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General Information
| Full Name | Fei Sha |
| Contact | me at feisha dot org |
Education
- 2007
PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- Advisor: Prof. Lawrence K. Saul
- PhD Thesis Committee: Prof. Fernando Pereira, Prof. Sam Roweis, Prof Mitch Marcus Prof. Dan Lee
- Thesis: Large Margin Training of Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition
Academic Experience
- 2021 - 2023
Adjunct Professor
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US
- 2020 - 2021
Professor
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US
- 2014 - 2020
Associate Professor
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US
- 2016 - 2017
Associate Professor
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, US
- 2008 - 2014
Assistant Professor
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US
Industry Experience
- 2019 - now
Research Scientist and Manager
Google Research, Mountain View, CA
- 2018 - 2019
Director of Machine Learning
Netflix Research, Los Gatos, CA
- 2007 - 2008
Research Scientist
Yahoo! Research, Sunnyvale, CA
Honors and Awards
- 2013
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
- 2012
- Army Research Office Young Investigator Award
- 2006
- Outstanding Student Paper, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
- 2004
- Outstanding Student Paper, Intl Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Academic Interests
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Probabilistic Models and Algorithms, Representation Learning
- Natural Language Processing and Understanding, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Computer Vision, Multimodal Learning
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AI for Science / Scientific Machine Learning
- Turbulent Flow and Closure Modeling
- Probabilistic Modeling and Inference for Physics-based Dynamical Systems
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AI for Weather and Climate
- Probabilistic Modeling in Weather Forecast and Climate Modeling
- AI/ML Tools for Large-scale Weather and Climate Data Modeling and Analysis