Rares-Darius Buhai

I am a doctoral student at ETH Zurich, advised by Prof. David Steurer. I am interested in theoretical aspects of computer science and machine learning.

Contact me at rares dot buhai at inf dot ethz dot ch.

Education

• 2020-present: Ph.D., ETH Zurich, advised by Prof. David Steurer.
• 2019-2020: M.Eng., MIT, advised by Prof. Guy Bresler.
• 2015-2019: B.S., MIT.

Papers

• Learning Restricted Boltzmann Machines with Sparse Latent Variables. Guy Bresler, Rares-Darius Buhai. NeurIPS 2020.
• Empirical Study of the Benefits of Overparameterization in Learning Latent Variable Models. Rares-Darius Buhai, Yoni Halpern, Yoon Kim, Andrej Risteski, David Sontag. ICML 2020.
• Human-Aware Robotic Assistant for Collaborative Assembly: Integrating Human Motion Prediction With Planning in Time. Vaibvah V. Unhelkar, Przemyslaw A. Lasota, Quirin Tyroller, Rares-Darius Buhai, Laurie Marceau, Barbara Deml, Julie A. Shah. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018.

Teaching

• Spring 2021: TA for Optimization for Data Science, ETH Zurich.
• Spring 2020: TA for Introduction to Probability (6.041), MIT.
• Fall 2019: TA for Machine Learning (6.867), MIT.