PhD Students
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Ananye Agarwal
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Deepak Pathak
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Robot Learning
![Photo of Gati Aher](../images/bio/students/aher_gati_cropped-min.jpg)
Gati Aher
Olin College of Engineering
BS in Engineering
Advisor: Zack Lipton
Research Interests: ML for sequential decision-making
![Photo of Daman Arora](phd student photos/arora_daman_cropped-min.jpg)
Daman Arora
IIT Delhi
BS.Tech & M.Tech in Computer Science
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Machine Learning
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Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou
University of Thessaly at Volos
BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Advisor: Artur Dubrawski
Research Interests: Pattern Mining, Statistical Machine Learning
![Photo of Christina Baek](../images/bio/students/baek_christina_cropped-min.jpg)
Christina Baek
UC Berkeley
BS and MS in EECS
Advisor: Zico Kolter & Aditi Raghunathan
Research Interests: Generalization, continual learning, robustness
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Anna Bair
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SB & MEng in Computer Science
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Theoretical Machine Learning, Fairness, Complex Systems
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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
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Emily Byun
Brown University
BS in Physics, BA in Computer Science
Advisors: Zack Lipton & Bryan Wilder
Research Interests: Robustness, Fairness, ML for Healthcare
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Selina Carter
Georgetown University
MS in Math and Statistics
Advisor: Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla
Research Interests: Uncertainty quantification, recurrent neural networks, and reinforcement learning
Statistics & Machine Learning PhD Degree
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Lili Chen
University of California, Berkeley
BA in Computer Science
Advisor: Deepak Pathak
Research interests: deep learning, reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning, robotics
![Photo of Valerie Chen](../images/bio/students/chen_valerie-min.jpg)
Valerie Chen
Yale University
BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Ameet Talwalkar
Research interests: Principled approaches to fairness, accountability, and transparency in machine learning
![Photo of Youngseog Chung](../images/bio/students/chung_youngseog_cropped-min.jpg)
Youngseog Chung
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Jeff Schneider
Research Interests: Uncertainty quantification, decision making and control, causal inference
![Photo of Benjamin Chugg](../images/bio/students/chugg_benjamin_cropped-min.jpg)
Ben Chugg
University of Oxford
MSc in Mathematics
Advisor: Aaditya Ramdas
Research Interests: Online learning, sequential decision-making, randomized algorithms
Joint PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning
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Jeremiah Cohen
Princeton University
B.S.E in Computer Science
Advisor: Zico Kolter & Ameet Talwalkar
Research Interests: Machine Learning and Optimization
![Photo of Santiago Cortés Gomez](../images/bio/students/cortez_gomez_santiago-min.jpg)
Santiago Cortés
Universidad de los Andes
BSc Mathematics
Advisor: Bryan Wilder
Research Interests: Machine Learning for Healthcare and Public Health
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Logan Crowl
Carleton College
B.A. in Mathematics & Statistics
Advisor: Daniel Nagin
Research Interests: Machine Learning for Urban Systems (Crime, Transportation, and Education), Model-Based Hypothesis Generation
Machine Learning & Public Policy Joint PhD Degree
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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
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Dongrui Deng
Xi'an Jiaotong University,
BS in Physics
Advisor: Xaq Pitkow
Research Interests: Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning
Computational Neuroscience & Machine Learning Joint PhD Degree
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Don Dennis
Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
B. Tech, Computer Science and EngineeringAdvisor: Virginia Smith
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning, Optimization, Resource Constrained ML
![Photo of Xueying Ding](phd student photos/ding_xueying_cropped-min.jpg)
Xueying Ding
Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. in Machine Learning
Advisor: Leman Akoglu
Research Interests: Anomaly Detection, Representation Learning
Machine Learning & Public Policy Joint PhD Degree
![Photo of Zijun Ding](phd student photos/ding_zijun-min.jpg)
Zijun Ding
Tsinghua University
B.S. in Mathematics & B.A. in Economics
Advisor: Alessandro Acquisti
Research Interests: Economics of AI, Privacy-Preserving ML, Reinforcement Learning
Machine Learning & Public Policy Joint PhD Degree
![Photo of Jin-hong Du](../images/bio/students/du-jin-hong-min.jpg)
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
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Yewen Fan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Kun Zhang
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Learning Theory, Optimization, Recommendation Systems
![Photo of Zhili Feng](../images/bio/students/feng-zhili-800-min.jpg)
Zhili Feng
University of Wisconsin
MS in Computer Science
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Machine Learning Theory
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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
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Théophile Gervet
McGill University
BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Katerina Fragkiadaki
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models
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Tomás González Lara
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
MS in Engineering
BSE in Mathematical Engineering
Advisors: Aaditya Ramdas, Giulia Fanti
Research interests: Optimization, differential privacy and ML theory
![Photo of Gaurav Ghosal](../images/bio/students/ghosal_gaurav_cropped-min.jpg)
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
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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
![Photo of Sachin Goyal](../images/bio/students/goyal_sachin_cropped-min.jpg)
SauSachin Goyal
IIT Bombay
BTech in Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Robustness, Domain Generalization, Out of Distribution detection
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Saumya Goyal
Stanford University
MS in Computer Science
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Machine learning and deep learning theory, and in particular, in working on a guided search for artificially intelligent systems and reasoning for their expected behaviour. That is, using theory to understand the current techniques and motivate the development of new techniques.
