UMD Center for Machine Learning Announces 2020 Class of Rising Stars

The University of Maryland Center for Machine Learning will host four female researchers this fall as part of a program that encourages and supports underrepresented doctoral candidates whose scientific work is focused on machine learning. Diana Cai, Irene Chen, Mahsa Ghasemi and Nan Rosemary Ke (pictured clockwise from top left) were recently selected as this year's Rising Stars in Machine Learning based on their novel research, academic accomplishments and exceptional work experience. The Rising Stars program, launched by the center last year, is focused on supporting upper-level graduate students from disadvantaged or underrepresented groups as they pursue new scientific discoveries and academic opportunities in machine learning. This year's cohort--who hail from Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Montreal--were chosen from a competitive pool of 17 applicants. "After extensive review, we chose these four candidates based on their record of excellence in research and scholarship," said Soheil Feizi, assistant professor of computer science and a core faculty member in the Center for Machine Learning.