PhD Alumni
The ordering on this page is randomized (as opposed to ordering alphabetically). Read more about biases due to alphabetical ordering.
Nil-Jana Akpinar
PostDoctoral Scientist, Amazon Web Services
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2023
Arish Alreja
PostDoc, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2024
Alnur Ali
Head of Machine Learning & Statistics, Sisu Data
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2017
Siddharth Ancha
PostDoctoral Researcher, MIT CSAIL
PhD in Machine Learning, 2022
Andrew Arnold
Principal Applied Machine Learning Engineer, Shopify
PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2007
Pranjal Awasthi
Research Scientist, Google
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011
Shaojie Bai
Member of Technical Staff, Thinking Machines Lab
PhD in Machine Learning, 2022
MS in Machine Learning-Research, 2021
Will Bishop
Senior Software Engineer, Google Research NY
PhD in Machine Learning, 2015 (Special Track in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition)
MS in Machine Learning, 2013
Byron Boots
Amazon Professor of Machine Learning, 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
Principal ML Product Specialist, Databricks
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2009
Brent Bryan
Software Engineer, Google
PhD in Machine Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2006
Sebastian Caldas
Machine Learning Engineer, Google
PhD in Machine Learning, 2023
Dallas Card
Assistant Professor of Information, University of Michigan, School of Information
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2015
Andy Carlson
Senior Engineering Director, Google, Pittsburgh
PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Machine Learning, 2008
Lucia Castellanos
Applied Science and Engineering Leader, Amazon
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2010
Hao (Jeff) Cen
Quantitative Trader (Director), B2C2
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
Cristian Challu
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Nixtla
PhD in Machine Learning, 2024
Devendra Chaplot
Member of Technical Staff, Thinking Machines Lab
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Language Technologies, 2017
Ian Char
Machine Learning Scientist, Lila Sciences
PhD in Machine Learning, 2024
Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Director of Industry Relations, The Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS)
PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2010
Xi Chen
Andre Meyer Professor at Stern School of Business, New York University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011
Yu Chen
Research Analyst, Cubist Systematic Strategies
PhD in Neural Computation and Machine Learning, 2021
YJ Choe
Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, INSEAD
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2023
MS in Machine Learning, 2017
Jeremy Cohen
Flatiron Institute, Flatiron Research Fellow
PhD in Machine Learning, 2024
Amanda Coston
Assistant Professor in Statistics, UC Berkeley, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
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, Stealth Startup
PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016
Kaustav Das
Head of ML Engineering, Atlassian
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
Carlton Downey
Staff Research Scientist, Waymo
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2016
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
Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Co-Founder, Head of AI, Run LLM
PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2011
Kartik Gupta
Sr. Applied Machine Learning Researcher, Legion (formerly Yurts)
PhD in Machine Learning, 2024
Kin Gutierrez Olivares
Co-Founder, Nixtla
PhD in Machine Learning, 2023
Rob Hall
Staff Machine Learning Engineer,
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
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
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2020
William Herlands
Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer, Fondue
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
Hanzhang Hu
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Aurora
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2017
Zhiting Hu
Assistant Professor, UC, San Diego
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Language Technologies, 2016
Tzu-Kuo Huang
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, Pittsburgh
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011
Maria Jahja
Staff Scientist, Latitude AI
PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning, 2022
MS in Statistics, 2019
Sashank Jakkam Reddi
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google
PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016
Kirthevasan Kandasamy
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Dynamo AI
PhD in Machine Learning, 2023
Kwangho Kim
Assistant Professor, Korea University
Founder, CausaLai
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
Professor, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, Department of Data Sciences and Operations
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
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
Associate Professor, University of Waterloo, School of Computer Science
PhD in Machine Learning, 2012
MS in Machine Learning, 2010
Lisa Lee
Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2018
Wooyoung Lee
Marketing Data Scientist, Google
PhD in Machine Learning, 2014
MS in Machine Learning, 2012
Jurij Leskovec
Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2008
MS in Machine Learning, 2007
Chun-Liang Li
Staff Research Scientist, Apple
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2017
Yuanning Li
Assistant Professor, ShanghaiTech University, School of Biomedical Engineering
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2018
Bingbin Liu
Research Fellow, Kempner Institute, Harvard University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2024
Han Liu
Professor, Northwestern University, McCormick School of Engineering
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
Senior Software Algorithms Engineer, TDK
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2023
Andrew Luo
Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2024
Yifei Ma
Applied Scientist, Amazon Corporate LLC
PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2013
Micol Marchetti-Bowick
Principal Software Engineer, Aurora
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
Tanya Marwah
Research Fellow working on AI for Scientific Discovery and Foundation Models for Science @ Polymathic AI and Flatiron Institute
