Machine Learning in CCM

CCM is home to a large and vibrant group of researchers in the areas of machine learning and computational statistics. Particular areas of interest include:

Deep learning and representation learning
High dimensional data analysis
Learning theory
Machine learning for science
Optimization
Probabilistic modeling

The group in CCM is also part of a larger research effort in machine learning across all of Flatiron, and many projects are pursued in collaboration with members of other centers.

News

(11/25) Welcome to Bert Kappen, our newest ML visiting scholar, who will be working jointly between CCQ and CCM.
(9/25) CCM distinguished research scientist Stephane Mallat has been awarded the 2025 CNRS Gold Medal for his research on mathematics applied to signal processing and artificial intelligence.
(9/25) Researchers in CCM have co-authored fifteen papers to appear at this year's NeurIPS conference in San Diego, including an oral on Adam's secret sauce and a spotlight on variational inference with Feynman parameterizations.
(9/25) New job ads in CCM have been posted for postdoctoral fellows and research scientists at all levels of seniority. There is also an opening for a joint position as an associate research scientist in CCM and a tenure-track faculty member in the Computer Science Department at Cooper Union.
(8/25) Farewell to departing postdocs Ruben Ohana, Charles Margossian, and Bruno Regaldo-Saint Blancard and visiting scholar Sifan Liu , and welcome to newly arriving postdocs Mark Goldstein , Zahra Kadkhodaie , Tetiana Parshakova , and visiting scholar Luhuan Wu .
(5/25) Researchers in CCM have co-authored four papers to appear at this year's ICML in Vancouver, including one oral on in-context denoising with one-layer transformers.
(5/25) Charles Margossian and Lawrence Saul have received the best paper award at this year's AI-STATS conference in Phuket for their work on variational inference in location-scale families.
(3/25) Jiequn Han has received a biannual SIAM Early Career Prize for his outstanding contributions to the fields of deep learning, stochastic control, stochastic differential equations, and molecular dynamics.
(3/25) Daniel Lee and Lawrence Saul have won the Flywire VNC Matching Challenge.
(1/25) Researchers in CCM have co-authored five papers to appear at this year's ICLR in Singapore, including two spotlights on understanding factual recall in transformers and parallel end-to-end training in reversible architectures.

Research scientists

Research scientists are permanent staff that serve as mentors for postdocs and summer interns. They are also responsible for the long-term vision of ML research in CCM.

Visiting scholars and guest researchers:

David Blei (Columbia)
Nawaf Bou-Rabee (Rutgers)
Joan Bruna (NYU)
Bert Kappen (Radboud)
Dan Lee (Cornell)
Sebastian Seung (Princeton)
Soledad Villars (JHU)
Luhuan Wu (JHU)

Visiting scholars have short-term or part-time appointments in CCM, while guest researchers visit frequently on a more informal basis. Both work closely with postdocs and research scientists in CCM while providing a liaison to their home institutions.

Postdocs:

Diana Cai (PhD, Princeton)
Jeremy Cohen (PhD, CMU)
Nikhil Ghosh (PhD, Berkeley)
Mark Goldstein (PhD, NYU)
Ningyuan (Teresa) Huang (PhD, JHU)
Zahra Kadkhodaie (PhD, NYU)
Rudy Morel (PhD, Ecole Normale Superieure)
Tetiana Parshakova (PhD, Stanford)
Berfin Simsek (PhD, EPFL)
Neha Wadia (PhD, Berkeley)
Denny Wu (PhD, U Toronto)

Postdocs are appointed as Flatiron Research Fellows with three-year terms. They are free to pursue their own intellectual agenda, and they are encouraged to collaborate with researchers across all of Flatiron. As part of their support, they are offered a generous travel budget and access to subsidized housing in Greenwich Village.

Alumni:

Sifan Liu (2025 → Duke)
Charles Margossian (2025 → University of British Columbia)
Ruben Ohana (2025 → Nvidia)
Bruno Regaldo-Saint Blancard (2025 → Thales Group)
Chirag Modi (2024 → NYU)
Loucas Pillaud-Vivien (2024 → Ecole des Ponts ParisTech)
Yuling Yao (2024 → UT Austin)
Brett Larsen (2023 → DataBricks)
Eric Thiede (2023 → Cornell)
Wenda Zhou (2023 → OpenAI)

Job openings:

We interview seasonally for summer interns, three-year postdocs, and research scientists. This year we are also advertising a joint position for an associate research scientist in CCM and a tenure-track faculty member in the Computer Science Department at Cooper Union. Links will be posted here as soon as they are available.