PhD Students
The ordering on this page is randomized (as opposed to ordering alphabetically). Read more about biases due to alphabetical ordering.Gati Aher
Olin College of Engineering
BS in Engineering
Advisor: Zack Lipton
Research Interests: ML for sequential decision-making
Ananye Agarwal
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Deepak Pathak
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Robot Learning
Arish Alreja
Georgia Institute of Technology
BS & MS in Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Rob Kass, Avniel S. Ghuman
Research Interests: Biological and Computer Vision, Unsupervised Learning, Dimensionality Reduction, Signal Processing, Computational Modelling of Neural Activity for Human Visual Cognitive Processes, Theory in Computational Neuroscience, Analysis of Time Series from Neural Data (human intracranial EEG, electrophysiology), Reinforcement Learning.
Neural Computation & Machine Learning Joint PhD Degree
Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou
University of Thessaly at Volos
BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Advisor: Artur Dubrawski
Research Interests: Pattern Mining, Statistical Machine Learning
Christina Baek
UC Berkeley
BS and MS in EECS
Advisor: Zico Kolter & Aditi Raghunathan
Research Interests: Generalization, continual learning, robustness
Anna Bair
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SB & MEng in Computer Science
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Theoretical Machine Learning, Fairness, Complex Systems
Arundhati Banerjee
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
BTech & MTech in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Jeff Schneider
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Sequential decision making, Active Search and Tracking
Emily Byun
Brown University
BS in Physics, BA in Computer Science
Advisors: Zack Lipton & Bryan Wilder
Research Interests: Robustness, Fairness, ML for Healthcare
Cristian Challu
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
MS in Data Science
Advisor: Artur Dubrawski
Research Interests: Optimization, Statistical Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning
Ian Char
University of Colorado Boulder
BS in Computer Science & BS/MS in Applied Math
Advisor: Jeff Schneider
Research Interests: AI, Graphical Probabilistic Models, Statistical Machine Learning, and Reinforcement Learning
Lili Chen
University of California, Berkeley
BA in Computer Science
Advisor: Deepak Pathak
Research interests: deep learning, reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning, robotics
Valerie Chen
Yale University
BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Ameet Talwalkar
Research interests: Principled approaches to fairness, accountability, and transparency in machine learning
Cheng Cheng
University of Southern California
BS in computer science & BS in Econ/Math
Advisors: Jeremy Weiss
Research Interests: Machine Learning for Healthcare, NLP, representation learning, and transfer learning
Machine Learning & Public Policy Joint PhD Degree
Youngseog Chung
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Jeff Schneider
Research Interests: Uncertainty quantification, decision making and control, causal inference
Ben Chugg
University of Oxford
MSc in Mathematics
Advisor: Aaditya Ramdas
Research Interests: Online learning, sequential decision-making, randomized algorithms
Jeremiah Cohen
Princeton University
B.S.E in Computer Science
Advisor: Zico Kolter & Ameet Talwalkar
Research Interests: Machine Learning and Optimization
Santiago Cortés
Universidad de los Andes
BSc Mathematics
Advisor: Bryan Wilder
Research Interests: Machine Learning for Healthcare and Public Health
Namrata Deka
University of British Columbia
M.Sc. in Computer Science
IIIT Delhi
B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering
Advisor: Kun Zhang & Jeff Schneider
Research Interests: Causal Representation Learning, Computer Vision
Don Dennis
Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
B. Tech, Computer Science and EngineeringAdvisor: Virginia Smith
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning, Optimization, Resource Constrained ML
Jin-Hong Du
University of Chicago
MS in Statistics
Advisors: Kathryn Roeder & Larry Wasserman
Research Interests: High-dimensional statistics, overparameterized learning, single-cell data analysis
Statistics & Machine Learning Joint PhD
Yewen Fan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Kun Zhang
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Learning Theory, Optimization, Recommendation Systems
Zhili Feng
University of Wisconsin
MS in Computer Science
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Machine Learning Theory
Nupoor Gandhi
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Computer Science
Advisor: Alexandra Chouldechova
Research Interests: Natural Language Understanding, Computational Psycholinguistics, Computational Social Science
Machine Learning & Public Policy Joint PhD Degree
Saurabh Garg
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
BTech in Computer Science & Engineering
Advisors: Zack Lipton & Siva Balakrishnan
Research Interests: Machine Learning
Théophile Gervet
McGill University
BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Katerina Fragkiadaki
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models
Tomás González Lara
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
MS in Engineering
BSE in Mathematical Engineering
Advisor: TBD
Research interests: Optimization, differential privacy and ML theory
Gaurav Ghosal
