Saeyoung Rho

PhD Candidate at Columbia University

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  • Resident at Google X, Project Taara

    This year, I am working with the team Taara at Google X as a PhD resident to come up with agile solutions for diverse problems using ML techniques. The main focus is to build predictive models and causal inference models using time-series data.

  • Visiting Simons Institute, UC Berkeley

    This Fall, I will be at Simons Institute as a visiting scholar to participate in the Data-driven Decision Processes workshop.

  • Privacy Research at Amazon AWS

    This Summer, I had an opportunity to work with a research team at Amazon AWS to develop differentially private algorithms for SageMaker. This work has been published in NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning (TSRML). https://www.amazon.science/publications/differentially-private-gradient-boosting-on-linear-learners-for-tabular-data-analysis

  • Invited Talk at RISD, Industrial Design Department

    I was invited to a class, Design for Impact, at the Industrial Design Department at Rhode Island School of Design. The presentation was about how designers’ creativity could contribute to the era of artificial intelligence.

  • Predicting Sports-related Statistics in NBA

    Our work on predicting the NBA game scores and the player’s performance (annual and game-level) using the synthetic control method was presented at the 2019 MIT Sports Summit.  

  • Won the First Prize at the City Robotics Hackathon at Media Lab

    City Robotics Group in the MIT Media Lab held a design•a•hack•a•thon in collaboration with US San Diego Design Lab. The theme was designing a socially intelligent system for the future city mobility. My team designed a bicycle helmet that can work as a platform for V2V interaction in the future. With an optimistic mindset towards the…

  • Won a Prize at the Microsoft Machine Learning Accessibility Hackathon

    Machine Learning Accessibility Hackathon was held on Monday, June 11th at Microsoft New England R&D Center in Cambridge. The goal of this hackathon was to create solutions that promote accessibility and inclusion. My team worked on a problem regarding American Sign Language and was led by Danielle Bragg, University of Washington/Microsoft Research, and Dr. Naomi Caselli, Boston University.…

  • FutureSelf: Interactive Mirror UX Design for Health Promotion

    In the novel A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is visited by ghosts showing his future that he will meet with a tragic end if he continues to be cold and miserly. After then, the imagination of future self transforms him into a changed man. We are to adopt this usefulness of imagining the future to help…