Siva Balakrishnan
Associate Professor
- BH 132K
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
I was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Martin Wainwright and Bin Yu. Prior to that, I was a Ph.D. student in the Language Technologies Institute (a part of the School of Computer Science) at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Jaime Carbonell. As a graduate student, I was the recipient of a Gates Foundation Fellowship to study interactions between human and HIV proteins, and a recipient of a Richard King Mellon Fellowship for outstanding research in the life sciences.
Specific Research Interests
I am broadly interested in statistical machine learning. Most recently, I have been working on understanding algorithms for solving non-convex estimation problems.