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UC Santa Cruz

Phd, HCI

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Sai Siddartha Maram)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

Stanford University

Phd, NLP

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Rishi Bommasani)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

Stanford University

Phd, HCI, Data Science

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Hancheng Cao)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Phd, Theory, Cryptography

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Ananya Appan)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

University of Southern California

Phd ML, Theory

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Siddartha Devic)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0

Brown

Phd, Algorithmic Fairness/Policy

Statement of Purpose

Public Success Story (Rui-Jie)

License: CC_BY_NC_SA_4_0