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Simon Shaolei Du
a very productive researcher who authored many strong papers in theory of deep learning and reinforcement learning
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Danqi Chen
one of the pioneers of deep learning for NLP. She was one of the first's to show that deep learning can have high impact on NLP by proposing a deep learning based parser. Since then she's been pushing the boundary of deep learning for NLP.
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Mohit Iyyer
co-authored one of the most influential, seminal papers on contextualized word embeddings, ELMO. He also contributed in the areas of open-ended question answering and language generation.
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Tengyu Ma
one of the pioneers of modern theoretical understanding of deep learning. He worked on analyzing and studying challenging, real-world algorithms doing works leading to better theoretical understanding of neural methods.
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Aditya Grover
a productive researcher in probabilistic deep learning. Other than theoretical side, he also contributed to socially important applications such as improving battery materials