Faculty Alumni

Brian Bullins

TTIC from 2019-2022

Research Interests: Higher-order methods for machine learning, convex and non-convex optimization, online learning.

Affiliation as of 2022: Assistant Profressor, Purdue University, Department of Computer Science

Saeed Seddighin

TTIC from 2020-2022

Research Interests: Approximation algorithms and algorithmic game theory.

Affiliation as of 2022: Jump Trading

Bradly Stadie

TTIC from 2020-2022

Research Interests: Reinforcement learning, learning from demonstrations, meta learning, causal inference.

Affiliation as of 2022: Assistant Professor at Northwestern, Department of Statistics and Data Science

Raymond A. Yeh

TTIC from 2021-2022

Research Interests: Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2022: Assistant Profressor, Purdue University, Department of Computer Science

Michael Yu

TTIC from 2018-2022

Research Interests: Computational biology, with a focus on interpretable machine learning methods based on biological networks and ontologies. Applications to cancer-microbiome interactions and clinical datasets.

Affiliation as of 2022: Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon

Audrey Sedal

TTIC from 2020-2021

Research Interests: Soft robotics, computational mechanics.

Affiliation as of 2021: Assistant Professor, McGill University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Filip Hanzely

TTIC from 2020-2021

Research Interests: Randomized optimization methods for machine learning

Mina Karzand

TTIC from 2020-2021

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Information Theory, Statistics, Theoretical Computer Science, and Applied Probability Theory.

Affiliation as of 2021: Assistant Professor, UC Davis

Arturs Backurs

TTIC from 2018-2021

Research Interests: Fine-grained complexity and machine learning

Affiliation as of 2021: Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research

Steve Hanneke

TTIC from 2018-2021

Research Interests: Statistical learning theory, active and interactive learning

Affiliation as of 2021: Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Sepideh Mahabadi

TTIC from 2018-2021

Research Interests: Theoretical Foundations of Massive Data

Affiliation as of 2021: Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research

Thatchaphol Saranurak

TTIC from 2018-2020

Research Interests: Dynamic data structures on graphs, Graph algorithms in near-linear and sub-linear time, Self-adjusting data structures.

Affiliation as of 2021: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Sam Wiseman

TTIC from 2018-2021

Research Interests: Natural language processing and machine learning, especially deep structured prediction and text generation.

Affiliation as of 2021: Assistant Professor, Duke

Mrinmaya Sachan

TTIC from 2019-2020

Research Interests: Machine learning for natural language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning.

Affiliation as of 2020: Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich

D.J. Sutherland

TTIC from 2019-2020

Research Interests: Machine learning, representation learning, statistical learning theory.

Affiliation as of 2020: Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Suriya Gunasekar

TTIC from 2016-2019

Research Interests: Machine learning in high dimensional settings

Affiliation as of 2019: Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research at Remond

Mark Hallen

TTIC from 2016-2019

Research Interests: Computational protein and drug design

Affiliation as of 2019: Chief Technology Officer at Gavilan Biodesign

Mesrob Ohannessian

TTIC from 2016-2019

Research Interests: Machine learning, statistics, and information theory.

Affiliation as of 2019: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Karl Stratos

TTIC from 2017-2019

Research Interests: Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2019: Assistant Professor, Rutgers University

Aly Azeem Khan

TTIC from 2014-2019

Research Interests: Computational biology, systems immunology, and machine learning

Affiliation as of 2022: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Allyson Ettinger

TTIC from 2018-2019

Research Interests: Natural language processing and cognitive modeling

Affiliation as of 2019: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Srinadh Bhojanapalli

TTIC from 2015 to 2018

Research Interests: Machine Learning and Optimization

Affiliation as of 2018: Google Research NYC

Li-Yang Tan

TTIC from 2015 to 2018

Research Interests: Theoretical computer science

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Stanford

Michael Maire

TTIC from 2014 to 2018

Research Interests: Computer vision and machine learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Liang Lu

TTIC from 2016 to 2017

Research Interests: Deep learning for speech and language processing

Affiliation as of 2018: Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft

Dan Garber

TTIC from 2016 to 2017

Research Interests: Machine Learning and Continuous Optimization

Affiliation as of 2018: Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Huy Le Nguyen

