Meet the Speaker: Zico Kolter

Zico Kolter is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and also serves as chief scientist of AI research for the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. His work spans the intersection of machine learning and optimization, with a large focus on developing more robust and rigorous methods in deep learning.

In addition, he has worked in a number of application areas, highlighted by work on sustainability and smart energy systems. He is a recipient of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award, a Sloan Fellowship, and best paper awards at the Conference on Neural

Information Processing Systems, The International Conference on Machine Learning (honorable mention), The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, The Conference on Knowledge and Data Mining, and the Power and Energy Society General Meeting.