The MADLab UCoE research team was selected to optimally cover the key research areas of interest and to bring together enthusiastic and cooperative researchers who all care as much about fundamental theory and algorithms as they do about building practical ML tools. The team is led by PI Nowak, who is an expert in data-efficient ML. Six of the team members are UWMadison professors. Two other team members are professors at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC). The team members are listed in the chart below, along with their affiliations and areas of expertise, which is followed by brief descriptions of each person and their leadership role in the UCoE. The UCoE efforts are focused around four thrusts, as depicted in the chart, and detailed in the following sections of the Project Narrative. Nowak leads the data efficiency thrust, Lipasti leads the computational efficiency thrust, Willett leads the operational robustness thrust, and Zhu leads the adversarial robustness thrust. Each thrust also has a designated secondary leader, however every team member will contribute to all four thrusts.
