Pranjal Awasthi

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
BTECH in Computer Science & Engineering

Advisor: Avrim Blum

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Graphical models, Approximation Algorithms

Martin Azizyan

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mazizyan/

Duke University
BS in Computer Science

Advisor: Aarti Singh

Research Interests: Semi-supervised learning theory; non-parametric statistics

Will Bishop

Joseph Bradley

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jkbradle/

Lucia Castellanos

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

Rishi Chandy

Website: http://ugcs.caltech.edu/~rchandy/

Jessica Chemali

American University, Beirut
BE in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Emma Brunskill

Research Interests: Probabilistic models of high-level cognition (causal and social reasoning, conceptual development, decision making), cognitive neuroscience, multi-agent planning, scalable algorithms, structured prediction.

Xi Chen

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~xichen/

Xi'an Jiaotong University
BS in Computer Science

Advisor: Jaime Carbonell

Research Interests: Structured sparse learning; convex optimization; online learning; nonparametric statistics

Carl Doersch

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cdoersch/

Carnegie Mellon
BS in Computer Science

Advisor: Alexei Efros

Research Interests: Computer Vision, Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning, Computational Neuroscience, Philosophy of Learning

Wei Dai

Caltech
BS in Computer Science

Wesleyan University
BA in Physics & Mathematics

Advisor: Eric Xing

Research Interests: scalable machine learning and the interfaceof implementation and theory

Benjamin Cowley

Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Byron Yu

Research interests: Machine Learning and statistical techniques for the analysis and visualization of high-dimensional neural data

Carlton Downey

Kumar Avinava Dubey

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/kumaravinavadubey/

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Mumbai India
MS in Technology, Computer Science & Engineering

Advisor: Eric Xing

Research Interests: Non-parametric and semi-supervised learning in probabilistic graphical models

Kirstin Early

Vanderbilt University
BS in Computer Science

Advisor: Zico Kolter

Research Interests: Distributed Machine Learning techniques, possibly involving wireless sensor networks, and any projects using machine learning for environmentally-focused applications.

Robert Fisher

Polytechnic Institute of NYU
BS in Computer Science

Advisor: Reid Simmons

Research Interests: Computational Learning Theory, Optimization, and Natural Language Processing

Madalina Fiterau

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mfiterau/

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

Seth Flaxman

Website: http://sethrf.com/

Harvard University
BA in Computer Science & Mathematics

Advisor: Daniel Neill

Research Interests: Methods: Forecasting and Prediction with High-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Data, Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling; Application Areas: Public Health, Criminology, Urban Data, and Healthcare

Machine Learning & Public Policy Joint PhD Program

Alona Fyshe

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~afyshe/

University of Alberta
MS in Computing Science

Advisor: Tom Mitchell

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computational Neuroscience, Computational Biology

Special Track in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

Haijie (Jay) Gu

Carnegie Mellon University
BS in Computer Science

Advisor: Carlos Guestrin

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data mining, Statistics

Ahmed Hefny

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ahefny/

Cairo University
MS in Computer Engineering

Advisor: Geoff Gordon

Research Interests: Machine Learning, AI, Data mining

Qirong Ho

Carnegie Mellon University
BS in Computational Biology

Advisor: Eric Xing

Research Interests: Network analysis and social media, latent space methods, probabilistic graphical models, inference algorithms

Tzu-Kuo Huang

National Taiwan University
MS in Computer Science

Advisor: Jeff Schneider

Research Interests: Learning Dynamic Models; Latent Variable Models; Large-scale Machine Learning, Ranking

Adona Iosif

University of Cambridge
BA in Computer Science

Advisor: Geoff Gordon

Research Interests: Machine Learning, AI, Bioinformatics

Sashank Jakkam Reddi

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
BTech in Computer Science & Engineering

Advisor: Barnabas Poczos & Alex Smola

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Bioinformatics

Antonio Juarez

Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
BS in Computer Science

Advisor: Bhiksha Raj

Research Interests: Knowledge Representation, Data Mining, Computer Vision

Mladen Kolar

University of Zagreb
BS in computing

Advisor: Eric Xing

Research Interests: High-dimensional Statistics, Non-parametric Statistics, Computational Biology

Shing-Hon Lau

University of California, Berkeley
BA in Computer Science

Advisor: Roy Maxion

Research Interests: Applications of Machine Learning, Security of Machine Learning, Multi-agent Systems

Hai-Son Le

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hple/

University of Texas at Austin
BS in Computer Sciences

Advisor: Ziv Bar-Joseph

Research Interests: Graphical Models, Computational Biology, Learning Theory, Algorithm Analysis

Wooyoung Lee

Seoul National University
MS in Neuroscience

Advisors : Geoff Gordon, Mike Lewicki (Case Western)

Research Interests : Machine Learning , Computer vision, Visual Perception, Computational Neuroscience

Yucheng Low

Carnegie Mellon University
BS in Computer Science

Advisor: Carlos Guestrin

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Graphical Models, Parallel Algorithms

Yifei Ma

Tsinghua University
BS in Automation

Advisor: Jeff Schneider

Research Interests: Robotics, Algorithms, Statistics

Micol Marchetti-Bowick

Stanford University
MS & BS in Computer Science

Advisor: Eric Xing

Research Interests: Probabilistic Graphical Models, Computational Biology

George Montañez

Baylor University
MS in Computer Science

Advisor: Cosma Shalizi

Research Interests: No Free Lunch Theorems and Inductive Bias, Foundations of Inductive Inference, Bias learning.

