Vikas Sindhwani

I have mentored several excellent graduate students on various summer internship projects:

Bachir El Khadir (Princeton)

Polynomial Optimization for Imitation Learning

Stephen Tu (UC Berkeley)

Learning and Control: Robustness, Stability, Safety

Becca Roelofs (UC Berkeley)

Nonlinear Optimal Control

Zhiyun Lu (UCLA)

Learning Compact RNNs, ICASSP 2015

Jiyan Yang (Stanford, now Facebook)

Po-sen Huang (UIUC, now Microsoft Research) (with IBM speech group)

Scaling up Kernel methods for Speech Recognition (Best Student Paper at ICASSP 2014!)

Abhishek Kumar (Univ. of Maryland; now at IBM Research)

Provably Correct Non-negative Matrix Factorizations under Separability Assumption (ICML 2013)

Ankan Saha (UChicago; now at LinkedIn)

Online Matrix Factorizations for Streaming Social Media Content Analysis (WSDM 2012)

Bhargav Kanagal (Univ. of Maryland; now at Google)

Rank Selection in Low-Rank Matrix Approximations

Serhat S. Bucak (MSU; now at Apple)

Recommender Systems and Matrix Completion (ICDM 2010)

Teaching

William Pierson Field Lecture, Princeton University, 2016

Fundamentals of Computer Programming, University of Chicago