Rose Yu is an associate professor at UC San Diego department of Computer Science and Engineering. She is a primary faculty with the AI Group and is affiliated with Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute.
Her research interests lie primarily in machine learning, especially for large-scale spatiotemporal data. She is particularly excited about AI for scientific discovery. She has won DARPA Young Faculty Award, ECASE Award, NSF CAREER Award, Hellman Fellowship, Faculty Awards from JP Morgan, Meta, Google, Amazon, and Adobe, several Best Paper Awards, Best Dissertation Award at USC. She was named as MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 in AI.
For more details, see Curriculum Vitae.
Accurate modeling of spatiotemporal events is critical for disaster response, logistic optimization and human mobility. We research efficient techniques to model spatiotemporal events by integrating deep learning with point processes, with the goal to improve forecasting and anomaly detection.
Decision-making under uncertainty requires models that can generate not only point estimates but also confidence intervals. We investigate deep sequence models for Bayesian optimization in spatiotemporal domain, with the goal to reduce sample complexity, provide risk assessment, and guide policy making.
Our physical world is intrinsically spatiotemporal. We design deep learning models that bridge the expressiveness of neural networks and the rich spatiotemporal structures from the data, addressing fundamental challenges of high-dimensionality, high-order correlation, non-linear dynamics and multi-resolution dependencies.
A graphical model can conveniently encode high-level structures. The nodes of the graph typically represent the problem components, and the edges capture their spatiotemporal interactions. We aim to study a novel deep learning framework with a primary focus on combining graphical models with black-box deep neural networks.