Stefanie Jegelka

About

Leading this research is Professor Stefanie Jegelka of the Machine Learning research group in MIT CSAIL. Prof. Jegelka, an X-Consortium Career Development Associate Professor at MIT EECS and a Principal Investigator at CSAIL, first became interested in machine learning when, as an undergraduate student, she had the opportunity to participate in research in computational neuroscience. Afterward, still as an undergraduate, she worked in a research lab at the Max Planck Institute on a project on disentangling mixed signals from different sources, also called Independent Component Analysis. This project involved large matrices and advanced optimization methods, and was the starting point for exploring many more machine-learning questions.