- Recipient of an NSF CAREER award and Amazon Faculty Research award
- Publications in areas such as multi-armed bandits and subset selection, including 'Minimax Optimal Submodular Optimization with Bandit Feedback' (NeurIPS 2024) and 'The True Sample Complexity of Identifying Good Arms' (AISTATS 2020)
Research Experience
- Faculty at the University of Washington since 2017
- Postdoc at the AMP lab at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Benjamin Recht
Education
- B.S. in 2009 from the University of Washington, advised by Maya Gupta
- M.S. in 2010 from Columbia University, advised by Rui Castro
- Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, advised by Robert Nowak, all in electrical engineering
Background
Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Statistics. His research focuses on leveraging already-collected data to inform future measurements, forming a closed-loop learning process.