Ameet Talwalkar

Ameet Talwalkar is an Associate Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he has been serving since July 2022. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor at CMU from July 2017 to June 2022. He is also a Venture Partner at Amplify Partners and co-founded Determined AI, a company focused on machine learning solutions that was later acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) .13

Academic Background and Research Focus

Talwalkar holds a PhD in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning from New York University, completed in 2010. His research interests include democratizing machine learning, focusing on automation, efficiency, and human-AI interaction. He employs techniques from statistical machine learning, distributed systems, optimization, and computational learning theory to address these challenges .23

Significant Contributions

• Textbook: Co-authored Foundations of Machine Learning, which is widely cited in the field .4
• MLlib Project: Contributed to the development of MLlib, a machine learning library for Apache Spark .3
• Courses: Created an award-winning MOOC on distributed machine learning on the edX platform .3

Professional Experience

• Postdoctoral Fellow: UC Berkeley (2010-2014)
• Assistant Professor: UCLA (2014-2017)
• Technical Advisor: Databricks (2014-2017)
• Research Intern: Google (2007-2009) .12

Talwalkar is also actively involved in the academic community as the president of the MLSys Board and has played a role in establishing the MLSys conference, which focuses on machine learning systems .3