Jean F. Honorio Carrillo

Jean F. Honorio Carrillo is an Adjunct Professor at Purdue University's Department of Computer Science and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne's School of Computing and Information Systems. He specializes in machine learning theory, optimization, and their applications to combinatorial and non-convex problems. His research focuses on developing algorithms with theoretical guarantees for structured prediction, robustness, fairness, and federated learning. He has advised numerous students across multiple institutions and holds adjunct roles at Purdue's Statistics Department and MIT CSAIL.

• Roles: Senior Lecturer (Melbourne), Adjunct Professor (Purdue), Adjunct at MIT CSAIL
• Research Areas: ML Theory, Non-Convex Optimization, Fairness, Federated Learning

Key contributions include breakthroughs in exact inference for structured prediction, optimization frameworks for NP-hard problems, and theoretical foundations for modern ML challenges. His work has been published in top venues like NeurIPS, ICML, and JMLR. He has secured grants from NSF and industry partners, including a 2021 NSF DMS grant for deep learning research. His students have gone on to postdoctoral roles at NUS and UChicago/CMU.