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Prof. Ankur Moitra

Norbert Wiener Professor of Mathematics
Director, Statistics and Data Science Center
David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow

Primary DLC

Department of Mathematics

MIT Room: 2-472
(617) 253-4381
https://idss.mit.edu/staff/ankur-moitra/

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Theoretical Computer Science
Machine Learning

Research Summary

Professor Moitra is a theoretical computer scientist, and a major goal in his work is to give algorithms with provable guarantees for various problems in machine learning. Moitra is a member of the Theory of Computation group, MachineLearning@MIT, Foundations of Data Science and the Center for Statistics.

Recent Work

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