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- Avrim Blum
- Professor and Chief Academic Officer
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Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)
- 6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
- Chicago, IL 60637
- email: [firstname] at ttic.edu. Administrative Assistant: Mary Marre (773)834-1757.
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The Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
(TTIC or TTI-Chicago)
is a PhD-granting computer science
institute focusing in the areas of machine learning, algorithms, AI
(robotics, natural language, speech, and vision) and computational biology,
located on the University of Chicago campus.
We are a bit like a self-contained, free-standing department of machine learning, algorithms, AI, and data science.
We have tenure-track faculty (currently 12), limited-term research faculty (currently 12), PhD students (currently 45), and postdocs.
See also our colloquium,
distinguished lectures, and young researcher
seminar.
I am currently (Spring 2021) teaching TTIC 31150/CMSC 31150 - Mathematical Toolkit (TR 4:20-5:40)
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My main research interests are in machine learning theory, approximation
algorithms, on-line algorithms, algorithmic game theory /
mechanism design, the theory of database privacy, algorithmic fairness, and non-worst-case
analysis of algorithms. Some time ago I also did work in AI Planning. Before joining TTIC, I spent 25 wonderful years on the CS faculty at Carnegie Mellon University.
I am on the Steering Committees for FOCS, ITCS, and FORC, and on the editorial board for JACM. I was recently Program Chair
for the 2019
Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS) Conference,
on the Organizing Committee for the STOC 2018 and STOC 2017 Theory Fest, and a member of the SafeToC
committee. I also served on
Program Committees for COLT 2018,STOC
2016 and COLT 2014.
For more information on my research, see the publications and research
interests links below.
Blum, Hopcroft, &
Kannan, Foundations
of Data Science. (This pre-publication version is free to view and download
for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. Please do not re-post
or mirror.)
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Current PhD advisees: Kavya Ravichandran (jointly advised with Nati Srebro), Naren Manoj (jointly advised with Yury Makarychev), Keziah Naggita (jointly advised with Matt Walter), Han Shao, Kevin Stangl
Former PhD advisees:
Prasad
Chalasani,
Santosh
Vempala,
Carl Burch,
Adam Kalai,
John Langford,
Nikhil Bansal,
Martin Zinkevich,
Shuchi Chawla,
Brendan McMahan,
Maria-Florina (Nina) Balcan,
Shobha Venkataraman,
Mugizi Robert Rwebangira,
Katrina Ligett,
Aaron Roth,
Or Sheffet,
Pranjal Awasthi,
Liu Yang,
Ankit Sharma,
Jamie Morgenstern,
Nika Haghtalab.
Though I am no longer at CMU, I endorse the CMU SCS Reasonable Person Principle which basically asks to be reasonable and assume everyone else is doing likewise.
