{"619948":{"#nid":"619948","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ML@GT Faculty Members Receive Tenure and Promotion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEight faculty members affiliated with the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT)\u003C\/a\u003E have received tenure awards or promotions. These appointments are awaiting approval from the Board of Regents and will become effective Aug. 15, 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;ML@GT is stronger because of the immense amount of talent that our faculty bring to the community. We are thrilled that each of these faculty members are being recognized for their hard work and commitment to not only their research, but to investing in the next generation of machine learning and artificial intelligence pioneers,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EIrfan Essa\u003C\/strong\u003E, ML@GT director.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKaren Liu \u003C\/strong\u003Ewas promoted to full professor and is already tenured\u003Cstrong\u003E. \u003C\/strong\u003EAn integral part of the ML@GT community, Liu\u0026rsquo;s home school is the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E. She co-founded \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dartsim.github.io\/\u0022\u003EDART\u003C\/a\u003E alongside her students, which won the Grand Prize of Open Source Software World Challenge in 2016. Liu also received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and was named to the Young Innovators Under 35 List by Technology Review.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and focuses on robotics and computer graphics, including optimal control, physics-based animation, computational biomechanics, and reinforcement learning. She is the Program Chair of SIGGRAPH Asia 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDhruv Batra \u003C\/strong\u003Ewas promoted to associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E and received tenure. Batra is also a research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Batra\u0026rsquo;s research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and natural language processing. Featured in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/06\/14\/facebook-ai-negotiation-technology\/\u0022\u003EFortune\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/611040\/facebook-helped-create-an-ai-scavenger-hunt-that-could-lead-to-the-first-useful-home-robots\/\u0022\u003EMIT Technology Review\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2017\/12\/year-in-artificial-intelligence-most-impressive-ai-and-machine-learning-accomplishments.html\u0022\u003ESlate\u003C\/a\u003E, and more, Batra is an emerging leader in his craft. Batra earned his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDevi Parikh \u003C\/strong\u003Ereceived tenure and was promoted to the position of associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E. Parikh joined Georgia Tech in 2016 and continues to work as a research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Parikh is consistently recognized for her work on artificial intelligence at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning by outlets like \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mariyayao\/2017\/05\/18\/meet-20-incredible-women-advancing-a-i-research\/#4b1c0d2c26f9\u0022\u003EForbes\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/projects\/13548844\/women-in-ai\/\u0022\u003EVogue\u003C\/a\u003E. She has also received numerous awards including the NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and four Google Faculty Research Awards. Parikh earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and 2009 respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJimeng Sun \u003C\/strong\u003Erecently received tenure from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. Sun is an associate professor and focuses on machine learning and deep learning for healthcare and tensor analysis. He has published over 120 papers and holds five patents. He was recently named as one of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/news\/619095\/jimeng-sun-named-top-100-leaders-ai-health\u0022\u003Etop 100 global leaders\u003C\/a\u003E in artificial intelligence for health by Deep Knowledge Analytics. Sun earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERich Vuduc \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas been promoted to professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. Vuduc is an expert in high-performance computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, several best paper awards at multiple ACM and IEEE conferences, and a DARPA Computer Science Study Group grant. Vuduc earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas received tenure and been promoted to associate professor. Housed in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E, Kim researches programming languages, systems security, distributed systems, and operating systems. Kim holds a masters and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has earned numerous awards including a 2019 Google Research Award, 2017 Mozilla Research Award, and 2018 NSF CAREER Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYao Xie \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas been promoted to Associate Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ISyE). Xie has been with Georgia Tech since 2013 and focuses on signal processing, statistics, optimization, and machine learning. She is particularly interested in sequential analysis and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~yxie77\/change_point_simple.pdf\u0022\u003Echange-point detection\u003C\/a\u003E and their broad applications in sensor networks, social networks, imaging and communications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer work on redistricting design was \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/news\/data-driven-policing\u0022\u003Erecently implemented\u003C\/a\u003E by the Atlanta Police Department. Xie received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantanu Dey \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas been promoted to professor in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ISyE). Dey served as a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/DIFellowsProgram\u0022\u003EDiversity and Inclusion Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech in 2017 and he currently serves on the editorial board of Computational Optimization and Applications, MOS-SIAM book series on optimization. His research interests include non-convex optimization, in particular with mixed integer linear and nonlinear programming. He received the NSF Career Award in 2012. Dey holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Purdue University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Eight faculty members associated with the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech have received promotions or tenure."}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2019-04-02 14:35:04","changed_gmt":"2019-04-03 21:42:29","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"619947":{"id":"619947","type":"image","title":"Eight faculty members affiliated with the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech have received tenure or a promotion that will begin for the 2019-2020 academic year. 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