Max Du

Max Du was raised in Manlius, New York, and will pursue a PhD in computer science at Stanford School of Engineering. He graduated from Stanford with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and minors in creative writing and psychology. Max is interested in making robots that learn rapidly and robustly by leveraging diverse past data, exploring with innate curiosity, and recovering elegantly from mistakes. His work has appeared in top research conferences like Robotics, Science and Systems. Max is also a creative writer and spent three years working on an oral history of marine mammal trainers for a nonfiction book. In the process, he spent three months working with sea lions and dolphins in the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program. Max is a finalist for the Hertz Fellowship and the Computing Research Association Undergraduate Research Award. He is a recipient of the Stanford Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award at Stanford.