Bio. I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Stanford University advised by John Duchi. My research interests are in machine learning, optimization, and privacy. I am currently on the job market, looking for positions where I will use my skillset to contribute to large-scale research initiatives to push the boundary of what is possible in AI.

Previously, I was a M.S. student at Stanford University advised by Stefano Ermon, working on probabilistic models and reinforcement learning. I completed my undergraduate studies at Lycée Louis-Le-Grand and Ecole Polytechnique from which I obtained a B.S. and a M.S. in 2014 and 2015. I also spent internships at Facebook Applied Machine Learning in 2016, Google Brain in 2017 where I worked with Jascha Sohl-Dickstein and Matt Hoffman and Google Research in 2020 where I worked with Ananda Theertha Suresh, Satyen Kale and Mehryar Mohri.

Publications

Learning with User-Level Privacy
Daniel Levy*, Ziteng Sun*, Kareem Amin, Satyen Kale, Alex Kulesza, Mehryar Mohri, Ananda Theertha Suresh.
NeurIPS, 2021.
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Adapting to Function Difficulty and Growth Conditions in Private Optimization
Hilal Asi*, Daniel Levy*, John C. Duchi.
NeurIPS, 2021.
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Distributionally Robust Multilingual Machine Translation
Chunting Zhou*, Daniel Levy*, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Xian Li, Graham Neubig
EMNLP, 2021.
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Large-Scale Methods for Distributionally Robust Optimization
Daniel Levy*, Yair Carmon*, John C. Duchi, Aaron Sidford.
NeurIPS, 2020.
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Necessary and Sufficient Geometries for Gradient Methods
Daniel Levy, John C. Duchi.
NeurIPS, 2019. Selected for oral presentation.
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Bayesian Optimization and Attribute Adjustement
Stephan Eismann, Daniel Levy, Rui Shu, Stefan Barztsch, Stefano Ermon.
UAI, 2018.
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Generalizing Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with Neural Networks
Daniel Levy, Matthew D. Hoffman, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein.
ICLR, 2018.
[pdf] [code]
Deterministic Policy Optimization by Combining Pathwise and Score Function Estimators for Discrete Action Spaces
Daniel Levy, Stefano Ermon.
AAAI, 2018.
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Fast Amortized Inference and Learning in Log-linear Models with Randomly Perturbed Nearest Neighbor Search
Stephen Mussman*, Daniel Levy*, Stefano Ermon.
UAI, 2017.
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Data Noising as Smoothing in Neural Network Language Models
Ziang Xie, Sida I. Wang, Jiwei Li, Daniel Levy, Aiming Nie, Dan Jurafsky, Andrew Y. Ng.
ICLR, 2017.
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Teaching

Winter 2021 Teaching assistant for EE364A: Convex Optimization taught by John Duchi.
Fall 2016 Teaching assistant for CS229: Machine Learning taught by Andrew Ng and John Duchi.

Service

Reviewer: ICML 2021, NeurIPS 2020, ICLR 2020, AAAI 2020, ICML 2019, ICLR 2019, AABI 2018, R2L Workshop (at NeurIPS 2018).