Pioneering Algorithmic Machine Learning and Graph Neural Networks
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Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyStefanie Sabrina Jegelka's journey from a small German town to becoming a leading figure in machine learning began with winning a ThinkQuest competition for an educational website about butterflies. After earning her diploma in bioinformatics from the University of Tübingen in 2007, she completed her Ph.D. jointly at ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in 2012. Following postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley, she joined MIT's faculty in 2015, where she rose to become an X-Consortium Career Development Associate Professor. In 2024, she assumed the position of Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Technical University of Munich while maintaining her association with MIT.