Active Learning

Burr Settles leads the research group at Duolingo, an award-winning website and mobile app offering free language education for the world. He also runs FAWM.ORG, a global annual songwriting experiment. His research has been published in NIPS, ICML, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL-HLT, and CHI, and has been covered by The New York Times, Slate, Forbes, WIRED, and the BBC among others. In past lives, he was a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon and earned a PhD from UW-Madison.

• Automating Inquiry.- Uncertainty Sampling.- Searching Through the Hypothesis Space.- Minimizing Expected Error and Variance.- Exploiting Structure in Data.- Theory.- Practical Considerations.