Sanjoy Dasgupta
Professor, UC San Diego
Sanjoy Dasgupta is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. He received his PhD from Berkeley in 2000, and spent two years at AT&T Research Labs before joining UCSD. His area of research is algorithmic statistics, with a focus on unsupervised and minimally supervised learning. He is the author of a textbook, Algorithms (with Christos Papadimitriou and Umesh Vazirani), which appeared in 2006.