Sham Machandranath Kakade is an American computer scientist. He is a Gordon McKay Professor in Computer Science at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Statistics.[1] He co-founded the Algorithmic Foundations of Data Science Institute.[2]

Sham Machandranath Kakade
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCaltech
University College London[1]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Artificial Intelligence
InstitutionsToyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Wharton
Microsoft Research
University of Washington
Harvard University
Doctoral advisorPeter Dayan

Kakade's research includes work on Reinforcement Learning, Tensor-Algebraic methods, and Convex optimization.

Kakade earned a bachelor's degree from Caltech and a PhD from the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London. He has also served as a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, an assistant professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and Wharton, and a professor at the University of Washington.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c "Sham Machandranath Kakade". Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  2. ^ "New NSF awards will bring together cross-disciplinary science communities to develop foundations of data science". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
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