Willie Neiswanger

Columbia University
BS in Applied Mathematics

Advisor: Eric Xing

Research interests: Statistical Machine Learning, computer vision, signal processing, Bayesian methods, and analysis of networks.

Brendan O'Connor

Website: http://brenocon.com/

Stanford University
MS in Symbolic Systems

Advisor: Noah Smith

Research Interests: Natural language processing and social science

Junier Oliva

Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Computer Science

Advisor: Barnabas Poczos & Jeff Schneider

Research interests: High Dimensional Learning; Graphical Models; Statistics; Machine Learning; AI.

Ankur Parikh

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~apparikh/

Princeton University
BSE in Computer Science

Advisor: Eric Xing

Research Interests: Probabilistic Graphical Models, Spectral and Kernel methods, Computational Biology

Nicole Rafidi

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nrafidi/

Princeton University
BSE in Electrical Engineering

Advisor: Tom Mitchell

Research Interests: applying machine learning techniques to neuroimaging data to discover the processes underlying language comprehension.

Aaditya Ramdas

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aramdas

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
BTech in Computer Science & Engineering

Advisors: Aarti Singh, Larry Wasserman

Research Interests: Learning Theory (Statistical, Online, Algorithmic, Computational, etc.)

Prashant Reddy

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ppr/

University of Pennsylvania
MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship

Advisor: Manuela Veloso

Research Interests: Multi-agent learning, reinforcement learning, Bayesian methods, game theory, AI in games and multi-robot systems, Smart Grid applications

Maheshkumar Sabhnani

University of Toledo
MS in Computer Science

Advisors: Artur Dubrawski, Jeff Schneider

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Bio-surveillance, Bayes Nets

James Sharpnack

Website: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~jsharpna/

Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Statistics

Advisor: Aarti Singh

Research Interests: Network structured statistical estimation and multiple testing

Statistics & Machine Learning Joint PhD Program

Michael Spece-Ibanez

Caltech
BS in Applied & Computational Mathematics
BS in Business Economics & Management

Advisor: Cosma Shalizi

Research Interests: Repeated Game Models, Online Learning, Non-Mixing Time Series, Statistical Decision Theory, Algorithmic Game Theory, AI

Statistics & Machine Learning Joint PhD Program

Felipe Trevizan

University de Sao Paulo
MS in Computer Science

Advisor: Manuela Veloso

Research Interests: Machine learning, AI planning and Decision theory

Leila Wehbe

American University, Beirut
BE in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Advisor: Tom Mitchell

Research Interests: Decoding cognitive states using Machine Learning and human brain imaging, Computational Cognitive Science

Special Track in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

Matthew Wytock

University of California, San Diego
BS in Computer Science

Advisor: Zico Kolter

Research Interests: Non-parametric high dimensional statistics, convex optimization with applications in biology and computer vision (currently on Leave of Absence)

Guangyu (Gus) Xia

Peking University
B.S. in Information Management and Information Systems

Advisor: Roger Dannenberg

Research Interests: computer music, machine learning for signal processing, expressive human-computer music performance

Jing Xiang

Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jingx/

University of British Columbia
MASc in Computer/Biomedical Engineering

Advisor: Seyoung Kim

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computational Biology and Medical Imaging

Liang Xiong

Tsinghua University
MS in Control Science

Advisor: Jeff Schneider

Research Interests: Statistical Learning, Data Mining, Graph and Graphical Models

Min Xu

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

Yang Xu

University of Cambridge
BA/MEng in Information and Computer Engineering

Advisors: Rob Kass, Michael Tarr

Research Interests: I work on statistical models of human visual learning with MEG and fMRI and computational modeling of high-level cognition (e.g.language). In general, I am interested in the blended realms of cognitive science, neuroscience and statistical machine learning.

Special Track in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

Liu Yang

Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China
BS in Electronics and Information Engineering

Advisors : Jaime Carbonell, Avrim Blum

Research interests : Statistical Inference of Networks; Probabilistic graphical model for biological applications; Semi-supervised Learning; Distance Metric Learning

Bin Zhao

Tsinghua University
B. Eng. in Automation

Advisor: Eric Xing

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Computer Vision