University of California, Berkeley
B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Advisor: Aditi Raghunathan
Research Interests: Robust Machine Learning, Understanding Deep Learning
Karish Grover
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT Delhi)
B.Tech in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI)
Advisors: Christos Faloutsos & Geoff Gordon
Research Interests: Graph Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graphs, Hyperbolic Geometry
Sachin Goyal
IIT Bombay
BTech in Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Robustness, Domain Generalization, Out of Distribution detection
Kartik Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras
BTech in Computer Science & Engineering
Advisor: Pradeep Ravikumar
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning and Optimization
Shantanu Gupta
Nanyang Technological University
B.Eng. in Computer Science
Advisors: Zack Lipton & David Childers
Research Interests: Causal inference, sequential decision making
Ellie Haber
New York University
BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Jian Ma
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Genomics, Spatial Biology, Representation Learning, Machine Learning, Interpretability
Keegan Harris
Pennsylvania State University
BS in Computer Science
BS in Physics
Advisors: Nina Balcan & Steven Wu
Research Interests: algorithmic game theory, economics & computation, online learning
Euxhen Hasanaj
Carnegie Mellon UniversityMS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Ziv Bar-Joseph, Barnabas Poczos
Research Interests: Unsupervised Learning, Genomics, Non-Convex Optimization
Niki Hasrati
University of WaterlooMaster of Mathematics (MMath) and Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS)
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Computational learning theory, theoretical computer science
Kelly He
Stanford University
Master's of Science in Computer Science
University of Rochester
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
Bachelor of Science in Data Science
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Generative Modeling, Representation Learning, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision
Jennifer Hsia
Princeton University
B.S.E. in Computer Science
Advisors: Zack Lipton & Aarti Singh
Research Interests: Human-centered machine learning (fairness, interpretability)
Shengyuan Hu
Cornell University
B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics
Advisor: Virginia Smith
Research interests: Federated Learning, Privacy Preserving Machine Learning, Robustness
Sukjun Hwang
Yonsei University
BS & MS in Computer Science
Advisor: Albert Gu
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Representation Learning, Multi-task Multi-modal Learning
Conor Igoe
University College Dublin
B.E. in Electronic Engineering
Advisor:Jeff Schneider
Research Interests: Optimization, Algorithmic Game Theory, Bayesian modeling
Yiding Jiang
UC Berkeley
BS in EECS
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning
Nari Johnson
Harvard University
BA and MSc in Computer Science
Advisor: Hoda Heidari
Research Interests: Interpretability/explainability, transparency, robustness, human-AI interaction
Stefani Karp
Princeton University
BSE in Computer Science
Advisor: Aarti Singh
Research Interests:
Chris Ki
UC Berkeley
BA in Computer Science and Molecular Cell Biology: Neurobiology
Advisors: Byron Yu & Matthew Smith
Research Interests: Brain-Computer Interfaces, Dimensionality Reduction, Computational Neuroscience
Neural Computation & Machine Learning Joint PhD Degree
Juyong Kim
Seoul National University
MS in Computer Science and Engineering
BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisors: Pradeep Ravikumar & Jeremy Weiss
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Computer Vision
Daniel Jeong
Columbia University
B.S. in Computer Science
Advisors: Pradeep Ravikumar & Zack Lipton
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning, Robustness, Machine Learning for Healthcare
Jing Yu Koh
Singapore University of Technology and Design
B.E. in Information Systems
Advisor: Deniel Fried & Russ Salakhutdinov
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Multi-modal Learning
Alex Li
University of California, Berkeley
BS, MS in EECS
Advisor: Deepak Pathak
Research Interests: Continual Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Robustness, Optimization
Aakash Lahoti
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
BS in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Albert Gu
Research Interests: Theoretical Machine Learning
Kevin Li
Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.Sc in Computer Science and B.Sc in Biomedical Engineering
Advisors: Albert Gu & Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Deep learning, computer vision, machine learning, robustness, and interpretability
Oscar Li
Duke University
BS in Mathematics; BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Virginia Smith
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Lifelong Learning, Interpretable Machine Learning, Computer Vision
Shanda Li
Peking University
B.Sc in Computer Science
Advisor: Yiming Yang
Research Interests: Machine Learning
Yuchen Li
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S. Statistics and Computer Science, Mathematics
Advisor: Andrej Risteski
Research Interests: Machine learning, natural language processing, and data mining. My long-term goals include improving mathematical understanding of empirical phenomena, and developing principled approaches to modern deep learning applications.
