Tengyu Ma (马腾宇)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Stanford University
Office: Gates 328
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About
Hi! I am an assistant professor of computer science and statistics at Stanford. My research interests broadly include topics in machine learning, algorithms and their theory, such as deep learning, (deep) reinforcement learning, pre-training / foundation models, robustness, non-convex optimization, distributed optimization, and high-dimensional statistics.
Current Ph.D. students and post-docs
- Garrett Thomas
- Sang Michael Xie (co-advised with Percy Liang)
- Kefan Dong
- Hong Liu
- Arvind Mahankali
- Neil Band (co-advised with Tatsunori Hashimoto)
Alumni
- Jeff Z. HaoChen (Ph.D. 2024, research scientist at Anthropic)
- Margalit Glasgow (co-advised with Mary Wootters)
- Zhiyuan Li (postdoc, assistant professor at TTIC)
- Ananya Kumar (Ph.D. 2023, co-advised with Percy Liang, research scientist at OpenAI)
- Yining Chen (Ph.D. 2023, research scientist at OpenAI)
- Shibani Santurkar (postdoc, now research scientist at OpenAI)
- Colin Wei (Ph.D. 2022, now research scientist at OpenAI)
- Honglin Yuan (Ph.D. 2022, now quantitative researcher at Citadel Securities)
- Yuanzhi Li (postdoc, now assistant prof. at CMU)
Publications
Teaching
- Statistical/Machine Learning Theory (CS229T/STATS231, CS229M/STATS214), Autumn 2018, Winter 2021
- Machine Learning (CS229/STATS229), Spring 2019-2020, Autumn 2020
- Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics (STATS205), Autumn 2019, Spring 2021
Service
- Area Chair or PC committee: AAAI 2019-2020, ICLR 2019-2021, NeurIPS 2019-2021, ALT 2017-2018, ITCS 2018, STOC 2020, COLT 2020-2021
Awards
- 2022 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year
- Sloan Research Fellowships 2021
- NSF CAREER Award
- ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention 2018
- COLT Best Paper Award 2018
- NIPS Best Student Paper Award 2016
- Siebel Scholarship
- Princeton Honorific Fellowship
- 8th Place in William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 2010
- Silver Medal in International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2007
Last update: 2021/02. Template adapted from Danqi Chen's.