Gautam Kamath

Office: DC 3124
Cell Phone: 657-c0mpsci (657-206-7724)
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Links to: CV (as of February 2023); 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, and a faculty member at the Vector Institute. 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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Research

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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Theses


Talk Videos

Here are some videos of talks I've given.

Coauthors

My (82) co-authors include: Jayadev Acharya, Ishaq Aden-Ali, Hassan Ashtiani, Arturs Backurs, Alex Bie, Sourav Biswas, Christina Brandt, Mark Bun, Bryan Cai, Clément L. Canonne, Nicholas Carlini, Rachel Cummings, Xi Chen, Christian Covington, Constantinos Daskalakis, Anindya De, Jimmy Z. Di, Ilias Diakonikolas, Nishanth Dikkala, Wenxin Ding, Yihe Dong, Jack Douglas, Sivakanth Gopi, Xin Gu, Steve Hanneke, Xi He, James Honaker, Samuel B. Hopkins, Nicole Immorlica, Huseyin A. Inan, Ayush Jain, Adam Kalai, Daniel M. Kane, Robert Kleinberg, Janardhan Kulkarni, Yin Tat Lee, Amit Levi, Jerry Li, Tie-Yan Liu, Xingtu Liu, Yiwei Lu, Mahbod Majid, Andre Manoel, Ankur Moitra, Shubhankar Mohapatra, Argyris Mouzakis, Audra McMillan, Saurabh Naik, Shyam Narayanan, Aleksandar Nikolov, Matthew Regehr, Sajin Sasy, Ayush Sekhari, Nihar B. Shah, Or Sheffet, Vikrant Singhal, Adam Smith, Jacob Steinhardt, Thomas Steinke, Alistair Stewart, Pranav Subramani, Ziteng Sun, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Om Thakkar, Florian Tramèr, Christos Tzamos, Lukas Wutschitz, Jonathan Ullman, Nicholas Vadivelu, Erik Waingarten, Weina Wang, John Wright, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Sergey Yekhanin, Jian Yin, Da Yu, Yaoliang Yu, Lydia Zakynthinou, Huanyu Zhang, Guojun Zhang, Huishuai Zhang, Wanrong Zhang.

They originate from a number of countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Latvia, New Zealand, Russia, 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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