Iván Jaen-Márquez

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ivanjaenm@cs.wisc.edu

Office: Morgridge Hall

:wave: I am a fifth-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.

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!

news

Aug’26 Presented a poster on my research on approximately solving Optimal Transport using autoregressive models at the IFDS Research Expo 2026!
Jun’25 Attended both MOSL 2025 and MMLS 2025 events at Northwestern and UChicago respectively.
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.