Ph.D. Students
Dr. Jungseock Joo (PI) and Dr. Khalid Javed's Research Group at UCLA- Amazon Science Hub. Project: Multimodal Communicative Learning for Robot Navigation. Websites: 1, 2.
Zhe Zhang, Computer Science, UCLA- ARA program. Project: Towards Efficient and Reliable Probabilistic Inference. Research interests: artificial Intelligence and formal methods, probabilistic and formal verification techniques to deal with both uncertainty as well as relational structure, and to enable AI systems to efficiently and reliably learn and infer from noisy, structured, and mixed discrete-continuous data. Website
Rene Bidart, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo- Amazon Intern. Research interest: efficiency in neural network, efficient text classification and churn prediction. Website
Max Zellner: Industrial and Systems Engineering, USC- Amazon Intern. Project: Improving computational speed of staffing models in Java. This included the creation of several examples in code, the implementation of generalized methods, and extensive documentation.
Nan Zhang: Industrial Engineering, UT- Austin - Amazon Intern. Research interest: Modeling and Optimization in Power System Planning