Syrine Belakaria

I am a Postdoctoral fellow in Computer Science at Stanford University and Stanford Data Science working with Professor Stefano Ermon and Professor Barbara Engelhardt. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from Washington State University where I was advised by Professor Jana Doppa.  My research interests span the broad fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with a particular focus on real-world challenges in engineering and scientific domains. I develop efficient learning and reasoning algorithms for sequential decision-making under uncertainty, emphasizing budget-constrained selection of expensive experiments for design optimization and active learning. In addition to my work on black-box optimization and active learning for hardware design, electric power systems, and AutoML, I have expanded into large-scale tasks such as aligning large language models, diffusion-based offline optimization, multi-objective pipelines for antibiotic design, and efficient sampling approaches for LLMs.

Before joining WSU, I received my Master degree in Electrical engineering from University of Idaho where I was advised by Professor Sameh Sorour. My research focus was on intelligent transportation systems and autonomous mobility on-demand services. I received my engineering degree in Information Technology and Telecommunication from the Higher School of Communication of Tunis.