This spring the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) will honor its first graduating class. The three graduates - Cyrille Combettes, Harsh Shrivistava, and Haoming Jiang – will be the first students awarded a doctorate degree in machine learning from Georgia Tech. “We are thrilled to celebrate our first graduating class from ML@GT. Each… Continue reading The Machine Learning Center Celebrates Its First Class of Graduates
Scott Freitas, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) and the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), has been named a 2021 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award recipient. Freitas’ research focuses on applied and theoretical machine learning with a strong emphasis on cybersecurity. This award will provide Freitas the… Continue reading ML Student Earns Prestigious IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award
Andrew McRae, a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has been recognized with the Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver Award for a second time. McRae is just one of two students to be a double Cleaver Award recipient. “A Ph.D. program is long and tedious and often seems futile. This award… Continue reading Machine Learning Student Earns Electrical Engineering Award for a Second Time
Machine learning Ph.D. students Joanne Truong and Andrew Silva have been recognized as 2021 Apple Scholars. The program honors the contributions of emerging leaders in engineering and computer science at the graduate and post-graduate level. Truong and Silva are members of the program’s second cohort and are the first Georgia Tech students to be awarded… Continue reading Two Ph.D. Students Recognized as 2021 Apple Scholars – A First for Georgia Tech Students
Nine faculty members at the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) were recognized by the Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) for receiving outstanding responses on the Course Instructor Opinion Survey (CIOS). The awards honor excellence in teaching for spring and fall 2020. Three faculty members – Siva Theja Maguluri, Matthieu Bloch,… Continue reading Nine Machine Learning Faculty Members Win Teaching Awards
Two Georgia Tech machine learning Ph.D. students, Caleb Ziems and Kevin Tynes Jr., have been recognized as fellows of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). NSF GRFP recognizes outstanding students in NSF-supported STEM fields who are pursuing research-based master’s or doctoral degrees at an accredited United States institution. Ziems and Tynes… Continue reading Two Machine Learning Students Named 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellows
Diyi Yang, an assistant professor at the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) and School of Interactive Computing has been named to IEEE’s The Future of AI: AI’s 10 to Watch 2020 list. The list recognizes 10 young academics who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in artificial intelligence. Yang has distinguished herself by pioneering an… Continue reading Assistant Professor Named to IEEE’s AI’s 10 to Watch List
In early December, Harsh Shrivastava became the first person to be awarded a doctorate in machine learning from Georgia Tech. “It’s a special, happy feeling to be the first recipient of a ML Ph.D. degree. I am much obliged to my advisor, thesis committee members, friends and academic staff of Georgia Tech for their help… Continue reading ML@GT Awards First-Ever Doctorate in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech
With accolades showered upon them, seemingly perfect educational pedigrees, and conversations focused mostly on their groundbreaking work, it’s hard to remember that artificial intelligence (AI) researchers are real people. They’re people who take ballet classes as an adult, who suffer from anxiety, and love art. They’re also people who feel giddy over fresh flowers, have… Continue reading New Podcast and Video Series Seeks to Highlight AI Researchers Stories Over Stats
Summertime is usually a time when students from the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) are dispersed around the world interning at prestigious companies. While a global pandemic kept them from working out of shiny corporate offices and labs, however, students were able to still remotely intern for companies like Facebook, Qualcomm, Microsoft Research,… Continue reading ML@GT Students Learn Valuable Skills from Internships Despite Participating Remotely
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