Faculty
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David McAllester, Professor 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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Andreas Argyriou, Research Assistant Professor PhD - University College London Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Machine learning and especially in multi-task learning and kernel based methods. He is also interested in sparse methods, connections of learning with optimization and applications such as marketing and recommender systems. |
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Shai Ben-David, Professor Part Time 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, Assistant 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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Lance Fortnow, Adjunct 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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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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Joseph Keshet, Research Assistant Professor PhD - Hebrew University Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Speech, audio and language processing, speech recognition, discriminative methods in machine learning, and large margin and kernel methods. |
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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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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. |
| Seiichi Mita, Affiliated 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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Devi Parikh, Research Assistant Professor PhD - Carnegie Mellon University Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning. |
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Alexander Razborov, Professor, Part Time 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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Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Research Assistant Professor PhD - MIT Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computational geometry, metric embeddings, graph theory, and applications of geometry and topology in theoretical computer science. |
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Yutaka Sasaki, Affiliated 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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Sameer Sheorey, Research Assistant Professor PhD - University of Maryland Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning and applied mathematics. |
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Stephen Smale, Professor Part Time PhD - University of Michigan Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Dynamical systems, geometry, econometrics, operational research, topology and the mathematical theory of computer science. |
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Nathan Srebro, Assistant Professor and Directory 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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Raquel Urtasun, Assistant Professor PhD - Ecole Polytechnique Federal 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, Assistant Professor PhD - University of Waterloo Bio | Home Page Research Interests: Computational biology and bioinformatics including homology search, protein structure prediction, and protein interaction prediction. |