Simon S. Du is an associate professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests are broadly in machine learning, such as deep learning, representation learning, and reinforcement learning. Prior to starting as faculty, he was a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton. He completed his Ph.D. in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. Simon's research has been recognized by a Sloan Research Fellowship,  a Samsung AI Researcher of the Year Award, an IEEE AI's 10 to Watch Award, an MIT Tech Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific award, a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow, an NSF CAREER award, a Distinguished Dissertation Award honorable mention from CMU, among others.