Sanjeev Ramesh Kulkarni (born September 21, 1963 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian-born American academic. He is Professor of Electrical Engineering and

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, where he teaches and conducts research in a broad range of areas including statistical inference,

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machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

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, and signal/image processing. He is also affiliated with the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and the Department of Philosophy. His work in philosophy is joint with

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. Kulkarni served as Associate Dean for

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from 2003–2005, Master of

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from 2004-2012, Director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education from 2011-2014, and Dean of the Graduate School at

from 2014-2017.

Education

Kulkarni received degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering from

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, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from

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in 1991.

References

External links

Sanjeev Kulkarni at Princeton Electrical Engineering page

Sanjeev Kulkarni’s homepage

Sanjeev Kulkarni at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kulkarni, Sanjeev Living people Indian emigrants to the United States Princeton University faculty Clarkson University alumni Stanford University alumni MIT School of Engineering alumni 1963 births