Nina Balcan | |
|---|---|
| Born | Maria-Florina Balcan |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
| Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship (2014) Grace Murray Hopper Award (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Machine learning Algorithmic game theory Theoretical computer science[1] |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University Microsoft Research Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | New Theoretical Frameworks for Machine Learning (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Avrim Blum[2] |
| Website | www |
Maria-Florina (Nina) Balcan is a Romanian-American computer scientist[1][3] whose research investigates machine learning, algorithmic game theory, theoretical computer science,[1] including active learning, kernel methods, random-sampling mechanisms and envy-free pricing. She is an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.[4][5][6][7]
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- ^ Balcan, Maria-Florina; Beygelzimer, Alina; Langford, John (2009). "Agnostic active learning". Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 75 (1): 78–89. doi:10.1016/j.jcss.2008.07.003. ISSN 0022-0000.
- ^ Balcan, Maria-Florina; Broder, Andrei; Zhang, Tong (2007). "Margin Based Active Learning". Learning Theory. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4539. pp. 35–50. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-72927-3_5. ISBN 978-3-540-72925-9.
- ^ Balcan, Maria-Florina; Blum, Avrim; Srebro, Nathan (2008). "A theory of learning with similarity functions". Machine Learning. 72 (1–2): 89–112. doi:10.1007/s10994-008-5059-5. ISSN 0885-6125.