Alex Ratner

Alex Ratner, a 5th-year PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University, is among the young AI researchers projected to influence the future of the field. Under the guidance of Chris Ré in Stanford's DAWN, Info, and StatsML labs, he is driving the Snorkel project, focusing on the application of data management and statistical learning principles to innovative machine learning workflows.

Ratner's work, which involves creating and managing training data for real-world problems in medical imaging, monitoring, knowledge base construction, and more, has been recognized with several awards including the "Best Of" at VLDB 2018. He also receives support for his graduate work through a Stanford Bio-X SIGF Fellowship. Prior to his PhD journey, Ratner earned an AB in Physics from Harvard College.