Kris Sankaran

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a Discovery Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. I completed a postdoc with Yoshua Bengio at Mila, where I contributed to the institute's humanitarian AI initiative and worked on problems at the intersection of climate change adaptation and AI. I received my PhD under the guidance of Susan Holmes at the Stanford University Department of Statistics, specializing in probabilistic and interactive approaches to understanding complex microbiome datasets.

  • CV

    Current Team

    Helena Huang

    WISCERS student


    Margaret Thairu

    Postdoctoral Trainee


    Shuchen Yan

    PhD Rotation Student


    Yuliang Peng

    PhD student


    Past Trainees

    I have been lucky to work with many wonderful students during my postdoc at Mila and as an Assistant Professor at UW-Madison,

    Adrianna Janik

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: February 2019 - August 2019

    Anthony Ortiz

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: August 2019 - February 2020
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    Benjamin Akera

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: September 2020 - 2021
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    Bruce Zheng

    MSDS Student

    Lab Member: January 2021 - August 2022

    Carolyne Pelletier

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: September 2019 - 2020
    Website

    Debjani Bhowmick

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: April 2019 - October 2020

    Hanying Jiang

    PhD Student

    Lab Member: June 2021 - December 2024

    Harshita Narayanan

    WISCERS Student

    Lab Member: May 2022 - December 2022

    Ines Moreno

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: September 2019 - 2020

    Israel Goytom

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: February 2019 - August 2019

    James Assiene

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: February 2019 - 2020
    Website

    Jessenia Gonzalez Villareal

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: August 2019 - October 2019
    Website

    Kai Cui

    MSDS Student

    Lab Member: February 2024 - December 2024

    Kaiyan Ma

    MSDS Student

    Lab Member: July 2022 - January 2024
    Website

    Kobe Uko

    WISCERS student

    Lab Member: February - June 2024

    Margaret Turner

    Masters Student

    Lab Member: January 2022 - May 2023

    Mason Garza

    PhD Student

    Lab Member: February 2023 - May 2024

    Md Rifat Arefin

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: August 2019 - February 2020
    Website

    Muhammed Razzak

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: March 2019 - September 2019
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    Mustafa Alghali

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: March 2019 - November 2020
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    Olawale Onabola

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: February 2020 - 2021
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    Pablo Fonseca

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: August 2019 - August 2020
    Website

    Sam Merten

    MS Student

    Lab Member: February 2024 - December 2024

    Sarah Ebrahim

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: May 2019 - September 2019

    Weiyushi (Sarah) Tian

    Undergraduate student

    Lab Member: June 2021 - August 2022

    Shimaa Baraka

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: March 2019 - November 2020
    Website

    Tinghui Xu

    MSDS Student

    Lab Member: January 2021 - January 2023

    Wisdom d'Almeida

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: August 2019 - April 2020

    Xinran Miao

    PhD student

    Lab Member: August 2020 - April 2023

    Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: May 2019 - September 2019
    Website

    Yixing Tu

    Undergraduate student

    Lab Member: January 2021 - August 2022

    Zhihao Lyu

    VISP Student

    Lab Member: September 2021 - June 2022

    Zhi Zheng

    Undergraduate Student

    Lab Member: September 2022 - May 2023

    Zhuoxin Shi

    Undergraduate Student

    Lab Member: August 2022 - May 2023

    Zhuoyan Xu

    PhD student

    Lab Member: September 2021 - December 2023