Dr. Wingate received his BS and MS in computer science from BYU in 2002 and 2004, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Michigan in 2008. He was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT from 2008-2010 with a joint appointment in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Computational Cognitive Science group in the Brain and Cognitive Science Department. From 2010-2012 he was a research scientist at MIT with a joint appointment in BCS and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. From 2012-2015 he was a research scientist at Analog Devices, Inc. in their machine learning group, where he worked on hardware accelerated Bayesian inference and audio processing. Dr. Wingate has published extensively in machine-learning related fields, and has contributed foundational work in probabilistic programming.
Dr. Wingate has research interests in machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and digital pathology.