Dr. Tengyu Ma's research interests broadly include topics in machine learning and algorithms, such as non-convex optimization, deep learning and its theory, reinforcement learning, representation learning, distributed optimization, and high-dimensional statistics.

Dr. Tawna Roberts, OD, PhD, is an assistant professor of ophthalmology (pediatric) at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Roberts directs a research program that is funded by grants from the National Eye Institute to study vision development in infants and young children as well as binocular vision disorders in adolescents with concussion. Her research interests include vision development, binocular vision, amblyopia, and strabismus.