Samory Kpotufe

Samory Kpotufe is on the faculty of Statistics at Columbia University. He graduated (Sept 2010) in Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego, advised by Sanjoy Dasgupta. He was then was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. At the MPI he worked in the department of Bernhard Schoelkopf, in the learning theory group of Ulrike von Luxburg. Following this, he spent a couple years as an Assistant Research Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. He then spent 4 years at ORFE, Princeton University as an Assistant Professor. Recently he was a visiting member at the Institute of Advanced Study from January to July 2020.