Gautam Kamath

Office: DC 3124
Cell Phone: 657-c0mpsci (657-206-7724)
Office Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 31245
Email: g@csail.mit.edu

Links to: CV (as of July 2024); Google Scholar; DBLP; arXiv; GitHub; Twitter; Youtube; Blog.

My group is The Salon.

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About Me

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science, a Faculty Member at the Vector Institute, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. I run The Salon. I'm interested in reliable and trustworthy statistics and machine learning, including considerations such as data privacy and robustness.

I was a Microsoft Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing for the Fall 2018 semester program on Foundations of Data Science and the Spring 2019 semester program on Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications. Before that, I completed my Ph.D. at MIT, affiliated with the Theory of Computing group in CSAIL. I was very fortunate to be advised by Costis Daskalakis.

Before MIT, I spent four wonderful years at Cornell University, graduating in May 2012 with a degree in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. At Cornell, I was incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to work with Bobby Kleinberg.


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Most authorships are in alphabetical order, as is common in areas of computer science. Papers with contribution-order authorship are indicated, and equal contributions are marked with * or ^. Generally, these will put the students as first-author, with equal contribution amongst the senior authors. ⓡ is used for randomized author order.

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Talk Videos

Here are some videos of talks I've given.

Coauthors

My (147) co-authors include: Jayadev Acharya, Ishaq Aden-Ali, Sushant Agarwal, Hassan Ashtiani, Arturs Backurs, Jack M. Balkin, Shai Ben-David, Alex Bie, Sourav Biswas, Christina Brandt, Miles Brundage, Mark Bun, Bryan Cai, Christopher Callison-Burch, Clément L. Canonne, Nicholas Carlini, Rachel Cummings, Xi Chen, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, A. Feder Cooper, Christian Covington, Debeshee Das, Constantinos Daskalakis, Anindya De, Christopher De Sa, Damien Desfontaines, Jimmy Z. Di, Ilias Diakonikolas, Nishanth Dikkala, Wenxin Ding, Yihe Dong, Jack Douglas, David Evans, Jonathan Frankle, Deep Ganguli, Roxana Geambasu, Bryant Gipson, Sivakanth Gopi, James Grimmelmann, Xin Gu, Andres Guadamuz, Steve Hanneke, Swee Leng Harris, Xi He, James Honaker, Samuel B. Hopkins, Yangsibo Huang, Nicole Immorlica, Huseyin A. Inan, Daphne Ippolito, Abigail Z. Jacobs, Matthew Jagielski, Ayush Jain, Elizabeth Joh, Peter Kairouz, Adam Kalai, Daniel M. Kane, Robert Kleinberg, Janardhan Kulkarni, Christian Janos Lebeda, Tosca Lechner, Katherine Lee, Yin Tat Lee, Mark Lemley, Amit Levi, Jerry Li, Qiaobo Li, Tie-Yan Liu, Xingtu Liu, Zuoqiu Liu, Yiwei Lu, Mahbod Majid, Andre Manoel, Cass Matthews, Christine McLeavey, Corynne McSherry, David Mimno, Ankur Moitra, Shubhankar Mohapatra, Argyris Mouzakis, Audra McMillan, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Saurabh Naik, Shyam Narayanan, Milad Nasr, Seth Neel, Aleksandar Nikolov, Sewoong Oh, Paul Ohm, Olga Ohrimenko, Nicolas Papernot, Martin Pawelczyk, Matthew Regehr, Adam Roberts, Ryan Rogers, Tom Rubin, Pamela Samuelson, Sajin Sasy, Ludwig Schubert, Ayush Sekhari, Nihar B. Shah, Or Sheffet, Milan Shen, Rose Silver, Vikrant Singhal, Adam Smith, Shuang Song, Jacob Steinhardt, Thomas Steinke, Alistair Stewart, Weijie Su, Pranav Subramani, Ziteng Sun, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Andreas Terzis, Om Thakkar, Abhradeep Thakurta, Florian Tramèr, Christos Tzamos, Lukas Wutschitz, Jonathan Ullman, Kristen Vaccaro, Nicholas Vadivelu, Sergei Vassilvitskii, Luis Villa, Erik Waingarten, Weina Wang, Yu-Xiang Wang, John Wright, Felix Wu, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Ruicheng Xian, Li Xiong, Matthew Y.R. Yang, Sergey Yekhanin, Jian Yin, Da Yu, Yaoliang Yu, Lydia Zakynthinou, Elana Zeide, Guojun Zhang, Huanyu Zhang, Huishuai Zhang, Jie Zhang Wanrong Zhang, Han Zhao.

They originate from a number of countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Latvia, Lebanon, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America.

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Teaching


Advising

I'm very lucky to work with a number of great students -- check out their profiles on my group's People page.

Resources

Here is a collection of collections of talk videos.

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