Paul Liang
Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. in Machine Learning, B.S. in Computer Science
Advisors: Louis-Philippe Morency & Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Research Interests: Multimodal Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models
Victoria Lin
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Computational Data Science
Harvard University
BA in Statistics and Molecular & Cellular Biology
Advisors: Louis-Philippe Morency & Eli Ben-Michael
Research Interests: Causal inference, natural language processing
Bingbin Liu
Stanford University
MS in Computer Science
Advisors: Pradeep Ravikumar & Andrej Risteski
Research Interests: Interpretability, representation learning, data efficiency
Terrance Liu
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Steven Wu
Research Interests: privacy-preserving machine learning
Yusha Liu
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Aarti Singh
Research Interests: Sequential decision making; Active learning
Andrew Luo
Massachusettss Institute of TechnologyBS in Computer Science
Advisors: Mike Tarr & Leila Wehbe
Research Interests: Computational neuroscience, 3D generative models, multimodal learning
Neural Computation & Machine Learning Joint PhD Degree
Pratyush Maini
IIT, Dehli
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisors: Zico Kolter & Zack Lipton
Research Interests: Trustworthy Machine Learning
Mahbod Majid
University of Waterloo
MMath in Computer Science
Sharif University of Technology
BSc in Computer Engineering
Advisor: Pradeep Ravikumar
Research Interests: algorithms, theoretical machine learning, sum of squares optimization, differential privacy, high dimensional statistics
Tanya Marwah
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Robotics
Advisors: Zack Lipton & Andrej Risteski
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Optimization
Luca Masserano
Bocconi University
MS in Data Science
Advisors: Ann B. Lee, Barnabás Póczos
Research Interests: Uncertainty Quantification, Simulation-Based Inference, Probabilistic Forecasting, Optimization
Joint PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning
Abhinav Maurya
(On Leave)
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Rahul Telang
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Science, Computational Social Science, Public Policy
Machine Learning & Public Policy Joint PhD Degree
Stephanie Milani
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
BS in Computer Science & BA in Psychology
Advisor: Fei Feng
Research Interests: Sequential decision making, Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement learning
So Yeon (Tiffany) Min
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. & M.Eng. in EECS
Advisors: Ruslan Salakhutdinov & Yonatan Bisk
Research Interests: Deep learning with domain knowledge
Yuki Minai
New York University,
MS of Arts and Science in Psychology, Neuroscience
Advisors: Byron Yu & Matthew Smith
Research Interests: Computational neuroscience, Dimensionality reduction, Control theory
Neural Computation & Machine Learning Joint PhD Degree
Renato Negrinho
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisors: Geoff Gordon & Matt Gormley
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning, Optimization, Natural Language Processing
Ojash Neopane
University of California, San Diego
BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mathematics
Advisor: Aaditya Ramdas & Aarti Singh
Research Interests: Sequential Analysis, Reinforcement Learning
Anh Tuan Nguyen
Hanoi University of Science and Technology
BS in Applied Mathematics and Informatics, School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics
Advisor: Nina Balcan
Research Interests: Distributional Robustness, Robust Optimization
Shahriar Noroozizadeh
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning, MS in Bomedical Engineering
Advisors: George Chen, Jeremy Weiss (NIH)
Research Interests: Machine Learning for Healthcare, Representation Learning, Multimodal Machine Learning, Graphical Models, Decision Making, Reinforcement Learning, ML for Temporal Data, Interpretability
Joint PhD in Machine Learning & Public Policy
Inioluwa Oguntola
MIT
ME & BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Katia Sycara
Research Interests: Deep learning, multimodal learning, computer vision, natural language processing
Motolani Olarinre
New Jersey Institute of Technology
MS in Computational Biology
Advisor: Robert Kass
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning
Tara Pirnia
University of California, Los Angeles
B.S. in Neuroscience
Advisor: Tom Mitchell
Research Interest: Machine learning, signal processing, and neural computation. In particular,
modeling neural mechanism of speech production.
