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Valerie Chen

Carnegie Mellon University
Machine Learning Department

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Recruiting PhD students and postdocs (Fall 2027)! I'm excited to be joining UIUC as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2027! I will be recruiting PhD students and postdocs this cycle. PhD applicants can apply through either ECE or CS.

My goal is to establish the computational foundations of effective human-AI collaboration. I'm excited about tackling questions around:

I recently completed my PhD in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, where I was advised by Ameet Talwalkar. I have been selected as a "ML and Systems Rising Star" and "Rising Star in Data Science", and my research was supported by a CMU Presidential Fellowship and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I have also interned at OpenHands (with Graham Neubig), NYU (with He He), and Microsoft Research (with Q. Vera Liao and Jenn Wortman Vaughan).

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