Machine Learning - What's the Story of Your Research Interests?

i'm a computer scientist by training, and we like the world to be very neat and simple. My dad went to georgetown for his alma mater, but i became a law professor at his alma college. I've discovered over the years that actually the problems that i like most are the ones that are messy and complicated and have no answers. Those are the hardest problems. We hope this ultima becomes a sort of clobaol colloquium where we can get inspiration from each other - not just people inside their own lab.