Virginia Smith
Associate Professor
Machine Learning
Orcid identifier0000-0002-6404-2395 (opens in a new tab)
- Associate ProfessorMachine Learning
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
BIO
I am the Leonardo Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University and a courtesy faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. My research interests are in machine learning, optimization, and distributed systems. Recent topics include large-scale machine learning, distributed optimization, federated and collaborative learning, multi-task learning, and privacy-preserving ML.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assistant ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States2018 - present
- Research AssistantUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States2012 - 2017
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Visiting ResearcherGoogle (United States), Mountain View, California, United States2021 - present
- Search InternGoogle (United States), Mountain View, California, United States2014 - 2014
DEGREES
- BA, MathematicsUniversity of Virginia, Virginia, United States2008 - 2012
- BA, Computer ScienceUniversity of Virginia, Virginia, United States2008 - 2012
- PhD, Computer ScienceUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States1 Aug 2012 - 1 Aug 2017
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Postdoctoral ResearcherStanford University, Stanford, California, United States2017 - 2018
CAMPUS
- Pittsburgh