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Daniel Anderson

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computer Science Department

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Education

B. Comp. Sc., Monash University
B.S. (Hons) Applied Mathematics, Monash University
M.S. Computer Science Research, Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

Parallel Algorithms
Parallel Programming

Andrea Bajcsy

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

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Education

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Research Interests

Human-Robot Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Safety Analysis
Optimal Control
Game Theory

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Dan DeBlasio

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computational Biology Department

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Education

B.S. Computer Science, University of Central Florida
M.S. Computer Science, University of Central Florida
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Arizona

Research Interests

Sequence Analysis
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Machine Learning
Genomics

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Mona Diab

Director

Language Technologies Institute

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Fernando Diaz

Associate Professor

Language Technologies Institute

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Education

B.S. Computer Science, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
M.S. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Interests

Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems
Social Impacts of AI

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Chris Donahue

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

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Education

B.S. Computer Science, UT Austin
Ph.D. Music, UC San Diego
Postdoc Computer Science, Stanford

Research Interests

Machine Learning
Generative Modeling
Music Information Retrieval
Signal Processing

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Albert Gu

Assistant Professor

Machine Learning Department

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Jeff Ichnowski

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

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Education

B.A. Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Postdoc Computer Science (Robotics/Systems), UC Berkeley

Research Interests

Robot Manipulation
Cloud Robotics
Motion Planning
Optimization

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Daphne Ippolito

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute

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Education

B.S. Computer Science, University of Toronto
M.S.E. Computer and Information Technology, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania,

Research Interests

Natural Language Generation
Language Models

Anne Kohlbrenner

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computer Science Department

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Education

B.S. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
M.A. Computer Science, Princeton University
Ph.D. Computer Science, Princeton University (anticipated)

Research Interests

Computer Science Education

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Jason Li

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

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Lei Li

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute

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Education

BS Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ph.D. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
AI for Drug Discovery

Minchen Li

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

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Education

B.Eng. Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University
M.S. Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests

Computer Graphics
Computational Mechanics
Robotics
Numerical Optimization

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Auldyn Matthews-McGee

Assistant Teaching Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

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Education

B.S. Mathematics, Ohio University
B.A. Spanish, Ohio University
B.A. Psychology, Ohio University
M.S., Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

Healthcare Design
Design for Social Impact
Generative AI in Education
Aesthetics
Imagination Age

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Riccardo Paccagnella

Assistant Professor

Software and Societal Systems

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Jignesh Patel

Professor

Computer Science Department

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Education

B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering, IIT-Varanasi
M.S. Computer Science, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Research Interests

Database Systems
Computer Architecture
Distributed Systems
Applied Machine Learning

Richard Peng

Associate Professor

Computer Science Department

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Feras Saad

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

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Education

S.B. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Eng. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests

Probabilistic Programming Languages
Bayesian Modeling and Inference
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Statistics

Guanya Shi

Assistant Professor

Robotics Institute

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Education

B.Eng. Vehicle Engineering, Tsinghua University
Ph.D. Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology

Research Interests

Nonlinear Control
Reinforcement Learning
Online Learning
Robotic Control
Data-Driven Control

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Michael Skirpan

Assistant Teaching Professor

Software and Societal Systems/Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Education

B.S. Economics (minor: physics), University of Pittsburgh
B.S. Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. Computer Science, University Colorado Boulder

Research Interests

Computing Ethics
Pedagogy
Technology Governance
Emerging Tech Policy
Risk
Public Communication of Science and Technology
Experience Design

Laura Vinchesi

Assistant Teaching Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

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Wenshan Wang

Systems Scientist

Robotics Institute

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Education

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology
Ph.D. Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Research Interests

Learning-Based SLAM
3D Scene Understanding
Online Learning
Lifelong Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Imitation Learning
Exploration
Neural-Symbolic Learing

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Sean Welleck

Assistant Professor

Language Technologies Institute

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Education

B.S.E. Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
M.S.E. Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. Computer Science, New York University

Research Interests

Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Language Generation
AI + Mathematics

Chenyan Xiong

Associate Professor

Language Technologies Institute

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Education

B.Eng. Computer Science, Wuhan University
M.S. Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
M.S. Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. Language and Information Technology, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

Information Retrieval
Language Models
Language Representations

Yun William Yu

Assistant Professor

Computational Biology Department

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Martin Jinye Zhang

Assistant Professor

Computational Biology Department

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Education

B.Eng. Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Research Interests

Statistical Genetics
Machine Learning
GWAS
scRNA-seq
Multi-Omics
Genetic Architecture
Casual Inference
Multiple Hypothesis Testing
Multi-Armed Bandits
Algorithm Acceleration

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