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 a new father! My daughter just turned one and is starting to walk :-).
Matt Barnes:
Background: I lead a team at Google DeepMind, where we're currently working on personalization in Gemini. Before that, I was a researcher at Google Research and a postdoctoral fellow at UW with Sidd Srinivasa. I completed my PhD in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.
Conversation Starter: I'm currently training for a 50km nordic ski race.

Teaching Assistants

Donovan Clay (email):
Background: I am a second-quarter BS/MS student. For my undergraduate, I double majored in Computer Engineering and Comparative History of Ideas. I do research in robotics in the PRIOR team at Ai2. I've previously done research in hardware design and LLMs.
Conversation Starter: I like to play pool and rock climb in my free time. You might find me at SBP!
Yichuan Deng (email):
Background: I am a third-year PhD in CSE department. I do research in computer vision and have some background in theoretical computer science.
Conversation Starter: I like paddleboarding in summer and snowboarding in winter.
Christina Hahn (email):
Background: I'm a second-quarter BS/MS student in CSE. I primarily do research in the NLP space, and my current project is on using game theory with LLMs.
Conversation Starter: Recently I've gotten back into reading for fun! I'm working my way through Rodney Merrill's translation of the Odyssey, which is (as far as I know) the only English translation that strictly preserves the poem's original dactylic hexameter rhythm.
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!
Lillian Li (email):
Background: I am a third year PhD student in CSE, advised by Professor Golub. My research focuses on applying and developing machine leaning methods to gain insights into neural computation.
Conversation Starter: I like to dance and have explored some dance studios in Seattle!
Jingwei Ma (email):
Background: I am a fifth-year PhD student in the UW Reality Lab in CSE. My research focuses on image/video generation and 3D reconstruction.
Conversation Starter: I make custom-flavored ice cream at home, and recently I've been learning to make Cannelés.
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.
Emmanuel Mensah (email):
Background: I am a PhD student in the ICT for Development Lab within the Allen school. My research mainly focuses on developing data conditional subnetworks as an efficiency approach for on-device single-tower multimodal mobile vision transformers, and applied to ecological wildlife monitoring.
Conversation Starter: I am initially from Ghana and into international development and Afro-carribean music.
Vishwas Sathish (email):
Background: I am a PhD student in the Neural Systems Lab. I work with Prof. Rajesh Rao and build machine learning models inspired by the human brain!
Conversation Starter: I enjoy playing chess and badminton. I've also recently resumed reading fun whodunit novels!
Yufei Zhang (email):
Background: I'm a BS/MS student in Computer Science. I like working on challenging problems in computer vision and natural language processing, particularly those that involve reasoning and understanding.
Conversation Starter: I love endurance sports! I've run three half-marathons and am training for my first Ironman 70.3. I also enjoy reading and exploring poke places.