Prof. Sam Hopkins

Jamieson Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Primary DLC

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT Room: 32-G666

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Theory of Computation
Algorithms
Optimization and Theoretical Machine Learning

Research Summary

Professor Hopkins studies algorithms and computational complexity, especially through the lens of convex programming. He joined CSAIL in 2022, after receiving a Ph.D. at Cornell University and spending several years at UC Berkeley as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow.

Recent Work