Steven Wu
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota
Email: zsw [at] umn.edu
6-225E Keller Hall
200 Union Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota. I received my PhD in Computer Science from
the University of
Pennsylvania, where I was extremely fortunate to have been
co-advised by Michael
Kearns and Aaron
Roth. My doctoral dissertation received Penn's Morris and
Dorothy Rubinoff Award for best thesis. Before joining
the UMN, I spent a year as a post-doctoral
researcher
at Microsoft Research-New York City in
the Machine
Learning
and Algorithmic
Economics groups.
I work on algorithms and machine learning. My recent work
focuses on (1) how to make machine learning better aligned
with societal values, especially privacy
and fairness, and (2) how social and economic
interactions influence machine learning. I study these
questions using methods and models from machine learning,
statistics, optimization, differential privacy, game theory,
and mechanism design.
My research has been generously supported by
the National
Science Foundation
(NSF), an
NSF and Amazon Award on Fairness in AI,
a Google
Faculty Research
Award, a
J.P. Morgan Faculty
Award, a
Facebook Research Award,
and a Mozilla
Research Grant.
Please see my CV
and publications for more
details.