Faculty
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Shai Ben-David, Adjoint Professor PhD - Hebrew University Bio Research Interests: Span a wide spectrum of topics in the foundations of computer science and its applications, with a particular emphasis on statistical and computational machine learning. The common thread throughout my research is the interplay between mathematical theories and real world problems. |
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Julia Chuzhoy, Associate Professor PhD - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Theoretical computer science, with the main focus on the design and the analysis of approximation algorithms for computationally hard problems, and on proving lower bounds on approximability of such problems. |
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Sanja Fidler, Research Assistant Professor PhD - University of Ljubljana Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning. In particular, she is interested in scalable visual representations of objects and scenes. |
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Lance Fortnow, Adjoint Professor PhD - MIT Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computational complexity and its applications to electronic commerce, quantum computation, bioinformatics, learning theory and cryptography. |
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Kevin Gimpel, Research Assistant Professor PhD - Carnegie Mellon University Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Research Interests: machine translation, statistical natural language processing, structured prediction, computational semantics, and social media analysis. |
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Tamir Hazan, Research Assistant Professor PhD - Hebrew University Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Machine learning and computer vision, recently focusing on graphical models, primal-dual inference algorithms and beliefs propagation. He is also interested in mixture models with various divergence measures, tensor factorization and model selection, and support vector machines. |
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Samory Kpotufe, Research Assistant Professor PhD - University of California, San Diego Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Machine Learning, Nonparametric Statistics. |
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Dahua Lin, Research Assistant Professor PhD - MIT Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computer Vision, Scene Modeling and Understanding, Probabilistic Inference, Bayesian Nonparametrics |
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Karen Livescu, Assistant Professor PhD - MIT Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Speech and language processing, recently focusing on speech recognition. With a particular interest in statistical modeling techniques that can take advantage of both large stores of data and knowledge from linguistics and speech science. |
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Subhransu Maji, Research Assistant Professor PhD - University of California, at Berkeley Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computer Vision and Machine Learning. In particular he is interested in developing scalable learning algorithms and representations for visual recognition. |
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Yury Makarychev, Assistant Professor PhD - Princeton University Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Theoretical computer science including combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, semi-definite programming, unique games, low-distortion metric embeddings, and lift-and-project methods. |
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David McAllester, Professor, Dean, and Chief Academic Officer PhD - MIT Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Machine learning theory, the theory of programming languages, automated reasoning, AI planning, computer game playing (computer chess), computational linguistics and computer vision. |
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Benjamin Moseley, Research Assistant Professor PhD - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Algorithms, Online algorithms, Approximation algorithms, Scheduling, Large data analysis, Parallel computing and Algorithmic applications |
| Seiichi Mita, Adjoint Professor PhD - Kyoto University Bio Research Interests: Digital signal processing for recording and communication channels and machine learning applications for vehicle environment recognition. |
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Francesco Orabona, Research Assistant Professor
PhD - University of Naples Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Theoretically motivated and efficient learning algorithms, with emphasis on online learning, kernel methods, and computer vision. |
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Alexander Razborov, Adjoint Professor PhD - Steklov Mathematical Institute Bio Research Interests: Complexity theory, and he is specifically interested in circuit complexity, proof complexity, quantum computations and communication complexity. |
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Anand Sarwate, Research Assistant Professor PhD - University of California, Berkeley Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Information theory, privacy, distributed signal processing, inference, medical informatics, social networks |
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Yutaka Sasaki, Adjoint Professor PhD - University of Tsukuba Bio Research Interests: Machine learning and its application to Natural Language Processing and biomedical informatics. Recent research interests include Order-Sorted Inductive Logic Programming and massively-parallel machine learning and their application to biomedical Text Mining. |
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Greg Shakhnarovich, Assistant Professor PhD - MIT Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computational vision and machine learning. His current research is focused on automatic understanding of visual scenes, including recovery of three-dimensional structure and detection and categorization of objects. He is also generally interested in similarity-based, supervised and semi-supervised statistical learning methods. |
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Yang Shen, Research Assistant Professor PhD - Boston University Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computational molecular and systems biology, including protein docking, protein engineering, drug design, and dynamics and control of biomolecular networks. |
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Nathan Srebro, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies PhD - MIT Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Statistical and computational aspects of machine learning, and the interaction between them: statistical learning theory, probabilistic modeling, optimization. Applications in computational biology, text analysis and collaborative filtering. |
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Madhur Tulsiani, Assistant Professor PhD - University of California, Berkeley Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Complexity Theory, Approximation Algorithms and Hardness of Approximation, Convex Optimization, Pseudorandomness, Arithmetic Combinatorics |
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Raquel Urtasun, Assistant Professor PhD - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Machine learning, computer vision and computer graphics. She is particularly interested in non-parametric Bayesian statistical methods, latent variable models, and their application to human motion analysis, tracking, visual scene understanding, behavior analysis and biology. |
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Jinbo Xu, Associate Professor PhD - University of Waterloo Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computational biology and bioinformatics including homology search, protein structure prediction, and protein interaction prediction. |
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Or Zuk, Visiting Assistant Professor PhD - Weizmann Institute of Science Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computational Biology, Machine Learning, Genomics, Statistical Genetics, Graphical Models, Sparsity |