Ankur Moitra

Ankur Moitra is the Norbert Wiener Professor of Mathematics at MIT and the Director of the Statistics and Data Science Center. The aim of his work is to bridge the gap between theoretical computer science and machine learning by developing algorithms with provable guarantees and foundations for reasoning about their behavior. He has won several awards for his research and teaching, including a Packard Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, an ONR Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Hertz Fellowship and a School of Science Excellence in Graduate Teaching Prize.