Tianqi Chen

I am an Assistant Professor in the Machine Learning Department and Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University . I help run the Catalyst Group. I am also the Chief Technologist of OctoML. I recently received my Ph.D. from Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington.

At UW, I was advised by Carlos Guestrin. I also worked closely with Luis Ceze and Arvind Krishnamurthy. I was a member of SAMPL Lab and MODE Lab. I recieved my Master and Bachelor's degree from Prof. Yong Yu's ACM Honors Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).