Suresh Venkatasubramanian | |
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Alma mater | IIT Kanpur Stanford University |
Known for | t-closeness |
Awards | NSF CAREER Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computational geometry Data mining Differential privacy |
Institutions | AT&T Labs Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing University of Utah |
Thesis | Geometric shape matching and drug design (1999) |
Doctoral advisor | Rajeev Motwani Jean-Claude Latombe |
Website | http://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]