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General information

Full Name Christopher Tosh

Education

  • 2012 – 2018
    Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science
    University of California, San Diego
    • Advisor: Sanjoy Dasgupta
    • Dissertation: Algorithms for statistical and interactive learning tasks
  • 2008 – 2012
    Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics
    University of Texas at Austin

Academic appointments

  • 2021 – Present
    Associate Research Scientist
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    • Supervisor: Wesley Tansey
  • 2018 – 2021
    Postdoctoral Research Scientist
    Columbia University
    • Supervisor: Daniel Hsu

Honors and Awards

  • 2012
    • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
    • Williams Scholar, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mathematics
    • Phi Beta Kappa
  • 2008–2012
    • University Honors 2008–2012, University of Texas at Austin

Professional service

  • Co-organizer
    • Columbia TRIPODS 2018 Data Science Bootcamp
    • Columbia TRIPODS 2019 Deep Learning Workshop
  • Program committee/Reviewer
    • Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
    • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
    • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
    • International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT)
    • Conference on Learning Theory (COLT)
    • IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)
    • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
    • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
    • Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)

Teaching experience

  • 2019
    Lecturer
    Columbia University
    • COMS 3203: Discrete Mathematics
  • 2016 – 2018
    Teaching assistant
    UC San Diego
    • CSE 20: Discrete Mathematics
    • CSE 151: Machine Learning (Undergraduate)
    • CSE 250B: Machine Learning (Graduate)

Consulting experience

  • 2018
    Machine learning consultant
    NTENT
  • 2016 – 2018
    Machine learning consultant
    QubitCrunch LLC