Jessie Finocchiaro
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
245 Beacon St
Office 528D
Hi, I’m Jessie! (Pronouns: she/her; pronounced: Jeh-see Fin-uh-car-oh)
I am looking for a postdoc for Fall 25. Please send me an email if you are interested with a research statement and CV
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston College. Previously, I was a National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, hosted by Dr. Yiling Chen and fellow of the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS). I graduated from the CS Theory group at CU Boulder, working with Dr. Rafael Frongillo. In general, my research interests intersect Theoretical Machine Learning, Algorithmic Game Theory, and Computational Economics. In particular, I am interested in understanding the design and impacts of objective function design in prediction and optimization tasks. Previously, I was a 2019 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.
I’m happy to chat about careers in research and my experience as a PhD student and postdoc. Please feel free to send me an email with some details about why you’re reaching out.
news
Oct 02, 2024 | Rick, Dhamma, Bo, and I had the paper Trading off consistency and dimensionality of convex surrogates for the mode accepted to NeurIPS. Congrats to the students leading this one! |
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Aug 26, 2024 | Our paper from the EAAMO Conversations with Practitioners working group reflecting on a series of conversations with practitioners has been accepted to EAAMO 2024. |
Apr 10, 2024 | Yiling’s and my paper on the robustness of voting to external information is available on arXiv. |
latest posts
Aug 22, 2024 | A very brief intro to typesetting math in markdown |
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Jun 25, 2024 | Another faculty job market anecdote |
Sep 12, 2021 | Unsolicited advice on graduate applications |