Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Alma materIIT Kanpur
Stanford University
Known fort-closeness
AwardsNSF CAREER Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputational geometry
Data mining
Differential privacy
InstitutionsAT&T Labs
Google
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
University of Utah
ThesisGeometric shape matching and drug design (1999)
Doctoral advisorRajeev Motwani
Jean-Claude Latombe
Websitehttp://blog.geomblog.org/

Suresh Venkatasubramanian is an Indian computer scientist and professor at Brown University. In 2021, Prof. Venkatasubramanian was appointed to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, advising on matters relating to fairness and bias in tech systems.[1] He was formerly a professor at the University of Utah. He is known for his contributions in computational geometry and differential privacy, and his work has been covered by news outlets such as Science Friday, NBC News, and Gizmodo.[2][3][4][5] He also runs the Geomblog, which has received coverage from the New York Times, Hacker News, KDnuggets and other media outlets.[6][7][8][9] He has served as associate editor of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications and as the academic editor of PeerJ Computer Science, and on program committees for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, the SIAM Conference on Data Mining, NIPS, SIGKDD, SODA, and STACS.[10]

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  3. ^ Gholipour, Bahar (10 March 2017). "Algorithms learn from us — we can be better teachers". NBC News. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  4. ^ Pepitone, Julianne (17 August 2015). "Can Résumé-Reviewing Software Be As Biased As Human Hiring Managers?". NBC News. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  5. ^ Smith-Strickland, Kiona (15 August 2015). "Computer Programs Can Be as Biased as Humans". Gizmodo. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  6. ^ Rich, Motoko (14 April 2006). "'Fibs' Sprout On Web". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Blogs on Big Data, Business Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science". KDnuggets. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  8. ^ "HackerNews Search Results for 'geomblog'". Hacker News. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  9. ^ "The Geomblog: Racism/sexism in algorithms • r/MachineLearning". r/MachineLearning. Reddit. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  10. ^ "Suresh Venkatasubramanian". Faculty Activity Report. University of Utah. Retrieved 13 April 2017.