Carnegie Mellon University
Alumni

Andrew Arnold

Andrew Arnold

Machine Learning, Google A.I.

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2007

Pranjal Awasthi

Pranjal Awasthi

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Rutgers University

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Will Bishop

Will Bishop

Theory Fellow, HHMI Janelia Research Campus

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2015 (Special Track in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition)
MS in Machine Learning, 2013

Byron Boots

Byron Boots

Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech, School of Interactive Computing and the Institute for Robotics & Intelligent Machines

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2009

Joseph Bradley

Joseph Bradley

Software Engineer, Databricks

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2009

Brent Bryan

Brent Bryan

Head of Measurement Engineering, Google

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2006

Andy Carlson

Andy Carlson

Engineering Manager III, Google, Pittsburgh

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Machine Learning, 2008

Lucia Castellanos

Lucia Castellanos

Applied Research Scientist, Amazon

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Hao Cen

Hao Cen

Research Associate

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2007

Deepayan Chakrabarti

Deepayan Chakrabarti

Assistant Professor, IROM, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin

Bio

PhD in Computational & Statistical Learning, 2005
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2002

Duen Chau

Duen Horng (Polo) Chau

Associate Professor, Georgia Tech, School of Computational Science & Engineering

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Xi Chen

Xi Chen

Assistant Professor, New York University, Stern School of Business

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Benjamin Cowley

Benjamin Cowley

PostDoc, Princeton University

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2015

Wei (David) Dai

Wei (David) Dai

Machine Learning Engineer, Apple

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Kaustav Das

Kaustav Das

Senior Research Software Development Engineer, Microsoft

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2006

Carl Doersch

Carl Doersch

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2016
MS in Machine Learning, 2013

Kirstin Early

Kirstin Early

Research Scientist, Yahoo!

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MA in Machine Learning, 2015

Jason Ernst

Jason Ernst

Associate Professor, UCLA, Dept. of Biological Chemistry

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2008
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2005

Robert Fisher

Robert Fisher

Machine Learning Platform Engineer, Apple

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2016
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Madalina Fiterau-Brostean

Madalina Fiterau-Brostean

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, College of Information and Computer Sciences

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2015MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Seth Flaxman

Seth Flaxman

Lecturer, Imperial College London, Dept. of Mathematics

Bio

Joint PhD in Machine Learning & Public Policy, 2015

Alona Fyshe

Alona Fyshe

Assistant Professor, University of Alberta

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
(Special Track in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition)
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Anna Goldenberg

Anna Goldenberg

Scientist, SickKids Research Institute, Genetics and Genome Biology program

Bio

PhD in Computational & Statistical Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2001

Joseph Gonzalez

Joseph Gonzalez

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Rob Hall

Rob Hall

Sr. Software Engineer, TripAdvisor

Bio

Joint PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Stephen Hanneke

Stephen Hanneke

Independent Scientist

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2008

Jingrui He

Jingrui He

Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Machine Learning, 2008

Ahmed Hefny

Ahmed Hefny

Software Engineer, Waymo

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2015

Qirong Ho

Qirong Ho

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Petuum, Inc.

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2014
MS in Machine Learning, 2002

Jisu Kim

Jisu Kim

PostDoc, Inria Datashape

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Statistics, 2014

Tzu-Kuo Huang

Tzu-Kuo Huang

Senior Engineer, Uber

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Sashank  Jakkam Reddi

Sashank Jakkam Reddi

Research Scientist, Google

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Kirthevasan Kandasamy

Kirthevasan Kandasamy

PostDoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Mladen Kolar

Mladen Kolar

Associate Professor of Econometrics & Statistics, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business/Research Fellow at Simons Institute, UC Berkeley

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Leonid Kontorovich

Leonid Kontorovich

Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Bio

PhD in Computational & Statistical Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2006

Zhenzhen Kou

Zhenzhen Kou

Software Engineer, Google

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2004

Shing-hon Lau

Shing-hon Lau

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, Carnegie Mellon University, SEI

