PhD Students

• Gene Li

• Kshitij Patel

• Donya Saless

• Nirmit Joshi

Postdocs

Other

Affiliated Research Assistant Professors

• Sam Buchanan

• Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi

• Lingxiao Wang

• Mladen Kolar, Chicago Booth School of Business

• Rebecca Willet, Statistics and Computer Science

Alumni

Former PhD Students

• Lijia Zhou (Quantitative Researcher, Chicago Trading Company)
  Thesis: A Statistical Learning Theory for Models with High Complexity (April 2023)

• Omar Montasser (Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley)
  Thesis: Theoretical Foundations of Adversarially Robust Learning (June 2023)

• Blake Woodworth (Postdoctoral Researcher, SIERRA Team at Inria)
  Thesis: The Minimax Complexity of Distributed Optimization

• Heejin Choi ( Software Engineer, Google)
  Thesis: Efficient Structed Surrogate Loss and Regularization in Structured Prediction

• Jialei Wang (Quantitative Researcher, Two Sigma)
  Thesis: Homogenous and Coupled Distributed Learning

• Behnam Neyshabur (Senior Research Scientist, Deepmind)
  Thesis: Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

• Avleen Bijral (Data Scientist, Microsoft)
  Thesis: Data Dependent Convergence for Distributed Stochastic Optimization

• Andrew Cotter (Senior Research Scientist, Google Research Mountain View)
  Thesis: Stochastic Optimization for Machine Learning

• Karthik Sridharan (Associate Professor, Computer Science, Cornell)
  Thesis: Learning from an Optimization Viewpoint

• Rina Foygel Barber (Professor, Statistics, UChicago)
  Thesis: Prediction and Model Selection for High-dimensional Data with Sparse or Low-rank Structure

Former Postdocs

• Gal Vardi (Assistant Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science)

• Pritish Kamath (Research Scienctist, Google Research)

• Nandana Sengupta (Assistant Professor, IIT Delhi School of Public Policy)

• Weiran Wang (Senior Research Scientist, Salesforce Research)

• Xiaoxia (Shirely) Wu (Researcher, Microsoft)

Former Research Assistant Professors

• Lee Cohen (Postdoctoral Researcher, Standford)

• Brian Bullins (Assistant Professor, Purdue University)

• Steve Hanneke (Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Purdue University)

• Danica J. Sutherland (Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UBC)

• Suriya Gunasekar (Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research at Redmond)

• Mesrob Ohannessian (Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIC)

• Srinadh Bhojanapalli (Senior Research Scientist, Google Research NYC)

• Dan Garber (Associate Professor, Faculty of Data Decision Science, Technion)

• Mehrdad Mahdavi (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State)

• Qixing Huang (Associate Professor, Computer Science, UT Austin)

• Ryota Tomioka (Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

• Ofer Meshi (Research Scientist, Google)

• Raman Arora (Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Johns Hopkins)

• Or Zuk (Faculty, Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

• Francesco Orabona (Associate Professor, KAUST)

• Anand Sarwate (Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University)

• Nathan Ratliff (Director of Systems Software, NVIDIA)

• Tamir Hazan (Associate Professor, Technion)

• Joseph Keshet (Associate Professor, Technion)

• Andreas Argyriou (Senior Data Scientist, Microsoft UK)

• Ambuj Tewari (Professor, Statistics, University of Michigan)

• Shai Shalev-Shwartz (Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Former MSc Students, Interns, Visiting and Undergraduate Students

• Jeremy Archer

• Samir Khan (Statistics PhD Student, Standford University)

• Owen Melia (PhD Student, UChicago)

• Hussein Mozannar (PhD Student, Social & Engineering Systems and Statistcs, MIT)

• Ayush Sekhari (Postdoctoral Associate, MIT)

• Percy Liang (Associate Professor, Computer Science, Stanford)

• Venkat Chandrasekaran (Professor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Caltech)

• Yonatan Amit (Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder, Cybereason)

• Xueyuan Zhou (Trader, Jump Trading Group)

• Ohad Shamir (Professor, Computer Science and Applied Math, Weizmann Institute)

• Jason Lee (Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Princeton)

• Sivan Sabato (Associate Professor, McMaster University)

• Ali Jalali (Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon)

• Martin Takáč (Associate Professor, MBZUAI)