Postdoctoral Alumni

Gal Vardi

Host - Nathan Srebro

TTIC from 2022-2024

Research Interests: Learning Theory and Deep-Learning Theory

Affiliation as of 2024: Assistant Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science

Chen Dan

Host - Avrim Blum

TTIC from 2022-2024

Research Interests: Learning Theory and Robustness in Machine Learning.

Affiliation as of 2024: Squarepoint Capital

Jafar Jafarov

Host - Yury Makarychev

TTIC from 2023-2023

Research Interests: Theoretical computer science, combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, machine learning, clustering.

Xiaoyang Jing

Host - Jinbo Xu

TTIC from 2019-2022

Research Interests: Bioinformatics and machine learning

Affiliation as of 2022: Head of AI Computational Biology in MoleculeMind Technology Co., Ltd.

Xiaoxia (Shirley) Wu

Host - Rebecca Willett and Nati Srebro

TTIC from 2021-2022

Research Interests: Optimization, machine learning, and stochastic analysis

Affiliation as of 2022: Researcher, Microsoft

Hedyeh Beyhaghi

Host - Avrim Blum

TTIC from 2019-2022

Research Interests: Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design

Affiliation as of 2024: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Hongyang Zhang

Host - Avrim Blum and Gregory Shakhnarovich

TTIC from 2020-2022

Research Interests: Machine Learning, AI Security, Optimization, and their Applications.

Affiliation as of 2022: Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo

Pritish Kamath

Host - Nathan Srebro

TTIC from 2019-2021

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Theoretical Computer Science.

Affiliation as of 2021: Research Scientist, Google

Sheng Wang

Host - Jinbo Xu

TTIC from 2011 to 2016 and 2019-2021

Research Interests: Computational Biology

Affiliation as of 2021: Research Scientist, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Meishan Lin

Host - Jinbo Xu

TTIC from 2017 to 2018

Research Interests: Machine Learning and Computational Biology

Affiliation as of 2019: Clinical Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago

Son Nguyen

Host - Jinbo Xu

TTIC from 2017 to 2018

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Big data, Bioinformatics

Affiliation as of 2018: Chief Technology Officer, Orient Software Development Danang Corp

Herman Kamper

Host - Karen Livescu

TTIC from 2017 to 2017

Research Interests: Speech

Affiliation as of 2018: Lecturer, Stellenbosch University

Weiran Wang

Hosts - Karen Livescu, Nati Srebro

TTIC from 2014 to 2017

Research Interests: Machine Learning

Affiliation as of 2018: Machine Learning Scientist, Amazon Alexa

Tomasz Oliwa

Host - Yang Shen

TTIC from 2013 to 2014

Research Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, clinical/medical data science

Affiliation as of 2020: Senior Scientific Software Engineer, Center for Research Informatics (CRI), University of Chicago

Xiaohui Chen

Host - Jinbo Xu

TTIC from 2012 to 2012

Research Interests: Statistics, Machine Learning, Signal Processing

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gohar Margaryan

Host - Jinbo Xu

TTIC from 2012 to 2012

Research Interests: Bioinformatics

Affiliation as of 2018: Data Scientist, PlaceIQ

Raman Arora

Host - Karen Livescu

TTIC from 2011 to 2013

Research Interests: Machine learning, Speech

Affiliation as of 2018: Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Haipeng Wang

Host - Jinbo Xu

TTIC from 2011 to 2011

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Bioinformatics

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