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The Impact of Machine Learning on the World
The title of your thesis is Deep Probabilistic Graphical Models. When you were starting, would you have had any idea that this would be what you were focused on? No, I didn't know. Columbia Statistics, they have a very structured program. If you don't pass them, you'll get kicked out. So first year I focused on passing my quiz. Then took a course with my now two advisors, Dave and John Paisley. Those two courses are really what sparked my research into latent variable models.