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.
Hanqi Feng (email):
Background: I'm a first year PhD student in CSE. My research is in AI for science, using machine learning to accelerate scientific discovery, with a long-term interest in cancer.
Conversation Starter: I'm a big food person and I'm always collecting recommendations around Seattle, so come tell me where to eat.
Evan Gubarev (email):
Background: I'm a third year undergrad in CSE interested in applied ML for robotics.
Conversation Starter: In my free time, I enjoy running and hiking. I am always looking for good book recommendations!
Claudia Gyonjyan (email):
Background: I'm a senior at the Allen School and have done research at the intersection of AI/ML and genomics.
Conversation Starter: I love baking, hiking, and playing black ops zombies! My personal record in black ops 2 zombies is round 58 :)
Susung Hong (email):
Background: I'm a Ph.D. student working on video generation.
Conversation Starter: I love cats, coffee, video games, cooking, and baseball!
Shuyang Hou (email):
Background: First year Ph.D in CSE, advised by Prof. Simon Du. My research interest lies in the ML and ai4s.
Conversation Starter: I love hiking, cooking, and drinking tea
Bar Jacobi (email):
Background: I'm a first year PhD student in CSE. My research interests are in machine learning for biology, particularly using ML to understand biological sequences and systems.
Conversation Starter: I love baking, climbing, and pretty much anything that involves making things with my hands. I also have a very large dog named Loki, and I'm always happy to show you pictures!
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.
Sidharth Rajagopal (email):
Background: I am a third year undergrad in CSE. I do robot learning research in the WEIRD Lab.
Conversation Starter: I love playing board games. Some of my favorites are Diplomacy and Catan.
Rui Xin (email):
Background: I'm a fourth-year PhD in CSE working on language model post-training.
Conversation Starter: I love doing pottery.
Zhiyuan Zeng (email):
Background: I'm a third-year PhD student in CSE. My research focuses on language model post-training and evaluation.
Conversation Starter: Fun fact: I've never taken a course with "Machine Learning" in its title.
Chuning Zhu (email):
Background: I'm a final-year PhD student in CSE. My research is in robot learning, focusing on reinforcement learning and world models.
Conversation Starter: I love tennis, bouldering, and skiing. You can often catch me on the UW tennis courts!