Steven Wu
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota
Email: zstevenwu [at] cmu.edu
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
dynamics, such as strategic 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
Amazon Research Award,
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.