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Yuxin Guo
Carnegie Mellon University,
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Pulkit Grover
Research Interests: Brain-Computer Interfaces, Computational Neuroscience, Optimization
Neural Computation & Machine Learning Joint PhD Degree
![Photo of Kartik Gupta](../images/bio/students/gupta-kartik-800-min.jpg)
Kartik Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras
BTech in Computer Science & Engineering
Advisor: Pradeep Ravikumar
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning and Optimization
![Photo of Shantanu Gupta](../images/bio/students/gupta_shantanu_cropped-min.jpg)
Shantanu Gupta
Nanyang Technological University
B.Eng. in Computer Science
Advisors: Zack Lipton & David Childers
Research Interests: Causal inference, sequential decision making
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Ellie Haber
New York University
BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Jian Ma
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Genomics, Spatial Biology, Representation Learning, Machine Learning, Interpretability
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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
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Euxhen Hasanaj
Carnegie Mellon UniversityMS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Ziv Bar-Joseph, Barnabas Poczos
Research Interests: Unsupervised Learning, Genomics, Non-Convex Optimization
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Niki Hasrati
University of WaterlooMaster of Mathematics (MMath) and Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS)
Advisor: Andrej Risteski
Research Interests: Computational learning theory, theoretical computer science
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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
![Photo of Jennifer Hsia](../images/bio/students/hsia_jennifer_cropped-min.jpg)
Jennifer Hsia
Princeton University
B.S.E. in Computer Science
Advisors: Zack Lipton & Aarti Singh
Research Interests: Human-centered machine learning (fairness, interpretability)
![Photo of Shengyuan Hu](../images/bio/students/hu-shengyuan-min.jpg)
Shengyuan Hu
Cornell University
B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics
Advisor: Virginia Smith
Research interests: Federated Learning, Privacy Preserving Machine Learning, Robustness
![Photo of Sukjun Hwang](../images/bio/students/hwang_sukjun-min.jpg)
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
![Photo of Conor Igoe](../images/bio/students/Igoe-Conor-2018-min.jpg)
Conor Igoe
University College Dublin
B.E. in Electronic Engineering
Advisor:Jeff Schneider
Research Interests: Optimization, Algorithmic Game Theory, Bayesian modeling
![Photo of Yiding Jiang](../images/bio/students/jiang_yiding-min.jpg)
Yiding Jiang
UC Berkeley
BS in EECS
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning
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Nari Johnson
Harvard University
BA and MSc in Computer Science
Advisor: Hoda Heidari
Research Interests: Interpretability/explainability, transparency, robustness, human-AI interaction
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Maxwell Jones
Carnegie Mellon University
BS in Artificial Intelligence
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Generative Modeling
![Photo of Stefani Karp](../images/bio/students/karp_stefani_800-min.jpg)
Stefani Karp
Princeton University
BSE in Computer Science
Advisor: Aarti Singh
Research Interests:
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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
![Photo of Juyong Kim](../images/bio/students/kim-juyong-min.jpg)
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
Efe Mert Karagozlu
Bilkent University
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Advisors: TBD
Research Interests: Paradigms beyond supervised learning, uncertainty quantification for deep models, learning theory.
