Here is a small compilation of what recent (last 2-3 years) PhDs in Machine Learning/Data Mining are doing. These are folks I have met at conferences, talked to, or even talked about, so I may never even have met them. A university name as currently location indicates a Postdoc or an Assistant Prof position. This search engine assisted list may be incomplete or out of date and is not intended to be factual, just informative. A ? mark means I am not sure.

Person	Advisor(s)	Graduated from	Currently at
Corin Anderson	UWash Prof?	UWash	Google
Arindam Banerjee	UTA Prof?	UT Austin	U Minnesota
Sugato Basu	Ray Mooney	UT Austin	SRI Intl
Jinbo Bi	Kristen Bennett	RPI	Siemens Medical
David Kempe	Jon Kleinberg	Cornell	USC
Koby Crammer	Yoram Singer	Israel?	UPenn
Anhai Doan	UWash Prof?	UWash	UIUC
Xiaoli Fern	Carla Brodley	Purdue	Oregon state
Ashutosh Garg	Dan Roth	UIUC	IBM Research
Rong Jin	CMU LTI Prof?	CMU	MSU
Sham Kakade	Peter Dyan	Univ London	TTI Chicago
John Langford	Avrim Blum/Sebastian Thrun	CMU	TTI Chicago
Cheng Soon Ong	Alex Smola	Austr Nat Univ	Max Planck
Dmitry Pavlov	Padhraic Smyth	UCI	Yahoo Sunnyvale
Alexandrin Popescul	Lyle Ungar	UPenn	Yahoo Sunnyvale
Ganesh Ramakrishnan	Pushpak Bhattacharya/Soumen Chakrabarti	IITB	IBM Research
Matt Richardson	Pedro Domingos	UWash	MSR
Nathan Srebro	Tommi Jakkola	MIT	U Toronto
Jaideep Vaidya	Chris Clifton	Purdue	Rutgers
Jeremy Tantrum	Werner Stuetzle/Alejandro Murua	UWash	Intelligent Results Inc
Ben Taskar	Daphne Koller	Stanford	Berkeley postdoc
Hwanjo Yu	Jiawei Han	UIUC	U Iowa
Bianca Zadrozny	Charles Elkan	UCSD	IBM Research
Dell Zhang	Wei Sun Lee	NUS	Univ London

An update: I will be joining IBM Research Labs in Delhi somewhere around March. Back to thesis editing now :).

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