Stefanie Jegelka

Stefanie Jegelka is an X-Window Consortium Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of EECS at MIT, and a member of the Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL). Before joining MIT, she was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, and obtained her PhD from ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Stefanie has received a Sloan Research Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, the German Pattern Recognition Award and a Best Paper Award at ICML. Her research interests span the theory and practice of algorithmic machine learning, including discrete and continuous optimization, discrete probability, and learning with structured data.