Frederic Sala is Chief Scientist at Snorkel AI and an assistant professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research studies the fundamentals of data-driven systems and machine learning, with a focus on data-centric AI, foundation models, and automated machine learning. He and his group received the 2024 DARPA Young Faculty Award, a best student paper runner-up award at UAI ’22, the outstanding Ph.D. dissertation award from the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.