Stefanie Sabrina Jegelka is a German computer scientist whose research in machine learning includes submodular optimization in computer vision[1] and deep learning for graph neural networks.
[4] As a high school student from a small town in Germany, Jegelka won an award in an annual ThinkQuest competition for the design of educational web sites; her site concerned butterflies.
Continuing her studies jointly at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen and at ETH Zurich, she completed a Ph.D. in 2012.
Her dissertation, Combinatorial Problems with Submodular Coupling in Machine Learning and Computer Vision, was jointly supervised by Jeff Bilmes, Bernhard Schölkopf, and Andreas Krause.
[6][7] After postdoctoral research from 2012 to 2014 at the University of California, Berkeley with Michael I. Jordan and Trevor Darrell, she became X-Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015,[6] and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2022.