About

I am a PhD. student at U.C.L.A., co-advised by Guy Van den Broeck and Todd Millstein. My research interests include:

Machine Learning
Probabilistic Programming
Program Analysis
Computer Security

I would love to hear from you:

E-mail: sholtzen@cs.ucla.edu
Office: Boelter Hall Rm. 4761

News

July 2017. Our UAI 2017 paper was accepted.
May 2017. I am honored to receive the UCLA Oustanding Master's Student award.
Aug. 2016. Our IROS 2016 paper was accepted.

Publications

Probabilistic Program Abstractions(pdf)

Steven Holtzen, Todd Millstein, Guy Van den Broeck

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2017)

Inferring Human Intent from Video by Sampling Hierarchical Plans (pdf)

Steven Holtzen*, Yibiao Zhao*, Tao Gao, Josh Tenenbaum, Song-Chun Zhu.

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (IROS 2016)

Represent and Infer Human Theory of Mind for Human-Robot Interaction (pdf)

Yibiao Zhao, Steven Holtzen, Tao Gao, Song-Chun Zhu

2015 AAAI Fall Symposium Series.

Classification system with methodology for efficient verification (link)

David Lisuk, Steven Holtzen

U.S. Patent #9390086

Bio

Education

Sept. 2017 - Present.
PhD., Computer Science. UCLA.
Sept. 2015 – Jul. 2017.
M.S., Computer Science. UCLA.
Sept. 2011 – Jun. 2015.
B.S., Computer Science. UCLA.

Employment

July 2015 – Present.
Sandia National Laboratories. Member of technical staff.
June 2014 – Sept. 2014
Palantir Technologies. Forward Deployed Engineering Intern on the Healthcare Team (Helix).
Apr. 2013 – Sept. 2013
Symantec Corporation. Security technology and response team intern.

Awards & Honors

2017 UCLA Computer Science Oustanding Master's Student Award.
2015 Recipient of NPSC Fellowship, fully funded Master's degree.
Officer for Eta Kappa Nu UCLA (Webmaster, Mentorship Chair)
Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon UCLA

Steven Holtzen

PhD. Student at U.C.L.A.