CSE 446 Staff Info

Instructors

Matt Golub (website):
Background: I'm an Assistant Professor in the Allen School. My research group works at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience, developing tools for reverse engineering computation in the brain.
Conversation Starter: I'm happiest when moving through the mountains under my own power. I love hiking, trail running, climbing, and backcountry skiing. I'm always eager for new route recommendations!
Pang Wei Koh (website):
Background: I'm an assistant professor at the Allen School. My research is in machine learning and natural language processing; recently, I have also been working on biomedical applications of LLMs.
Conversation Starter: I'm from Singapore; before grad school, I spent a few years working at an online education startup and then a year doing research in a genomics lab.

Teaching Assistants

Yufei Zhang (Head TA) (email):
Background: I'm an MS student in CSE, and this is my 6th quarter TAing! My research is in NLP, specifically LLM output diversity and mitigating post-training model collapse.
Conversation Starter: I love endurance sports! I've run half-marathons in Seattle, San Francisco, and San Jose and am training for a half Ironman. I'm also always looking for good poke recommendations.
Claudia Gyonjyan (email):
Background: TBD
Conversation Starter: TBD
Sankar Harilal (email):
Background: I'm a fourth year undergrad in CSE. Some of my research interests include domain adversarial learning, time series forecasting, and predictive modeling.
Conversation Starter: Some of my hobbies are snowboarding, watching soccer, and exploring new places!
Susung Hong (email):
Background: TBD
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Shuyang Hou (email):
Background: TBD
Conversation Starter: TBD
Leo Maynard-Zhang (email):
Background: I am a BS/MS student in CSE. I do research in machine learning theory.
Conversation Starter: I really like fried chicken.
Shakti Shruti Senthil (email):
Background: TBD
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Rui Xin (email):
Background: TBD
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Zhiyuan Zeng (email):
Background: TBD
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Chuning Zhu (email):
Background: TBD
Conversation Starter: TBD