Dr. Andrej Risteski

Andrej Risteski is an assistant professor in the Department of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. Before his position at Carnegie Mellon, Andrey was a Norbert Wiener Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics at MIT, as well as at the Institute for Data Science and Statistics (IDSS). Andrey holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University, where he also earned his bachelor's degree.
His research area is the mathematical and scientific foundations of machine learning and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on deep learning and neural networks. Andrej regularly publishes in top machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR), as well as in theoretical computer science (STOC, COLT). He also regularly serves on the program and review committees for these conferences.