Victor Ion Butoi
PhD Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EECS, CSAIL
vbutoi@mit.edu
Last updated: August 2024
Greetings! I am a 1st 2nd 3rd year Computer Science PhD student at MIT fortunate enough to be advised by Professors
Adrian Dalca and
John Guttag as
a part of the Clinical and Applied Machine Learning (CAML) Group. I am interested
in problems lying at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and statistical inference, often with applications to healthcare.
My work is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Previously, I studied Computer Science at Cornell University advised by Mert Sabuncu, where I was a Merril Presidential Scholar
for the Computer Science department and a Tanner-Dean Scholar for the School of Arts and Sciences.
My current focus is on solving traditional machine learning problems by re-thinking neural network inference. Here are some directions I am excited about:
- Confidence Calibration: How can extend theoretical insights from statistics, such as calibration and proper scoring rules, derived in simple (x,y) classification settings, to a broad class of high-dimensional and structured machine learning problems?
- In-Context Adaptation: How can we improve (and understand) neural networks' ability to meta-solve tasks at inference, without additional training?
If you are interested in collaborating, please do reach out!
Selected Publications
Victor Ion Butoi*, Jose J. Ortiz*, Tianyu Ma, John Guttag,
Mert R. Sabuncu, Adrian V. Dalca
ICCV 2023, MedNeurIPS 2022 (NeurIPS Workshop)
[Paper] [Code] [Project Page]
All Publications
Irene Huang, Wei Lin, Muhammad Jehanzeb Mirza, Jacob A Hansen, Sivan Doveh, Victor Ion Butoi, Roei Herzig,
Assaf Arbelle, Hilde Kuehne, Trevor Darrell, Chuang Gan, Aude Oliva, Rogerio Feris, Leonid Karlinsky
NeurIPS 2024 (Datasets and Benchmarks Track)
[Paper] [Code]
Workshop Papers
Maksym Korablyov et al.
ICLR GEM 2024 (Oral Presentation)
[Paper]
Heejong Kim, Victor Ion Butoi, Mert R. Sabuncu, Adrian V. Dalca
MICCAI MedAGI 2023
[Paper]
Reviewer Service
AutoML, MIDL, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS
Bio
Previously, I have been lucky enough to work with:- Dr. Leonid Karlinsky and Dr. Rogerio Feris at IBM working on fusing large image and language models.
- Dr. Felix Wu and Prof. Kilian Weinberger at ASAPP working on sequence modeling using state-space models.
- Prof. Yoshua Bengio and Prof. Pierre-Luc Bacon at MILA on ML for drug discovery and Uncertainty Quantification.
- Dr. Florin Ghesu at Siemens working on biomedical imaging.