PhD Alumni
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Alnur Ali
Head of Machine Learning & Statistics, SISU
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Siddharth Ancha
PostDoc, MIT CSAIL
PhD in Machine Learning, 2022

Andrew Arnold
Chief Scientist, Delphia
PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2007

Pranjal Awasthi
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Rutgers University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Shaojie Bai
Research Scientist, Meta
PhD in Machine Learning, 2022
MS in Machine Learning-Research, 2021

Will Bishop
Theory Fellow, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
PhD in Machine Learning, 2015 (Special Track in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition)
MS in Machine Learning, 2013

Byron Boots
Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington
PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2009

Joseph Bradley
Solutions Architect, Databricks
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2009

Brent Bryan
Head of Measurement Engineering, Google
PhD in Machine Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2006

Sebastian Caldas
Teaching Faculty, Princeton University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2023

Dallas Card
PostDoc, Stanford University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2015

Andy Carlson
Engineering Director, Google, Pittsburgh
PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Machine Learning, 2008

Lucia Castellanos
Applied Research Scientist, Amazon
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Hao (Jeff) Cen
Quantitative Portfolio Manager, Amber Group
PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2007

Deepayan Chakrabarti
Associate Professor, IROM, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin
PhD in Computational & Statistical Learning, 2005
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2002

Devendra Chaplot
Research Scientist, Mistral AI
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Language Technologies, 2017

Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
Associate Professor, Georgia Tech, School of Computational Science & Engineering
PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Xi Chen
Professor, New York University, Stern School of Business
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Yu Chen
AI/ML Researcher, Morgan Stanley
PhD in Neural Computation and Machine Learning, 2021

Amanda Coston
Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistics and Machine Learning, Microsoft Research
PhD in Machine Learning & Public Policy, 2023

Benjamin Cowley
Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2015

Wei (David) Dai
Machine Learning Engineer, Apple
PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Kaustav Das
Senior Research Software Development Engineer, Microsoft
PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2006

Maria De Arteaga Gonzalez
Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin
PhD in Machine Learning & Public Policy, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Carl Doersch
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
PhD in Machine Learning, 2016
MS in Machine Learning, 2013

Simon Du
Assistant Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Kumar Avinava Dubey
Research Scientist, Google
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Kirstin Early
Senior Research Scientist, Yahoo!
PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MA in Machine Learning, 2015

Jason Ernst
Professor, UCLA, Depts. of Biological Chemistry, Computer Science, and Computational Medicine
PhD in Machine Learning, 2008
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2005

Robert Fisher
Machine Learning Platform Engineer, Apple
PhD in Machine Learning, 2016
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Madalina Fiterau-Brostean
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, College of Information and Computer Sciences
PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Dylan Fitzpatrick
Research Director (Machine Learning) Crime & Education Labs, University of Chicago Urban Labs
PhD in Machine Learning & Public Policy, 2020
MS in Computer Science, 2014

Seth Flaxman
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Joint PhD in Machine Learning & Public Policy, 2015

Alona Fyshe
Associate Professor, University of Alberta
Member of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
(Special Track in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition)
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Anna Goldenberg
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Univ. of Toronto
Varma Family Chair in AI & Biomedical Informatics, SickKids
CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute
PhD in Computational & Statistical Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2001

Joseph Gonzalez
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Kin Gutierrez Olivares
TBD
PhD in Machine Learning, 2023

Rob Hall
Machine Learning Engineer, Faire
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Stephen Hanneke
Assistant Professor
Purdue University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2008

Jingrui He
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences
PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Machine Learning, 2008

Yotam Hechtlinger
Founder and CEO, Exists
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Ahmed Hefny
Applied Research Scientist, Cruise
PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2015

Jay Hennig
PostDoc at Harvard
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2020

William Herlands
Chief Technical Officer, Obsecure
PhD in Machine Learning & Public Policy, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Qirong Ho
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Petuum, Inc.
Assistant Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
PhD in Machine Learning, 2014
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Zhiting Hu
Assistant Professor, UC, San Diego
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Language Technologies, 2016

Tzu-Kuo Huang
Research Scientist, Google Brain, Pittsburgh
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Maria Jahja
Senior Software Engineer, Argo AI
PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning, 2022
MS in Statistics, 2019

Sashank Jakkam Reddi
Research Scientist, Google
PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Kirthevasan Kandasamy
Postdoctoral Scholar, EECS, UC Berkeley
PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Jisu Kim
Non Permanent Researcher, Datashape, INRIA Saclay
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Statistics, 2014

Joon Sik Kim
TBD
PhD in Machine Learning, 2023

Kwhangho Kim
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Harvard Medical School
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Natalie Klein
Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Statistics, 2019

Mladen Kolar
Associate Professor of Econometrics & Statistics, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Aryeh Kontorovich
Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
PhD in Computational & Statistical Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2006

Zhenzhen Kou
Software Engineer, WeRide.ai
PhD in Machine Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2004

Shing-hon Lau
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, Carnegie Mellon University, SEI
PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Edith Law
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, School of Computer Science
PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Hai-Son Le
Research Developer, Headlands Technologies LLC
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Jurij Leskovec
Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2008
MS in Machine Learning, 2007

Liam Li
Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer, Determined AI
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Yuanning Li
Assistant Professor, ShanghaiTech University, School of Biomedical Engineering
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2018

Chieh Lin
Google, Machine Learning Engineer
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Han Liu
Associate Professor, Northwestern University
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Statistics, 2007

Natalia Lombardi
Data Scientist, Google
Joint PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2022
MS in Statistics, 2022