![Photo of Jing Yu Koh](../images/bio/students/koh_jing_yu_cropped-min.jpg)
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
![Photo of Aakash Lahoti](../images/bio/students/lahoti_aakash_cropped-min.jpg)
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
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Lane Lewis
University of Arizona
B.S. in Mathematics and Neuroscience
Advisor: Xaq Pitkow
Research Interests: Brain-inspired machine learning, Neural Networks, Computational Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience & Machine Learning Joint PhD Degree
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Alex Li
University of California, Berkeley
BS, MS in EECS
Advisor: Deepak Pathak
Research Interests: Continual Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Robustness, Optimization
![Photo of Kevin Li](../images/bio/students/li_kevin_f23_cropped-min.jpg)
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
![Photo of Oscar Li](../images/bio/students/li-oscar-800-min.jpg)
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
![Photo of Shanda Li](../images/bio/students/shanda_li_cropped-min.jpg)
Shanda Li
Peking University
B.Sc in Computer Science
Advisor: Yiming Yang
Research Interests: Machine Learning
![Photo of Yuchen Li](../images/bio/students/li-yuchen-min.jpg)
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.
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Isaac Liao
MIT
Master of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science;
Bachelor of Science, double major Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Physics
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Variational Inference, Minimum Description Length, Deep Learning
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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
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Bingbin Liu
Stanford University
MS in Computer Science
Advisors: Pradeep Ravikumar & Andrej Risteski
Research Interests: Interpretability, representation learning, data efficiency
![Photo of Chang Liu](phd student photos/liu_chang-min.png)
Chang Liu
Tsinghua University
BEng. in Computer Science
Advisors: Artur Dubrawski
Research Interests: Machine Learning in Healthcare
![Photo of Grace Liu](phd student photos/liu_grace_cropped-min.jpg)
Grace Liu
Princeton University
M.S.E. in Computer Science
B.S.E. in Computer Science
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Computational Sustainability, AI for Social Good, Reinforcement Learning
![Photo of Terrance Liu](../images/bio/students/liu_terrance_cropped-min.jpg)
Terrance Liu
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Steven Wu
Research Interests: privacy-preserving machine learning
![Photo of Yusha Liu](../images/bio/students/liu-yusha-new-min.jpg)
Yusha Liu
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Aarti Singh
Research Interests: Sequential decision making; Active learning
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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
![Photo of Yingtao Luo](phd student photos/luo_yingtao-min.jpg)
Yingtao Luo
Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyBS in Applied Physics
Advisor: Rema Padman
Research Interests: Sequential Decision-Making, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, ML for Science and Healthcare
Machine Learning & Public Policy Joint PhD Degree
![Photo of Pratyush Maini](../images/bio/students/maini_pratyush-min.jpg)
Pratyush Maini
IIT, Dehli
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisors: Zico Kolter & Zack Lipton
Research Interests: Trustworthy Machine Learning
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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
![Photo of Tanya Marwah](../images/bio/students/marwah-tanya-800-min.jpg)
Tanya Marwah
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Robotics
Advisors: Zack Lipton & Andrej Risteski
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Optimization
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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
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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
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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
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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
![Photo of Yuki Minai](../images/bio/students/minai_yuki-min.jpg)
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
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Kanad Pardeshi
IIT Bombay,
B. Tech. in Computer Science
Advisors: TBD
Research Interests: Statistical ML, ML theory, ML algorithms
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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
![Photo of Ojash Neopane](../images/bio/students/neopane-ojash-min.jpg)
Ojash Neopane
University of California, San Diego
BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mathematics
Advisor: Aaditya Ramdas & Aarti Singh
Research Interests: Sequential Analysis, Reinforcement Learning
![Photo of Anh Tuan Nguyen](../images/bio/students/nguyen_anh_cropped-min.jpg)
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
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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
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Inioluwa Oguntola
MIT
ME & BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Katia Sycara
Research Interests: Deep learning, multimodal learning, computer vision, natural language processing
![Photo of Motolani Olarinre](../images/bio/students/Olarinre-Motolani-2018-min.jpg)
Motolani Olarinre
New Jersey Institute of Technology
MS in Computational Biology
Advisor: Robert Kass
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning
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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
![Photo of Ashwini Pokle](../images/bio/students/pokle-ashwini-800-min.jpg)
Ashwini Pokle
Stanford University
MS in Computer Science
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Multi-task learning, Reinforcement learning, Generative Modelling, 2D Vision
