DAPLab - Data, Agents, and Processes

Faculty

World leader in probabilistic ML. 10-year test of time awards at top ML conferences, including NeurIPS and ICML. Numerous awards including the AAAI John McCarthy award, Allen Newell Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Guggenheim Fellow, and Sloan Fellowship.

David
Blei

CS ML Causal inference

PAMI Young Researcher Awardee, NSF CAREER. Senior program chair for ICLR 2025, the top ML and AI conference along with NeurIPS and ICML.

Carl
Vondrick

CS Vision

World leader in developing embodied AI agents for real-world robotics. Best Papers at ICRA, CoRL. Sony Faculty Innovation Award.

Yunzhu
Li

CS Robotics

Proved first optimality bounds of Thompson's sampling (core algorithm in RL). NSF CAREER. Co-chair of AIStats 2025, one of the top theoretical AI conferences.

Shipra
Agrawal

IEOR Reinforcement learning

World leader in theoretical foundations of machine learning and AI. Sloan fellow and AI's 10 to Watch in 2015. Co-chair of ICML 2025, the top ML conference.

Daniel
Hsu

CS Machine learning theory

Built foundations of fundamental algorithms in pricing and decision-focused learning. NSF CAREER, IBM faculty award, Forbes 30 under 30, INFORMS Early Career Gaver Award.

Adam
Elmachtoub

IEOR Pricing and market design

Pioneer of CodeLLMs and AI for Software Engineering. NSF CAREER, VMWare, and IBM faculty awards, IEEE CS TCSE Rising Star Award.

Baishakhi
Ray

CS Software Neurosymbolic learning

World leader in robustness and security of AI. Winner of the Sloan fellow, Air Force YIP awardee, NSF CAREER, research awards from Google, Meta, Amazon, best paper awards at top systems and ML conferences.

Junfeng
Yang

CS Systems Security

Pioneered accurate simulations of human-AI agent strategic behavior. Winner of Facebook, Adobe, and Amazon awards. Recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship.

Lydia
Chilton

CS HCI

Winner of the Amazon Alexa Prize, developed the best-rated chatbot system on Amazon Alexa, reaching tens of millions of customers. Forbes 30 under 30.

Zhou
Yu

co-director CS NLP

Pioneered microsecond-scale decision making in cloud computing. Meta Research Award, former Google Visiting Faculty.

Kostis
Kaffes

CS Systems

Developed the only database system that can track row-level data-flows at near-zero cost, and forms the basis of compliance-first data systems. Winner of the NSF CAREER, VLDB 2018 Test-of-time, Google, Adobe, Amazon awards.

Eugene
Wu

co-director CS Data

Pioneered the building of digital twins and the orchestration of experimentation and AI-agent platforms. Recipient of multiple awards in the field of Operations, including the Daniel H. Wagner Prize, APS, and RMP student paper awards.

Tianyi
Peng

Columbia Business Decision making

Assistant Professor at Columbia DBMI and Visiting Faculty at Google. Leads the SEA Lab focusing on human-centered AI and health applications. Distinguished Paper Award at UbiComp 2023. Pioneered generalizable behavior modeling and intelligent intervention techniques for health and well-being.

Xuhai Orson
Xu

DBMI HCI AI for Health

NVIDIA Pioneer of AI Award, ICML 10-year test of time award, Canadian AI Lifetime Achievement Award. Past chair of NeurIPS, FAccT conferences. Co-Founder & Research Director Vector Institute for AI. Director NSF AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence.

Richard
Zemel

Advisory Board CS ML

Founder of Berkeley's AMPLab.

Michael
Franklin

Advisory Board CS UChicago

Faculty

Student

RyanShea

YuhangWu

Ryan
Shea

Yuhang
Wu