Darby Losey
TBD
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2023

Yifei Ma
Applied Scientist, Amazon Corporate LLC
PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2013

Micol Marchetti-Bowick
Machine Learning Engineer, Uber ATC
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Kenneth Marino
Research Scientist, DeepMind
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Calvin McCarter
Applied Scientist, Amazon Alexa
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Mary McGlohon
Software Engineer, Google, Zurich
PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Machine Learning, 2008

George Montañez
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College
PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2015

Calvin Murdock
Research Scientist, Facebook Reality Labs
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Willie Neiswanger
PostDoc, Stanford University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Ritesh Noothigattu
Algorithm Developer, Hudson River Trading
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2019

Brendan O'Connor
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, College of Information and Computer Sciences
PhD in Machine Learning, 2014
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Junier Oliva
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Computer Science, 2012

Ankur Parikh
Senior Research Scientist, Google, NY
PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Emilio Parisotto
Unknown
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Pratik Patil
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2022
MS in Machine Learning, 2019

Anthony Platanios
Principal Researcher, Semantic Machines (Microsoft)
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2015

Aleksandr (Sasha) Podkopaev
Senior Data Scientist, Walmart Global Tech
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2023

Collin Politsch
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge, Kavli Institute for Cosmology and the Institute of Astronomy.PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Adarsh Prasad
Researcher, Quantitative Trading Firm
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Nicole Rafidi
Software Engineer, Google, NY
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Aaditya Ramdas
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics
PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
MS in Machine Learning, 2013

Pradeep Ravikumar
Associate Professor, Machine Learning
PhD in Machine Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2005

Prashant Reddy
Managing Director, AI Research, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Aaron Rumack
Unknown
PhD in Machine Learning, 2023

Veeranjaneyulu Sadhanala
PostDoc, Chicago Booth School of Business
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Mrinmaya Sachan
Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich, Department of Computer Science
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Language Technologies, 2014

Abulhair Saparov
NYU Center for Data SciencePhD in Machine Learning, 2022
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Purnamrita Sarkar
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Machine Learning, 2006

James Sharpnack
Staff AI Research Scientist, Duolingo
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Statistics, 2008

Shubhranshu Shekhar
Assistant Professor of Data Science, Brandeis University
PhD in Machine Learning & Public Policy, 2023

Suyash Shringarpure
Senior Scientist, 23andMe
PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Ricardo Silva
Professor of Statistical Machine Learning and Data Science, University College London
PhD in Computational & Statistical Learning, 2005
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2002

Ajit Singh
Senior Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2006

Shashank Singh
Software Engineer, Google
PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Mathematical Sciences, 2014

Michael Spece-Ibanez
Unknown
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2018

Neil Spencer
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Statistics
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2020

Shashank Srivastava
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Language Technologies, 2014

Ivan Stelmakh
Assistant Professor, New Economic School
PhD in Machine Learning, 2022

Arun Sai Suggala
Research Scientist, Google AI
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021

Haitian Sun
Research Scientist, Google
PhD in Machine Learning, 2023

Mariya Toneva
Faculty, Max Plank Institute for Software Systems
PhD in Neural Computation and Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Hanghang Tong
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science
PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Machine Learning, 2008

Nicholay Topin
Chief of Machine Learning, Inpleo
PhD in Machine Learning, 2022
MS in Machine Learning, 2020

Felipe Trevizan
Assistant Professor, National Australian University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011
Yao-Hung (Hubert) Tsai
Employer: Apple, Inc. Applied Research Scientist
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Hsiao-Yu Tung
PostDoctoral Associate, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2015
Akash Umakantha
Aurora Innovation, Senior Software Engineer
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2021

Maxwell Wang
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Medical Student
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2023

Yining Wang
Associate Professor, Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Aria Yuan Wang
Research Scientist, National Institute of Mental Health
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2023

Yu-Xiang Wang
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara, Computer Science Department
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Leila Wehbe
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Machine Learning
PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Ryan Williamson
University of Pittsburgh, Medical Student
PhD in Neural Computation and Machine Learning, 2020

Eric Wong
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2019

Yifan Wu
Two Sigma
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2020

Matthew Wytock
Founder & CEO, Gridmatic Inc.
PhD in Machine Learning, 2016
MS in Machine Learning, 2014

Guangyu (Gus) Xia
Assistant Professor in Machine Learning, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
PhD in Machine Learning, 2016
MS in Machine Learning, 2013

Qizhe Xie
National University of Singapore, Research Assistant Professor
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Language Technologies,2018

Pengtao Xie
Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego, Electrical and Computer Engineering
PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Language Technologies, 2015

Min Xu
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
MS in Machine Learning, 2012

Yang Xu
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Cognitive Science Program
University of Toronto
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Enxu Yen
Chief Scientist & Co-Founder, Moffett AI
PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Liu Yang
Unknown
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2010

Ying Yang
Research Scientist, Facebook Reality Labs
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Adams Wei Yu
Research Scientist, Google Brain
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Language Technologies, 2015

Manzil Zaheer
Research Scientist, Google
PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2016

Hongyang Zhang
Assistant Professor at University of WaterlooPhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2018

Qiong Zhang
Assistant Professor, Rutguers University, Psychology Dept. & Computer Science Dept.
PhD in Neural Computation and Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2014

Yi Zhang
Head of High Frequency Trading, Engineers Gate
PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2009

Bin Zhao
Entrepreneur, Startup company
PhD in Machine Learning, 2014
MS in Machine Learning, 2011

Han Zhao
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2017

Pengcheng Zhou
Associate Investigator, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2016

Brian Ziebart
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Computer Science
PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2007