Nick Lamm (Columbia University)

Iddo Drori (Columbia University and Cornell University)

Iddo Drori is a visiting Associate Professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University and adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. Between 2017-2019 he was a research scientist and adjunct Professor at NYU Center for Data Science and Courant Institute while teaching at Columbia University and NYU Tandon. Between 2016-2017 he was a senior lecturer in Computer Science at Colman and lecturer at Tel Aviv University. He did his MSc and BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics at the Hebrew University with honors in the special program for outstanding students, his PhD in Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, and post-doc in Statistics at Stanford University. In the past year he has published 13 new publications in automated machine learning; meta-learning for graph algorithms; synthesizing language, vision, and audio; and protein structure prediction. He also served on five program committees in the past year. In the past two years he taught 13 courses on Deep Learning, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Optimization. Iddo has industry experience, and between 2011-2016 founded and served as CEO of a data science start-up acquired in 2017, after working as a research scientist for companies acquired by Anaplan, Daz3D, and Apple. Iddo enjoys teaching and received awards for mentoring the best capstone project at Colman, best teaching evaluations at Tel Aviv University, and mentored the winning teams in the ICCV 2019 Learning to Drive Challenge in the Deep Learning course at Columbia University. He also spends his time writing a forthcoming book titled The Science of Deep Learning to be published by Cambridge University Press.