Three CS faculty—assistant professors Raman Arora and Abhishek Jain and John C. Malone Associate Professor Ilya Shpitser—have received NSF CAREER Awards this year. The awards recognize early-stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence.
Raman Arora
Arora’s CAREER Award will support his project, “Understanding Inductive Biases in Modern Machine Learning,” which will develop an explanatory and prescriptive theory of deep learning that is tightly integrated with and motivated by the practice.
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Abhishek Jain
Jain’s award will support his project, “New Frontiers in Computing on Private Data,” which will explore new methods to enable secure multi-party computation. The project also includes outreach activities to raise the Baltimore community’s awareness of security and cryptography.
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Ilya Shpitser
Shpitser’s five-year CAREER award will support his project, “Robust Causal and Statistical Inference in High-Dimensional Structured Systems with Hidden Variables,” which aims to significantly advance understanding of all major tasks in causal systems with hidden variables: identification, estimation, and computationally efficient probabilistic calculations
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