Kamalika Chaudhuri

Kamalika Chaudhuri received a Bachelor's of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2002 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2007. After a stint as a postdoctoral researcher at the Information Theory and Applications Center at UC San Diego, she joined the CSE department at UCSD as an assistant professor in 2010. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2013, and a Hellman Faculty Fellowship in 2012. Chaudhuri's research is on the design and analysis of machine-learning algorithms and their applications. In particular, her interests lie in clustering, online learning, and privacy-preserving machine-learning, and applications of machine-learning and algorithms to practical problems in other areas.