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Edith Law

Edith Law

Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, School of Computer Science

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Hai-Son Le

Hai-Son Le

Vice President, Proprietary Trading Firm

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Wooyoung Lee

Wooyoung Lee

Software Engineer, Bloomberg

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2014
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Jurij Leskovec

Jurij Leskovec

Associate Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2008
MS in Machine Learning, 2007

Han Liu

Han Liu

Assistant Professor, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University

Bio

Joint PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Statistics, 2007

Yucheng Low

Yucheng Low

Engineer, Apple

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Yifei Ma

Yifei Ma

Applied Scientist, Amazon Corporate LLC

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2013

Mary McGlohon

Mary McGlohon

Software Engineer, Google, Pittsburgh

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Machine Learning, 2008

George Montañez

George Montañez

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2015

Brendan O'Connor

Brendan O'Connor

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2014
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Junier Oliva

Junier Oliva

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Computer Science, 2012

Ankur Parikh

Ankur Parikh

Research Scientist, Google, NY

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Nicole Rafidi

Nicole Rafidi

Data Scientist, Uber

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

Joint PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Aaditya Ramdas

Aaditya Ramdas

Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
MS in Machine Learning, 2013

Pradeep Ravikumar

Pradeep Ravikumar

Associate Professor, Machine Learning

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2005

Prashant Reddy

Prashant Reddy

Managing Director, AI Research, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Purnamrita Sarkar

Purnamrita Sarkar

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Machine Learning, 2006

James Sharpnack

James Sharpnack

Assistant Professor, Statistics, UC Davis

Bio

Joint PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Statistics, 2008

Benjamin Shih

Benjamin Shih

Postdoctoral Fellow, UC, San Diego

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2011
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Suyash Shringarpure

Suyash Shringarpure

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, School of Medicine

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Ricardo Silva

Ricardo Silva

Lecturer, Dept. of Statistical Science, University College London

Bio

PhD in Computational & Statistical Learning, 2005
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2002

Ajit Singh

Ajit Singh

Senior Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2006

Shashank Srivastava

Shashank Srivastava

AI Resident, Microsoft Research

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Language Technologies, 2014

Hanghang Tong

Hanghang Tong

Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, Computer Science Department

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Machine Learning, 2008

Felipe Trevizan

Felipe Trevizan

Assistant Professor, National Australian University

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Yu-Xiang Wang

Yu-Xiang Wang

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara, Computer Science Department

Bio

Joint PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Leila Wehbe

Leila Wehbe

Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Machine Learning

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Matthew Wytock

Matthew Wytock

Founder & CEO, Gridmatic Inc.

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2016
MS in Machine Learning, 2014

Guangyu Xia

Guangyu (Gus) Xia

Assistant Professor, NYU, Shanghai

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2016
MS in Machine Learning, 2013

Jing Xiang

Jing Xiang

Data Scientist, GRAIL, Inc.

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2014

Pengtao Xie

Pengtao Xie

Sr. Director of Data Solutions and Service, Petuum Inc.

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Language Technologies, 2015

Liang Xiong

Liang Xiong

Research Manager, Facebook

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Min Xu

Min Xu

PostDoc, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Statistics

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Yang Xu

Yang Xu

PostDoc Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics, U.C. Berkeley

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Enxu Yan

Enxu Yan

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Liu Yang

Liu Yang

PostDoc, Yale University, School of Engineering & Applied Science

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Ying Yang

Ying Yang

Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Oculus, Facebook

Bio

PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Manzil Zaheer

Manzil Zaheer

Research Scientist, Google, Inc. Mountain View

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Yi Zhang

Yi Zhang

Quantitative Researcher,Citadel LLC

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2009

Bin Zhao

Bin Zhao

Entrepreneur, Startup company

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2014
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Pengcheng Zhou

Pengcheng Zhou

PostDoct, Columbia University

Bio

PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2016

Brian Ziebart

Brian Ziebart

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Computer Science

Bio

PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2007