Iván Jaen Márquez

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ivanjaenm@cs.wisc.edu

Office: 3293 CS bldg.

:wave: I am a third-year PhD student in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research focus is broadly on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. 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.

Feel free to reach out!

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Jan’25 TAing the course CS 544 - Intro to Big Data Systems this Spring 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 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. If interested, here are my personal and research statements.