Scholar
Frederic Sala
Google Scholar ID: 9KhIkNkAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,137
H-index
24
i10-index
37
Publications
20
Co-authors
14
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Multiple papers accepted at top venues: NeurIPS (e.g., Skill-it!, TBAL, The ALCHEmist, Colander), ICLR (e.g., UniversalWS, Data-centric W2S), COLM 2025 (Manticore), etc.
- TPBench (Theoretical Physics Benchmark for AI) accepted by Machine Learning: Science and Technology
- Recipient of DARPA Young Faculty Award for research on data-efficient foundation models
- Awarded DARPA SAFRON grant for safe programmatic distillation
- Received UW-Madison SACM Students' Choice Professor of the Year Award
- Won UW-Madison Research Forward award to build hyperspectral foundation models
Background
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Leads the Sprocket Lab, focusing on fundamentals of data-driven systems and machine learning
- Specializes in data- and compute-efficient systems
- Current research emphasizes data-centric AI, foundation models, and automated machine learning (AutoML)
- Holds a research leadership role at Snorkel AI, advancing a data-first approach to AI
