Sham M. Kakade Group

(He/Him/His)

Co-director of the Kempner Institute

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Statistics


Harvard University

Current Students and Postdocs:

Many of my students are co-advised - please see their individual pages for details. I also work closely with the Kempner Fellows.

Former Postdocs:

Daniel Hsu - Associate Professor, Computer Science, Columbia University
Weihao Kong - Research Scientist, Google
Kendall Lowrey
Ramya Korlakai Vinayak - Assistant Professor, ECE Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Former Students and Interns:

Sathyanarayan Anand
David Belanger - Research Scientist, Google
Gabriel Cadamuro
Ben Edelman - TechCongress AI Safety Fellow
Roy Frostig - Research Scientist, Google
Rong Ge - Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Duke University
Qingqing Huang
Adel Javanmard - Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, Marshall School of Business, USC
Chi Jin - Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University
Rahul Kidambi - Google
Do-kyum Kim - Google
Aditya Kusupati - Google DeepMind
Gaurav Mahajan - Postdoc, Department of Computer Science, Yale University
Praneeth Netrapalli - Research Scientist, Google
Motoya Ohnishi - Associate Professor of Mathematical Science, Ehime University
Jaehyun Park
Krishna Pillutla - Assistant Professor, School of Data Science & AI, IIT Madras
Aravind Rajeswaran - Research Scientist, Meta AI (FAIR)
Aaron Sidford - Assistant Professor, Management Science and Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University
Karl Stratos
Rashish Tandon - ML Engineer at Apple
Matus Telgarsky - Assistant Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
John Thickstun - Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Cornell University
Chen Wang - Google
Ruosong Wang - Assistant Professor, Peking University