Iván Jaen Márquez

ivanjaenm@cs.wisc.edu

Office: 3293 CS

¡Hola mundo! I am Ivan (pronounced: ‘ee-vahn’), a third-year PhD student specializing in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I am honored to be supported by a Fulbright Fellowship and a departmental TAship.

Prior to Wisconsin I worked full-time in industry, first in the financial sector as a Quant developer@BBVA bank then in tech as Data Scientist@Microsoft.

I hold a MS in Computer Science from the wonderful CIMAT (Center for Research in Mathematics) advised by Prof. Arturo Hernandez. I received a BS in Computer Engineering, completing my thesis as part of the CIMAT undergraduate thesis program under Profs. A. Hernandez and R. Rivera.

I am also passionate about contributing to efforts aimed at diversifying the CS community and making it more equitable. Throughout this journey, different experiences have shaped my leadership in pursuing this mission.

Feel free to reach out!

news

Jan’24	I did my second-year research rotation with Prof. Grigoris Chrystos, studying inductive biases in Deep Learning such as Spectral, Low-rank Weights, Low-rank Embeddings and Principal Component bias.
May’23	Awarded CS Summer Research Assistantship! I did my first-year research rotation under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Wright, studying Coordinate descent methods for Multi-Task Non-Negative Matrix Factorization.
Aug’22	TAing the course CS 320 - Data Science Programming II this Fall 2022 & Spring 2023.
Aug’22	Super excited to join UW-Madison as a CS PhD student this Fall 2022! I’ll be working at the intersection of Machine Learning & Optimization
Apr’22	Received offers from PhD programmes at: UW-Madison, Rice University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NYU-Tandon!
Jul’21	Honored to be awarded a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellowship for pursuing doctoral studies in Computer Science in the US beginning Fall 2022. Here is my personal statement.