Yuxin Chen
Yuxin Chen   [yiw'shin]   

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Chicago

Email: chenyuxin@uchicago.edu
Office: JCL 317
Phone: please use email instead

I am an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Previously, I was a postdoctoral scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech, hosted by Prof. Yisong Yue. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Krause. My research interest lies broadly in probabilistic reasoning and machine learning. I am currently working on developing interactive machine learning systems that involve active learning and sequential decision making. You can find more information in my Google scholar profile.

News & Events

  • 3/22/2026: Giving an invited talk at the SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, 2026.
  • 3/15/2026: Giving a talk on "Quality-aware Scaling Laws" at the Meshes of Midscale Models (M3) Workshop at UChicago. See our ICLR paper for details.
  • 11/6/2025: Guest lecture on "deep generative models" at The Philosophy of AI: Mind and Model.
  • 10/29/2025: Giving a talk on Direct Regret Optimization at INFORMS.
  • 10/9/2025: Giving a UChicago Schmidt AI+Science Fellows Talk on "Active Imitation Learning" with Matt Walter.
  • March, 2025: New topics course on Active Representation Learning.
  • 11/9/2024: Spotlight talk on "Goal-oriented Active Learning for Nanoengineering" at the 2024 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grantees Conference.
  • 3/22/2024: Giving a UChicago Schmidt AI+Science Fellows Talk on Bayesian Optimization.
  • July 17 - 21, 2023: AI & Science Summer School 2023.
  • January, 2023: New topics course on Bayesian Optimization and Adaptive Experimental Design.
  • 11/9/2022: Talk at the SILO Seminar Series at UW-Madison.
  • 10/20/2022: JTFI Workshop on AI for Experiments -- Research Collaborations, Part II.
  • 8/8-8/12/2022: Co-organizing the first UChicago AI + Science Summer School.
  • 2/17/2022: Giving a talk at the UChicago CAM Colloquium.
  • 1/3/2022: Giving a talk at ISAIM'22.
  • 10/20/2022: JTFI Webinar on AI + measurements -- Partnering to Advance AI Research & Development, Part I
  • 7/6/2020: Giving an invited talk at the Optimizing Human Learning workshop.
  • 5/18/2020: Giving a talk at the UChicago Statistics Colloquium.
  • 1/29/2020: Giving a talk at Argonne National Laboratory.
  • 11/22/2019: Giving a talk at IPAM Workshop at UCLA.
  • 11/4/2019: Giving a talk at TTIC Colloquium.
  • 10/24/2019: My introductory profile at UChicagoCS by Rob Mitchum.
  • 10/4/2019: New research project opening; apply here.
  • 9/4/2019: Three papers accepted by NeurIPS'19.
  • 5/1/2019: Starting Fall 2019, I will be joining UChicago CS as an assistant professor.
  • 2/14/2019: Co-organizing the 2nd Caltech AI4Science workshop.
  • 8/1/2018: Co-organizing the Caltech AI4Science inaugural workshop. Check out details here.
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