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Sham Kakade

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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

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]

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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