Kris Sankaran

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a Discovery Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. I completed a postdoc with Yoshua Bengio at Mila, where I contributed to the institute's humanitarian AI initiative and worked on problems at the intersection of climate change adaptation and AI. I received my PhD under the guidance of Susan Holmes at the Stanford University Department of Statistics, specializing in probabilistic and interactive approaches to understanding complex microbiome datasets.

  • CV

    Current Team

    Hanying Jiang

    PhD Student


    Kai Cui

    MSDS Student


    Kaiyan Ma

    MSDS Student


    Kobe Uko

    WISCERS student


    Margaret Thairu

    Postdoctoral Trainee


    Mason Garza

    PhD Student


    Shuchen Yan

    PhD student


    Yuliang Peng

    PhD student


    Zhuoyan Xu

    PhD student


    Past Trainees

    I have been lucky to work with many wonderful students during my postdoc at Mila and as an Assistant Professor at UW-Madison,

    Adrianna Janik

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: February 2019 - August 2019

    Anthony Ortiz

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: August 2019 - February 2020
    Website

    Benjamin Akera

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: September 2020 - 2021
    Website

    Bruce Zheng

    MSDS Student

    Lab Member: January 2021 - August 2022

    Carolyne Pelletier

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: September 2019 - 2020
    Website

    Debjani Bhowmick

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: April 2019 - October 2020

    Harshita Narayanan

    WISCERS Student

    Lab Member: May 2022 - December 2022

    Ines Moreno

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: September 2019 - 2020

    Israel Goytom

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: February 2019 - August 2019

    James Assiene

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: February 2019 - 2020
    Website

    Jessenia Gonzalez Villareal

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: August 2019 - October 2019
    Website

    Margaret Turner

    Masters Student

    Lab Member: January 2022 - May 2023

    Md Rifat Arefin

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: August 2019 - February 2020
    Website

    Muhammed Razzak

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: March 2019 - September 2019
    Website

    Mustafa Alghali

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: March 2019 - November 2020
    Website

    Olawale Onabola

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: February 2020 - 2021
    Website

    Pablo Fonseca

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: August 2019 - August 2020
    Website

    Sarah Ebrahim

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: May 2019 - September 2019

    Weiyushi (Sarah) Tian

    Undergraduate student

    Lab Member: June 2021 - August 2022

    Shimaa Baraka

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: March 2019 - November 2020
    Website

    Tinghui Xu

    MSDS Student

    Lab Member: January 2021 - January 2023

    Wisdom d'Almeida

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: August 2019 - April 2020

    Xinran Miao

    PhD student

    Lab Member: August 2020 - April 2023

    Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb

    Mila Intern

    Lab Member: May 2019 - September 2019
    Website

    Yixing Tu

    Undergraduate student

    Lab Member: January 2021 - August 2022

    Zhihao Lyu

    VISP Student

    Lab Member: September 2021 - June 2022

    Zhi Zheng

    Undergraduate Student

    Lab Member: September 2022 - May 2023

    Zhuoxin Shi

    Undergraduate Student

    Lab Member: August 2022 - May 2023