{"id":476,"date":"2008-11-28T19:26:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T01:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=476"},"modified":"2008-11-28T19:26:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T01:26:52","slug":"a-bumper-crop-of-machine-learning-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"A Bumper Crop of Machine Learning Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"

My impression is that this is a particularly strong year for machine learning graduates. Here’s my short list of the strong graduates I know. Analpha (for perversity’s sake) by last name:<\/p>\n

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  1. Jenn Wortmann<\/a>. When Jenn visited us for the summer, she had one<\/a>, two<\/a>, three<\/a>, four<\/a> papers. That is typical—she’s smart, capable, and follows up many directions of research. I believe approximately all of her many papers are on different subjects.<\/li>\n
  2. Ruslan Salakhutdinov<\/a>. A Science paper on bijective dimensionality reduction<\/a>, mastered and improved on deep belief nets which seems like an important flavor of nonlinear learning, and in my experience he’s very fast, capable and creative at problem solving.<\/li>\n
  3. Marc’Aurelio Ranzato<\/a>. I haven’t spoken with Marc very much, but he had a great visit at Yahoo! this summer, and has an impressive portfolio of applications and improvements on convolutional neural networks and other deep learning algorithms.<\/li>\n
  4. Lihong Li<\/a>. Lihong developed the KWIK (“Knows what it Knows”) learning framework<\/a>, for analyzing and creating uncertainty-aware learning algorithms. New mathematical models of learning are rare, and the topic is of substantial interest, so this is pretty cool. He’s also worked on a wide variety of other subjects and in my experience is broadly capable.<\/li>\n
  5. Steve Hanneke<\/a>: When the chapter on active learning is written in a machine learning textbook, I expect the disagreement coefficient<\/a> to be in it. Steve’s work is strongly distinguished from his adviser’s, so he is guaranteed capable of independent research.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There are a couple others such as Daniel<\/a> and Jake<\/a> for whom I’m unsure of their graduation plans, although they have already done good work. In addition, I’m sure there are several others that I don’t know—feel free to mention others I don’t know in comments.<\/p>\n

    It’s traditional to imagine that one is best overall for hiring purposes, but I have substantial difficulty with that—the field of ML is simply to broad. Instead, if you are interested in hiring, each should be considered in your context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My impression is that this is a particularly strong year for machine learning graduates. Here’s my short list of the strong graduates I know. Analpha (for perversity’s sake) by last name: Jenn Wortmann. When Jenn visited us for the summer, she had one, two, three, four papers. That is typical—she’s smart, capable, and follows up … <\/p>\n

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