TTIC from 2015 to 2016

Research Interests: Algorithms

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Northeastern University

Hammad Naveed

TTIC from 2014 to 2017

Research Interests: Computational structural biology

Affiliation as of 2018: Associate Professor of Computer Science, National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan

Mehrdad Mahdavi

TTIC from 2014 to 2017

Research Interests: Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Penn State

Ayan Chakrabarti

TTIC from 2014 to 2017

Research Interests: Computer vision and computational photography

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Stefan Canzar

TTIC from 2014 to 2017

Research Interests: Computational Biology

Affiliation as of 2018: Research Group Leader, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Qixing Huang

TTIC from 2014 to 2016

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Ryota Tomioka

TTIC from 2013 to 2015

Research Interests: Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge

George Papandreou

TTIC from 2013 to 2014

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Research Scientist, Google

Ofer Meshi

TTIC from 2013 to 2016

Research Interests: Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Research Scientist, Google

Shi Li

TTIC from 2013 to 2015

Research Interests: Theoretical Computer Science

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo

Mohit Bansal

TTIC from 2013 to 2016

Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

Raman Arora

TTIC from 2013 to 2014

Research Interests: Speech

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Yang Shen

TTIC from 2012 to 2014

Research Interests: Computational Biology

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

Benjamin Moseley

TTIC from 2012 to 2014

Research Interests: Algorithms

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Subhransu Maji

TTIC from 2012 to 2014

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Dahua Lin

TTIC from 2012 to 2014

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Samory Kpotufe

TTIC from 2012 to 2014

Research Interests: Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Sanja Fidler

TTIC from 2012 to 2013

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Francesco Orabona

TTIC from 2011 to 2014

Research Interests: Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, SUNY Stony Brook

Anand Sarwate

TTIC from 2011 to 2012

Research Interests: Information Theory

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Rutgers

Mathieu Salzmann

TTIC from 2010 to 2011

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Senior Researcher, EPFL-CVLab

Devi Parikh

TTIC from 2010 to 2012

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech

Samuel Hasinoff

TTIC from 2010 to 2011

Research Interests: Computational photography

Affiliation as of 2018: Software Engineer, Google

Dhruv Batra

TTIC from 2010 to 2012

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech

Anastasios Sidiropoulos

TTIC from 2009 to 2012

Research Interests: Computational Geometry

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Nathan Ratliff

TTIC from 2009 to 2010

Research Interests: Robotics and Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: NVIDIA

Tamir Hazan

TTIC from 2009 to 2013

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Joseph Keshet

TTIC from 2009 to 2012

Research Interests: Speech

Affiliation as of 2018: Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Bar-Ilan University

Andreas Argyriou

TTIC from 2009 to 2012

Research Interests: Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Senior Data Scientist, Microsoft UK

Ambuj Tewari

TTIC from 2008 to 2010

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Associate Professor, University of Michigan

Sameer Sheorey

TTIC from 2008 to 2011

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Senior R&D Scientist, UtopiaCompression

Shai Shalev-Shwartz

TTIC from 2007 to 2009

Research Interests: Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nikhil Devanur Rangarajan

TTIC from 2007 to 2008

Research Interests: Algorithms & Complexity

Affiliation as of 2018: Researcher, Microsoft Research

Alexander Ihler

TTIC from 2007 to 2007

Research Interests: Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Associate Professor, UC Irvine

Benoit Hudson

TTIC from 2007 to 2009

Research Interests: Programming Languages

Affiliation as of 2018: Founder and CEO, Imaginary Spaces

Xinyu Feng

TTIC from 2007 to 2010

Research Interests: Programming Languages

Affiliation as of 2018: Professor, University of Science and Technology of China

Xiaofeng Ren

TTIC from 2006 to 2008

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence

Affiliation as of 2018: Chief Scientist and Deputy Dean, Institute of Data Science and Technologies at Alibaba

Thomas Hayes

TTIC from 2006 to 2008

Research Interests: Algorithms & Complexity

Affiliation as of 2018: Associate Professor, University of New Mexico

Matthew Fluet

TTIC from 2006 to 2009

Research Interests: Programming Languages

Affiliation as of 2018: Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology

