Iván Jaen-Márquez
Office: 3293 CS bldg.
I am a third-year PhD student in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison advised by Professor Vikas Singh. My focus is broadly on Machine Learning. I am honored to be supported by a Fulbright Fellowship and a departmental teaching assistantship.
Before 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.
Research Interests:
- Leveraging structural efficiency in data, training algorithms and inference for advancing Large-Scale Machine Learning.
- Representation learning and interpreting learned representations.
- Applications in areas of science and engineering such as biomedical, education and finance.
Outside work I enjoy exercising, reading and exploring nature in Wisconsin. Feel free to reach out!
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| Jun’25 | Attended both MOSL 2025 and MMLS 2025 events at Northwestern and UChicago respectively. |
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| Jan’25 | TAing the course CS 544 - Intro to Big Data Systems this Spring 2025 and Fall 2025 |
| May’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 with Prof. Stephen Wright, studying Coordinate descent methods for Multi-Task Non-Negative Matrix Factorization. |
| May’23 | Attended Midwest Machine Learning Symposium 2023 at University of Illinois Chicago. |
| 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 |
Grateful to have received PhD offers 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. |