Jerry Zhu is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jerry received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. His research interests are in machine learning, particularly optimal teaching, sequential decision making, and learning in game theory. He currently serves or has served as conference chair for AISTATS and CogSci, position paper track chair for ICML, action editor of the Machine Learning Journal, and a member of the DARPA ISAT advisory group. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and a winner of multiple best paper awards, including an ICML classic paper prize.
I am looking for PhD students generally interested in learning theory and game theory.
Awards
- Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025
- Kellett Mid-Career Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2024
- Stephen C. Kleene Professorship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021
- Vilas Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020
- Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017
- Sheldon & Marianne Lubar Professorship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016
- AAAI / Computing Community Consortium "Blue Sky Ideas" Track Prize, 2015
- ICML Classic Paper Prize, 2013
- Best Paper on Knowledge Discovery, ECML-PKDD 2012
- "COW" Student Choice Professor of the Year, 2012
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper, International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2011
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, 2010
Professional services
- Organizer, Machine Learning Lunch Meetings (MLLM) at UW-Madison
- Position Paper Track Co-Chair: ICML 2025
- Conference Chair: CogSci 2018
- Conference Chair: AISTATS 2017
- Organizer: NIPS 2017 Workshop on Teaching Machines, Robots, and Humans, Dec 9, 2017
- Organizer: Dagstuhl Seminar 17351 "Machine Learning and Formal Methods", August 2017
- Tutorial Co-Chair: ICML 2020
- Workshop Co-Chair: ICML 2011
- Area Chair / Senior Area Chair / Senior Program Committee: AAAI 2026, NeurIPS 2025, ICML 2025, ICML 2024, NeurIPS 2023, AAAI 2023, NeurIPS 2022, ICML 2022, 2021, AISTATS 2021, AAAI 2021, IJCAI 2021, NeruIPS 2020, AAAI 2020, NeruIPS 2019, IJCAI 2019, CogSci 2019, ICML 2019, AISTATS 2019, AAAI 2019, ICML 2018, AAAI 2018, NIPS 2017, ICML 2016, AAAI 2016, NIPS 2015, ICML 2015, NAACL 2015, IJCAI 2015, EMNLP 2014, NLPCC 2014, ICML 2014, SDM 2014, AISTATS 2013, ICML 2013, SDM 2013, NIPS 2012, ICML 2012, NAACL-HLT 2012, ACML 2012, NIPS 2011, ICML 2011, ACML 2011
- Organizer, ICML 2014 workshop on Topological Methods for Machine Learning
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
| Email: | jerryzhu@cs.wisc.edu |
| Office: | Computer Science 5381 |
| Phone: | 608.890.0129 |
| Fax: | 608.262.9777 |
| Address: |
Xiaojin Zhu Department of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison 1210 W. Dayton St. Madison, WI, USA 53706 |