Maja Rudolph

Short Bio

Maja Rudolph is a Senior Research Scientist at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, where she works in the field of deep probabilistic modeling. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Columbia University, advised by David Blei, in 2018. Maja holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and a BS in Mathematics from MIT.

Research

The methods I develop lie at the intersection of Bayesian machine learning and deep learning. Bayesian modeling helps to reason about uncertainty, while neural networks provide the flexibility to model complex interactions in the data. My focus is on the following areas:

• Deep probabilistic sequence models. Engineering applications raise interesting dynamics modeling challenges. My research tackles peculiarities of industrial time series, including irregular sampling rates and multi-modal transition dynamics.
    Selected Publications
  • Modeling Irregular Time Series with Continuous Recurrent Units, ICML 2022
  • History Marginalization Improves Forecasting with Variational RNNs, Entropy 2021


• Neural transformation learning. Data transformations play an important role in self-supervised learning. By developing methods with learnable transformations, we achieve state-of-the art anomaly detection, especially in domains beyond images.
    Selected Publications
  • Latent Outlier Exposure for Anomaly Detection with Contaminated Data, ICML 2022
  • Raising the Bar in Graph-level Anomaly Detection, IJCAI 2022
  • Neural Transformation Learning for Deep Anomaly Detection Beyond Images, ICML 2021


• Embedding methods. Word embeddings are a powerful approach for analyzing language, and I have studied how to extend them to other types of data.
    Selected Publications
  • Placing language in an integrated understanding system: Next steps toward human-level performance in neural language models, PNAS 2020
  • Structured Embedding Models for Grouped Data, NeurIPS 2017
  • Exponential Family Embeddings, NeurIPS 2016

More on my contributions to each of these areas can be found in my research statement.

Personal

Maja lives in Madison, WI with her husband Alex Waldron.