Amal Ahmed

TTIC from 2006 to 2009

Research Interests: Programming Languages

Affiliation as of 2018: Associate Professor, Northeastern University

Deva Ramanan

TTIC from 2005 to 2007

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Harald Raecke

TTIC from 2005 to 2007

Research Interests: Algorithms & Complexity

Affiliation as of 2018: Faculty, Technische Universität München (TUM)

Derek Dreyer

TTIC from 2005 to 2007

Research Interests: Language & Verification

Affiliation as of 2018: Faculty, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Anders Logg

Research Assistant Professor

TTIC from 2004 to 2006

Research Interests: Scientific Computing

Affiliation as of 2018: Professor of Computational Mathematics, Chalmers University of Technology

Prahladh Harsha

TTIC from 2004 to 2008

Research Interests: Algorithms & Complexity

Affiliation as of 2018: Associate Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Yasemin Altun

TTIC from 2004 to 2007

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence

Affiliation as of 2018: Google Research

John Langford

TTIC from 2003 to 2006

Research Interests: Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

David Chiang

TTIC from 2018-2021

Research Interests: Natural language processing, language translation, syntactic parsing, and formal language theory.

Affiliation as of 2021: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Notre Dame

John Lafferty

TTIC from 2013-2019

Research Interests: Machine learning, nonparametric estimation, probabilistic modeling, graphical models, text modeling.

Affiliation as of 2020: John C. Malone Professor of Statistics & Data Science, Yale University

Or Zuk

Visiting Assistant Professor

TTIC from 2012 to 2013

Research Interests: Computational Biology

Affiliation as of 2018: Faculty, Department of Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Raquel Urtasun

Assistant Professor

TTIC from 2009 to 2014

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Shai Ben-David

Adjoint Professor

TTIC from 2009 to 2014

Research Interests: Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Professor, University of Waterloo

Ronen Basri

Visiting Professor

TTIC from 2007 to 2009

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Professor, Department of Computer Science and Applied Math, Weizmann Institute of Science

Lance Fortnow

Adjoint Professor

TTIC from 2007 to 2018

Research Interests: Computational Complexity

Affiliation as of 2021: Dean, College of Computing, Illinois Institute of Technology

Cristian Sminchisescu

Adjunct Assistant Professor

TTIC from 2005 to 2010

Research Interests: Computer Vision

Affiliation as of 2018: Professor, Department of Mathematics, Lund University

Sham Kakade

Assistant Professor

TTIC from 2005 to 2009

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Washington Research Foundation Data Science Chair, University of Washington

Eli Ben-Sasson

Visiting Professor

TTIC from 2005 to 2005

Research Interests: Algorithms & Complexity

Affiliation as of 2018: Professor of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Eric Vigoda

Visiting Assistant Professor

TTIC from 2004 to 2004

Research Interests: Algorithms & Complexity

Affiliation as of 2022: Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara

Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

Visiting Professor

TTIC from 2004 to 2006

Research Interests: Algorithms & Complexity

Affiliation as of 2018: Professor, School of Technology and Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Adam Klivans

Visiting Assistant Professor

TTIC from 2004 to 2005

Research Interests: Algorithms & Complexity

Affiliation as of 2018: Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Austin

Bruno Codenotti

Visiting Professor

TTIC from 2004 to 2005

Research Interests: Algorithms & Complexity

Affiliation as of 2018: Research Director, Institute of Informatics and Telematics

Umut Acar

Assistant Professor

TTIC from 2004 to 2010

Research Interests: Programming Languages

Affiliation as of 2018: Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University

Adam Kalai

Assistant Professor

TTIC from 2003 to 2006

Research Interests: Algorithms & Complexity

Affiliation as of 2018: Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

Matthias Blume

Assistant Professor

TTIC from 2003 to 2009

Research Interests: Programming Languages

Affiliation as of 2014: Google Research

Stephen Smale

Professor

TTIC from 2003 to 2012

Research Interests: Mathematics

Dan Roth

Adjoint Professor

TTIC from 2016-2018

Research Interests: Machine learning

Affiliation as of 2018: University of Pennsylvania