Marina Meila

Professor Marina Meila received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. in 1999. 

She works on machine learning by probabilistic methods and reasoning in uncertainty. In this area, it is particularly important to develop computationally aware methods and theories. In this sense, her research is at the frontier between the sciences of computing and statistics. She is particularly interested in combinatorics, algorithms and optimization, on the computing side, and in solving data analysis problems with many variables and combinatorial structure.