Stefanie Jegelka
X-Consortium Career Development Associate Professor, EECS and IDSS, MIT
Profile
Prof. Stefanie Jegelka is the X-Consortium Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She is affiliated with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), and MIT’s Machine Learning group. Her research spans algorithms, optimization, and machine learning, with a focus on combinatorial and discrete problems in modern AI systems. Prior to joining MIT, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the AMPlab and the Computer Vision Group at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen and ETH Zurich. Prof. Jegelka is recognized for her innovative contributions to the theoretical foundations of machine learning.