PhD in Machine Learning, 2025
Calvin McCarter
Senior ML Scientist, BigHat Biosciences
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2018
Mary McGlohon
Machine Learning Engineer, Center for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM)
PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Machine Learning, 2008
George Montañez
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College
PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2015
Calvin Murdock
Research Scientist, Reality Labs Research at Meta
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2018
Willie Neiswanger
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Southern California (USC Viterbi)
PhD in Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Machine Learning, 2016
Ritesh Noothigattu
Applied Scientist, Uber
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
Motolani Olarinre
Unknown
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2025
Junier Oliva
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Computer Science, 2012
Josue Orellana
Machine Learning Engineer, State Farm
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2019
Biswajit Paria
Machine Learning Engineer, Google
PhD in Machine Learning, 2022
MS in Machine Learning, 2020
Ankur Parikh
Staff Research Scientist, Google
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
Tara Pirnia
Medical Student, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2024
Anthony Platanios
VP of Research, Scaled Cognition
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2015
Aleksandr (Sasha) Podkopaev
Senior Data Scientist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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 DeepMind
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Machine Learning, 2016
Aaditya Ramdas
Tenured Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics
PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
MS in Machine Learning, 2013
Charvi Rastogi
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
PhD in Machine Learning, 2024
Pradeep Ravikumar
Professor, Machine Learning
PhD in Machine Learning, 2007
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2005
Prashant Reddy
Co-Founder & CEO, Artian AI
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2012
Aaron Rumack
Data Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
PhD in Machine Learning, 2023
Veeranjaneyulu Sadhanala
Research Scientist, Google
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
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2022
MS in Machine Learning, 2017
Purnamrita Sarkar
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Machine Learning, 2006
Robin Schmucker
Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University & UC Berkeley
PhD in Machine Learning, 2024
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
Principal Engineer & Senior Director, Rippling
PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2006
Shashank Singh
Software Engineer, Meta
PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning, 2019
MS in Mathematical Sciences, 2014
Michael Spece-Ibanez
AVP, Lead Data Scientist, Chubb
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, Apple
PhD in Machine Learning, 2023
Mariya Toneva
Tenure-track Faculty, Max Plank Institute for Software Systems
PhD in Neural Computation and Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2018
Hanghang Tong
Professor & University Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science
PhD in Machine Learning, 2009
MS in Machine Learning, 2008
Nicholay Topin
Founder, (AI Startup)
PhD in Machine Learning, 2022
MS in Machine Learning, 2020
Felipe Trevizan
Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011
Yao-Hung (Hubert) Tsai
Co-Founder & CTO, Cheehoo
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2018
Hsiao-Yu Tung
Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
PhD in Machine Learning, 2021
MS in Machine Learning, 2015
Akash Umakantha
Senior Software Engineer II, HubSpot
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
Associate Professor, UC San Diego, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Department of Computer Science and Engineering
PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016
Leila Wehbe
Associate 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
Shenghao Wu
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2023
Yifan Wu
Research Developer, Headlands Technologies
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
Associate Professor in Machine Learning, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
PhD in Machine Learning, 2016
MS in Machine Learning, 2013
Jing Xiang
Staff Bioinformatics Scientist, GRAIL, Inc.
PhD in Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2014
Qizhe Xie
Research Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
PhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Language Technologies,2018
Pengtao Xie
Associate Professor, University of California San Diego, Electrical and Computer Engineering
PhD in Machine Learning, 2018
MS in Language Technologies, 2015
Liang Xiong
Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011
Min Xu
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
PhD in Machine Learning, 2015
MS in Machine Learning, 2012
Yang Xu
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Cognitive Science Program, University of Toronto
PhD in Machine Learning, 2013
MS in Machine Learning, 2011
Yichong Xu
Research Scientist, Google DeepMindPhD in Machine Learning, 2020
MS in Machine Learning, 2019
Enxu Yen
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Moffett System Inc.
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, Reality Labs, Meta
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2017
MS in Machine Learning, 2016
Adams Wei Yu
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
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 of Computer Science, 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
Group Chief AI Scientist & VP of Digital Surgery, Genesis Medtech Group
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
Lingxiao Zhao
AI Scientist, Mistral AI
PhD in Machine Learning & Public Policy, 2024
Helen Zhou
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Apple
PhD in Machine Learning, 2023
Pengcheng Zhou
Assistant Professor & Associate Investigator, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences
PhD in Neural Computation & Machine Learning, 2016
Brian Ziebart
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Computer Science
PhD in Machine Learning, 2010
MS in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2007
