Andrew Ilyas
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
I am an incoming assistant professor at CMU, starting Spring 2026. Previously, I was a Stein Fellow at Stanford Statistics and a PhD student MIT, where I was fortunate to be advised by Costis Daskalakis and Aleksander Madry and supported by an Open Philanthropy AI Fellowship. I went to MIT for undergrad, majoring in CS and in Math. Outside of research, I enjoy playing soccer and table tennis.Research interests: My goal is to uncover general principles that describe and predict the behavior of ML systems—ideally enabling predictably reliable future systems. This goal entails combining statistical tools with large-scale experiments to precisely understand the ML "pipeline," from training data (and the way we collect it), to learning algorithms, to deployment. I also like thinking broadly about (human) trust in AI systems.