Previous Rising Stars in Machine Learning

2023 Rising Stars

Megha Srivastava

Doctoral Candidate at Stanford University

"Challenges in Human-AI Interaction for Information-Seeking Tasks"
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Han Shao

Doctoral Candidate at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

“Trustworthy Machine Learning Under Social and Adversarial Data Sources”
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Wanrong Zhu

Doctoral Candidate at The University of California, Santa Barbara

“Towards Collaborative Generative AI for Vision-and-Language Studies”
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Laixi Shi

Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech

"The Curious Data Price of Distributional Robustness in Reinforcement Learning: Minimax-Optimal Sample Efficiency”
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Sanae Lotfi

Doctoral Candidate at New York University

“Understanding, Quantifying, and Predicting Generalization in Deep Learning”
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Weijia Shi

Doctoral Candidate at the University of Washington

“Retrieval-augmented Language Models”
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Yutong Bai

Doctoral Student at Johns Hopkins University

"Less is More: Unleashing the Power of Pretraining"
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Zhijing Jin

Doctoral Student at Max Planck Institute and Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

"Causal Inference for Robust, Reliable, and Responsible NLP”
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2022 Rising Stars

Amanda Coston

Doctoral Student at Carnegie Mellon University

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Kristy Choi

Doctoral Student at Stanford University

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Wenshuo Guo

Doctoral Student at the University of California, Berkeley

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Weiyan Shi

Doctoral Student at Columbia University

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Boyi Li

Junior Industry Researcher at NVIDIA

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Spencer Frei

Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley

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2021 Rising Stars

Tian Li

Doctoral Student at Carnegie Mellon University

"On Heterogeneity in Federated Settings"

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Xinyun Chen

Doctoral Student at the University of California, Berkeley

“Deep Learning for Program Synthesis: Towards Human-like Reasoning”

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Qi Lei

Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University

“Provable Representation Learning: The Importance of Task Diversity and Pretext Tasks"

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2020 Rising Stars

Diana Cai

Doctoral Student at Princeton University

“Probabilistic Inference Under Model Misspecification”

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Irene Chen

Doctoral Student at Massachusetts Insititute of Technology

“Machine Learning for Equitable Healthcare”

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Mahsa Ghasemi

Doctoral Student at The University of Texas at Austin

“Efficient Data Processing and Trustworthy Decision Making through Structured Task Representation”

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Nan Rosemary Ke

Doctoral Student at University of Montreal

"From 'What' to 'Why': Towards Causal Deep Networks”

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2019 Rising Stars

Surbhi Goel

Doctoral Student at The University of Texas at Austin

“Provably Efficient Algorithms for Learning Neural Networks”

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Adji Bousso Dieng

Doctoral Student at Columbia University

“Learning with Deep Probabilistic Generative Models”

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Karolina Gintare Dziugaite

Fundamental Research Scientist at Element AI

“PAC-Bayesian Approaches to Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning”

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