Mercator Fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Kavli Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Member of the ELLIS Society
Action Editor for Journal of Machine Learning Research and Transactions on Machine Learning Research
Regular Senior Area Chair for NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR
Program Chair for AISTATS 2024 and General Chair for AISTATS 2025
Organized tutorials at NeurIPS, AAAI, and UAI
Research funded by NSF, DARPA, IARPA, DOE, Disney, Intel, and Qualcomm
Background
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at the University of California, Irvine
Co-Director of the AI in Science Institute
AI Resident and Investigator at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Research focuses on foundational and applied aspects of generative AI, including deep generative modeling, uncertainty quantification, neural data compression, and AI for science
Emphasizes resource-efficient learning and inference algorithms, and AI-driven scientific discovery
Research interests include generative modeling of 2D, 3D, and sequential data, compression, and inference algorithms