Sham Machandranath Kakade is an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

. He is a Gordon McKay Professor in Computer Science at

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, with a joint appointment in the Department of Statistics. He co-founded the Algorithmic Foundations of Data Science Institute. Kakade's research includes work on

Reinforcement Learning Reinforcement learning (RL) is an interdisciplinary area of machine learning and optimal control concerned with how an intelligent agent should take actions in a dynamic environment in order to maximize a reward signal. Reinforcement learnin ...

, Tensor-Algebraic methods, and

Convex optimization Convex optimization is a subfield of mathematical optimization that studies the problem of minimizing convex functions over convex sets (or, equivalently, maximizing concave functions over convex sets). Many classes of convex optimization problems ...

. Kakade earned a bachelor's degree from

Caltech The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private university, private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small g ...

and a PhD from the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at

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. He has also served as a Principal Researcher at

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, an assistant professor at the

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC or TTI-Chicago) is a private graduate school and research institute focused on computer science and located in Chicago, Illinois within the University of Chicago campus. It is supported by the e ...

and Wharton, and a professor at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

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External links

Sham Kakade's home page

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