![Photo of Yuxiao Qu](phd student photos/qu_yuxiao_cropped-min.jpg)
Yuxiao Qu
University of Wisconsin-Madison
BS in Computer Science and Mathematics
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Foundation Model Agents
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Naveen Raman
University of Maryland
BS in Computer Science
Advisor: Fei Fang
Research Interests: Machine Learning for Social Good
![Photo of Rattana Pukdee](../images/bio/students/pukdee_rattana_cropped-min.jpg)
Rattana Pukdee
University of Oxford
Master in Mathematics
Advisors: Nina Balcan & Pradeep Ravikumar
Research Interests: Robustness, Fairness, ML in public policy
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Dylan Sam
Brown University
BS in Computer Science and Mathematics
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning
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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
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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
![Photo of Junhong Shen](../images/bio/students/shen_junhong_cropped-min.jpg)
Junhong Shen
UCLA
B.S. in Mathematics of Computation,
Advisor: Ameet Talwalkar
Research Interests: Statistical machine learning with a focus on automation and interpretability
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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
![Photo of Deying Song](../images/bio/students/song_deying-min.jpg)
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
![Photo of Xiangchen Song](../images/bio/students/song_xiangchen_cropped-min.jpg)
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
![Photo of Yuda Song](../images/bio/students/song_yuda_cropped-min.jpg)
Yuda Song
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Aarti Singh & Drew Bagnell
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning
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Jacob Springer
Swarthmore College
BA in Mathematics and Computer Science
Advisor: Aditi Raghunathan
Research Interests: generalization, robustness, machine learning at scale
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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
![Photo of Maitreyi Swaroop](phd student photos/swaroop_maitreyi_cropped-min.jpg)
Maitreyi Swaroop
IIT, Kharagpur
Integrated Master of Science (MSc + BSc Hons.) in Mathematics and Computing
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Causal Machine Learning, Generalization and Robustness
![Photo of Fahim Tajwar](phd student photos/tajwar_fahim_cropped-min.jpg)
Fahim Tajwar
Stanford University
BS in Mathematics, MS in Computer Science
Advisor: Russ Salakhutdinov & Jeff Schneider
Research Interests: Deployable machine learning, distribution shift robustness
![Photo of Brandon Trabucco](../images/bio/students/trabucco_brandon-min.jpg)
Brandon Trabucco
UC Berkeley
B.S. in EECS
Advisor: Russ Salakhutdinov
Research Interests: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Probabilistic Models
![Photo of Che-Ping Tsai](../images/bio/students/tsai_che-ping_800-min.jpg)
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
![Photo of Aravind Venugopa](phd student photos/venugopal_aravind-min1.jpg)
Aravind Venugopal
Carnegie Mellon University,
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning and Multi-Agent systems
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Qiuhong Anna Wei
Brown University
B.S. in Math & Computer Science
Concurrent M.S. in Computer Science
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: TBD
![Photo of Zixin Wen](../images/bio/students/wen_zixin_cropped-min.jpg)
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
![Photo of Ezra Winston](../images/bio/alumni/winston-ezra-800-min.jpg)
Ezra Winston
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Machine Learning
Advisor: Zico Kolter
Research Interests: Natural language understanding, representation learning
![Photo of Stephan Xie](phd student photos/xie_stephan_cropped-min.jpg)
Stephan Xie
University of Pennsylvania
BSE in Computer Science & Mathematical Economics
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Decision-making, reliability, social and scientific impact in ML and deep learning
![Photo of Nuoya Xiong](phd student photos/xiong_nuoya_cropped-min.jpg)
Nuoya Xiong
IIIS Tsinghua University
BS in Computer Science
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Optimization, Reinforcement Learning
![Photo of Khurram Yamin](yamin_khurram_cropped-min.jpg)
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.
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Tom Yan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS & MEng in EECS
Advisors: Ariel Procaccia & Zack Lipton
Research Interests: Principled approaches to Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
![Photo of Tian Ye](../images/bio/students/ye_tian_cropped-min.jpg)
Tian Ye
Tsinghua University
B.E. in Computer Science
Advisor: Bhiksha Ramakrishan
Research Interests: Deep learning and representation learning
![Photo of Jacob Yeung](phd student photos/yeung_jacob.jpeg)
Jacob Yeung
UC Berkeley
B.S. in EECS
Advisor: Michael Tarr
Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience, Computer Vision
Neural Computation & Machine Learning Joint PhD Degree
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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
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Catherine Zeng
Harvard University
MS in Computer Science
B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics
Advisor:
Research Interests:
Currently on Leave of Absence
![Photo of Chenghui Zhou](../images/bio/students/zhou-chenghui-800-min.jpg)
Chenghui Zhou
McGill University, B.S. in Computer Science
Advisor: Barnabas Poczos
Research Interests: learning from time series data, statistical machine learning, spectral learning
![Photo of Wenbin Zhou](phd student photos/zhou_wenbin-min.jpg)
Wenbin Zhou
University of Science and Technology of China
B.S. in Statistics
Advisor: Shixiang Woody Zhu
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning, Decision Making, Uncertainty Quantification
Machine Learning & Public Policy Joint PhD Degree