Mitali Bafna

Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT

Mitali Bafna is a postdoc at CMU hosted by Aayush Jain and Pravesh Kothari. She obtained her PhD from Harvard where her advisor was Madhu Sudan.
She is broadly interested in theoretical computer science with a focus on complexity theory and algorithms, specifically the complexity of combinatorial optimization problems, sum of squares algorithms and high dimensional expanders.

Program Visits

Analysis and TCS: New Frontiers, Summer 2023, Research Fellow
Fields
complexity theory, sum-of-squares algorithms, high dimensional expanders