: Machine learning, AI planning and Decision theory.
Felipe Trevizan

		National Technical University of Athens Dip-Ingen in Computer Science Advisor: Christos Faloutsos Research Interests: Data Mining, Statistical & Machine Learning, Optimization Theory
Charalampos Tsourakakis

		Tsinghua University BE in Computer Software Advisor: Jeff Schneider Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Information Retrieval
Yi Zhang

		Peking University BS in Probability and Statistics Advisor: Stephen Fienberg Research Interests: Statistical Learning and Computing, Computer vision and Pattern Recognition. Currently on Leave of Absence
Yi Zhou

		University of Illinois BS, Computer Engineering Advisors: Drew Bagnell, Anind Dey Research Interests: Activity Recognition, imitation learning, ubiquitous computing.
Brian Ziebart