Chris Re

Christopher (Chris) Re is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is in the Stanford AI Lab and is affiliated with the Machine Learning Group and the Center for Research on Foundation Models. His recent work is to understand how software and hardware systems will change because of machine learning along with a continuing, petulant drive to work on math problems.

Research from his group has been incorporated into scientific efforts, finding extrasolar neutrinos or developing Evo, a DNA foundation model, and humanitarian efforts, such as the fight against human trafficking. His work is used in products from companies including Apple, Google, YouTube, and more. His friends let him tag along to found companies while they did the hard work of building them. He loves investing in technology companies and built a firm to do more of it.

His family still brags that he received the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, but his closest friends are confident that it was a mistake. His research contributions have spanned database theory, database systems, and machine learning, and his work has won best paper at a premier venue in each area, respectively, at PODS 2012, SIGMOD 2014, and ICML 2016.

Due to great collaborators, he received the NeurIPS 2020 test-of-time award and the PODS 2022 test-of-time award. Due to great students, he received best paper at MIDL 2022, best paper runner up at ICLR22 and ICML22, and best student-paper runner up at UAI22.