Neural Computation & Machine Learning Joint PhD Degree
Ashwini Pokle
Stanford University
MS in Computer Science
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Multi-task learning, Reinforcement learning, Generative Modelling, 2D Vision
Naveen Raman
University of Maryland
BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Fei Fang
Research Interests: Machine Learning for Social Good
Rattana Pukdee
University of Oxford
Master in Mathematics
Advisors: Nina Balcan & Pradeep Ravikumar
Research Interests: Robustness, Fairness, ML in public policy
Charvi Rastogi
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
B.Tech/M.Tech in Electrical Engineering
Advisors: Nihar Shah, Kenneth Holstein
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning, Learning Theory, Learning from People, Crowdsourcing
Elan Rosenfeld
Carnegie Mellon University
BS in Computer Science, Statistics & Machine Learning
Advisors: Pradeep Ravikumar & Andrej Risteski
Research Interests: Statistical machine learning, computational learning theory, graphical models, neural networks
Dylan Sam
Brown University
BS in Computer Science and Mathematics
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning
Gabriel Sarch
University of Rochester
BS in Biomedical Engineering
Advisors: Katerina Fragkiadaki, Michael Tarr
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Computer and Human Vision, Embodied AI, Computational Neuroscience
Neural Computation & Machine Learning Joint PhD Degree
Robin Schmucker
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
B.Sc. in Informatics
Advisor: Tom Mitchell
Research Interests: learning from time series data, recommendation systems, machine learning for education
Amrith Setlur
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Language Technologies
Advisor: Virginia Smith
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning, Sequential Decision Making
Junhong Shen
UCLA
B.S. in Mathematics of Computation,
Advisor: Ameet Talwalkar
Research Interests: Statistical machine learning with a focus on automation and interpretability
Samuel Sokota
University of Alberta
MS in Computer Science
Swarthmore College
BA in Mathematics
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Game Theory, Online Learning, Optimization
Deying Song
Peking University,
B.S. in Integrated Science
Advisors: Chengcheng Huang & Robert Kass
Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience
Neural Computation & Machine Learning Joint PhD Degree
Xiangchen Song
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science
Advisors: Kun Zhang
Research Interests: Machine Learning and Data Mining
Yuda Song
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Aarti Singh & Drew Bagnell
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning
Jacob Springer
Swarthmore College
BA in Mathematics and Computer Science
Advisor: Aditi Raghunathan
Research Interests: generalization, robustness, machine learning at scale
Ryan Steed
George Washington University
BS in Computational Economics
Advisor: Alessandro Acquisti
Research Interests: privacy & ethics in algorithmic systems
Machine Learning & Public Policy Joint PhD Degree
Fahim Tajwar
Stanford University
BS in Mathematics, MS in Computer Science
Advisor: Russ Salakhutdinov & Jeff Schneider
Research Interests: Deployable machine learning, distribution shift robustness
Brandon Trabucco
UC Berkeley
B.S. in EECS
Advisor: Russ Salakhutdinov
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Probabilistic Models
Che-Ping Tsai
National Taiwan University
BS in Electronic Engineering and Mathematics,
MS in Computer Science
Advisor: Pradeep Ravikumar
Research Interests: Interpretability and Natural language processing
Jacob Tyo
West Virginia University
M.S. & B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Zachary Lipton
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Causal Inferencing, Active Learning
Zixin Wen
University of International Business and Economics in China
B.A. in Financial Mathematics
Advisors: Yuejie Chi & Aarti Singh
Research Interests: Deep Learning Theory
Ezra Winston
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Natural language understanding, representation learning
Khurram Yamin
Georgia Tech
BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Advisors: Bryan Wilder & Edward Kennedy
Research Interests: Causal inference and the development of machine learning algorithms that enhance social good through tackling policy issues.
Tom Yan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS & MEng in EECS
Advisors: Ariel Procaccia & Zack Lipton
Research Interests: Principled approaches to Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Tian Ye
Tsinghua University
B.E. in Computer Science
Advisor: Bhiksha Ramakrishan
Research Interests: Deep learning and representation learning
Rebecca Yu
Johns Hopkins University
BS in Biomedical Engineering & BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Hoda Heidari
Research Interests: deep learning, machine learning for healthcare, robustness and fairness in ML applications, interpretability
Catherine Zeng
Harvard University
MS in Computer Science
B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics
Advisor:
Research Interests:
Currently on Leave of Absence
Lingxiao Zhao
Carnegie Mellon
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisors: Leman Akoglu & Aarti Singh
Research Interests: machine learning on graph
Machine Learning & Public Policy Joint PhD Degree
Chenghui Zhou
McGill University, B.S. in Computer Science
Advisor: Barnabas Poczos
Research Interests: learning from time series data, statistical machine learning, spectral learning