Machine Learning PhD Students

PhD Students

		Indian Institute of Technology, Madras BTECH in Computer Science & Engineering Advisor: Avrim Blum 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: Manuela Veloso Research Interests: Theoretical Machine Learning and Biological applications.
Joseph Bradley

		University of Karlsruhe Dipl.-Inf. in Computer Science Research Interests: Multi-Agent Planning, Economic Paradigms and Mechanism Design, Causality, Machine Learning Theory. Currently on Leave of Absence
Jan-Peter Calliess

		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). Special Track in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Lucia Castellanos

		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

		Xi'an Jiaotong University BS in Computer Science Advisor: Jaime Carbonell Research Interests: Active Learning, Text Learning.
Xi Chen

		Polytechnic Institute of NYU BS in Computer Science Advisor: Reid Simmons Research Interests: Computational Learning Theory, Optimization, and Natural Language Processing.
Robert Fisher

		Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania B. Eng. in Computer Science Advisor: Artur Dubrawski Research Interests: Multi-agent Systems, Active Learning, Robot Vision, Dynamic Semiotics, Applying Machine Learning in Software Engineering.
Madalina Fiterau

		University of Alberta MS in Computing Science Advisor: Roni Rosenfeld Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computational Biology.
Alona Fyshe

		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

		UMass Amherst BS in Computer Science Advisor: Stephen Fienberg Research Interests: Privacy preserving Data Mining, Fisher Information.
Robert Hall

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

		Carnegie Mellon University BS in Computational Biology Advisor: Eric Xing Research Interests: Theoretical Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Spectral Graph Theory and Computational Biology.
Qirong Ho

		National Taiwan University MS in Computer Science Advisor: Jeff Schneider Research Interests: Learning Dynamic Models; Latent Variable Models; Large-scale Machine Learning, Ranking.
Tzu-Kuo Huang

		Universidad del Valle de Guatemala BS in Computer Science Advisor: Katia Sycara Research Interests: Knowledge Representation, Data Mining, Computer Vision.
Antonio Juarez

		University of Zagreb BS in computing Advisor: Eric Xing Research Interests: High-dimensional Statistics, Non-parametric Statistics, Computational Biology.
Mladen Kolar

		University of California, Berkeley BA in Computer Science Advisor: Roy Maxion Research Interests: Applications of Machine Learning, Security of Machine Learning, Multi-agent Systems.
Shing-Hon Lau

		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 Texas at Austin BS in Computer Sciences Advisor: Ziv Bar-Joseph Research Interests: Graphical Models, Computational Biology, Learning Theory, Algorithm Analysis.
Hai-Son Le

		Seoul National University MS in Neuroscience Advisor : Geoff Gordon, Mike Lewicki Research Interests : Machine Learning , Computer vision, Visual Perception, Computational Neuroscience.
Wooyoung Lee

		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

		Carnegie Mellon University BS, Computer Science Advisor: Carlos Guestrin Research Interests: Machine Learning, Graphical Models, Parallel Algorithms.
Yucheng Low

		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

		Carnegie Mellon University MS in Statistics *Statistics & Machine Learning Joint PhD Program* Advisor: Artur Dubrawski Research Interests: Nonparametrics, Regularization, Astrostatistics.
Christopher Neff

		Princeton University BSE in Computer Science Advisor: Eric Xing Research Interests: Machine Learning Algorithms, Graphical models, Nonparametric Bayesian Methods.
Ankur Parikh

		University of Pennsylvania MBA in Finance Advisor: Manuela Veloso Research Interests: (1) Reinforcement learning and Bayesian methods, (2) Multi-agent systems, with emphasis on AI in multi-robot systems, (3) Mechanism design and game theory, (4) Parallelism in learning architectures, and (5) Applications, such as Smart Grid control systems and human-robot interaction.
Prashant Reddy

		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

		Carnegie Mellon University MS in Statistics Statistics & Machine Learning Joint PhD Program Advisor: Aarti Singh Research Interests: I am interested in manifold and semi-supervised learning, and also active learning. More specifically, I have been working on spectral kernel methods and some applications to gene micro-array and proteomics data.
James Sharpnack

		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 California, Berkeley BA in Computer Science Advisor: Guy Blelloch Research Interests: Machine Learning, Algorithms, and Graphs.
Julian Shun

		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: Tom Mitchell 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: Manuela Veloso Research Interests: Machine learning, AI planning and Decision theory.
Felipe Trevizan

		National Technical University of Athens Dip-Ingen in Computer Science Advisor: Russell Schwartz, Gary Miller Research Interests: Computational Biology, Graph Mining, Spectral Graph Theory, Scientific Computing, Machine Learning.
Charalampos Tsourakakis

		American University, Beirut BE in Electrical & Computer Engineering Advisor: Tom Mitchell Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience, Computational Biology, Computer Vision.
Leila Wehbe

		Tsinghua University MS in Control Science Advisor: Jeff Schneider Research Interests: Statistical Learning, Data Mining, Graph and Graphical Models.
Liang Xiong

		University of California, Berkeley BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Advisor: John Lafferty Research Interests: Statistical Learning Theory, Graphical Models, Nonparametric Statistics, Online Learning Algorithms
Min Xu

		University of Cambridge BA/MEng in Information and Computer Engineering Advisor: Rob Kass Research Interests: Analysis and Decoding of Brain Signals; machine, Human Learning and Neuroscience. *Special Track in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition*
Yang Xu

		Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China B.S. in Electronics and Information Engineering Advisor : Eric Xing Research interests : Statistical Inference of Networks; Probabilistic graphical model for biological applications; Semi-supervised Learning; Distance Metric Learning.
Liu Yang

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

		Tsinghua University B. Eng. in Automation Advisor: Eric Xing Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Computer Vision.
Bin Zhao

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